List of Top Country Albums number ones of 2008

Top Country Albums is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music albums in the United States, published by Billboard. In 2008, 21 different albums topped the chart; placings were based on electronic point of sale data from retail outlets.[1]

Taylor Swift had three number ones in 2008.

In the issue of Billboard dated January 5, the Eagles were at number one with Long Road Out of Eden, the album's sixth week in the top spot.[2] Two weeks later, it was displaced by the self-titled album by Taylor Swift, which returned to number one having spent eight weeks atop the chart in 2007. The album spent a further 16 weeks at number one in 2008, in five separate spells atop the chart. Its final week at number one came in the issue of Billboard dated July 26, and the following week Swift replaced herself in the top spot when Beautiful Eyes entered the chart at number one.[3] The new release, a limited-run EP available only at Walmart stores or online, held the top spot for a single week.[4] Swift returned to number one in November with her second full-length album Fearless, which spent the final five weeks of the year atop the chart and made her the only act with three number ones during the year.

Two acts reached number one with two different albums in 2008. Tim McGraw unusually topped the chart with two different greatest hits albums: in May he spent a single week at number one with Greatest Hits: Limited Edition, a combined re-release of his first two such albums, which had each reached number one in their own right in 2000 and 2006.[5] In October he returned to the top of the chart with the newly released Greatest Hits 3. Toby Keith spent time at number one with both 35 Biggest Hits and That Don't Make Me a Bad Guy. Several acts reached number one in 2008 for the first time, beginning with the group Lady Antebellum with its self-titled album in May.[6] On June 7, Julianne Hough, best known as one of the professional dancers from the TV show Dancing with the Stars,[7] spent a week at number one with her debut album.[8] Two weeks later singer Jewel reached the top spot with her first release to enter the country chart;[9] her albums had appeared on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart for more than a decade,[10] but Perfectly Clear was her first recording in the country genre.[11] The duo Sugarland spent six non-consecutive weeks at number one in August and September with its first chart-topper Love on the Inside,[12] and in September and October Jessica Simpson and Darius Rucker both topped the chart for the first time.[13][14] Rucker was the first African-American artist to become a major star in the country genre since Charley Pride in the late 1960s.[15]

Chart history
Julianne Hough topped the chart six months after she was half of the winning couple on TV's Dancing with the Stars for the second time.[7][16]
Sugarland spent six weeks at number one with Love on the Inside.
Learn to Live was the first number one for Darius Rucker.
Tim McGraw topped the chart with two different greatest hits albums in 2008.
Issue date Title Artist(s) Ref.
January 5 Long Road Out of Eden Eagles [2]
January 12 [17]
January 19 Taylor Swift Taylor Swift [18]
January 26 [19]
February 2 [20]
February 9 [21]
February 16 [22]
February 23 [23]
March 1 [24]
March 8 My Life's Been a Country Song Chris Cagle [25]
March 15 Taylor Swift Taylor Swift [26]
March 22 Good Time Alan Jackson [27]
March 29 [28]
April 5 Taylor Swift Taylor Swift [29]
April 12 [30]
April 19 Troubadour George Strait [31]
April 26 [32]
May 3 Lady Antebellum Lady Antebellum [33]
May 10 Troubadour George Strait [34]
May 17 Greatest Hits: Limited Edition Tim McGraw [35]
May 24 35 Biggest Hits Toby Keith [36]
May 31 [37]
June 7 Julianne Hough Julianne Hough [38]
June 14 Taylor Swift Taylor Swift [39]
June 21 Perfectly Clear Jewel [40]
June 28 Taylor Swift Taylor Swift [41]
July 5 [42]
July 12 [43]
July 19 [44]
July 26 [45]
August 2 Beautiful Eyes [3]
August 9 Love on the Inside Sugarland [46]
August 16 [47]
August 23 [48]
August 30 [49]
September 6 [50]
September 13 Now That's What I Call Country Various Artists [51]
September 20 Love on the Inside Sugarland [52]
September 27 Do You Know Jessica Simpson [53]
October 4 Learn to Live Darius Rucker [54]
October 11 [55]
October 18 Kellie Pickler Kellie Pickler [56]
October 25 Greatest Hits 3 Tim McGraw [57]
November 1 Lucky Old Sun Kenny Chesney [58]
November 8 [59]
November 15 That Don't Make Me a Bad Guy Toby Keith [60]
November 22 Play Brad Paisley [61]
November 29 Fearless Taylor Swift [62]
December 6 [63]
December 13 [64]
December 20 [65]
December 27 [66]

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