⇦ 1997

1999 ⇨

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	☆
Barenaked Ladies	Stunt	☆
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	☆
Cake	Prolonging the Magic	☆
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	☆
Fastball	All the Pain Money Can Buy	☆
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	☆
Jeff Buckley	Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk	☆
Juvenile	400 Degreez	☆
Kid Rock	Devil Without A Cause	☆
Koji Kondo	The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time	☆
Korn	Follow the Leader	☆
Lauryn Hill	The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill	☆
Lenny Kravitz	5	☆
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	☆
Mark Hollis	Mark Hollis	☆
Massive Attack	Mezzanine	☆
Mercury Rev	Deserter's Songs	☆
Natalie Merchant	Ophelia	☆
Neutral Milk Hotel	In the Aeroplane Over the Sea	☆
New Radicals	Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too	☆
Nightwish	Oceanborn	☆
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	☆
Robbie Williams	I've Been Expecting You	☆
Seatbelts/Yoko Kanno	Cowboy Bebop	☆
Sega Sound Team	Sonic Adventure: Original Soundtrack	☆
Shakira	Dónde Están los Ladrones?	☆
Sheryl Crow	The Globe Sessions	☆
Smashing Pumpkins	Adore	☆
Soul Coughing	El Oso	☆
System of a Down	System of a Down	☆
The Cardigans	Gran Turismo	☆
The Offspring	Americana	☆
Tori Amos	From The Choirgirl Hotel	☆
Tricky	Angels With Dirty Faces	☆
Vince Gill	The Key	☆
Willie Nelson	Teatro	☆

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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	☆
Backstreet Boys	All I Have to Give	☆
Barenaked Ladies	One Week	☆
Beastie Boys	Intergalactic	☆
Belle & Sebastian	The Boy With the Arab Strap	☆
Brandy & Monica	The Boy Is Mine	☆
Britney Spears	...Baby One More Time	☆
Cake	Never There	☆
Celia Cruz	La Vida Es Un Carnaval	☆
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)	☆
Enrique Iglesias	Esperanza	☆
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	☆
Goo Goo Dolls	Black Balloon	☆
Hole	Celebrity Skin	☆
Jay-Z	Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)	☆
Jennifer Paige	Crush	☆
Jewel	Hands	☆
Juvenile feat. Mannie Fresh and Lil Wayne	Back That Azz Up	☆
Kid Rock	Bawitdaba	☆
Kid Rock	Cowboy	☆
Korn	Freak On A Leash	☆
Korn	Got The Life	☆
Lauryn Hill	Doo Wop (That Thing)	☆
Lauryn Hill	Can't Take My Eyes Off of You	☆
Lauryn Hill	Ex-Factor	☆
Lauryn Hill	To Zion	☆
Lenny Kravitz	Fly Away	☆
Less Than Jake	All My Best Friends Are Metalheads	☆
Liz Phair	What Makes You Happy	☆
Liz Phair	Ride	☆
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	☆
Monica	Angel of Mine	☆
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	☆
Nightwish	Sacrament of Wilderness	☆
OutKast	Rosa Parks	☆
OutKast	Da Art Of Storytellin' (Pt. 2)	☆
OutKast	SpottieOttieDopalicious	☆
Pearl Jam	Do The Evolution	☆
Pearl Jam	Wishlist	☆
Pearl Jam	Given to Fly	☆
Pras feat. Ol' Dirty Bastard and Mya	Ghetto Supastar (That Is What You Are)	☆
Public Enemy	He Got Game	☆
Pulp	This is Hardcore	☆
Reel Big Fish	Take On Me	☆
Rob Zombie	Dragula	☆
Rob Zombie	Living Dead Girl	☆
Robbie Williams	Millennium	☆
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	☆
The Offspring	Why Don't You Get a Job?	☆
The Revenants	Even Hookers Say Goodbye	☆
Tori Amos	Spark	☆
Train	Meet Virginia	☆
Whitney Houston	My Love is Your Love	☆

⇦ 1997

1999 ⇨