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The second best-selling album of the year is alternative rock band Coldplay's Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends with 2.144 million copies sold, followed by Swift's Fearless with 2.112 million. [6] It is also the best-selling album in digital format, having topped the Billboard Top Digital Albums of 2008. [8]
The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in 2008. These albums are (1) original, i.e. excluding reissues , remasters , and compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) notable , defined as having received significant coverage from reliable sources independent of the subject.
This is a list of the best-selling albums by year in the United States, published by American music magazine Billboard since 1956 as year-end rankings of album sales. Until 1991, the Billboard album chart was based on a survey of representative retail outlets that determined a ranking, not a tally of actual sales.
The following is a list of the best-selling albums in the United States based on RIAA certification and Nielsen SoundScan sales tracking. The criteria are that the album must have been published (including self-publishing by the artist), and the album must have achieved at least a diamond certification from the RIAA.
Michael Jackson's Thriller, estimated to have sold 70 million copies worldwide, is the best-selling album ever. [4] [5] [6] Jackson also currently has the highest number of albums on the list with five, Celine Dion has four, while the Beatles, Madonna, Whitney Houston and Pink Floyd each have three.
Her single was later proclaimed as the best selling single of 2008 worldwide and Lewis was named Top New Artist by Billboard. April 12 – "Touch My Body" becomes Mariah Carey 's 18th number 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100, putting her into second place among artists with the most number 1 singles in the rock era, and first place as a solo ...
Billboard publishes annual lists of songs based on chart performance over the course of a year based on Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems and SoundScan information. This is a list of the magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 2008. [1] The #1 song on the list was "Low" by Flo Rida and T-Pain, after having released the song in 2007 and spent 10 weeks at ...
R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Artist(s) Rap Albums Artist(s) Refs. January 5 Growing Pains: Mary J. Blige: Lupe Fiasco's The Cool: Lupe Fiasco [3] January 12 [4] January 19 [5] January 26 American Gangster: Jay-Z [6] February 2: Love Behind the Melody: Raheem deVaughn: Lupe Fiasco's The Cool: Lupe Fiasco [7] February 9 Growing Pains: Mary J. Blige [8 ...