Best-Selling Music of 2008

The top 100 on Amazon UK that year.

A definitive look back at the 2008 Amazon UK chart. Click any cover to find it on Amazon.

Duffy's Rockferry led 2008, fronting a year when retro-soul and homegrown pop ruled. Take That's reunion record The Circus, Kings of Leon's breakthrough Only by the Night and Coldplay's Viva La Vida pushed big names up the chart, while Adele's debut 19 quietly arrived. The surprises span genres: the Mamma Mia! film soundtrack and the classical-vocal trio The Priests both charting high, plus Fleet Foxes' acclaimed debut among the pop. Disney's High School Musical 3 kept the franchise selling, and Elbow's Mercury-winning The Seldom Seen Kid earned its place. Between Duffy's Welsh soul and Adele's first steps, 2008 was thick with British talent finding its feet.

Born in 2008? See everything that topped the UK charts in 2008 — books, film, games and music.

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Rockferry

4.4 · 287

The Circus

4.4 · 250

Only by the Night

4.3 · 378

Now That's What I Call Music! 71

4.3 · 74

Day & Age

4.1 · 183

Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends (Gatefold Digipack...

4.1 · 372

The Seldom Seen Kid

4.5 · 495

Mamma Mia! The Movie Soundtrack

4.7 · 384

A Hundred Million Suns

4.3 · 107

Out of Control

4.0 · 100

Funhouse

4.7 · 199

4.5 · 6

Radio 1's Live Lounge - Volume 3

4.4 · 58

The Script

4.6 · 268

Raising Sand

4.2 · 314

The Priests

4.7 · 125

High School Musical 3 - Senior Year

4.4 · 38

Let It Go

4.6 · 118

Perfect Symmetry

4.2 · 116

Soul

4.6 · 106

Oracular Spectacular

4.4 · 100

The Promise

4.4 · 134

Back To Black

4.6 · 5

This Is the Life

4.7 · 279

Spirit - The Deluxe Edition [CD+DVD]

4.4 · 167

Fleet Foxes

4.2 · 250

Pop Party 6

4.5 · 22

Rhydian

4.7 · 222

Decade in the Sun: Best of Stereophonics

4.6 · 339

Dig out Your Soul

3.6 · 170

Scouting For Girls

3.3 · 137

And Winter Came

4.6 · 228

We Started Nothing

3.7 · 83

Chinese Democracy

4.0 · 272

Third

3.8 · 131

Seventh Tree

4.4 · 119

Vampire Weekend

4.2 · 100

In Rainbows

4.5 · 228

Sacred Arias

4.5 · 96

Safe Trip Home

3.9 · 114

Best Bette

4.5 · 148

All The Right Reasons

4.6 · 144

Now That's What I Call Music! 70

4.3 · 72

That's Proper Folk

4.2 · 62

Songs For You, Truths For Me

4.6 · 98

Black Ice

4.1 · 138

I Started Out With Nothin And I Still Got Most Of It Left

4.4 · 171

Off With Their Heads

3.8 · 69

The Age of the Understatement

4.5 · 95

Gold: Greatest Hits

4.7 · 879

One Of The Boys

4.4 · 146

Dog House Music

4.6 · 118

Beautiful World

4.6 · 227

Home Before Dark

4.3 · 104

Because Of The Times

4.3 · 143

Only Men Aloud (Last Choir Standing)

4.6 · 82

Now That's What I Call Music! 69

4.7 · 58

Lessons To Be Learned

4.2 · 55

Now That's What I Call Music! 25 Years

4.4 · 51

Sleep Through The Static

4.2 · 40

Year Of The Gentleman

4.4 · 79

Hard Candy

3.6 · 190

Back To Black [Deluxe Edition]

4.6 · 5

Ministry of Sound Anthems II

4.5 · 66

22 Dreams

4.0 · 75

Breakout

4.8 · 50

Dark Horse

4.6 · 148

Forth

3.8 · 81

Hand Built By Robots

4.5 · 133

Together

4.5 · 63

Slipway Fires

3.4 · 39

Life in Cartoon Motion

4.4 · 196

Dreamboats & Petticoats 2

4.7 · 238

The Platinum Collection: Greatest Hits I, II & III

4.8 · 661

Accelerate (digipack)

4.0 · 87

Glasvegas

3.9 · 86

Voices Of The Valley: Home

4.5 · 64

I Am... Sasha Fierce

4.4 · 230

Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust

4.5 · 52

High School Musical Original Soundtrack

4.6 · 48

Made In The Dark

3.8 · 33

Chant: Music For Paradise

4.5 · 72

Konk

3.9 · 69

Consolers Of The Lonely

4.4 · 64

Jackie: The Album Vol. 2

4.5 · 66

For Emma Forever Ago

4.4 · 162

Greatest Hits

4.7 · 135

Radio 1's Live Lounge 2

4.3 · 54

Rockferry

4.5 · 75

High School Musical 2 Original Soundtrack

4.6 · 41

Version

3.7 · 55

Jackie - The Album

4.7 · 99

Spirit

3.8 · 228

In Silico

4.3 · 115

Melody

4.2 · 52

Death Magnetic

4.1 · 314

Good Girl Gone Bad

4.4 · 190

Dreamboats And Petticoats

4.7 · 275

Never Forget: The Ultimate Collection

4.6 · 276

Anthems 1991-2008

3.7 · 50

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