Here’s my picks for the best of music in 2008. The coolest part is I’ve hooked you up with LaLa.com & Last.fm which means you can legally lis­ten to every song and album listed in it’s entirety for free!  Just to note, I didn’t dou­ble list projects… for exam­ple, I loved Keane’s sin­gle “Spi­ralling” but I listed the album Per­fect Sym­me­try of which it’s on so it’s not included.

NOTE: You are able to stream each song though LaLa.com once. You will get a 30-second pre­view the sec­ond time.

Chris­t­ian CHR/AC

SINGLES      
• VOTA — “Hard to Believe” — INO Records
   
• The Fray — “You Found Me” — Epic Records
   

ALBUMS

• Chris Tay­lor - Take Me Any­where - BEC Record­ings
   
• Seabird — ‘Til We See the Shore — Cre­den­tial Record­ings
   
• Sanc­tus Real — We Need Each Other — Spar­row Records/EMI CMG
   

Chris­t­ian Rock

ALBUMS               
• Relient K — The Bird & The Bee Sides — Gotee Records
   
• The Afters — Never Going Back to OK — INO Records/Columbia Records
   
• Rem­edy Drive — Day­light is Com­ing — Word Records
   

Main­stream CHR/Top 40

SINGLES               
• Katy Per­ry - “Hot N Cold (Edit)“ - Capitol Records
         
  note: not the edited version
• The Killers — “Human” – Island Records
   
• Tay­lor Swift — “Love Story (Pop Edit)” — Big Machine Records

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Main­stream Rock

SINGLES               
• Car­olina Liar — “I’m Not Over” — Atlantic Records
   
• Nick­el­back — “Gotta Be Somebody” — Roadrunner Records
   
• Kings of Leon — “Use Somebody” — RCA Records
   

ALBUM

• Augus­tana — Can’t Love, Can’t Hurt — Epic Records
   

Main­stream AC/Rythmic

SINGLES               
• Jason Mraz - “I’m Yours“ - Atlantic Records
   
• Gavin DeGraw - “In Love with a Girl” — J Records
   
• Life­house — “Bro­ken (New Radio Version)” — Geffen Records
   

ALBUMS

• Matt Wertz — Under Sum­mer Skin — Uni­ver­sal Repub­lic Records
   
• Lan­don Pigg — Cof­fee Shop — RCA Records
  (lis­ten to full album)
• Marié Digby — Unfold — Hol­ly­wood Records
   

Indie

ALBUMS               
• Andy Hunter° - Colour – Net­twerk Records
  (lis­ten to par­tial album and clips)
• Owl City — Maybe I’m Dream­ing
  (lis­ten to full album)
• Paper Route — Are We All For­got­ten — Uni­ver­sal Music Group
   

UK

SINGLES               
• The Verve — “Love Is Noise” – Par­lophone
   
• Leona Lewis — “Bet­ter In Time” — Syco/SonyBMG
   

ALBUMS

• Cold­play – Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends (Prospekt’s March Edi­tion) - Par­lophone
   
• Keane — Per­fect Sym­me­try — Island Records

Other note­able items include Jon Foreman’s solo col­lec­tion Limbs and Branches (click here to lis­ten), House of Heroes’ song “If” off their album The End is Not the End (click here to lis­ten), Ben Folds’ sin­gle “You Don’t Know Me” fea­tur­ing Regina Spek­tor (click here to lis­ten — warn­ing: explicit), and “Love Me Dead” off the You’re Awful, I Love You album by Ludo (click to lis­ten).

Hope you enjoyed it!