List of Billboard number-one R&B/hip-hop albums of 2008

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This page lists the albums that reached number one on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Top Rap Albums charts in 2008. The Rap Albums chart partially serves as a distillation of rap-specific titles from the overall R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.

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Chart history

Key
Dagger-14-plain.pngIndicates best-performing album of 2008 [1] [2]
Issue dateR&B/Hip-Hop AlbumsArtist(s)Rap AlbumsArtist(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 CoolLupe Fiasco [7]
February 9Growing PainsMary J. Blige [8]
February 16 [9]
February 23 As I Am Dagger-14-plain.png Alicia Keys American GangsterJay-Z [10]
March 1Lupe Fiasco's The CoolLupe Fiasco [11]
March 8Growing PainsMary J. Blige Harlem's American Gangster Jim Jones [12]
March 15 Discipline Janet Jackson Savage Life 2 Webbie [13]
March 22 [14]
March 29 Trilla Rick Ross TrillaRick Ross [15]
April 5 Welcome to the Dollhouse Danity Kane [16]
April 12 Day26 Day26 [17]
April 19 Still da Baddest Trina Still da BaddestTrina [18]
April 26 All I Feel Ray J TrillaRick Ross [19]
May 3 E=MC² Mariah Carey [20]
May 10 [21]
May 17 Lyfe Change Lyfe Jennings Rising Down The Roots [22]
May 24E=MC²Mariah CareyTrillaRick Ross [23]
May 31 Just Me Keith Sweat [24]
June 7 II Trill Bun B II TrillBun B [25]
June 14 Here I Stand Usher [26]
June 21 [27]
June 28 Tha Carter III Lil Wayne Tha Carter IIIDagger-14-plain.pngLil Wayne [28]
July 5 [29]
July 12 [30]
July 19 [31]
July 26 [32]
August 2 Untitled Nas UntitledNas [33]
August 9 [34]
August 16Tha Carter IIILil WayneTha Carter IIIDagger-14-plain.pngLil Wayne [35]
August 23 Lessons in Love Lloyd [36]
August 30Tha Carter IIILil Wayne [37]
September 6 Raw Footage Ice Cube Raw FootageIce Cube [38]
September 13 L.A.X. The Game L.A.X.The Game [39]
September 20 The Recession Young Jeezy The RecessionYoung Jeezy [40]
September 27 [41]
October 4 Year of the Gentleman Ne-Yo Brass Knuckles Nelly [42]
October 11 Fearless Jazmine Sullivan The RecessionYoung Jeezy [43]
October 18 Paper Trail T.I. Paper TrailT.I. [44]
October 25 [45]
November 1 [46]
November 8 [47]
November 15 Evolver John Legend [48]
November 22Paper TrailT.I. [49]
November 29 Three Ringz T-Pain [50]
December 6 I Am... Sasha Fierce Beyoncé [51]
December 13 808s & Heartbreak Kanye West Theater of the Mind Ludacris [52]
December 20I Am... Sasha FierceBeyoncé Emeritus Scarface [53]
December 27 Onmyradio Musiq Soulchild Universal Mind Control Common [54]

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References

  1. "2008 Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums" . Billboard . Retrieved 2022-02-09.
  2. "2008 Top Rap Albums" . Billboard . Retrieved 2022-02-09.
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