List of number-one albums of 2008 (Australia)

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Pink, whose album Funhouse was the second highest seller of 2008

The highest-selling albums in Australia are ranked in the Australian Recording Industry Association albums chart, also known as the ARIA Charts, published by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). The data are compiled from a sample that includes music stores, music departments at electronics and department stores and Internet sales, in other words, both digital as well as CD sales. [1] ARIA also issues a weekly singles chart and an end of year albums and singles chart, among other charts.

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Alternative rock band Kings of Leon's Only by the Night had the longest non-consecutive run among the releases that have reached peak position in 2008; it spent 14 non-consecutive weeks atop the chart, beginning with the week of 29 September and continuing into the 2009 chart year. Funhouse by Pink, which spent nine weeks at number one, had the longest consecutive run at number one. Other albums with extended chart runs include Sleep Through the Static by Jack Johnson, which spent six weeks at number one, Timbaland Presents Shock Value by Timbaland and Mamma Mia! The Movie Soundtrack Featuring the Songs of ABBA by the cast of the film Mamma Mia!, both of which spent five weeks at number one.

Only by the Night is also the best-selling album of 2008; 422,108 copies have been sold, exceeding the second best-selling album of the year, pop singer Pink's Funhouse, by 3,000 copies. [2] Apocalypso by The Presets spent one week atop the chart on 21 April, and won the ARIA awards for Album of the Year and Best Dance release. [3]

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The yellow background indicates the #1 album on ARIA's End of Year Albums Chart of 2008.

Chart history

Issue date of chartAlbumArtistWeeks at number one (total)Ref.
7 January
14 January
21 January
28 January
Timbaland Presents Shock Value Timbaland 5 [4]
[5]
[6]
[7]
4 February Spirit Leona Lewis 1 [8]
11 February
18 February
25 February
3 March
10 March
Sleep Through the Static Jack Johnson 6 [9]
[10]
[8]
[11]
[12]
17 March Breed Obsession Gyroscope 1 [13]
24 March Sleep Through the Static Jack Johnson 6 [14]
31 March In Ghost Colours Cut Copy 1 [15]
7 April Pretty. Odd. Panic! at the Disco 1 [16]
14 April Watershed k.d. lang 1 [17]
21 April Apocalypso The Presets 1 [18]
28 April Rattlin' Bones Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson 1 [19]
5 May Hard Candy Madonna 1 [20]
12 May
19 May
Waltzing Matilda André Rieu and Mirusia 2 [21]
[22]
26 May Summer at Eureka Pete Murray 1 [23]
2 June
9 June
Here I Stand Usher 2 [24]
[25]
16 June Indestructible Disturbed 1 [26]
23 June
30 June
7 July
14 July
Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends Coldplay 4 [27]
[28]
[29]
[30]
21 July
28 July
4 August
11 August
18 August
Mamma Mia! The Movie Soundtrack Featuring the Songs of ABBA Mamma Mia! film cast5 [31]
[32]
[33]
[34]
[35]
25 August 2 Sneaky Sound System 1 [36]
1 September
9 September
All Hope Is Gone Slipknot 2 [37]
[38]
15 September Breakout Miley Cyrus 1 [39]
22 September Death Magnetic Metallica 1 [40]
29 September
6 October
13 October
20 October
Only by the Night Kings of Leon 14 [41]
[42]
[43]
[44]
27 October Black Ice AC/DC 1 [45]
3 November
10 November
17 November
24 November
1 December
8 December
15 December
22 December
29 December
Funhouse Pink 9 [46]
[47]
[48]
[49]
[50]
[51]
[52]
[53]
[54]

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