Dec 28 2008
The Top Ten Albums of 2008
There’s a healthy amount of rock music present in the top selling albums of 2008 for the UK. Kings of Leon, Coldplay, The Killers, and Scouting For Girls all figuring in the Top 10 with their respective album releases of 2008 (2007 in the case of Scouting For Girls). Duffy may have topped the list, four rock bands present in the top ten is still incredibly impressive however, and the fact that two of them are from the UK just goes to show the supreme strength of UK rock artists at current.
In total six of the ten artists making up the top ten are from the UK; it stands to reason really that this should be so given that it is the top selling albums for the UK after all, American artists often dominate the charts however, so it is nice to see such a high percentage of UK artists breaking the overall top ten for 2008.
This is the full list of the top ten selling albums of 2008:
1. Duffy - ‘Rockferry’
2. Take That – ‘The Circus’
3. Kings Of Leon – ‘Only By The Night’
4. Leona Lewis – ‘Spirit’
5. Coldplay – ‘Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends’
6. Rihanna – ‘Good Girl Gone Bad’
7. The Killers – ‘Day And Age’
8. Girls Aloud – ‘Out Of Control’
9. Pink – ‘Funhouse’
10. Scouting For Girls – ‘Scouting For Girls’
The following is a video of Scouting For Girls performing the track ‘Heartbeat’ live at V Festival 2008. It’s catchy tracks such as this one which cemented Scouting For Girls place in the top ten selling albums of 2008. ‘Heartbeat’ was released as a single on April 7th 2008, the third of five singles released from the bands ‘Scouting For Girls’ album.
