BILLBOARD MAGAZINE'S (MAGAZINE'S CHART) TOP 200 ALBUMS OF 1998*

No.-Album-Artist
  1 TITANIC-SOUNDTRACK
  2 LET'S TALK ABOUT LOVE-Celine Dion
  3 SEVENS-Garth Brooks
  4 BACKSTREET BOYS-Backstreet Boys
  5 COME ON OVER-Shania Twain
  6 YOURSELF OR SOMEONE LIKE YOU-Matchbox 20
  7 CITY OF ANGLES-Soundtrack
  8 BIG WILLIE STYLE-Will Smith
  9 SAVAGE GARDEN-Savage Garden
 10 SPICEWORLD-Spice Girls
 11 My Way-Usher
 12 Reload-Metallica
 13 Hello Nasty-Beastie Boys
 14 You Light Up My Life:Inspirational Songs-Leann Rimes
 15 Armageddon-Soundtrack
 16 Higher Ground-Barbra Streisand
 17 Tubthumper-Chumbawamba
 18 Ray Of Light-Madonna
 19 Love Always-K.C.I. & Jo Jo
 20 Harlem World-Mase
 21 Butterfly-Mariah Carey
 22 'N Sync-'N Sync
 23 No Way Out-Puff Daddy & The Family
 24 The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill-Lauryn Hill
 25 Spice-Spice Girls
 26 My Own Prison-Creed
 27 The Velvet Rope-Janet Jackson
 28 Surfacing-Sarah McLachlan
 29 Never S-A-Y Never-Brandy
 30 Before These Crowded Streets-Dave Matthews Band
 31 MP DA Last Don-Master P
 32 The Dance-Fleetwood Mac
 33 Stunt-Barenaked Ladies
 34 It's Dark And Hell Is Hot-DMX
 35 Third Eye Blind-Third Eye Blind
 36 Aquarium-Aqua
 37 Hope Flats-Soundtrack
 38 R U Still Down?-2 Pac
 39 Left Of The Middle-Natalie Imbruglia
 40 Dr. Doolittle:The Album
 41 Middle Of Nowhere-Hanson
 42 Da Game Is to Be Sold,Not To Be Told-Snoop Dogg
 43 Anytime-Brian McKnight
 44 The Limited Series-Garth Brooks
 45 LSG-Levert,Sweat,Gill
 46 Volume II...A Hard Knock Life-Jay Z
 47 Ghetto D-Master P
 48 Live-Erykah Badu
 49 Charge It 2 Da Game-Silkk The Shocker
 50 Fush Yu Mang-Smash Mouth
 51 Everywhere-Tim McGraw-June
 52 The Wedding Singer-Soundtrack
 53 Yield-Pearl Jam
 54 Greatest Hits Collection-Brooks & Dunn
 55 Greatest Hits-Kenny G
 56 Wide Open Spaces-Dixie Chicks
 57 Zoot Suite Riot-Cherry Poppin' Daddies
 58 Marcy Playground-Marcy Playground
 59 Romanza-Andrea Bocelli
 60 The Dirty Boogie-The Brian Setzer Orchestra
 61 Capital Punishment-Big Punisher
 62 Faith-Faith Hill
 63 Pieces Of You-Jewel
 64 Godzilla-Soundtrack
 65 Pilgrim-Eric Clapton-March
 66 Evolution-Boyz/Men
 67 The Book Of Secrets-Loreena McKennitt
 68 Bulworth-Soundtrack
 69 Sittin' On Top Of The World-Leann Rimes
 70 One Step At A Time-George Strait
 71 A Collection Of Hits-Trish Yearwood
 72 Songs From Ally McBeal (TV Soundtrack)-Vonda Shepard
 73 Soul Food-Soundtrack
 74 So Much For The Afterglow-Everclear
 75 Nimrod-Green Day
 76 A Tribute-Yanni
 77 Follow The Leader-Korn
 78 Cool Relax-Jon B
 79 Rated Next-Next
 80 Men In Black The Album-Soundtrack
 81 Snowed In-Hanson
 82 Jermaine Dupri Presents Life In 1472 Soundtrack-Jermaine Dupri
 83 Paint The Sky With Stars:The Best Of-Enya
 84 Welcome To Our World-Timbaland And Magoo
 85 Urban Hymns-The Verve
 86 Adore-Smashing Pumpkins
 87 Mya-Mya
 88 All The Pain Money Can Buy-Fastball
 89 The Players Club-Soundtrack
 90 Unpredictable-Mystikal
 91 Wyclef Jean Presents The Carnival Featuring Refugee Allstars-Wyclef Jean
 92 Ophelia-Natalie Merchant
 93 I Got The Hook Up-Soundtrack
 94 My Best Friend's Wedding Soundtrack
 95 The Boy Is Mine-Monica
 96 When Disaster Strikes-Busta Rhymes
 97 Life Or Death-C-Murder
 98 Tidal-Fiona Apple
 99 Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie-Alanis Morissette
100 Sublime-Sublime
101 Back To The Titanic-Soundtrack
102 This Fie-Paula Cole
103 Hellbilly Deluxe-Rob Zombie
104 BBC Sessions-Led Zeppelin
105 The Ozzman Cometh-Ozzy Osbourne
106 Days Of The New-Days Of The New
107 ESPN Presents Jock Jams Volume 3-Various Artists
108 Evolution-Martina McBride
109 Aquemini-Outkast
110 In Tha Beginning...There Was Rap-Various Artists
111 Big Man Voo Doo Daddy-Big Man Voo Doo Daddy
112 Life After Death-Notorious B.I.G.
113 Rush Hour-Soundtrack
114 Feeling Strangely Fine-Semisonic
115 If You See Her-Brooks & Dunn
116 Floored-Sugar Ray
117 Embrya-Maxwell  
118 Version 2.0-Garbage
119 Mechanical Animals-Marilyn Manson
120 If You See Him-Reba Mc Entire
121 The Best That I Could Do 1978-1988-John Mellencamp
122 All Saints-All Saints
123 The Source Presents Hip Hop Hits:Volume 1-Various Artists
124 The Colour & The Shape-Foo Fighters
125 Eve 6-Eve 6
126 Sparkle-Sparkle
127 Money,Power & Respect-The Lox
128 The Fat Of The Land-Prodigy
129 Nine Lives-Aerosmith
130 Robyn Is Here-Robyn
131 N.O.R.E.-Noreaga
132 Rock Spectacle-Barenaked Ladies
133 Traces Of My Lipstick-Xscape
134 Ultimate Dance Party 1998-Various Artists
135 Blue-Leann Rimes
136 Trouble Is...-Kenny Wayne Shepherd
137 Bringing Down The Horse-Wallflowers
138 Whatever And Ever Amen-Ben Folds Five
139 Song Of A Woman-Kelly Price
140 Live At Red Rocks-Dave Mathews Band
141 Anastasia-Soundtrack
142 OK Computer-Radiohead
143 The Globe Sessions-Sheryl Crow
144 Falling Into You-Celine Dion
145 High Mileage-Alan Jackson
146 My Homies-Scarface
147 Second-Hand Smoke-Sublime
148 From The Choirgirl Hotel-Tori Amos
149 Pure Disco 3-Various Artists
150 In My Lifetime Volume I-Jay Z
151 How Stella Got Her Groove Back-Soundtrack
152 Celebrity Skin-Hole
153 3 Car Garage-Hanson
154 Love & Consequences-Gerald Levert
155 Still Standing-Goodie Mob
156 Dude Ranch-Blink 182
157 Bridges To Babylon-The Rolling Stones
158 Christmas Live-Mannheim Steamroller
159 Share My World-Mary J.Blige
160 Labor Of Love-Sammy Kershaw
161 Sehnsucht-Rammstein
162 Dizzy Up The Girl-Goo Goo Dolls
163 Deuces Wild-B.B. King
164 Nu Nation Project-Kirk Franklin
165 For the Record:41 Number One Hits-Alabama
166 ESPN Presents Jock Jams Volume 4-Various Artists
167 There's One In Every Family-Fiend
168 I'm Alright-Jo Dee Messina
169 Diana,The Princess Of Wales:Tribute-Various Artists
170 Let's Ride-Montell Jordan
171 Wow:1998 The Year's 30 Top Christian Artists And Songs-Various Artists
172 Carrying Your Love With Me-George Strait
174 Misguided Roses-Edwin McCain
173 The Key-Vince Gill
175 God's Property-God's Property From Kirk Franklin's Nu Nation
176 Van Halen 3-Van Halen
177 The Great Milenko-Insane Clown Posse
178 Family Scriptures-Mo Thugs
179 Musical Chairs-Hootie & The Blowfish
180 Aenima-Tool
181 5-Lenny Kravitz
182 MTV Party To Go-Various Artists
183 Fundamental-Bonnie Raitt
184 Can't Hardly Wait-Soundtrack
185 The Wedding Singer:Volume 2-Soundtrack
186 El Nino-Def Squad
187 The Love Moment-A Tribe Called Quest
188 Pure Funk-Various Artists
189 Space Jam-Soundtrack
190 Still In The Game-Keith Sweat
191 Time Out Of Mind-Bob Dylan
192 Am I My Brothers Keeper-Kane & Abel
193 Long Time No See-Chico DeBarge
194 All I Have In This World Are My Balls And My Word-Young Bleed
195 Greatest Hits-John Michael Montgomery
196 Gloria-Gloria Estefan
197 Lost-Eightball
198 The Firm:The Album-Nas Escobar,Foxy Brown,Az & Nature.
199 The Swarm-Wu-Tang Clan & Wu-Tang Killa Beez
200 A Very Special Christmas:Volume 3-Various Artists

* As published in the December 26th,1998 issue of Billboard Magazine.