| 1 | The Offspring | You're Gonna Go Far, Kid | Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace (2008) |
| 2 | Coldplay | Viva La Vida | Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends (2008) |
| 3 | Foo Fighters | The Pretender | Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (2007) |
| 4 | Weezer | Pork and Beans | Weezer (The Red Album) (2008) |
| 5 | Linkin Park | Bleed It Out | Minutes to Midnight (2007) |
| 6 | The Bravery | Believe | The Sun and the Moon (2007) |
| 7 | Rise Against | The Good Left Undone | The Sufferer & the Witness (2006) |
| 8 | The Killers | Shadowplay | Sawdust (2007) |
| 9 | Metallica | The Day That Never Comes | Death Magnetic (2008) |
| 10 | M.I.A. | Paper Planes | Kala (2007) |
| 11 | The Offspring | Hammerhead | Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace (2008) |
| 12 | Three Days Grace | Never Too Late | One-X (2006) |
| 13 | Kings of Leon | Sex on Fire | Only by the Night (2008) |
| 14 | Linkin Park | Given Up | Minutes to Midnight (2007) |
| 15 | Finger Eleven | Paralyzer | Them vs. You vs. Me (2007) |
| 16 | Foo Fighters | Let It Die | Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (2007) |
| 17 | Flobots | Handlebars | Fight with Tools (2007) |
| 18 | Rise Against | Prayer of the Refugee | The Sufferer & the Witness (2006) |
| 19 | MGMT | Kids | Oracular Spectacular (2007) |
| 20 | Serj Tankian | Empty Walls | Elect the Dead (2007) |
| 21 | The Killers | Human | Day & Age (2008) |
| 22 | Incubus | Love Hurts | Light Grenades (2006) |
| 23 | Bad Religion | New Dark Ages | New Maps of Hell (2007) |
| 24 | Coldplay | Violet Hill | Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends (2008) |
| 25 | Linkin Park | Shadow of the Day | Minutes to Midnight (2007) |
| 26 | Pennywise | The Western World | Reason to Believe (2008) |
| 27 | The White Stripes | Icky Thump | Icky Thump (2007) |
| 28 | One Day As a Lion | Wild International | One Day As a Lion (2008) |
| 29 | Red Hot Chili Peppers | Snow (Hey Oh) | Stadium Arcadium (2006) |
| 30 | Social Distortion | Far Behind | Greatest Hits (2007) |
| 31 | Katy Perry | I Kissed a Girl | One of the Boys (2008) |
| 32 | Foo Fighters | Long Road to Ruin | Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (2007) |
| 33 | Disturbed | Inside the Fire | Indestructible (2008) |
| 34 | Jack Johnson | If I Had Eyes | Sleep Through the Static (2008) |
| 35 | Incubus | Dig | Light Grenades (2006) |
| 36 | Rise Against | Re-Education (Through Labor) | Appeal to Reason (2008) |
| 37 | Muse | Starlight | Black Holes and Revelations (2006) |
| 38 | Serj Tankian | Sky Is Over | Elect the Dead (2007) |
| 39 | Modest Mouse | Dashboard | We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (2007) |
| 40 | Linkin Park | Leave Out All the Rest | Minutes to Midnight (2007) |
| 41 | Paramore | Decode | Non-album Single (2008) [From Twilight Soundtrack] |
| 42 | Tool | The Pot | 10,000 Days (2006) |
| 43 | Coldplay | Lost! | Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends (2008) |
| 44 | Staind | Believe | The Illusion of Progress (2008) |
| 45 | Weezer | Troublemaker | Weezer (The Red Album) (2008) |
| 46 | Scars on Broadway | They Say | Scars on Broadway (2008) |
| 47 | Death Cab For Cutie | I Will Possess Your Heart | Narrow Stairs (2008) |
| 48 | Incubus | Anna Molly | Light Grenades (2006) |
| 49 | The Raconteurs | Salute Your Solution | Consolers of the Lonely (2008) |
| 50 | Rise Against | Audience of One | Appeal to Reason (2008) |
| 51 | Vampire Weekend | A-Punk | Vampire Weekend (2008) |
| 52 | Seether | Rise Above This | Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces (2007) |
| 53 | Nine Inch Nails | Discipline | The Slip (2008) |
| 54 | MGMT | Time to Pretend | Oracular Spectacular (2007) |
| 55 | Linkin Park | What I've Done | Minutes to Midnight (2007) |
| 56 | Atmosphere | You | When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold (2008) |
| 57 | Muse | Knights of Cydonia | Black Holes and Revelations (2006) |
| 58 | Avenged Sevenfold | Almost Easy | Avenged Sevenfold (2007) |
| 59 | Radiohead | Bodysnatchers | In Rainbows (2007) |
| 60 | The Offspring | Stuff Is Messed Up | Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace (2008) |
| 61 | Slightly Stoopid | 2 AM | Chronchitis (2007) |
| 62 | Incubus | Oil and Water | Light Grenades (2006) |
| 63 | Carolina Liar | I'm Not Over | Coming to Terms (2008) |
| 64 | Guns N' Roses | Chinese Democracy | Chinese Democracy (2008) |
| 65 | Paramore | Misery Business | Riot! (2007) |
| 66 | Flogging Molly | Requiem For a Dying Song | Float (2008) |
| 67 | Rise Against | Ready to Fall | The Sufferer & the Witness (2006) |
| 68 | Ludo | Love Me Dead | You're Awful, I Love You (2008) |
| 69 | Foo Fighters | Summer's End | Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (2007) |
| 70 | Weezer | Everybody Get Dangerous | Weezer (The Red Album) (2008) |
| 71 | Hollywood Undead | Undead | Swan Songs (2008) |
| 72 | Beck | Gamma Ray | Modern Guilt (2008) |
| 73 | Metallica | Cyanide | Death Magnetic (2008) |
| 74 | The Airborne Toxic Event | Sometime Around Midnight | The Airborne Toxic Event (2008) |
| 75 | Linkin Park | Hands Held High | Minutes to Midnight (2007) |
| 76 | Jack Johnson | Hope | Sleep Through the Static (2008) |
| 77 | Atreyu | Falling Down | Lead Sails Paper Anchor (2007) |
| 78 | Franz Ferdinand | Ulysses | Tonight: Franz Ferdinand (2008) |
| 79 | 10 Years | Beautiful | Division (2008) |
| 80 | Muse | Map of the Problematique | Black Holes and Revelations (2006) |
| 81 | Foxboro Hot Tubs | Mother Mary | Stop Drop and Roll!!! (2008) |
| 82 | Silversun Pickups | Lazy Eye | Carnavas (2006) |
| 83 | Against Me! | Stop! | New Wave (2007) |
| 84 | Jimmy Eat World | Always Be | Chase This Light (2007) |
| 85 | Rise Against | The Approaching Curve | The Sufferer & the Witness (2006) |
| 86 | Far | Pony | At Night We Live (2008) |
| 87 | Coldplay | Lovers in Japan | Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends (2008) |
| 88 | Staind | All I Want | The Illusion of Progress (2008) |
| 89 | Cold War Kids | Something Is Not Right With Me | Loyalty to Loyalty (2008) |
| 90 | Scars on Broadway | World Long Gone | Scars on Broadway (2008) |
| 91 | Death Cab For Cutie | Cath... | Narrow Stairs (2008) |
| 92 | Eddie Vedder | Hard Sun | Non-album Single (2007) [From Into the Wild Soundtrack] |
| 93 | The Cure | The Only One | 4:13 Dream (2008) |
| 94 | The Offspring | Kristy, Are You Doing Okay? | Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace (2008) |
| 95 | Slipknot | Psychosocial | All Hope Is Gone (2008) |
| 96 | The Ting Tings | Shut Up And Let Me Go | We Started Nothing (2008) |
| 97 | Shinedown | Second Chance | The Sound of Madness (2008) |
| 98 | Sonic Youth | Superstar | Non-album Single (2008) [From Juno Soundtrack] |
| 99 | The Killers | Read My Mind | Sam's Town (2006) |
| 100 | Armor For Sleep | Hold the Door | Smile for Them (2007) |
| 101 | Saving Abel | Addicted | Saving Abel (2008) |
| 102 | Shiny Toy Guns | Ghost Town | Season of Poison (2008) |
| 103 | Panic! at the Disco | Nine in the Afternoon | Pretty. Odd. (2008) |
| 104 | Queens of the Stone Age | 3's & 7's | Era Vulgaris (2007) |
| 105 | Spoon | Don't You Evah | Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (2007) |
| 106 | Apocalyptica | I Don't Care | Worlds Collide (2007) |
| 106.7 | Does It Offend You, Yeah? | We Are Rockstars | You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into (2008) |
About 2008
In 2008, KROQ’s airwaves pulsed with The Offspring’s punk revival, Coldplay’s baroque pop, and Weezer’s quirky rock. Indie acts like MGMT and Vampire Weekend surged alongside mainstream hits from Katy Perry, while metal and emo thrived, reflecting a vibrant, genre-blending alt-rock scene.