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The Best Music of 1998
Here is a selection of the best albums and songs from 1998. Hall of Famers are highlighted in orange.
For a list of the top artists who made their debut recording in 1998, check out this list.
| Albums (?) | Wikipedia | |
| A Tribe Called Quest | The Love Movement | ☆ |
| Air | Moon Safari | ☆ |
| Alanis Morissette | Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie | ☆ |
| Beastie Boys | Hello Nasty | ☆ |
| Beck | Mutations | ☆ |
| Belle & Sebastian | The Boy with the Arab Strap | ☆ |
| Big Pun | Capital Punishment | ☆ |
| Blind Guardian | Nightfall in Middle-Earth | ☆ |
| Boards of Canada | Music Has the Right to Children | ☆ |
| Bob Dylan | Live 1966: The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert | ☆ |
| Brandy | Never Say Never | ☆ |
| Brian Setzer Orchestra | The Dirty Boogie | ☆ |
| Cher | Believe | ☆ |
| Dave Matthews Band | Before These Crowded Streets | ☆ |
| Death | The Sound of Perseverance | ☆ |
| Dixie Chicks | Wide Open Spaces | ☆ |
| DMX | It's Dark and Hell Is Hot | ☆ |
| Elliott Smith | XO | ☆ |
| Eve 6 | Eve 6 | ☆ |
| Faith Hill | Faith | ☆ |
| Fatboy Slim | You've Come a Long Way, Baby | ☆ |
| Garbage | Version 2.0 | ☆ |
| Goo Goo Dolls | Dizzy Up the Girl | ☆ |
| Hole | Celebrity Skin | ☆ |
| Jay-Z | Vol. 2... Hard Knocked Life | ☆ |
| Kid Rock | Devil Without A Cause | ☆ |
| Korn | Follow the Leader | ☆ |
| Lauryn Hill | The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill | ☆ |
| Liz Phair | White chocolate space egg | ☆ |
| Lucinda Williams | Car Wheels on a Gravel Road | ☆ |
| Madonna | Ray Of Light | ☆ |
| Manic Street Preachers | This is My Truth Tell Me Yours | ☆ |
| Marilyn Manson | Mechanical Animals | ☆ |
| Massive Attack | Mezzanine | ☆ |
| Mercury Rev | Deserter's Songs | ☆ |
| Neutral Milk Hotel | In The Aeroplane Above the Sea | ☆ |
| Opeth | My Arms, Your Hearse | ☆ |
| Outkast | Aquemini | ☆ |
| Pearl Jam | Yield | ☆ |
| Phish | The Story of the Ghost | ☆ |
| PJ Harvey | Is This Desire? | ☆ |
| Pulp | This Is Hardcore | ☆ |
| Queens of the Stone Age | Queens of the Stone Age | ☆ |
| Refused | The Shape of Punk to Come | ☆ |
| Rob Zombie | Hellbilly Deluxe | ☆ |
| Seatbelts/Yoko Kanno | Cowboy Bebop | ☆ |
| Sheryl Crow | The Globe Sessions | ☆ |
| Smashing Pumpkins | Adore | ☆ |
| System of a Down | System of a Down | ☆ |
| The Offspring | Americana | ☆ |
| Tori Amos | From The Choirgirl Hotel | ☆ |
| Tricky | Angels With Dirty Faces | ☆ |
| Songs (?) | Wikipedia | |
| 2Pac | Changes | ☆ |
| 98 Degrees | I Do (Cherish You) | ☆ |
| A Tribe Called Quest | Find a Way | ☆ |
| Aaliyah | Are You That Somebody? | ☆ |
| Aerosmith | I Don't Want To Miss A Thing | ☆ |
| Air | Kelly Watch the Stars | ☆ |
| Alanis Morissette | Thank U | ☆ |
| Alice Deejay | Better Off Alone | ☆ |
| Barenaked Ladies | One Week | ☆ |
| Beastie Boys | Intergalactic | ☆ |
| Brandy & Monica | The Boy Is Mine | ☆ |
| Cake | Never There | ☆ |
| Cher | Believe | ☆ |
| Dave Matthews Band | Crush | ☆ |
| Dido | Thank You | ☆ |
| Dixie Chicks | Wide Open Spaces | ☆ |
| DMX | Ruff Ryders' Anthem | ☆ |
| Edwin McCain | I'll Be | ☆ |
| Eiffel 65 | Blue (Da Ba Dee) | ☆ |
| Eve 6 | Inside Out | ☆ |
| Everlast | What It's Like | ☆ |
| Faith Hill | This Kiss | ☆ |
| Fastball | The Way | ☆ |
| Fastball | Out of My Head | ☆ |
| Fatboy Slim | Praise You | ☆ |
| Fatboy Slim | The Rockafeller Skank | ☆ |
| Fatboy Slim | Right Here, Right Now | ☆ |
| Fatboy Slim | Gangster Trippin' | ☆ |
| Garbage | I Think I'm Paranoid | ☆ |
| Garbage | Special | ☆ |
| Garbage | Push It | ☆ |
| Goo Goo Dolls | Iris | ☆ |
| Goo Goo Dolls | Slide | ☆ |
| Hole | Celebrity Skin | ☆ |
| Jay-Z | Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem) | ☆ |
| Jennifer Paige | Crush | ☆ |
| Jewel | Hands | ☆ |
| Kid Rock | Bawitdaba | ☆ |
| Korn | Freak On A Leash | ☆ |
| Korn | Got The Life | ☆ |
| Lauryn Hill | Doo Wop (That Thing) | ☆ |
| Lenny Kravitz | Fly Away | ☆ |
| Less Than Jake | All My Best Friends Are Metalheads | ☆ |
| Lucinda Williams | Can't Let Go | ☆ |
| Lucinda Williams | Car Wheels on a Gravel Road | ☆ |
| Madonna | Ray Of Light | ☆ |
| Madonna | Frozen | ☆ |
| Manic Street Preachers | If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next | ☆ |
| Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston | When You Believe | ☆ |
| Massive Attack | Teardrop | ☆ |
| Massive Attack | Angel | ☆ |
| Natalie Merchant | Kind & Generous | ☆ |
| Neutral Milk Hotel | Holland 1945 | ☆ |
| Neutral Milk Hotel | In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | ☆ |
| New Radicals | You Give What You Give | ☆ |
| OutKast | Rosa Parks | ☆ |
| OutKast | Da Art Of Storytellin' (Pt. 2) | ☆ |
| Pearl Jam | Do The Evolution | ☆ |
| Pearl Jam | Wishlist | ☆ |
| Pras feat. Ol' Dirty Bastard and Mya | Ghetto Supastar (That Is What You Are) | ☆ |
| Reel Big Fish | Take On Me | ☆ |
| Rob Zombie | Dragula | ☆ |
| Rob Zombie | Living Dead Girl | ☆ |
| Seatbelts / Yoko Kanno | Tank! | ☆ |
| Semisonic | Closing Time | ☆ |
| Sheryl Crow | My Favorite Mistake | ☆ |
| Sheryl Crow | Anything But Down | ☆ |
| Smashing Pumpkins | Ava Adore | ☆ |
| Stabbing Westward | Save Yourself | ☆ |
| The Cardigans | My Favourite Game | ☆ |
| The Offspring | Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) | ☆ |
| The Offspring | The Kids Aren't Alright | ☆ |
| Tori Amos | Spark | ☆ |
| Train | Meet Virginia | ☆ |
| Whitney Houston | My Love is Your Love | ☆ |
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