List of number-one country albums of 2008 (U.S.)

These are the U.S. number-one country albums of 2008

2008 in country music

This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 2008.-Events:* April 27 — A story in the New York Daily News reported a possible long-term relationship between Mindy McCready and baseball star Roger Clemens that began when she was 15 years old...

, per the Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

Top Country Albums chart.

Note that Billboard publishes charts with an issue date approximately 7-10 days in advance.

Issue date	Album	Artist
January 5	Long Road Out of Eden Long Road Out of Eden Long Road Out of Eden is the seventh studio album by American rock band Eagles, released in 2007 on Lost Highway Records. Nearly six years in production, Long Road Out of Eden is the first studio album from the Eagles since 1979's The Long Run, and along with the four original tracks on 1994 Hell...	Eagles
January 12	Long Road Out of Eden	Eagles
January 19	Taylor Swift Taylor Swift (album) Taylor Swift is the eponymous debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. The album was released on October 24, 2006 by Big Machine Records. Swift wrote songs for the album during her freshman year of high school and has writing credits on all of the albums' songs including those...	Taylor Swift Taylor Swift Taylor Alison Swift is an American country pop singer-songwriter, musician and actress.In 2006, she released her debut single "Tim McGraw", then her self-titled debut album, which was subsequently certified multi-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America...
January 26	Taylor Swift	Taylor Swift
February 2	Taylor Swift	Taylor Swift
February 9	Taylor Swift	Taylor Swift
February 16	Taylor Swift	Taylor Swift
February 23	Taylor Swift	Taylor Swift
March 1	Taylor Swift	Taylor Swift
March 8	My Life's Been a Country Song My Life's Been a Country Song - Personnel :* Tom Bukovac – electric guitar* John Carroll – electric guitar* Perry Coleman – background vocals* Eric Darken – percussion* Kenny Greenberg – electric guitar* Troy Lancaster – electric guitar* B...	Chris Cagle Chris Cagle Chris Cagle is an American country music artist. Signed with Virgin Records Nashville in 2000, Cagle made his debut on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts with the single "My Love Goes On and On", the first single from his debut album Play It Loud...
March 15	Taylor Swift	Taylor Swift
March 22	Good Time Good Time (album) Good Time is the fourteenth studio album by American country music artist Alan Jackson. It was released on March 4, 2008 and produced five singles on the country singles charts. The first three of these — "Small Town Southern Man", the title track, and "Country Boy" — have all become Number One...	Alan Jackson Alan Jackson Alan Eugene Jackson is an American country music singer, known for blending traditional honky tonk and mainstream country sounds and penning many of his own hits. He has recorded 13 studio albums, 3 Greatest Hits albums, 2 Holiday albums, 1 Gospel album and several compilations, all on the Arista...
March 29	Good Time	Alan Jackson
April 5	Taylor Swift	Taylor Swift
April 12	Taylor Swift	Taylor Swift
April 19	Troubadour Troubadour (George Strait album) Troubadour is the title of the 25th studio album by American country music singer George Strait. It was released on April 1, 2008 on MCA Nashville Records. The album comprises twelve tracks, including two duets...	George Strait George Strait George Harvey Strait is an American country music singer, actor, and music producer. Strait is referred to as the "King of Country," and critics call Strait a living legend. He is known for his unique style of western swing music, bar-room ballads, honky-tonk style, and fresh yet traditional...
April 26	Troubadour	George Strait
May 3	Lady Antebellum Lady Antebellum (album) Lady Antebellum is the self-titled debut album by the American country music trio Lady Antebellum. It was released on April 15, 2008. Its lead-off single, "Love Don't Live Here" was released in late 2007 and entered Top 5 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts in May 2008. A second single,...	Lady Antebellum Lady Antebellum Lady Antebellum is an American country pop music group formed in Nashville, Tennessee in 2006. The trio is composed of Charles Kelley , Dave Haywood and Hillary Scott .The group made its debut in 2007 as guest vocalists on Jim Brickman's single "Never Alone", before signing to Capitol...
May 10	Troubadour	George Strait
May 17	Greatest Hits: Limited Edition Greatest Hits: Limited Edition Greatest Hits: Limited Edition is a compilation of American country music artist Tim McGraw's first two greatest hits albums. Initially sold exclusively at Wal-Mart, it was released on April 29, 2008, and entered Billboards Top Country Albums chart at #1, selling 29,000 copies in its first week of...	Tim McGraw Tim McGraw Samuel Timothy "Tim" McGraw is an American country singer and actor. Many of McGraw's albums and singles have topped the country music charts with total album sales in excess of 40 million units in the US, making him the eighth best-selling artist, and the third best-selling country singer, in the...
May 24	35 Biggest Hits 35 Biggest Hits -Disc 2:-Chart performance:-References:...	Toby Keith Toby Keith Toby Keith Covel , best known as Toby Keith, is an American country music singer-songwriter, record producer and actor. Keith released his first four studio albums — 1993's Toby Keith, 1994's Boomtown, 1996's Blue Moon and 1997's Dream Walkin, plus a Greatest Hits package for various divisions of...
May 31	35 Biggest Hits	Toby Keith
June 7	Julianne Hough Julianne Hough (album) Julianne Hough is the self-titled debut album of American country singer, and professional dancer, Julianne Hough. The album was released on May 20, 2008 on Mercury Nashville Records....	Julianne Hough Julianne Hough Julianne Alexandra Hough is an American professional ballroom dancer, country music singer and actress. She is most widely known for being a two-time champion of ABC's Dancing with the Stars. She earned a Creative Arts Primetime Emmy nomination in 2007 for choreography...
June 14	Taylor Swift	Taylor Swift
June 21	Perfectly Clear Perfectly Clear Perfectly Clear is the sixth album recorded by American singer Jewel. Her first album of country music, it was released on Valory Records on June 3, 2008 . The album is composed of a mixture of new and old fan-favorite songs, although only one of the songs had previously appeared on one of her...	Jewel Jewel (singer) Jewel Kilcher , professionally known as Jewel, is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, actress and poet...
June 28	Taylor Swift	Taylor Swift
July 5	Taylor Swift	Taylor Swift
July 12	Taylor Swift	Taylor Swift
July 19	Taylor Swift	Taylor Swift
July 26	Taylor Swift	Taylor Swift
August 2	Beautiful Eyes Beautiful Eyes Beautiful Eyes is the second extended play by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. The EP was released on July 15, 2008 by Big Machine Records exclusively to Wal-Mart stores in the United States and online...	Taylor Swift
August 9	Love on the Inside Love on the Inside Love on the Inside is the third album by the American country music duo Sugarland, released in 2008 on Mercury Nashville Records. It was first released on July 22, 2008 as a Deluxe Fan Edition, including five bonus tracks, with the regular edition following one week later...	Sugarland
August 16	Love on the Inside	Sugarland
August 23	Love on the Inside	Sugarland
August 30	Love on the Inside	Sugarland
September 6	Love on the Inside	Sugarland
September 13	Now That's What I Call Country Now That's What I Call Country Now That's What I Call Country is a country music compilation album released on August 26, 2008. The album is the first in the Now! series to be composed exclusively of country music tracks...	Various Artists
September 20	Love on the Inside	Sugarland
September 27	Do You Know Do You Know (Jessica Simpson album) Do You Know is the sixth studio album by American singer Jessica Simpson. The album was released on September 9, 2008, in the United States by a joint-venture between Columbia Nashville and Epic Records. The album is her first effort in an attempt to cross over to country music. Songwriter Brett...	Jessica Simpson Jessica Simpson Jessica Ann Simpson is an American recording artist, actress, television personality, and fashion designer whose rise to fame began in 1999. Since that time, Simpson has achieved many recording milestones, starred in several television shows, movies, and commercials, launched a line of hair and...
October 4	Learn to Live Learn to Live Learn to Live is the second solo studio album by American country artist, Darius Rucker. The album was released September 16, 2008 on Capitol Nashville Records and was produced by Frank Rogers...	Darius Rucker Darius Rucker Darius Rucker is an American musician. He first gained fame as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Hootie & the Blowfish, which he founded in 1986 at the University of South Carolina along with Mark Bryan, Jim "Soni" Sonefeld and Dean Felber...
October 11	Learn to Live	Darius Rucker
October 18	Kellie Pickler Kellie Pickler (album) -Promotion:To help promoting the album, Kellie Pickler was released in a regular edition and a Deluxe Edition, including the normal CD, along with a special DVD with 30-minute footage from Pickler on her tour and behind the scenes of the recording process , and the music video for "Don't You Know...	Kellie Pickler Kellie Pickler Kellie Dawn Pickler is an American country music artist and television personality. She gained fame as a contestant on the fifth season of the Fox reality show American Idol, eventually finishing in sixth place. In 2006, she signed to 19 Recordings and BNA Records as a recording artist, releasing...
October 25	Greatest Hits 3 Greatest Hits 3 (Tim McGraw album) Greatest Hits 3 is the third greatest hits collection from country singer from Tim McGraw. The album was released on October 7, 2008.The official announcement of the album was made on August 28, 2008, on McGraw's official website....	Tim McGraw
November 1	Lucky Old Sun Lucky Old Sun Lucky Old Sun is the thirteenth studio album released by country music artist Kenny Chesney. It was released on October 14, 2008 as the first release for Blue Chair Records, Chesney's personal division of the BNA Records label...	Kenny Chesney Kenny Chesney Kenneth "Kenny" Arnold Chesney is an American country music singer and songwriter. Chesney has recorded 15 albums, 14 of which have been certified gold or higher by the RIAA. He has also produced more than 30 Top Ten singles on the U.S...
November 8	Lucky Old Sun	Kenny Chesney
November 15	That Don't Make Me a Bad Guy That Don't Make Me a Bad Guy That Don't Make Me a Bad Guy is the twelfth studio release from American country music artist Toby Keith. The album was released October 28, 2008 on Show Dog Nashville, Keith's own label, and was produced by Keith himself. He wrote or co-wrote all the songs on this album, collaborating with Bobby...	Toby Keith Toby Keith Toby Keith Covel , best known as Toby Keith, is an American country music singer-songwriter, record producer and actor. Keith released his first four studio albums — 1993's Toby Keith, 1994's Boomtown, 1996's Blue Moon and 1997's Dream Walkin, plus a Greatest Hits package for various divisions of...
November 22	Play Play (Brad Paisley album) Play, also known as Play: The Guitar Album, is the sixth studio album by American country music artist Brad Paisley. It was released on November 4, 2008 . Like all of his previous albums, Play was released on Arista Nashville and produced by Frank Rogers. The album is largely instrumental in...	Brad Paisley Brad Paisley Brad Douglas Paisley is an American singer-songwriter and musician. His style crosses between traditional country music and Southern rock, and his songs are frequently laced with humor and pop culture references....
November 29	Fearless Fearless (Taylor Swift album) Fearless has been well-received by music professionals, with many praising Swift for her introspective lyrics, as well as her mature sound. According to the music review aggregator Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an...	Taylor Swift
December 6	Fearless	Taylor Swift
December 13	Fearless	Taylor Swift
December 20	Fearless	Taylor Swift
December 27	Fearless	Taylor Swift

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