The following lists the top 100 albums of 1998 in Australia from the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) End of Year Albums Chart.

# Title Artist Highest pos. reached Weeks at No. 1 1. Yourself or Someone Like You Matchbox 20 1 6 2. Aquarium Aqua 1 2 3. Titanic Soundtrack 1 11 4. Backstreet's Back Backstreet Boys 2 5. Left of the Middle Natalie Imbruglia 1 3 6. The Best of 1980–1990 U2 1 5 7. Come On Over Shania Twain 1 20 8. Highlights from The Main Event John Farnham, Olivia Newton-John, Anthony Warlow 1 2 9. Spiceworld Spice Girls 2 10. Ray of Light Madonna 1 1 11. Let's Talk About Love Celine Dion 1 5 12. Romanza Andrea Bocelli 2 13. Chef Aid: The South Park Album Soundtrack 1 1 14. All Saints All Saints 4 15. Hits Phil Collins 2 16. Ladies and Gentlemen ... The Best of George Michael 2 17. The Wedding Singer Soundtrack 1 1 18. Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie Alanis Morissette 2 19. Songs from Ally McBeal Vonda Shepard 1 1 20. Unit Regurgitator 4 21. The Last Wave of Summer Cold Chisel 1 1 22. Americana The Offspring 1 5 23. Eternal Nightcap The Whitlams 14 24. 5ive Five 8 25. Grease Soundtrack 1 4 26. Vuelve Ricky Martin 2 27. City of Angels Soundtrack 1 2 28. Yield Pearl Jam 1 1 29. The Living End The Living End 1 2 30. B*Witched B*Witched 5 31. Impossible Princess Kylie Minogue 4 32. Urban Hymns The Verve 9 33. Postcards from Heaven Lighthouse Family 2 34. Talk on Corners The Corrs 3 35. Step One Steps 5 36. Garage Inc. Metallica 2 37. Sumo The Superjesus 2 38. Spice Spice Girls 3 39. Sultans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits Dire Straits 4 40. On Eagle's Wings Michael Crawford 5 41. Pieces of You Jewel 5 42. VH1 Divas Live Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, Gloria Estefan, Aretha Franklin, Shania Twain 12 43. #1's Mariah Carey 6 44. Try Whistling This Neil Finn 1 2 45. These Are Special Times Celine Dion 6 46. Dude Ranch Blink-182 25 47. Adore The Smashing Pumpkins 1 1 48. Whatever and Ever Amen Ben Folds Five 8 49. Follow the Leader Korn 1 1 50. Lemon Parade Tonic 12 51. The Full Monty Soundtrack 3 52. Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk Jeff Buckley 1 1 53. Mezzanine Massive Attack 1 1 54. Slightly Odway Jebediah 7 55. Backstreet Boys Backstreet Boys 6 56. Nimrod Green Day 3 57. Spirit Jewel 5 58. The Best That I Could Do 1978–1988 John Mellencamp 5 59. My Best Friend's Wedding Soundtrack 1 4 60. Savage Garden Savage Garden 1 19 61. Hat Town Lee Kernaghan 7 62. Songs from the South Paul Kelly 2 63. Live on Two Legs Pearl Jam 4 64. Guide to Better Living Grinspoon 11 65. Godzilla: The Album Soundtrack 8 66. Internationalist Powderfinger 1 1 67. Paint the Sky with Stars Enya 10 68. Who Cares a Lot? The Greatest Hits Faith No More 4 69. The Best of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 2 70. Hello Nasty Beastie Boys 1 1 71. The Greatest Hits INXS 2 72. 20,000 Watt R.S.L. Midnight Oil 1 1 73. Anthology 1: Greatest Hits 1986–1997 John Farnham 1 1 74. Viaggio Italiano Andrea Bocelli 15 75. Reload Metallica 2 76. Mechanical Animals Marilyn Manson 1 1 77. Let's Face It The Mighty Mighty Bosstones 27 78. Armageddon: The Album Soundtrack 5 79. I'm Telling You for the Last Time Jerry Seinfeld 11 80. 3 Car Garage Hanson 3 81. Version 2.0 Garbage 5 82. The Velvet Rope Janet Jackson 4 83. Celebrity Skin Hole 4 84. Eat Your Peas Martin/Molloy 27 85. In Deep Tina Arena 1 3 86. OK Computer Radiohead 7 87. The Best of Van Morrison Van Morrison 1 3 88. Waiting for the Day Bachelor Girl 20 89. Premonition John Fogerty 25 90. The Ultimate Collection Creedence Clearwater Revival 10 91. The Wedding Singer 2 Soundtrack 8 92. The Best of Wham!: If You Were There... Wham! 29 93. In My Life George Martin 7 94. Back to Titanic James Horner 7 95. The Very Best of the Bee Gees Bee Gees 7 96. No. 4 Record You Am I 1 1 97. Chisel Cold Chisel 3 98. Ixnay on the Hombre The Offspring 2 99. Led Zeppelin Remasters Led Zeppelin 1 1 100. (Songbook) A Collection of Hits Trisha Yearwood 22

Peak chart positions from 1998 are from the ARIA Charts, overall position on the End of Year Chart is calculated by ARIA based on the number of weeks and position that the records reach within the Top 50 albums for each week during 1998.

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