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The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in 2008. These albums are (1) original, i.e. excluding reissues, remasters, and compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) notable, defined as having received significant coverage from reliable sources independent of the subject.

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List of albums released in January 2008

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Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Ref.
January 1	Ayumi Hamasaki	Guilty	Rock	Avex Trax
	Praxis	Profanation (Preparation for a Coming Darkness)	Experimental rock, alternative rock	NAGUAL, M.O.D. Technologies	[1]
	The Smashing Pumpkins	American Gothic	Alternative rock	Reprise
January 8	Luke Doucet & the White Falcon	Blood's Too Rich	Indie rock, country	Six Shooter	[2]
	Rhonda Vincent	Good Thing Going	Country, bluegrass	Rounder
	Sia	Some People Have Real Problems	Pop	Hear Music, Monkey Puzzle Records
	Teenage Bottlerocket	Warning Device	Punk rock	Red Scare	[3]
January 11	Benedictum	Seasons of Tragedy	Heavy metal	Locomotive Music	[4]
January 14	British Sea Power	Do You Like Rock Music?	Indie rock, post-punk revival	Rough Trade
	The Dø	A Mouthful	Indie rock, folk rock	Cinq7
	Ringo Starr	Liverpool 8	Rock	Capitol
January 15	Hayden	In Field & Town	Alternative country, indie folk, folk rock	Hardwood
	Jon Foreman	Winter	Acoustic	Lowercase people, Credential
	The Magnetic Fields	Distortion	Indie pop, noise pop, shoegaze	Nonesuch
	Matthew West	Something to Say	Contemporary Christian music	Sparrow	[5]
	Number One Gun	The North Pole Project	Christian rock, alternative rock, emo	Tooth & Nail	[6]
January 21	Black Mountain	In the Future	Psychedelic rock, progressive rock, space rock	Jagjaguwar
	Lightspeed Champion	Falling Off the Lavender Bridge	Indie rock, folk	Domino
January 22	The Audition	Champion	Pop-punk	Victory
	Big Noyd	Illustrious	East Coast hip hop, gangsta rap	Koch	[7]
	Byzantine	Oblivion Beckons	Groove metal	Prosthetic	[8]
	Chuck Wicks	Starting Now	Country	RCA Nashville	[9]
	Dengue Fever	Venus on Earth			[10]
	Disfear	Live the Storm	Crust punk, d-beat	Relapse
	Foxy Shazam	Introducing Foxy Shazam	Alternative rock, post-hardcore, experimental rock	Ferret, New Weatherman Records
	Matt Costa	Unfamiliar Faces	Folk	Brushfire
	With Blood Comes Cleansing	Horror	Deathcore	Victory	[11]
	ZOX	Line in the Sand	Alternative rock, reggae rock, ska	SideOneDummy	[12]
January 23	Ayreon	01011001	Progressive metal, progressive rock	Inside Out Music
January 25	Alestorm	Captain Morgan's Revenge	Power metal, folk metal	Napalm	[13]
	Avantasia	The Scarecrow	Symphonic metal, progressive metal, power metal	Nuclear Blast	[14]
	Brainstorm	Downburst	Heavy metal, power metal	Metal Blade	[15]
	Heaven Shall Burn	Iconoclast (Part 1: The Final Resistance)	Melodic death metal, metalcore	Century Media	[16]
January 28	Adele	19	Blue-eyed soul	XL
	Bullet for My Valentine	Scream Aim Fire	Melodic metalcore, thrash metal	Jive
	Clark	Turning Dragon	IDM, experimental, techno	Warp	[17]
	Joe Jackson	Rain	Rock, pop	Rykodisc	[18]
	Prosumer and Murat Tepeli	Serenity	Detroit techno, Chicago house, deep house	Ostgut Ton
	Sarah Brightman	Symphony	Classical crossover, classical, symphonic rock	Manhattan	[19]
	Sons and Daughters	This Gift	Indie rock	Domino
January 29	Autechre	Quaristice	Electronic	Warp
	Chris Walla	Field Manual	Indie rock	Barsuk	[20]
	Course of Nature	Damaged	Alternative rock, post-grunge, hard rock	Silent Majority	[21]
	Decrepit Birth	Diminishing Between Worlds	Technical death metal	Unique Leader Records	[22]
	Dub Trio	Another Sound Is Dying	Dub, punk rock	Ipecac
	Hawksley Workman	Between the Beautifuls	Indie rock	Universal Music Canada	[23]
	The Helio Sequence	Keep Your Eyes Ahead	Indie rock	Sub Pop	[24]
	Idina Menzel	I Stand	Pop	Warner Bros., Reprise	[25]
	The Mars Volta	The Bedlam in Goliath	Progressive rock, jazz fusion, funk rock	Gold Standard Laboratories, Universal Motown
	Protest the Hero	Fortress	Progressive metal, mathcore	Vagrant, Underground Operations
	Thao & the Get Down Stay Down	We Brave Bee Stings and All	Folk	Kill Rock Stars
	Vampire Weekend	Vampire Weekend	Indie pop, baroque pop, worldbeat	XL
	Xiu Xiu	Women as Lovers	Art rock, experimental, post-punk	Kill Rock Stars
January 30	Koda Kumi	Kingdom	Pop, R&B, rock	Rhythm Zone	[26]
	Lykke Li	Youth Novels	Indie pop, synth-pop, dance-pop	LL Recordings
	Tristan Prettyman	Hello...x	Pop	Virgin	[27]

List of albums released in February 2008

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Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Ref.
February 4	Hot Chip	Made in the Dark	Indietronica, alternative dance	EMI
	Miss Kittin	BatBox	Electronica, electroclash, dance	Nobody's Bizzness
	Morcheeba	Dive Deep	Trip hop, downtempo	Echo, Ultra
February 5	Bob Mould	District Line	Alternative rock	Anti-
	Edison Glass	Time Is Fiction	Indie rock	Credential	[28]
	Gwen Stacy	The Life I Know	Metalcore, post-hardcore	Ferret Music	[29]
	Horace Silver	Live at Newport '58	Hard bop	Blue Note	[30]
	Jack Johnson	Sleep Through the Static	Folk rock, soft rock	Brushfire, Universal
	Jason Collett	Here's to Being Here	Indie rock, alternative country	Arts & Crafts	[31]
	Lenny Kravitz	It Is Time for a Love Revolution	Rock	Virgin
	Nada Surf	Lucky	Alternative rock, indie rock	Barsuk
	Sheryl Crow	Detours	Rock, pop rock, folk rock	A&M
	Taylor Dayne	Satisfied	Dance-pop, pop rock, soul	Adrenaline Records	[32]
	They Might Be Giants	Here Come the 123s	Children's music	Disney Sound, Idlewild Records
February 11	The Mae Shi	HLLLYH	Experimental, punk	Team Shi, Moshi Moshi	[33]
February 12	Averse Sefira	Advent Parallax	Black metal	Candlelight	[34]
	Marco Benevento	Invisible Baby		Hyena Records	[35]
	Natalie Grant	Relentless	Contemporary Christian music	Curb
	Newworldson	Salvation Station	CCM	Inpop	[36]
	Sanctus Real	We Need Each Other	Christian rock, CCM, pop rock	Sparrow
	Secret and Whisper	Great White Whale	Post-hardcore, alternative rock	Tooth & Nail	[37]
	Simple Plan	Simple Plan	Alternative rock, pop-punk	Lava, Atlantic
February 15	Eluveitie	Slania	Folk metal, melodic death metal, Celtic metal	Nuclear Blast	[38]
February 18	Dismember	Dismember	Death metal	Regain	[39]
	Hate Eternal	Fury & Flames	Death metal	Metal Blade	[40]
	The Mountain Goats	Heretic Pride	Folk rock, indie rock	4AD
	Pete and the Pirates	Little Death	Indie rock	Stolen
	To-Mera	Delusions	Progressive metal	Candlelight	[41]
February 19	Cherry Poppin' Daddies	Susquehanna		Space Age Bachelor Pad Records
	Chris Cagle	My Life's Been a Country Song	Country	Capitol Nashville	[42]
	Genghis Tron	Board Up the House	Experimental metal, mathcore	Relapse, Lovepump United Records
	Grand Archives	The Grand Archives	Indie rock	Sub Pop	[43]
	Jim Jones	Harlem's American Gangster	East Coast hip hop	Koch	[44]
	Secondhand Serenade	A Twist in My Story	Acoustic rock, alternative rock, emo	Glassnote	[45]
	This Is Hell	Misfortunes	Hardcore punk	Trustkill	[46]
	The Trews	No Time for Later	Hard rock, alternative rock	Bumstead	[47]
February 22	Los Campesinos!	Hold on Now, Youngster...	Indie pop, noise pop	Wichita, Arts & Crafts
	Exciter	Thrash Speed Burn	Speed metal, thrash metal	Massacre	[48]
	Goldfrapp	Seventh Tree	Folktronica, ambient, downtempo	Mute
	Janet Jackson	Discipline	Pop, electronic, R&B	Island
	Steel Attack	Carpe DiEnd	Power metal	Massacre	[49]
	Unheilig	Puppenspiel	Neue Deutsche Härte	Four Rock Entertainment	[50]
February 25	Dark Fortress	Eidolon	Black metal	Century Media	[51]
	Sébastien Tellier	Sexuality	Synth-pop	Record Makers, Lucky Number Music
February 26	The Afters	Never Going Back to OK	Christian rock	INO, Columbia	[52]
	Beach House	Devotion	Dream pop	Carpark
	Cadia	Cadia	CCM, Christian pop, Christian rock	Fervent	[53]
	Children 18:3	Children 18:3	Punk rock, Christian punk	Tooth & Nail	[54]
	Death Angel	Killing Season	Thrash metal	Nuclear Blast
	Dolly Parton	Backwoods Barbie	Country	Dolly Records
	Erykah Badu	New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)	Neo soul, funk, R&B	Universal Motown
	Leeland	Opposite Way	Christian rock	Essential	[55]
	Pete Rock	NY's Finest	Hip hop	Nature Sounds
	Pillar	For the Love of the Game	Christian metal, alternative metal, hard rock	Essential
	Plants and Animals	Parc Avenue	Indie rock	Secret City
	Punch Brothers	Punch	Progressive bluegrass	Nonesuch
	Shawty Lo	Units in the City	Hip hop, gangsta rap	Warner Bros., Asylum, D4L Records
	Stellar Kart	Expect the Impossible	Power pop, pop-punk, punk rock	Word
	Webbie	Savage Life 2	Southern hip hop, gangsta rap	Trill Entertainment, Asylum, Atlantic
February 27	Danko Jones	Never Too Loud	Rock	Aquarius, Bad Taste	[56]
February 29	Agalloch	The White	Neofolk, dark ambient	Vendlus	[57]

List of albums released in March 2008

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Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Ref.
March 2	Nine Inch Nails	Ghosts I–IV	Dark ambient	The Null Corporation
March 3	Bauhaus	Go Away White	Gothic rock, funk rock, post-punk	Cooking Vinyl, Bauhaus Music
	The Black Crowes	Warpaint	Southern rock, blues rock, hard rock	Megaforce, Silver Arrow Records
	Duffy	Rockferry	Blue-eyed soul, pop	A&M
	Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly	Searching for the Hows and Whys	Folk rock, folktronica, indie	Atlantic	[58]
March 4	Alan Jackson	Good Time	Country	Arista Nashville
	Ashton Shepherd	Sounds So Good	Country	MCA Nashville	[59]
	Bizzy Bone	Ruthless		Siccness	[60]
	BoDeans	Still	Alternative	He and He Records	[61]
	Burden of a Day	Blessed Be Our Ever After		Rise	[62]
	Cadence Weapon	Afterparty Babies	Alternative hip hop, electronic	Anti-, Big Dada, Upper Class
	Fireflight	Unbreakable	Hard rock, Christian rock, alternative metal	Flicker	[63]
	Flogging Molly	Float	Celtic rock, punk rock	SideOneDummy	[64]
	Murder by Death	Red of Tooth and Claw	Indie rock, country rock, folk	Vagrant
	Nasum	Doombringer	Grindcore	Relapse	[65]
	Smokin' Joe Kubek & Bnois King	Blood Brothers		Alligator	[66]
	Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks	Real Emotional Trash	Indie rock	Matador
March 5	Asian Kung-Fu Generation	World World World	Alternative rock	Kioon	[67]
	The Tallest Man on Earth	Shallow Grave	Folk	Gravitation	[68]
March 7	Boris	Smile		Diwphalanx, Southern Lord	[69]
	Meshuggah	obZen	Extreme metal, progressive metal, avant-garde metal	Nuclear Blast
	Ruslana	Amazonka	Pop rock, dance-pop, electropop	Warner Bros., EMI	[70]
March 10	Bloodbath	Unblessing the Purity	Death metal	Peaceville	[71]
	The Kills	Midnight Boom	Indie rock, garage rock	Domino
	Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band	13 Blues for Thirteen Moons		Constellation
	Young Knives	Superabundance	Indie rock, post-punk revival	Transgressive
March 11	Del the Funky Homosapien	Eleventh Hour	Hip hop	Definitive Jux
	Fat Joe	The Elephant in the Room	Hip hop	Terror Squad, Virgin, Imperial
	Ill Niño	Enigma	Alternative metal, metalcore, nu metal	Cement Shoes Records	[72]
	The Presidents of the United States of America	These Are the Good Times People	Alternative rock	Fugitive Recordings, Tooth & Nail
	Rick Ross	Trilla	Hip hop	Slip-n-Slide, Def Jam, Poe Boy
	Snoop Dogg	Ego Trippin'	Hip hop	Geffen
	Why?	Alopecia	Indie pop	Anticon
March 12	Kiuas	The New Dark Age	Power metal	Spinefarm	[73]
March 14	Mike Oldfield	Music of the Spheres	Classical	Universal Classics and Jazz, Mercury	[74]
March 17	Bryan Adams	11	Soft rock	Polydor
	Muse	HAARP	Alternative rock, hard rock, progressive rock	Warner Bros., Helium-3
	Van Morrison	Keep It Simple	Jazz, folk, blues	Polydor, Lost Highway	[75]
	We Are Scientists	Brain Thrust Mastery	Indie rock, post-punk revival	EMI
	Youthmovies	Good Nature	Math rock, post-rock	Drowned in Sound	[76]
March 18	Addison Road	Addison Road	Christian rock, pop	INO
	Black Tide	Light from Above	Heavy metal	Interscope	[77]
	Bone Brothers	Still Creepin on Ah Come Up		Real Talk	[78]
	Bury Your Dead	Bury Your Dead	Hardcore punk, metalcore	Victory	[79]
	Crystal Castles	Crystal Castles	Synth-punk, chiptune, noise	Lies Records, Last Gang
	Danity Kane	Welcome to the Dollhouse	Pop, R&B	Bad Boy, Atlantic
	Destroyer	Trouble in Dreams	Indie rock, chamber pop	Merge
	Flo Rida	Mail on Sunday	Hip hop, Southern hip hop	Atlantic, Poe Boy
	Gnarls Barkley	The Odd Couple	Psychedelic soul	Atlantic, Downtown
	Jucifer	L'Autrichienne	Noise rock, sludge metal	Relapse	[80]
	The Matches	A Band in Hope	Art rock, pop-punk	Epitaph	[81]
	PlayRadioPlay!	Texas	Electronic, pop	Island	[82]
	Rocko	Self Made	Hip hop	Rocky Road, So So Def, Island	[83]
	Sahg	II	Heavy metal, doom metal	Regain	[84]
	She & Him	Volume One	Indie pop, alternative country	Merge
	Sheek Louch	Silverback Gorilla	Hip hop	Koch, D-Block Records
	Unearthly Trance	Electrocution		Relapse	[85]
March 19	Hikaru Utada	Heart Station	J-pop, R&B, electronica	EMI Music Japan
March 21	Firewind	The Premonition	Power metal	Century Media	[86]
	Korpiklaani	Korven Kuningas	Folk metal	Nuclear Blast	[87]
	Panic! at the Disco	Pretty. Odd.	Psychedelic pop, psychedelic rock, baroque pop	Fueled by Ramen
March 22	Cut Copy	In Ghost Colours	Electropop, alternative dance	Modular
	Millencolin	Machine 15	Pop-punk, punk rock, alternative rock	Burning Heart, Epitaph
March 24	Does It Offend You, Yeah?	You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into		Virgin, Startime, Almost Gold
	Foals	Antidotes	Indie rock, math rock, dance-punk	Transgressive, Sub Pop
	Pennywise	Reason to Believe	Punk rock, melodic hardcore	Myspace, Epitaph	[88]
	Supergrass	Diamond Hoo Ha	Alternative rock	Parlophone, Astralwerks
March 25	The B-52s	Funplex	Rock, pop rock, dance-pop	Astralwerks
	Cavalera Conspiracy	Inflikted	Groove metal, thrash metal, death metal	Roadrunner
	Counting Crows	Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings	Alternative rock, folk rock	Geffen
	eMC	The Show	East Coast hip hop, underground hip hop	M3
	Guilty Simpson	Ode to the Ghetto	Hip hop	Stones Throw
	Jon Foreman	Spring	Acoustic	lowercase people, Credential	[89]
	The Raconteurs	Consolers of the Lonely	Blues rock, power pop	Third Man, Warner Bros.
	Roseanna Vitro and Kenny Werner	The Delirium Blues Project: Serve or Suffer	Vocal jazz, R&B, blues	Half Note
	Starfield	I Will Go	Contemporary Christian music	Sparrow	[90]
March 26	Poets of the Fall	Revolution Roulette	Indie rock, alternative rock	Insomniac Records	[91]
March 28	Illdisposed	The Prestige	Death metal	AFM	[92]
	Midnattsol	Nordlys	Gothic metal, folk metal	Napalm	[93]
March 29	Moby	Last Night	Electronic dance music	Mute
March 31	Francis Cabrel	Des roses et des orties		Columbia	[94]
	Nazareth	The Newz	Hard rock, blues rock	Edel	[95]
	R.E.M.	Accelerate	Hard rock, punk rock	Warner Bros.
	The Sword	Gods of the Earth	Heavy metal, doom metal, stoner metal	Kemado	[96]

List of albums released in April 2008

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Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Ref.
April 1	8Ball, E.D.I.	Doin' It Big	Hip hop	Real Talk, Koch	[97]
	Anti-Flag	The Bright Lights of America	Punk rock	RCA	[98]
	AZ	Undeniable	Hip hop	Koch
	The Black Keys	Attack & Release	Garage rock, blues rock	Nonesuch, V2
	Delirious?	Kingdom of Comfort	Alternative rock, Christian rock	Sparrow	[99]
	Donna Lewis	In the Pink	Pop	Peruzi Music	[100]
	Fall Out Boy	Live in Phoenix	Pop-punk, pop rock, emo pop	Island
	George Strait	Troubadour	Neotraditional country, honky-tonk	MCA Nashville
	Hawk Nelson	Hawk Nelson Is My Friend	Christian rock, pop-punk, punk rock	BEC	[101]
	In Flames	A Sense of Purpose	Alternative metal	Nuclear Blast
	Josh Gracin	We Weren't Crazy	Country	Lyric Street	[102]
	Ministry and Co-Conspirators	Cover Up	Industrial metal, thrash metal	13th Planet
	Origin	Antithesis	Technical death metal	Relapse
	Sevendust	Chapter VII: Hope & Sorrow	Alternative metal	Asylum	[103]
	Sun Kil Moon	April	Folk rock	Caldo Verde
	Theory of a Deadman	Scars & Souvenirs	Hard rock	Roadrunner	[104]
	Trina	Still da Baddest	Hip hop, dirty rap	Slip-n-Slide
	Veil of Maya	The Common Man's Collapse	Deathcore, melodic death metal, technical death metal	Sumerian	[105]
	The Wood Brothers	Loaded		Blue Note	[106]
April 2	Tapes 'n Tapes	Walk It Off	Indie rock	XL
April 4	Emil Bulls	The Black Path	Alternative metal	Drakkar	[107]
	Forever Slave	Tales for Bad Girls			[108]
	Mariah Carey	E=MC²	Pop, hip hop, R&B	Island
April 7	The Breeders	Mountain Battles	Art punk	4AD
	Children of Bodom	Blooddrunk	Melodic death metal, thrash metal	Spinefarm	[109]
	The Courteeners	St. Jude	Indie rock	Polydor
	Distorted	Voices from Within	Death-doom, Oriental metal, progressive metal	Candlelight, Helicon	[110]
	The Long Blondes	Couples	Indie rock	Rough Trade
April 8	Ashes Divide	Keep Telling Myself It's Alright	Alternative rock, alternative metal, hard rock	Island
	Cloud Cult	Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes)	Indie pop	Earthology
	Dokken	Lightning Strikes Again	Heavy metal, hard rock	Frontiers Music	[111]
	James Otto	Sunset Man	Country	Warner Bros. Nashville	[112]
	Justin Rutledge	Man Descending	Alternative country	Six Shooter	[113]
	Living Legends	The Gathering	Hip hop	Legendary Music
	Marcia Ball	Peace, Love & BBQ	Blues, R&B	Alligator	[114]
	P.O.D.	When Angels & Serpents Dance	Alternative metal, alternative rock	INO
	Ron Sexsmith	Exit Strategy of the Soul		Kensaltown
	Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin	Pershing	Indie pop	Polyvinyl
April 11	The Kooks	Konk	Indie rock	Virgin
	M83	Saturdays = Youth	Dream pop, shoegaze, synth-pop	Virgin
April 12	The Presets	Apocalypso	Dance	Modular
April 14	Rush	Snakes & Arrows Live	Progressive rock, hard rock	Anthem	[115]
April 15	Anew Revolution	Rise		Koch	[116]
	Arsis	We Are the Nightmare	Technical death metal, melodic death metal	Nuclear Blast	[117]
	Belphegor	Bondage Goat Zombie	Blackened death metal	Nuclear Blast	[118]
	The Black Angels	Directions to See a Ghost	Psychedelic rock	Light in the Attic
	Destroy the Runner	I, Lucifer	Melodic metalcore, post-hardcore, progressive metal	Solid State	[119]
	Ketil Bjørnstad & Terje Rypdal	Life in Leipzig	Chamber jazz	ECM	[120]
	Lady Antebellum	Lady Antebellum	Country	Capitol Nashville
	The Last Shadow Puppets	The Age of the Understatement	Symphonic pop, pop rock, baroque pop	Domino
	Phantom Planet	Raise the Dead	Alternative rock, garage rock	Fueled by Ramen
	Soilent Green	Inevitable Collapse in the Presence of Conviction	Sludge metal, grindcore	Metal Blade	[121]
	Thrice	The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV	Atmospheric rock, folk, roots rock	Vagrant
April 18	Deus	Vantage Point	Indie rock	V2, Cooperative Music
	Madonna	Hard Candy	Dance-pop	Warner Bros.
	Whitesnake	Good to Be Bad	Hard rock, blues rock	SPV/Steamhammer, WEA
April 19	Ashlee Simpson	Bittersweet World	Electronic, pop, rock	Geffen
April 21	Flight of the Conchords	Flight of the Conchords	Comedy rock, anti-folk, alternative rock	Sub Pop
	Grave	Dominion VIII	Death metal	Regain	[122]
	Shihad	Beautiful Machine	Alternative rock, electronic rock, post-punk revival	Warner Music	[123]
April 22	Atmosphere	When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold	Hip hop, alternative hip hop	Rhymesayers
	Blind Melon	For My Friends	Alternative rock	Adrenaline Music Group
	Cancer Bats	Hail Destroyer	Hardcore punk, sludge metal, Southern rock	Distort	[124]
	Die Happy	VI		GUN	[125]
	Dominici	O3 A Trilogy - Part 3		Inside Out Music	[126]
	Elvis Costello	Momofuku	Alternative rock, roots rock	Lost Highway
	Éric Lapointe	Ma peau			[127]
	Foxboro Hot Tubs	Stop Drop and Roll!!!	Garage rock	Jingle Town, Warner Music	[128]
	Goldfinger	Hello Destiny...	Ska punk, punk rock, pop-punk	SideOneDummy	[129]
	Phil Vassar	Prayer of a Common Man	Country	Universal South
	Prodigy	H.N.I.C. Pt. 2	Hip hop	Voxonic Inc.
	Story of the Year	The Black Swan	Post-hardcore, alternative metal, melodic hardcore	Epitaph
	Tantric	The End Begins	Post-grunge, alternative metal	Silent Majority	[130]
	Tokyo Police Club	Elephant Shell	Indie rock, post-punk revival	Saddle Creek
April 23	Kalmah	For the Revolution	Melodic death metal, thrash metal	Spinefarm	[131]
April 24	Hadouken!	Music for an Accelerated Culture	New rave, grindie	Atlantic
April 25	Ayreon	Elected	Progressive metal	Inside Out Music, SPV	[132]
	Def Leppard	Songs from the Sparkle Lounge	Hard rock, glam rock	Island, Universal Music Enterprises
	DevilDriver	Head on to Heartache	Groove metal	Roadrunner	[133]
	Edenbridge	MyEarthDream	Symphonic metal, gothic metal	Napalm	[134]
	Human Fortress	Eternal Empire		Massacre	[135]
	Jennifer Paige	Best Kept Secret	Pop, pop rock	SPV	[136]
	Torture Squad	Hellbound	Death metal, thrash metal	Wacken Records	[137]
	Venomous Concept	Poisoned Apple	Grindcore, hardcore punk	Century Media	[138]
	Warrel Dane	Praises to the War Machine	Progressive metal, thrash metal, gothic metal	Century Media	[139]
April 26	Bliss n Eso	Flying Colours	Hip hop	Illusive Sounds, Liberation Music	[140]
April 28	Deicide	Till Death Do Us Part	Death metal	Earache	[141]
	The Fall	Imperial Wax Solvent	Alternative rock	Sanctuary
	Mindless Self Indulgence	If	Synth-punk	The End	[142]
	My Dying Bride	An Ode to Woe	Doom metal, gothic metal	Peaceville	[143]
	Portishead	Third	Electronica, experimental rock, psychedelic rock	Island, Mercury
	The Roots	Rising Down	Hip hop, hardcore hip hop	Def Jam
April 29	9th Wonder & Buckshot	The Formula	Hip hop	Duck Down Music
	Augustana	Can't Love, Can't Hurt	Rock, roots rock, indie rock	Epic
	The Cab	Whisper War	Pop rock, pop-punk, alternative rock	Decaydance, Fueled by Ramen	[144]
	Forever the Sickest Kids	Underdog Alma Mater	Pop-punk, neon pop punk, power pop	Universal Motown	[145]
	HIM	Digital Versatile Doom		Sire, Warner Bros.	[146]
	Langhorne Slim	Langhorne Slim	Alternative country	Kemado
	Lil Mama	VYP (Voice of the Young People)	Hip hop, dance, R&B	Zomba, Jive
	Lyfe Jennings	Lyfe Change	R&B, soul, hip hop	Sony Urban Music, Columbia, Music World	[147]
	Mudcrutch	Mudcrutch	Southern rock, country rock	Reprise
	New Found Glory	Tip of the Iceberg	Hardcore punk, pop-punk	Bridge 9	[148]
	Phil Stacey	Phil Stacey	Country	Lyric Street	[149]
	pureNRG	Here We Go Again	Pop, pop rock, power pop	Fervent, Curb, Warner Bros.	[150]
	Puscifer	"V" Is for Viagra. The Remixes	Trip hop, post-industrial	Puscifer Entertainment	[151]
	Run Kid Run	Love at the Core	Pop-punk	Tooth & Nail	[152]
	Santogold	Santogold	New wave, dub, reggae fusion	Downtown, Atlantic
	Steve Winwood	Nine Lives	Rock, pop, blues	Columbia	[153]
	Testament	The Formation of Damnation	Thrash metal	Nuclear Blast
	Wednesday 13	Bloodwork	Horror punk, heavy metal	Wednesday 13 LLC	[154]
	Your Vegas	A Town and Two Cities	Alternative rock	Universal Republic	[155]
April 30	Moonsorrow	Tulimyrsky	Folk metal, black metal	Spinefarm	[156]

List of albums released in May 2008

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Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Ref.
May 2	Gemma Hayes	The Hollow of Morning	Alternative rock, folk	GH Music, Second Motion
	Tiamat	Amanethes	Gothic metal	Nuclear Blast	[157]
May 5	Nine Inch Nails	The Slip	Industrial rock, electro-industrial	The Null Corporation
	We Are the Physics	We Are the Physics Are OK at Music	Alternative rock
May 6	Clay Aiken	On My Way Here	Pop	RCA
	Firewater	The Golden Hour	Indie rock	Bloodshot
	Gavin DeGraw	Gavin DeGraw	Pop rock	J
	Hammock	Maybe They Will Sing for Us Tomorrow	Ambient, post-rock	Darla
	Kayo Dot	Blue Lambency Downward	Avant-rock	Hydra Head	[158]
	Kelli O'Hara	Wonder in the World	Traditional pop	Ghostlight	[159]
	Russian Circles	Station	Post-rock, post-metal, instrumental rock	Suicide Squeeze, Sargent House
	Socratic	Spread the Rumors		Drive-Thru	[160]
May 8	No Age	Nouns	Noise pop, experimental pop, punk rock	Sub Pop
May 12	Death Cab for Cutie	Narrow Stairs	Alternative rock, indie rock	Atlantic, Barsuk
	Jason Mraz	We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things.	Pop, folk, blue-eyed soul	Atlantic
	No-Man	Schoolyard Ghosts	Art rock	Kscope
	Pendulum	In Silico	Drum and bass, electronic rock	Earstorm, Warner Bros., Atlantic
May 13	Abysmal Dawn	Programmed to Consume	Death metal	Relapse	[161]
	Cherish	The Truth	R&B	Sho'nuff Records, Capitol	[162]
	Coldworker	Rotting Paradise	Death metal, grindcore	Relapse	[163]
	Emmure	The Respect Issue	Deathcore, metalcore	Victory	[164]
	Filter	Anthems for the Damned	Alternative rock, industrial rock	Pulse Records
	Foxy Brown	Brooklyn's Don Diva	Hip hop	Black Rose Entertainment, Koch
	Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan	Sunday at Devil Dirt	Indie pop, alternative rock	V2
	Keith Sweat	Just Me		Atco	[165]
	Local H	Twelve Angry Months	Alternative rock	Shout! Factory
	Michael Schenker Group	In the Midst of Beauty	Hard rock, heavy metal	In-akustik	[166]
	Old 97's	Blame It on Gravity	Alternative country	New West	[167]
	Robert Cray	Live at the BBC	Blues	Vanguard	[168]
	Subtle	ExitingARM	Hip hop	Lex
	Usher	Here I Stand	R&B, hip hop	LaFace
May 16	Moonspell	Night Eternal	Gothic metal, melodic death metal, melodic black metal	Steamhammer
	Scarlett Johansson	Anywhere I Lay My Head	Indie folk, alternative rock, dream pop	Atco
	The Ting Tings	We Started Nothing	Art pop	Columbia
May 17	The Dresden Dolls	No, Virginia...	Dark cabaret, alternative rock	Roadrunner
May 19	Mick Hucknall	Tribute to Bobby	Blues, jazz, pop	Simply Red	[169]
	Opeth	Watershed	Progressive death metal	Roadrunner	[170]
May 20	3 Doors Down	3 Doors Down	Alternative rock, hard rock	Universal Republic
	Black Lungs	Send Flowers	Alternative rock, folk punk	Dine Alone	[171]
	Bun B	II Trill	Hip hop	Rap-A-Lot, Asylum
	Donna Summer	Crayons	R&B	Burgundy
	Free Kitten	Inherit	Indie rock	Ecstatic Peace!
	Islands	Arm's Way		Anti-
	Jesse McCartney	Departure	Pop, dance-pop, electropop	Hollywood
	Julianne Hough	Julianne Hough	Country	Mercury Nashville	[172]
	Killah Priest	Behind the Stained Glass	Hip hop	Good Hands	[173]
	Sam Roberts	Love at the End of the World	Rock	Secret Brain, Universal Music Canada	[174]
	Wednesday 13	Skeletons	Horror punk, heavy metal	DR2	[175]
May 21	Nightmare	Killer Show	Progressive rock, alternative rock	VAP	[176]
May 23	Kataklysm	Prevail	Death metal, melodic death metal	Nuclear Blast	[177]
May 24	The Herd	Summerland	Australian hip hop	Elefant Traks	[178]
May 26	Cryptopsy	The Unspoken King	Deathcore	Century Media	[179]
	Ihsahn	angL	Progressive metal, black metal	Mnemosyne, Candlelight	[180]
	Shai Hulud	Misanthropy Pure	Hardcore punk	Metal Blade	[181]
	Terror	The Damned, the Shamed	Hardcore	Century Media	[182]
	Various artists	Sex and the City: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	Pop, rock, R&B	New Line	[183]
May 27	Al Green	Lay It Down	Soul	Blue Note
	Cyndi Lauper	Bring Ya to the Brink	Dance-pop	Epic
	H2O	Nothing to Prove	Punk rock	Bridge 9	[184]
	Health	Health//Disco	Noise rock, dance-punk	Lovepump United Records
	John Hiatt	Same Old Man	Rock	New West	[185]
	TobyMac	Alive and Transported	Christian hip hop, Christian rock	ForeFront	[186]
	Underoath	Survive, Kaleidoscope	Metalcore	Tooth & Nail	[187]
May 28	Vader	XXV	Death metal, thrash metal	Regain	[188]
May 29	Kalomira	Secret Combination: The Album	R&B, pop, electropop	Heaven Music	[189]
May 30	Alanis Morissette	Flavors of Entanglement	Pop rock, alternative rock, electronic rock	Maverick, Warner Bros.
	Communic	Payment of Existence	Progressive metal, power metal	Nuclear Blast	[190]
	Hollenthon	Opus Magnum	Symphonic death metal	Napalm	[191]
	Pyramaze	Immortal	Power metal, progressive metal	Locomotive Music	[192]
	Sabaton	The Art of War	Power metal	Black Lodge	[193]
	Týr	Land	Viking metal, folk metal, progressive metal	Napalm	[194]

List of albums released in June 2008

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Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Ref.
June 2	Aimee Mann	@#%&*! Smilers		SuperEgo
	Johnny Foreigner	Waited Up 'til It Was Light	Indie rock, post-punk, math rock	Best Before, Nettwerk
	Satyricon	My Skin Is Cold	Black metal	Roadrunner	[195]
	Uriah Heep	Wake the Sleeper	Hard rock	Sanctuary
June 3	Alesana	Where Myth Fades to Legend	Screamo, post-hardcore, metalcore	Fearless	[196]
	Ashanti	The Declaration	R&B	The Inc., Universal Motown
	Disturbed	Indestructible	Heavy metal, alternative metal, hard rock	Reprise
	Fleet Foxes	Fleet Foxes	Indie folk, chamber pop, folk rock	Sub Pop, Bella Union
	Gavin Rossdale	Wanderlust	Rock	Interscope
	Jewel	Perfectly Clear	Country	Valory
	Journey	Revelation	Hard rock, arena rock	Nomota LLC
	Weezer	Weezer (Red Album)	Alternative rock, power pop	DGC
June 6	Amaseffer	Slaves for Life	Progressive metal, folk metal	Inside Out Music	[197]
	Electric President	Sleep Well	Electronic	Morr Music
June 9	The Fratellis	Here We Stand	Rock	Island
June 10	The Awkward Stage	Slimming Mirrors, Flattering Lights	Indie pop	Mint	[198]
	Jakob Dylan	Seeing Things	Alternative rock, folk rock	Columbia
	Jon Foreman	Summer	Acoustic	Lowercase People, Credential	[199]
	Lauren Harris	Calm Before the Storm	Hard rock	Demolition DR2 Records	[200]
	Lil Wayne	Tha Carter III	Southern hip hop , pop rap	Cash Money, Universal Motown, Young Money
	Montgomery Gentry	Back When I Knew It All	Country	Columbia Nashville	[201]
	My Morning Jacket	Evil Urges	Indie rock, neo-psychedelia	ATO
	N.E.R.D.	Seeing Sounds	Hip hop, alternative rock	Star Trak, Interscope
	Omar Rodríguez-López	Omar Rodriguez Lopez & Jeremy Michael Ward		Infrasonic Sound	[202]
	Plies	Definition of Real	Southern hip hop, gangsta rap	Big Gates, Slip-n-Slide, Atlantic
	Rage	Carved in Stone	Power metal, heavy metal	Nuclear Blast	[203]
	Sloan	Parallel Play	Rock, power pop	Murderecords, Yep Roc
	Tyga	No Introduction	Pop-rap	Decaydance	[204]
	Walter Becker	Circus Money		5 Over 12
June 11	Helena Paparizou	Vrisko To Logo Na Zo	Pop, pop rock, electronica	Sony BMG Greece
	Ira Losco	Fortune Teller	Rock, alternative	None Records	[205]
	The Offspring	Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace	Punk rock	Columbia
June 12	Coldplay	Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends	Alternative rock, art rock, pop rock	Parlophone
June 16	Feeder	Silent Cry	Alternative rock, post-grunge, power pop	Echo
	Judas Priest	Nostradamus	Heavy metal, symphonic metal	Epic
June 17	2 Pistols	Death Before Dishonor	Hip hop	Blood Money Union, Universal Republic
	Blood Raw	My Life: The True Testimony	Southern hip hop, gangsta rap	Corporate Thugz, Def Jam	[206]
	Jim Jones & ByrdGang	M.O.B.: The Album	Hip hop	Asylum
	Katy Perry	One of the Boys	Pop rock, soft rock, power pop	Capitol
	The Notwist	The Devil, You + Me	Indie rock	Big Store, City Slang
	Reggie and the Full Effect	Last Stop: Crappy Town	Alternative metal, post-hardcore, metalcore	Vagrant	[207]
	Silver Jews	Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea		Drag City
	Tilly and the Wall	o	Indie pop, indie rock	Team Love	[208]
	Wolf Parade	At Mount Zoomer	Indie rock	Sub Pop
June 19	Girl Talk	Feed the Animals	Mashup, plunderphonics	Illegal Art
June 20	Sigur Rós	Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust	Post-rock, dream pop, indie rock	EMI, XL
June 23	The Features	Some Kind of Salvation	Southern rock, indie rock	429	[209]
	Gorgoroth	True Norwegian Black Metal – Live in Grieghallen	Black metal	Regain	[210]
	White Denim	Workout Holiday	Garage rock, experimental rock, dub	Full Time Hobby	[211]
June 24	Amos Lee	Last Days at the Lodge	Folk, neo soul	Blue Note	[212]
	Cute Is What We Aim For	Rotation	Pop-punk	Fueled by Ramen
	Danny!	And I Love H.E.R.: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack		Badenov Records, 1911 Music
	Dwele	Sketches of a Man	R&B	Koch	[213]
	Elliott Brood	Mountain Meadows	Alternative country	Six Shooter	[214]
	Kara Grainger	Grand and Green River	Blues rock, soul music, country blues	Craving Records	[215]
	Kutless	To Know That You're Alive	Christian rock	BEC	[216]
	Less Than Jake	GNV FLA	Ska punk, pop-punk	Sleep It Off Records
	Mötley Crüe	Saints of Los Angeles	Heavy metal, glam metal	Mötley, Eleven Seven Music
	Reckless Kelly	Bulletproof		Yep Roc	[217]
	RZA as Bobby Digital	Digi Snacks	Hip hop	Koch
	Shinedown	The Sound of Madness	Hard rock, alternative rock, post-grunge	Atlantic
	Thalía	Lunada	Latin pop	EMI Latin
	Thomas Newman	WALL-E		Walt Disney	[218]
	Three 6 Mafia	Last 2 Walk	Hip hop	Columbia, Hypnotize Minds
	Vanessa Hudgens	Identified		Hollywood
	Various artists	Big Blue Ball	World	Real World, Rykodisc	[219]
June 30	The Subways	All or Nothing	Alternative rock, post-grunge, post-punk revival	Warner Bros.

List of albums released in July 2008

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Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Ref.
July 1	Alkaline Trio	Agony & Irony	Pop-punk, pop rock, hard rock	Epic
	G-Unit	T·O·S (Terminate on Sight)	Hip hop, gangsta rap	G-Unit, Interscope
	Jay Brannan	Goddamned		Great Depression, Nettwerk	[220]
	Little Feat	Join the Band		429 Records	[221]
	My Chemical Romance	The Black Parade Is Dead!	Alternative rock, emo, pop punk	Reprise
	Relient K	The Bird and the Bee Sides	Rock, pop punk, alternative rock	Gotee	[222]
	Tech N9ne	Killer	Hip hop, horrorcore, gangsta rap	Strange Music
July 4	Fight	Into the Pit	Heavy metal, groove metal	Metal God Entertainment	[223]
July 7	Black Kids	Partie Traumatic	Indie rock	Almost Gold, Columbia
	Patti Smith and Kevin Shields	The Coral Sea	Spoken word	PASK
July 8	3OH!3	Want	Crunkcore, alternative rock, electronic rock	Photo Finish	[224]
	Beck	Modern Guilt	Psychedelic rock, avant-pop	DGC, XL
	Hit the Lights	Skip School, Start Fights	Pop-punk	Triple Crown	[225]
	Kerli	Love Is Dead	Alternative, pop, rock	Island
	Killer Mike	I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind II	Hip hop	Grind Time Official, SMC
	The Maine	Can't Stop Won't Stop	Pop-punk, pop rock	Fearless	[226]
	Melvins	Nude with Boots	Sludge metal	Ipecac
	Ratatat	LP3	Experimental rock, neo-psychedelia, electronica	XL
	T.H.U.G. Angelz	Welcome to Red Hook Houses	Hip hop	Babygrande	[227]
	Various artists	Mamma Mia! The Movie Soundtrack	Pop	Decca, Polydor	[228]
	Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis	Two Men with the Blues	Jazz	Blue Note	[229]
July 11	Carla Bruni	Comme si de rien n'était	Folk	Naïve
	Krallice	Krallice	Black metal	Profound Lore, Gilead Media	[230]
July 12	The Vines	Melodia	Alternative rock, garage rock, post-grunge	Ivy League
July 14	Basshunter	Now You're Gone – The Album	Eurodance	Hard2Beat, Warner Music Sweden, Ultra
July 15	David Banner	The Greatest Story Ever Told	Hip hop, Southern hip hop	Universal Motown, SRC
	The Hold Steady	Stay Positive	Indie rock, alternative rock, heartland rock	Vagrant, Rough Trade
	John Mellencamp	Life, Death, Love and Freedom	Americana, folk rock, roots rock	Hear Music
	MJG	This Might Be the Day	Hip hop	404 Music, MJG Musik	[231]
	Nas	Untitled	Hip hop, R&B	Def Jam
	Randy Travis	Around the Bend	Country	Warner Bros. Nashville
July 19	The Living End	White Noise	Punk rock	Dew Process
July 20	McFly	Radio:Active	Pop-punk, pop rock	Super
July 21	CSS	Donkey	Indie rock, synth-pop	Sub Pop, Warner Bros.
	Primal Scream	Beautiful Future	Alternative rock	B-Unique
July 22	Candlebox	Into the Sun	Post-grunge	Silent Majority	[232]
	Dr. Dog	Fate	Indie rock, Americana, neo-psychedelia	Park the Van
	Finch	Finch	Post-hardcore, alternative rock, emo	Finch Music, Inc.	[233]
	Francesca Battistelli	My Paper Heart	CCM, pop rock, jazz	Fervent, Curb	[234]
	Hell Rell	Black Mask, Black Gloves	Hip hop	Babygrande	[235]
	Khia	Nasti Muzik	Hip hop	Big Cat	[236]
	Miley Cyrus	Breakout	Pop rock	Hollywood
	Reks	Grey Hairs	Hip hop	ShowOff Records	[237]
	Skillz	The Million Dollar Backpack	Hip hop	Big Kidz Entertainment, Koch	[238]
	Sugarland	Love on the Inside	Country	Mercury Nashville
July 28	Ida Maria	Fortress Round My Heart	Indie rock	Mercury, Island Def Jam	[239]
July 29	Alice Cooper	Along Came a Spider	Hard rock, heavy metal	Steamhammer	[240]
	Scars on Broadway	Scars on Broadway	Alternative metal, experimental rock	Interscope
	Third Day	Revelation	Christian rock, Southern rock	Esstential	[241]
July 30	Late of the Pier	Fantasy Black Channel	Dance-punk, electroclash, glam punk	Parlophone
	Namie Amuro	Best Fiction	Dance-pop, R&B	Avex Trax

List of albums released in August 2008

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Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Ref.
August 4	Conor Oberst	Conor Oberst	Folk rock, indie rock, country rock	Merge
	Lloyd	Lessons in Love	R&B, hip hop	Young Goldie Music, The Inc., Universal Motown
August 5	40 Cal.	Mooga	Hip hop	Gold Dust	[242]
	The Airborne Toxic Event	The Airborne Toxic Event	Alternative rock, indie rock	Majordomo
	Anthony Green	Avalon		Photo Finish	[243]
	Darker My Love	2		Dangerbird
	The Faint	Fasciinatiion	Indie rock, new wave, dance-punk
	Hawthorne Heights	Fragile Future	Emo, alternative rock	Victory
	Heidi Newfield	What Am I Waiting For	Country	Curb	[244]
	Keith Anderson	C'mon!	Country	Columbia Nashville
	Nappy Roots	The Humdinger	Hip hop	Nappy Roots Entertainment Group	[245]
	Norma Jean	The Anti Mother	Metalcore, post-hardcore	Solid State
	Oneida	Preteen Weaponry		Jagjaguwar	[246]
	Outlawz	We Want In: The Street LP	Gangsta rap, hardcore hip hop	Gold Dust, 1Nation Entertainment	[247]
	Randy Newman	Harps and Angels	Jazz, soul	Nonesuch
	Trapt	Only Through the Pain	Alternative rock, post-grunge, alternative metal	Eleven Seven Music	[248]
August 9	Pivot	O Soundtrack My Heart	Math rock, electronic rock, post-rock	Warp	[249]
August 11	Noah and the Whale	Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down	Indie folk, indie rock	Mercury
August 12	Daz Dillinger	Only on the Left Side	West Coast hip hop	D.P.G. Recordz, Fontana Distribution	[250]
	Extreme	Saudades de Rock	Hard rock, funk metal	Fontana, Frontiers
	Jonas Brothers	A Little Bit Longer	Rock, power pop	Hollywood
	Michelle Williams	Unexpected	Dance-pop, R&B, electronica	Columbia, Music World
	Yung Berg	Look What You Made Me	Hip hop	Koch, Epic	[251]
August 13	Black Stone Cherry	Folklore and Superstition	Hard rock, Southern rock, alternative metal	Roadrunner
August 18	David Byrne and Brian Eno	Everything That Happens Will Happen Today	Electronic, folktronica, gospel	Todo Mundo
	Stereolab	Chemical Chords	Indie pop, lounge	4AD, Duophonic
August 19	The Academy Is...	Fast Times at Barrington High	Pop-punk, power pop, alternative rock	Fueled by Ramen, Decaydance
	David Byrne	Big Love: Hymnal	Hymn	Todo Mundo	[252]
	GZA	Pro Tools	Hip hop	Babygrande
	Heavy Heavy Low Low	Turtle Nipple and the Toxic Shock		Ferret Music	[253]
	Hotel Lights	Firecracker People		Bar/None	[254]
	The Human Abstract	Midheaven	Progressive metal	Hopeless
	Ice Cube	Raw Footage	West Coast hip hop, gangsta rap, political hip hop	Lench Mob, EMI
	Jaguar Love	Take Me to the Sea	Art punk	Matador
	Lady Gaga	The Fame	Electropop, synth-pop, dance-pop	Interscope
	Ra Ra Riot	The Rhumb Line	Indie rock	Barsuk
	Shwayze	Shwayze	Alternative hip hop	Suretone
	The Showdown	Back Breaker	Christian metal, thrash metal, hardcore punk	Solid State	[255]
	Staind	The Illusion of Progress	Post-grunge, alternative rock	Flip, Atlantic, Roadrunner
	The Stills	Oceans Will Rise	Indie rock	Arts & Crafts
August 21	Bloc Party	Intimacy	Indie rock, alternative dance	Wichita
August 25	Mylène Farmer	Point de suture	Dance, synth-pop, pop rock	Polydor
	The Verve	Forth	Neo-psychedelia, alternative rock, dream pop	Parlophone, EMI
August 26	The 88	Not Only... But Also		Island	[256]
	B. B. King	One Kind Favor		Geffen
	Blues Traveler	North Hollywood Shootout	Rock, psychedelic rock	Verve Forecast	[257]
	Delta Spirit	Ode to Sunshine	Indie rock, indie folk, folk-rock	Rounder
	DragonForce	Ultra Beatdown	Power metal	Roadrunner, Spinefarm	[258]
	Esham	Sacrificial Lambz		Gothom	[259]
	The Game	LAX	West coast hip hop, gangsta rap, hardcore hip hop	Geffen
	Jimmy Wayne	Do You Believe Me Now	Country	Valory	[260]
	Motörhead	Motörizer	Heavy metal	Steamhammer
	Remedy Drive	Daylight Is Coming	Christian rock	Word	[261]
	Slipknot	All Hope Is Gone	Groove metal	Roadrunner
	Solange	Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams	R&B, psychedelic soul, electronica	Geffen, Music World
	V.I.C.	Beast	Southern hip hop	Warner Bros., Reprise	[262]
	Ying Yang Twins	The Official Work	Southern hip hop	BCD Music Group, Fontana	[263]

List of albums released in September 2008

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Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Ref.
September 2	Brian Wilson	That Lucky Old Sun	Art pop	Capitol
	Deadmau5	Random Album Title	Progressive house, electro house, ambient house	Mau5trap, Ultra, Ministry of Sound
	Donnie Klang	Just a Rolling Stone	R&B, dance-pop	Bad Boy, Atlantic
	Hollywood Undead	Swan Songs	Rap rock, nu metal	A&M Octone, Polydor
	Jefferson Starship	Jefferson's Tree of Liberty	Folk rock	The Lab Records, Varèse Sarabande
	New Kids on the Block	The Block	Pop, dance-pop, R&B	Interscope
	Terrence Howard	Shine Through It		Sony Music
	Underoath	Lost in the Sound of Separation	Metalcore, post-hardcore, screamo	Solid State, Tooth & Nail
	Young Jeezy	The Recession	Hip hop	CTE, Def Jam
September 8	Julian Cope	Black Sheep	Rock	Head Heritage	[264]
	Marius Neset	Suite for the Seven Mountains	Jazz	Edition, Calibrated Records	[265]
September 9	Chad VanGaalen	Soft Airplane	Indie rock, folk	Flemish Eye, Sub Pop
	Fujiya & Miyagi	Lightbulbs		Full Time Hobby, Deaf Dumb & Blind	[266]
	Gym Class Heroes	The Quilt	Alternative hip hop, alternative rock, alternative R&B	Decaydance, Fueled by Ramen
	Jessica Simpson	Do You Know	Country pop	Epic, Columbia Nashville
	Joan Osborne	Little Wild One	Rock, R&B	Saguaro Road Records
	Joshua Radin	Simple Times	Acoustic, folk rock	Mom + Pop	[267]
	Kardinal Offishall	Not 4 Sale	Hip hop	KonLive, Geffen, Black Jays
	LL Cool J	Exit 13		Def Jam
	Novillero	A Little Tradition	Indie rock, pop	Mint	[268]
	Okkervil River	The Stand Ins	Indie rock	Jagjaguwar
	People in Planes	Beyond The Horizon	Alternative rock, indie rock, hard rock	Wind-up	[269]
	The Sound of Animals Fighting	The Ocean and the Sun	Experimental rock, progressive rock	Epitaph	[270]
September 12	Julien Clerc	Où s'en vont les avions?	Pop	Virgin Music	[271]
	Metallica	Death Magnetic	Heavy metal	Warner Bros.
September 15	Queen + Paul Rodgers	The Cosmos Rocks	Rock	Parlophone, Hollywood
September 16	All That Remains	Overcome	Melodic metalcore	Prosthetic
	Amanda Palmer	Who Killed Amanda Palmer	Dark cabaret, alternative rock	Roadrunner
	Breathe Carolina	It's Classy, Not Classic	Synth-pop, power pop	Rise
	Buckcherry	Black Butterfly	Hard rock	Eleven Seven, Atlantic
	Darius Rucker	Learn to Live	Country	Capitol Nashville
	Dead Confederate	Wrecking Ball	Alternative rock, psychedelic rock, alternative country	The Artists Organization
	DJ Khaled	We Global	Hip hop	We the Best, Terror Squad, Koch
	Dressy Bessy	Holler and Stomp			[272]
	FemBots	Calling Out	Indie rock	Weewerk	[273]
	Jem	Down to Earth	Trip hop	ATO
	Kristy Lee Cook	Why Wait	Country	Arista Nashville	[274]
	Ne-Yo	Year of the Gentleman	R&B, pop	Def Jam
	Nelly	Brass Knuckles	Hip hop	Universal Motown
	Portugal. The Man	Censored Colors	Psychedelic rock	Equal Vision
	Raphael Saadiq	The Way I See It	Soul	Columbia
	Taproot	Our Long Road Home	Alternative metal	Velvet Hammer Music	[275]
	TV on the Radio	Dear Science	Indie rock, art rock, funk	Interscope, DGC, Touch and Go
September 17	Amon Amarth	Twilight of the Thunder God	Melodic death metal	Metal Blade
	Ben Folds	Way to Normal	Alternative rock	Epic
	Europe	Almost Unplugged	Acoustic, rock	Hell&Back	[276]
	The Haunted	Versus	Thrash metal, melodic death metal, groove metal	Century Media	[277]
September 19	Kings of Leon	Only by the Night	Alternative rock, pop rock, Southern rock	RCA
	Ladyhawke	Ladyhawke	New wave, synth-pop, indie rock	Modular
	The Pussycat Dolls	Doll Domination	Pop, R&B	Interscope
September 20	Jenny Lewis	Acid Tongue	Indie rock, alternative country	Warner Bros., Rough Trade
September 21	Buraka Som Sistema	Black Diamond	Electro, kuduro, breakbeat	Fabric, Sony BMG	[278]
September 22	Bellowhead	Matachin	English folk	Navigator Records	[279]
	David Gilmour	Live in Gdańsk	Progressive rock	EMI
	Mogwai	The Hawk Is Howling	Post-rock, instrumental rock	Wall of Sound, Play It Again Sam, Matador
September 23	All Girl Summer Fun Band	Looking into It	Indie rock, indie pop	AGSFB Music	[280]
	Cold War Kids	Loyalty to Loyalty	Indie rock, blues rock	Downtown, V2
	Les Cowboys Fringants	L'expédition	Alternative rock	La Tribu	[281]
	Demi Lovato	Don't Forget	Rock, power pop	Hollywood
	Estelle	Shine	R&B	Atlantic, Homeschool Records
	Everlast	Love, War and the Ghost of Whitey Ford	Alternative rock, blues	Martyr Inc.	[282]
	Jackson Browne	Time the Conqueror	Rock	Inside	[283]
	Jazmine Sullivan	Fearless		J, Arista
	Koufax	Strugglers		Doghouse	[284]
	Metal Church	This Present Wasteland	Heavy metal, thrash metal	SPV/Steamhammer	[285]
	Plain White T's	Big Bad World	Pop-punk	Hollywood
	Thievery Corporation	Radio Retaliation	Trip hop, downtempo, electronica	ESL
	Trivium	Shogun	Thrash metal, metalcore, progressive metal	Roadrunner
September 24	The Rasmus	Black Roses	Alternative rock, alternative metal, symphonic rock	Playground	[286]
September 26	James Morrison	Songs for You, Truths for Me	Pop rock, soft rock	Polydor
	Monrose	I Am		Starwatch, Warner, Cheyenne Records	[287]
September 27	Jennifer Hudson	Jennifer Hudson	R&B	Arista, J
	Hermitude	Threads		Elefant Traks	[288]
	Will Young	Let It Go		19, RCA, Sony BMG	[289]
September 29	Bring Me the Horizon	Suicide Season	Metalcore	Epitaph
	Enslaved	Vertebrae	Progressive metal, Viking metal	Indie, Nuclear Blast
	Innerpartysystem	Innerpartysystem	Electronic rock	Island, Stolen Transmission	[290]
	Travis	Ode to J. Smith	Alternative rock, indie rock	Fontana
September 30	Anberlin	New Surrender	Alternative rock	Universal Republic
	Ani DiFranco	Red Letter Year	Indie rock, folk rock	Righteous Babe
	Bayside	Shudder	Emo, alternative rock, punk rock	Victory	[291]
	Big Kuntry King	My Turn to Eat	Southern hip hop	Grand Hustle, Atlantic	[292]
	Bleeding Through	Declaration	Metalcore, symphonic black metal	Trustkill
	Dear and the Headlights	Drunk Like Bible Times	Indie rock	Equal Vision	[293]
	Dem Franchize Boyz	Our World, Our Way	Crunk, snap, Southern hip hop	Koch	[294]
	Energy	Invasions of the Mind	Hardcore punk	Bridge Nine	[295]
	In This Moment	The Dream	Alternative metal, hard rock, alternative rock	Century Media
	Jack's Mannequin	The Glass Passenger	Power pop	Sire, Warner Bros.
	Kellie Pickler	Kellie Pickler	Country	BNA
	Lecrae	Rebel	Christian hip hop, dirty south, gangsta rap	Reach
	Misery Index	Traitors	Death metal, grindcore	Relapse
	The Nightwatchman	The Fabled City	Folk rock, acoustic rock, anti-folk	Epic
	Robin Thicke	Something Else	R&B	Star Trak, Interscope
	Sen Dog	Diary of a Mad Dog	West Coast hip hop, gangsta rap	Suburban Noize	[296]
	T.I.	Paper Trail	Hip hop	Grand Hustle, Atlantic
	Unk	2econd Season	Southern rap	Koch	[297]

List of albums released in October 2008

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Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Ref.
October 6	Oasis	Dig Out Your Soul	Alternative rock, psychedelic rock, hard rock	Big Brother
October 7	Aqualung	Words and Music		Verve Forecast	[298]
	Antony and the Johnsons	Another World	Baroque pop	Secretly Canadian, Rough Trade
	Deerhoof	Offend Maggie	Art pop	Kill Rock Stars
	Hey Monday	Hold On Tight	Pop-punk, emo pop	Columbia, Decaydance	[299]
	I Am Ghost	Those We Leave Behind	Post-hardcore, screamo, gothic rock	Epitaph	[300]
	Jon McLaughlin	OK Now	Pop rock	Island Def Jam	[301]
	Margot & the Nuclear So and So's	Animal!		Epic	[302]
	Margot & the Nuclear So and So's	Not Animal		Epic	[303]
	Mobile	Tales from the City	Alternative rock	Universal Music	[304]
	The Pretenders	Break Up the Concrete	Alternative rock	Shangri-La Music
	Rachael Yamagata	Elephants...Teeth Sinking into Heart	Alternative rock, blues rock	Warner Bros.
	Rise Against	Appeal to Reason	Punk rock	DGC, Interscope
	Senses Fail	Life Is Not a Waiting Room	Post-hardcore, emo	Vagrant
	Tesla	Forever More	Hard rock	Tesla Electric Company Recordings, Rykodisc	[305]
October 13	Gojira	The Way of All Flesh	Technical death metal, progressive metal, groove metal	Listenable, Prosthetic
	Keane	Perfect Symmetry	Pop rock, alternative rock, synth-pop	Island
October 14	Billy Currington	Little Bit of Everything	Country	Mercury Nashville	[306]
	Sixpence None the Richer	The Dawn of Grace	Alternative rock, indie pop, Christmas	Nettwerk	[307]
	Copeland	You Are My Sunshine		Tooth & Nail	[308]
	Haste the Day	Dreamer	Metalcore	Solid State	[309]
	Houston Calls	The End of an Error		Drive-Thru	[310]
	Jill Barber	Chances	Jazz, traditional pop	Outside Music	[311]
	Kenny Chesney	Lucky Old Sun	Country	Blue Chair, BNA
	Ray LaMontagne	Gossip in the Grain	Folk, folk rock, folk blues	RCA, BMG, Stone Dwarf
	Secret Machines	Secret Machines	Space rock	TSM Recordings
October 17	AC/DC	Black Ice	Hard rock	Columbia
October 19	White Denim	Exposion	Indie rock	Transmission
October 20	Caravan Palace	Caravan Palace	Electro swing	Wagram Music	[312]
	Darkthrone	Dark Thrones and Black Flags	Crust punk, black metal	Peaceville	[313]
	Kaiser Chiefs	Off with Their Heads	Indie rock	B-Unique, Universal Motown
	Marillion	Happiness Is the Road	Neo-prog, pop rock, alternative rock	EMI	[314]
October 21	...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead	Festival Thyme		Richter Scale, Justice Records
	Electric Six	Flashy	Rock	Metropolis
	Hank Williams III	Damn Right, Rebel Proud	Country, psychobilly	Sidewalk
	Labelle	Back to Now	Soul, rock	Verve, Universal
	of Montreal	Skeletal Lamping	Indie pop, psychedelic funk	Polyvinyl
	t.A.T.u.	Vesyolye Ulybki	Eurodance, electronica, electronic rock	Studia Soyuz	[315]
October 24	Anastacia	Heavy Rotation	Pop, soul, R&B	Mercury
	Darkane	Demonic Art	Melodic death metal, thrash metal	Nuclear Blast, Massacre	[316]
	Lordi	Deadache	Hard rock, heavy metal, shock rock	The End
	Pink	Funhouse	Pop rock	LaFace
	Snow Patrol	A Hundred Million Suns	Alternative rock, power pop, indie rock	Fiction, Geffen
October 28	Eagles of Death Metal	Heart On	Garage rock	Downtown
	Fear Before	Fear Before	Post-hardcore	Equal Vision	[317]
	John Legend	Evolver		GOOD Music, Columbia, Sony Music
	Michael W. Smith	A New Hallelujah	Worship	Reunion	[318]
	Ryan Adams & the Cardinals	Cardinology	Alternative country, rock	Lost Highway

List of albums released in November 2008

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Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Ref.
November 3	Girls Aloud	Out of Control	Pop, electropop	Fascination
	Paschalis Terzis	Mia nihta zoriki	Modern laïkó, pop	Minos EMI	[319]
November 4	Andrea Bocelli	Incanto	Classical	Decca, Universal	[320]
	Brad Paisley	Play: The Guitar Album	Country	Arista Nashville
	Harry Connick Jr.	What a Night! A Christmas Album	Jazz, Christmas	Sony Music, Columbia	[321]
	Hinder	Take It to the Limit	Hard rock, post-grunge	Universal Republic
	honeyhoney	First Rodeo	Americana, alternative country	Ironworks	[322]
	Little Joy	Little Joy		Rough Trade
	Q-Tip	The Renaissance	Progressive hip hop	Universal Motown
	Sarah Brightman	A Winter Symphony	Christmas	Manhattan	[323]
	Shiny Toy Guns	Season of Poison		Universal Motown	[324]
	Thursday and Envy	Thursday / Envy	Post-hardcore, post-rock, screamo	Temporary Residence
	Vanilla Ice	Vanilla Ice Is Back!	Hip hop, rap rock	Cleopatra	[325]
November 7	Enya	And Winter Came...	New-age, Celtic, Christmas	Warner Bros., Reprise
November 10	David Archuleta	David Archuleta	Pop	Jive, 19
November 11	88-Keys	The Death of Adam	Hip hop	Decon	[326]
	The Bronx	The Bronx		Distort
	Butch Walker	Sycamore Meadows	Alternative rock, folk rock, pop rock	Original Signal	[327]
	Deborah Cox	The Promise	R&B	Image, Deco Recording Group
	Dir En Grey	Uroboros	Avant-garde metal, heavy metal	Firewall Div., SMEJ, The End
	The Faceless	Planetary Duality	Technical death metal, progressive metal	Sumerian	[328]
	Jedi Mind Tricks	A History of Violence	Underground hip hop	Babygrande
	Laura Pausini	Primavera in anticipo	Pop rock	Warner Music
	Longwave	Secrets Are Sinister	Indie rock	Original Signal	[329]
	Science Faxtion	Living on Another Frequency	Experimental metal, funk metal, progressive metal	Mascot Music	[330]
	T-Pain	Thr33 Ringz	R&B, hip hop	Nappy Boy, Konvict, Jive
	Taylor Swift	Fearless	Country pop	Big Machine
	Tracy Chapman	Our Bright Future		Elektra	[331]
	Trick Trick	The Villain	Gangsta rap	Time Entertainment LLC, Koch	[332]
November 12	Beyoncé	I Am... Sasha Fierce	Pop, R&B	Columbia, Music World
November 14	Edguy	Tinnitus Sanctus	Hard rock, progressive metal	Nuclear Blast	[333]
November 17	Dido	Safe Trip Home	Pop, trip hop	Cheeky, Sony Music, RCA
November 18	Ace Hood	Gutta	Hip hop	We the Best, Def Jam
	David Cook	David Cook	Pop rock, alternative rock, post-grunge	RCA
	The Killers	Day & Age	Dance-rock, new wave, synth-pop	Island
	Karmakanic	Who's the Boss in the Factory?	Symphonic rock, neo-prog	Inside Out Music	[334]
	Lil' Keke	Loved by Few, Hated by Many	Hip hop	TF Records, Universal Motown	[335]
	Mudvayne	The New Game	Alternative metal, nu metal, hard rock	Epic
	Nickelback	Dark Horse	Post-grunge, hard rock, alternative rock	Roadrunner, Atlantic, EMI
	Sammy Hagar	Cosmic Universal Fashion	Hard rock	Loud & Proud, Roadrunner	[336]
	Shontelle	Shontelligence	R&B	SRC, Motown
	Slim	Love's Crazy	R&B	Asylum, M3 Productions	[337]
	Third Eye Blind	Red Star	Power pop	MRI Associated	[338]
	Zac Brown Band	The Foundation	Country	Atlantic Nashville, Home Grown, Big Picture	[339]
November 21	Alexis Blue	Hypothetical Situations			[340]
	Coldplay	Prospekt's March	Alternative rock	Parlophone
	Linkin Park	Road to Revolution: Live at Milton Keynes	Nu metal, alternative metal, rap rock	Warner Bros., Machine Shop
	Ludacris	Theater of the Mind	Hip hop	Disturbing tha Peace, Def Jam South	[341]
November 23	Guns N' Roses	Chinese Democracy	Hard rock, nu metal	Geffen
November 24	Alesha Dixon	The Alesha Show	R&B, soul, big band	Asylum, Atlantic
	E-40	The Ball Street Journal	Hip hop	BME, Sick Wid It, Warner Bros.
	The Fireman	Electric Arguments	Experimental pop, alternative rock, neo-psychedelia	One Little Indian, ATO
	Justice	A Cross the Universe		Ed Banger, Because, Atlantic
	Kanye West	808s & Heartbreak	Electropop, art pop, synth-pop	Def Jam, Roc-A-Fella
	Kevin Rudolf	In the City	Pop rock, rap rock, electronic rock	Cash Money, Universal Republic
	Lemar	The Reason		Epic	[342]
	Rhydian Roberts	Rhydian	Classical, pop	Syco, Sony BMG	[343]
November 25	Cynic	Traced in Air	Progressive metal	Season of Mist	[344]
November 28	Britney Spears	Circus	Pop	Jive
November 29	Funkoars	The Hangover	Hip hop	Peepshow Entertainment	[345]

List of albums released in December 2008

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Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Ref.
December 1	Akon	Freedom	R&B, hip hop, dance-pop	Konvict Muzik, UpFront, SRC
	Mark Olson & Gary Louris	Ready for the Flood	Alternative country	New West	[346]
December 2	Scarface	Emeritus	Hip hop	Rap-A-Lot, Asylum, Warner Bros.
December 3	Sakis Rouvas	Irthes	R&B, urban	Minos EMI	[347]
December 5	Brandy	Human	Pop, R&B	Epic, Knockout, Koch
December 9	Anna Vissi	Apagorevmeno	Pop, contemporary laïkó, rock	Sony BMG Greece, Columbia
	Avant	Avant	R&B	Capitol
	Common	Universal Mind Control	Hip hop	GOOD Music, Geffen
	EPMD	We Mean Business	Hip hop	EP Records
	Maroon 5	Call and Response: The Remix Album	Dance, hip hop, R&B	A&M Octone
	Musiq Soulchild	OnMyRadio	Crunk, neo soul	Atlantic
December 10	Fall Out Boy	Folie à Deux	Power pop, pop rock, Pop-punk	Island
December 16	The All-American Rejects	When the World Comes Down	Alternative rock, pop punk, power pop	DGC, Doghouse, Interscope
	Anthony Hamilton	The Point of It All	R&B, soul, neo soul	Mister's Music, So So Def, Zomba
	Jamie Foxx	Intuition	R&B, |hip hop, soul	J
	Keyshia Cole	A Different Me	R&B	Geffen
	Plies	Da REAList	Southern hip hop, dirty rap	Big Gates Records, Slip-n-Slide, Atlantic
	Saliva	Cinco Diablo		Island	[348]
	Snoop Dogg	Snoop Dogg Presents Christmas in tha Dogg House	West Coast hip hop, G-funk, gangsta rap	Doggy Style	[349]
	Soulja Boy Tell 'Em	iSouljaBoyTellem	Southern hip hop	Stacks on Deck, ColliPark, Interscope
December 30	Erin McCarley	Love, Save the Empty	Pop rock, alternative rock, acoustic rock	Universal Republic