2008 in rock music
This article summarizes the events related to rock music for the year of 2008. Notable events January Radiohead releases their seventh studio album, In Rainbows. It tops the US all-format Billboard 200 albums chart, selling 122,000 copies. This is less than half of the debut of their prior album, 2003's Hail to the Thief, though multiple factors make comparisons difficult. In Rainbows had sold over 9,000 copies the week prior due to so many retailers breaking the street date, enough for it to chart at number 157. Additionally, the entire album had previously been released in October 2017, where purchasers were allowed to pay whatever price they wanted to in order to buy it from the band's website, and sales figures from this experiment were not included. The soundtrack for the film Juno, which contains contributions from rock bands such as The Kinks and The Velvet Underground, spends most of the month in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 album's chart, eventually topping it for a single week. The Mars Volta releases their fourth studio album, The Bedlam in Goliath. The album debuts at number 3 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 54,000 copies. It is their highest debuting