List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2008

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Hip hop artist Lil Wayne's sixth studio album, Tha Carter III, was the highest-selling record of 2008.

The highest-selling albums and

Nielsen Soundscan based on each album's weekly physical and digital sales.[1] In 2008
, 38 albums advanced to the peak position of the chart.

Singer-songwriter

Mamma Mia! and Twilight
.

vinyl albums sold in 2008, amounting to 26,000 units.[5]

E=MC², tying her with R&B singer Janet Jackson for third place for most number-one albums by a female act. E=MC² opened at number one on the chart for selling 463,000 copies, outselling Carey's previous albums' debut figures.[9] Neil Diamond achieved the first number one album of his career with Home Before Dark
42 years after his first chart entry.

Chart history

Country singer-songwriter Taylor Swift's Fearless is her first number-one album and the longest-running number-one album from 2008, topping the chart for 11 non-consecutive weeks.
Pop singer Madonna scored her seventh number-one album, Hard Candy, making her the second female act with the most number-one albums in the United States.
Singer Janet Jackson scored her sixth number-one album, Discipline.
British rock band Coldplay's Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends sold the most digital albums in 2008.
vinyl formats in 2008 with In Rainbows
.
Key
† Indicates best performing album of 2008
Issue date Album Artist(s) Sales Ref.
January 5 Noël Josh Groban 757,000 [10][11]
January 12 Growing Pains Mary J. Blige 204,000 [12][13]
January 19 In Rainbows Radiohead 122,000 [14][15]
January 26
As I Am
 † 		Alicia Keys 70,000 [16][17]
February 2 61,000 [18][19]
February 9 Music from the Motion Picture Juno Soundtrack 65,000 [20][21]
February 16 As I Am † Alicia Keys 61,000 [22][23]
February 23 Sleep Through the Static Jack Johnson 375,000 [24][25]
March 1 180,000 [26][27]
March 8 105,000 [28][29]
March 15 Discipline Janet Jackson 181,000 [30][31]
March 22 Good Time Alan Jackson 119,000 [32][33]
March 29 Trilla
Rick Ross
 		198,000 [34][35]
April 5 Welcome to the Dollhouse Danity Kane 236,000 [36][37]
April 12 Day26 Day26 190,000 [38][39]
April 19 Troubadour George Strait 166,000 [40][41]
April 26 Spirit Leona Lewis 205,000 [42][43]
May 3 E=MC² Mariah Carey 463,000 [44][45]
May 10 182,000 [46][47]
May 17 Hard Candy Madonna 280,000 [48][49]
May 24 Home Before Dark Neil Diamond 146,000 [50][51]
May 31 Narrow Stairs Death Cab for Cutie 144,000 [52][53]
June 7
3 Doors Down
 		3 Doors Down 154,000 [54][55]
June 14 Here I Stand
Usher
 433,000 [56][57]
June 21 Indestructible Disturbed 252,000 [58][59]
June 28 Tha Carter III Lil Wayne 1,005,545 [60][61]
July 5 Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends Coldplay 721,000 [62][63][64]
July 12 249,000 [65][66]
July 19 Tha Carter III Lil Wayne 156,000 [67][68]
July 26 125,000 [69][70]
August 2 Untitled Nas 187,000 [71][72]
August 9 Breakout Miley Cyrus 371,000 [73][74]
August 16 Love on the Inside
Sugarland
 171,000 [75][76]
August 23 Mamma Mia! The Movie Soundtrack Mamma Mia! cast / Soundtrack 130,000 [77][78]
August 30 A Little Bit Longer Jonas Brothers 525,000 [79][80][81]
September 6 147,000 [82][83]
September 13 All Hope Is Gone Slipknot 239,516 [84][85]
September 20 The Recession
Young Jeezy
 260,000 [86][87]
September 27 Death Magnetic Metallica 490,000 [88][89][90]
October 4 337,000 [91][92]
October 11 132,000 [93][94]
October 18 Paper Trail T.I. 568,000 [95][96]
October 25 177,000 [97][98]
November 1 Lucky Old Sun Kenny Chesney 176,000 [99][100]
November 8 Black Ice AC/DC 784,000 [101][102]
November 15 271,000 [103][104]
November 22
Twilight: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
 		Soundtrack 165,000 [105][106]
November 29 Fearless Taylor Swift 592,000 [107][108]
December 6
I Am… Sasha Fierce
Beyoncé
 482,000 [109][110]
December 13 808s & Heartbreak Kanye West 450,000 [111][112]
December 20 Circus Britney Spears 505,000 [113][114]
December 27 Fearless Taylor Swift 249,000 [115][116]

See also

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