These are the top 25 albums of 2008 in Australia from the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) End of Year Albums Chart.
# Title Artist Highest pos. reached Weeks at No. 1 1. Only by the Night Kings of Leon 1 14 2. Funhouse Pink 1 9 3. Black Ice AC/DC 1 1 4. Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends Coldplay 1 4 5. Apocalypso The Presets 1 1 6. Mamma Mia! The Movie Soundtrack Soundtrack 1 5 7. Exclusive Chris Brown 5 8. Death Magnetic Metallica 1 1 9. Good Girl Gone Bad Rihanna 2 10. We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. Jason Mraz 3 11. Sleep Through the Static Jack Johnson 1 6 12. The Fame Lady Gaga 4 13. Lessons to Be Learned Gabriella Cilmi 2 14. Spirit Leona Lewis 1 1 15. Dark Horse Nickelback 3 16. Oracular Spectacular MGMT 6 17. Hook Me Up The Veronicas 2 18. High School Musical 3: Senior Year Soundtrack 4 19. Breakout Miley Cyrus 1 1 20. Waltzing Matilda André Rieu and Mirusia 1 2 21. Gurrumul Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu 3 22. Unessential Listening Hamish & Andy 4 23. The Promise Il Divo 5 24. Back to Black Amy Winehouse 4 25. Circus Britney Spears 3
Peak chart positions for 2008 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 100 albums for each week during 2008.
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