List of number-one Billboard Alternative Albums of 2018

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These are the U.S. number-one alternative rock albums of 2018, per the Billboard Alternative Albums chart.

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Dagger-14-plain.pngIndicates best-charting alternative album of 2018
Note: Year-end top-selling alternative albums, ranked by sales data as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan..
Issue dateAlbumArtistReference
January 3 Evolve Imagine Dragons [1]
January 6 [2]
January 13 [3]
January 20 [4]
January 27 [5]
February 3 Mania Fall Out Boy [6]
February 10EvolveImagine Dragons [7]
February 17 [8]
February 24 [9]
March 3 [10]
March 10 [11]
March 17 [12]
March 24 American Utopia David Byrne [13]
March 31 I'll Be Your Girl The Decemberists [14]
April 7 Boarding House Reach Jack White [15]
April 14EvolveImagine Dragons [16]
April 21 America Thirty Seconds to Mars [17]
April 28 Ember Breaking Benjamin [18]
May 5 Eat the Elephant A Perfect Circle [19]
May 12 When Legends Rise Godsmack [20]
May 19 Attention Attention Shinedown [21]
May 26 Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino Arctic Monkeys [22]
June 2EvolveImagine Dragons [23]
June 9 Love Is Dead Chvrches [24]
June 16 God's Favourite Customer Father John Misty [25]
June 23 Artificial Selection Dance Gavin Dance [26]
June 30 Post Traumatic Mike Shinoda [27]
July 7 Pray for the Wicked Panic! at the Disco [28]
July 14 High as Hope Florence + the Machine [29]
July 21Pray for the WickedPanic! at the Disco [30]
July 28 [31]
August 4EvolveImagine Dragons [32]
August 11 [33]
August 18 [34]
August 25 [35]
September 1 Thank You for Today Death Cab for Cutie [36]
September 8 Rainier Fog Alice in Chains [37]
September 15EvolveImagine Dragons [38]
September 22 [39]
September 29 Palms Thrice [40]
October 6 Proper Dose The Story So Far [41]
October 13EvolveImagine Dragons [42]
October 20 Trench Twenty One Pilots [43]
October 27 [44]
November 3 Evolution Disturbed [45]
November 10 [46]
November 17TrenchTwenty One Pilots [47]
November 24 Origins Imagine Dragons [48]
December 1 Delta Mumford & Sons [49]
December 8OriginsImagine Dragons [50]
December 15 A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships The 1975 [51]
December 22OriginsImagine Dragons [52]
December 29 [53]

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