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Music Blog Zeitgeist 2008

Forget the magazine editors & big label marketing budgets. This is the best music from 2008 chosen by the most passionate music fans alive: music bloggers.

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Zeitgeist Partners

Blog Fresh Radio produced our radio show featuring songs from the Top 50 Albums, music blogger interviews and more.

Musebin, the newly launched 1-line music review site, provided the album reviews pulled from music blogs listed on Hype Machine.

imeem is powering the radio show player and full album playback of the Top 50 Albums!

Other thanks go out to Flickr photographers who have shared their images under Creative Commons (we used them for the backgrounds), Bluga (blog thumbnails), & Amazon (for the album art).

Creative Commons License The Music Blog Zeitgeist album data is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. It was compiled from 774 lists. You can download the data used to prepare these lists here: raw data, compiled data.

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