Editing 1998 in music (section)

===April–June===
{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"
|-
! colspan="2"|Date
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
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| rowspan="49" style="text-align:center; background:#ffa07a; textcolor:#000;"| '''A<br>P<br>R<br />I<br />L'''
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| ''[[Three Out Change]]'' || [[Supercar (band)|Supercar]] || Debut
|-
| rowspan="14" style="text-align:center;"|7
| ''[[Battle Hymns (Suicide Machines album)|Battle Hymns]]'' || [[The Suicide Machines]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Boggy Depot]]'' || [[Jerry Cantrell]] || LP
|-
| ''[[Crossroads and Illusions]]'' || [[Strung Out]] || EP
|-
| ''[[Darkest Days]]'' || [[Stabbing Westward]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Elemental (The Fixx album)|Elemental]]'' || [[The Fixx]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Fundamental (Bonnie Raitt album)|Fundamental]]'' || [[Bonnie Raitt]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Headz or Tailz]]'' || [[Do or Die (group)|Do or Die]] ||-
|-
| ''[[I Got the Hook Up (soundtrack)|I Got the Hook Up]]'' || Various Artists || Soundtrack
|-
| ''[[King Biscuit Flower Hour: Bachman–Turner Overdrive]]'' || [[Bachman–Turner Overdrive]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Lacuna Coil (EP)|Lacuna Coil]]'' || [[Lacuna Coil]] || EP
|-
| ''[[Still Standing (Goodie Mob album)|Still Standing]]'' || [[Goodie Mob]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Thrills (Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire album)|Thrills]]'' || [[Andrew Bird]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Wake of Magellan]]'' || [[Savatage]] ||-
|-
| ''[[www.pitchshifter.com]]'' || [[Pitchshifter (band)|Pitchshifter]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;"|13
| ''[[Bring It On (Gomez album)|Bring It On]]'' || [[Gomez (band)|Gomez]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|14
| ''[[Breath from Another]]'' || [[Esthero]] || Canada
|-
| ''[[The Elephant Riders]]'' || [[Clutch (band)|Clutch]] ||-
|-
| ''[[When Forever Comes Crashing]]'' || [[Converge (band)|Converge]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|20
| ''[[Walking Into Clarksdale]]'' || [[Jimmy Page]] and [[Robert Plant]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Mezzanine (album)|Mezzanine]]'' || [[Massive Attack]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Music Has the Right to Children]]'' || [[Boards of Canada]] || Europe
|-
| rowspan="13" style="text-align:center;"|21
| ''[[Light Fuse, Get Away]]'' || [[Widespread Panic]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Bulworth (soundtrack)|Bulworth]]'' || Various Artists ||-
|-
| ''[[Dead (Obituary album)|Dead]]'' || [[Obituary (band)|Obituary]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Faith (Faith Hill album)|Faith]]'' || [[Faith Hill]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Featuring "Birds"]]'' || [[Quasi (band)|Quasi]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Gallery of Suicide]]'' || [[Cannibal Corpse]] ||-
|-
| ''[[He Got Game (soundtrack)|He Got Game]]'' || [[Public Enemy (group)|Public Enemy]] || Soundtrack
|-
| ''[[Hey You, I Love Your Soul]]'' || [[Skillet (band)|Skillet]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Mýa (album)|Mýa]]'' || [[Mýa]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Perfect Night: Live in London]]'' || [[Lou Reed]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Soulfly (Soulfly album)|Soulfly]]'' || [[Soulfly]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Stigmata (Arch Enemy album)|Stigmata]]'' || [[Arch Enemy]] ||-
|-
| ''[[You and You Alone (album)|You and You Alone]]'' || [[Randy Travis]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|27
| ''[[Discouraged Ones]]'' || [[Katatonia]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Greed (Pulkas album)|Greed]]'' || [[Pulkas]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Nightfall in Middle-Earth]]'' || [[Blind Guardian]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Vobiscum Satanas]]'' || [[Dark Funeral]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="10" style="text-align:center;"|28
| ''[[Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka]]'' || [[Nile (band)|Nile]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Before These Crowded Streets]]'' || [[Dave Matthews Band]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Ça Va]]'' || [[Slapp Happy]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Capital Punishment (Big Pun album)|Capital Punishment]]'' || [[Big Pun]] ||-
|-
| ''[[End Hits]]'' || [[Fugazi]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Eve 6 (album)|Eve 6]]'' || [[Eve 6]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Live the Life]]'' || [[Michael W. Smith]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Navy Blues (Sloan album)|Navy Blues]]'' || [[Sloan (band)|Sloan]] || Canada
|-
| ''[[The Trouble with Angels (Juice Newton album)|The Trouble with Angels]]'' || [[Juice Newton]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Visual Audio Sensory Theater]]'' || [[VAST]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="57" style="text-align:center; background:thistle; textcolor:#000;" | '''M<br />A<br />Y'''
| rowspan="8" style="text-align:center;" |4
| ''[[Cruelty and the Beast]]'' || [[Cradle of Filth]] ||-
|-
| ''[[From the Choirgirl Hotel]]'' || [[Tori Amos]] ||-
|-
|[[Good Humor (album)|''Good Humor'']]
|[[Saint Etienne (band)|Saint Etienne]]
| -
|-
| ''[[Mass Nerder]]'' || [[ALL (band)|ALL]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Push the Button (Money Mark album)|Push the Button]]'' || [[Money Mark]] ||-
|-
| ''[[A Series of Sneaks]]'' || [[Spoon (band)|Spoon]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Sittin' on Top of the World (LeAnn Rimes album)|Sittin' on Top of the World]]'' || [[LeAnn Rimes]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Vovin (published musical recording)|Vovin]]'' || [[Therion (band)|Therion]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center;"|5
| ''[[Leave a Mark]]'' || [[John Michael Montgomery]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Lyricist Lounge, Volume One]]'' || Various Artists || Compilation
|-
| ''[[No Substance]]'' || [[Bad Religion]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Speed of the Old Long Bow]]'' || [[John Hartford]] ||-
|-
| ''[[There's One in Every Family]]'' || [[Fiend (rapper)|Fiend]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Twisted by Design]]'' || [[Strung Out]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|11
| ''[[Muse (EP)|Muse]]'' || [[Muse (band)|Muse]] || Debut/EP
|-
| ''[[The Best of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds]]'' || [[Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds]] || Compilation
|-
| rowspan="8" style="text-align:center;"|12
| ''[[3 Car Garage]]'' || [[Hanson (band)|Hanson]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[5 (Lenny Kravitz album)|5]]'' || [[Lenny Kravitz]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Best of Michael Franks: A Backward Glance]]'' || [[Michael Franks (musician)|Michael Franks]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[Candy from a Stranger]]'' || [[Soul Asylum]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Closer I Get]]'' || [[Hayden (musician)|Hayden]] ||-
|-
| ''[[A Thousand Leaves]]'' || [[Sonic Youth]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Traces of My Lipstick]]'' || [[Xscape (band)|Xscape]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Version 2.0]]'' || [[Garbage (band)|Garbage]] ||-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|15
| ''[[Shrink (album)|Shrink]]'' || [[The Notwist]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|18
| ''[[Photograph Smile]]'' || [[Julian Lennon]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Chapter I: A New Beginning]]'' || [[The Moffatts]] || Canada
|-
| ''[[Consumed (Plastikman album)|Consumed]]'' || [[Richie Hawtin|Plastikman]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Dile al sol]]'' || [[La Oreja de Van Gogh]] ||Debut
|-
| ''[[Knights of the Cross (album)|Knights of the Cross]]'' || [[Grave Digger (band)|Grave Digger]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="13" style="text-align:center;"|19
| ''[[Always Never the Same (Kansas album)|Always Never the Same]]'' || [[Kansas (band)|Kansas]] ||-
|-
| ''Bach to the Future'' || [[Safri Duo]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Black Light (Calexico album)|The Black Light]]'' || [[Calexico (band)|Calexico]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Godzilla: The Album]]'' || Various Artists || Soundtrack
|-
| ''[[Greatest Hits (DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince album)|Greatest Hits]]'' || [[DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[How I Feel (album)|How I Feel]]'' || [[Terri Clark]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Into the Sun (Sean Lennon album)|Into the Sun]]'' || [[Sean Lennon]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[It's Dark and Hell Is Hot]]'' || [[DMX]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Ophelia (album)|Ophelia]]'' || [[Natalie Merchant]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Rufus Wainwright (album)|Rufus Wainwright]]'' || [[Rufus Wainwright]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Smokefest Underground]]'' || [[Snoop Dogg|Snoop Doggy Dogg]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Jazz Singers]]'' || Various Artists  || Compilation 
|-
| ''[[Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest]]'' || [[Zao (American band)|Zao]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|20
| ''[[B'z The Best "Pleasure"]]'' || [[B'z]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[Steelbath Suicide]]'' || [[Soilwork]] ||-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|21
| ''[[Take Off and Landing]]'' || [[Yoshinori Sunahara]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|25
| ''[[Angels with Dirty Faces (Tricky album)|Angels with Dirty Faces]]'' || [[Tricky (musician)|Tricky]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Safety (EP)|Safety]]'' || [[Coldplay]] || EP
|-
| ''[[Super æ]]'' || [[Boredoms]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Where We Belong (album)|Where We Belong]]'' || [[Boyzone]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center;"|26
| ''[[The A-Files: Alien Songs]]'' || [[Alvin and the Chipmunks]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Don't Sweat the Technics]]'' || [[Kid 606]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Navy Blues (Sloan album)|Navy Blues]]'' || [[Sloan (band)|Sloan]] || US
|-
| ''[[Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk]]'' || [[Jeff Buckley]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Snow on the Sahara (album)|Snow on the Sahara]]'' || [[Anggun]] || International debut album
|-
| ''[[Time Capsule: Songs for a Future Generation]]'' || [[The B-52's]] || Compilation +2 new tracks
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|30
| ''[[Leitmotif (album)|Leitmotif]]'' || [[dredg]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="84" style="text-align:center; background:#98fb98; textcolor:#000;"|'''J<br />U<br />N<br />E'''
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|1
| ''[[Blodhemn]]'' || [[Enslaved (band)|Enslaved]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Jurassic 5 (album)|Jurassic 5]]'' || [[Jurassic 5]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Let It Ride (Shed Seven album)|Let It Ride]]'' || [[Shed Seven]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Permutation (Amon Tobin album)|Permutation]]'' || [[Amon Tobin]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="13" style="text-align:center;"|2
| ''[[Adore (The Smashing Pumpkins album)|Adore]]'' || [[The Smashing Pumpkins]] ||-
|-
| ''[[BBC Sessions (The Jimi Hendrix Experience album)|BBC Sessions]]'' || [[The Jimi Hendrix Experience]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[www.tism.wanker.com]]'' || [[TISM]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Cold (Cold album)|Cold]]'' || [[Cold (band)|Cold]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Freak*on*ica]]'' || [[Girls Against Boys]] ||-
|-
| ''[[gloria!]]'' || [[Gloria Estefan]] ||-
|-
| ''[[If You See Her]]'' || [[Brooks & Dunn]] ||-
|-
| ''[[MP Da Last Don]]'' || [[Master P]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Munki]]'' || [[The Jesus and Mary Chain]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Rant and Roar|Rant And Roar]]'' || [[Great Big Sea]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[RFTC]]'' || [[Rocket from the Crypt]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Shut 'Em Down (album)|Shut 'Em Down]]'' || [[Onyx (band)|Onyx]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The X-Files: The Album]]'' || Various Artists || Soundtrack
|-
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|8
| ''[[F♯ A♯ ∞]]'' || [[Godspeed You Black Emperor!]] || [[Compact disc|CD]] Edition
|-
| ''[[The Good Will Out]]'' || [[Embrace (English band)|Embrace]] || UK
|-
| ''[[Peloton (album)|Peloton]]'' || [[The Delgados]] || UK
|-
| ''Undo the Wicked'' || [[Diecast (band)|Diecast]] || Debut
|-
| rowspan="11" style="text-align:center;"|9
| ''[[The Devil's Bris]]'' || [[Voltaire (musician)|Voltaire]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Diabolus in Musica]]'' || [[Slayer]] ||-
|-
| ''[[DLR Band]]'' || [[David Lee Roth]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Left of Cool]]'' || [[Béla Fleck and the Flecktones]] ||-
|-
| ''[[A Long Way Home (album)|A Long Way Home]]'' || [[Dwight Yoakam]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Look My Way (Madball album)|Look My Way]]'' || [[Madball]] ||-
|-
| ''[[My Secret Life (Sonia Dada album)|My Secret Life]]'' || [[Sonia Dada]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Never Say Never (Brandy Norwood album)|Never Say Never]]'' || [[Brandy Norwood|Brandy]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Payton's Place]]'' || [[Nicholas Payton]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Perversion (album)|Perversion]]'' || [[Gravity Kills]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Premonition (John Fogerty album)|Premonition]]'' || [[John Fogerty]] || Live
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;"|15
| ''[[Try Whistling This]]'' || [[Neil Finn]] || Solo debut
|-
| rowspan="12" style="text-align:center;"|16
| ''[[Aaron Carter (album)|Aaron Carter]]'' || [[Aaron Carter]] || US; released in Europe Dec. '97
|-
| ''[[Vertical Man]]'' || [[Ringo Starr]] || US; released in UK 3 August
|-
| ''[[Imagination (Brian Wilson album)|Imagination]]'' || [[Brian Wilson]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Look What You Did to Me]]'' || [[Z-Ro]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Philosopher's Stone (album)|The Philosopher's Stone]]'' || [[Van Morrison]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[Order in the Court]]'' || [[Queen Latifah]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Dr. Dolittle (1998 film)|Dr. Dolittle: The Album]]'' || [[Various Artists]] || Soundtrack
|-
| ''[[Ozomatli (album)|Ozomatli]]'' || [[Ozomatli]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Powertrip]]'' || [[Monster Magnet]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Silent Reign of Heroes]]'' || [[Molly Hatchet]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Slowly Going the Way of the Buffalo]]'' || [[MxPx]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Under the Radar (Little Feat album)|Under the Radar]]'' || [[Little Feat]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|22
| ''[[Alternative 4 (album)|Alternative 4]]'' || [[Anathema (band)|Anathema]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Bootlegged in Japan]]'' || [[Napalm Death]] || Live
|-
| ''[[5ive (album)|5ive]]'' || [[Five (band)|Five]] || UK
|-
| ''[[Genesis Archive 1967–75]]'' || [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]] || Box Set
|-
| rowspan="12" style="text-align:center;"|23
| ''[[CPR (album)|CPR]]'' || [[CPR (band)|CPR]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Dirty Boogie]]'' || [[The Brian Setzer Orchestra]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Haunted (album)|The Haunted]]'' || [[The Haunted (Swedish band)|The Haunted]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Hitler Bad, Vandals Good]]'' || [[The Vandals]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Mermaid Avenue]]'' || [[Billy Bragg]] and [[Wilco]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Midwestern Songs of the Americas]]'' || [[Dillinger Four]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Occupational Hazard]]'' || [[Unsane (band)|Unsane]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Stand by Your Van]]'' || [[Sublime (band)|Sublime]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Strung Out in Heaven]]'' || [[The Brian Jonestown Massacre]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Time (Lionel Richie album)|Time]]'' || [[Lionel Richie]] ||-
|-
| ''[[We Ran]]'' || [[Linda Ronstadt]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Waved Out]]'' || [[Robert Pollard]] ||-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|24
| ''[[Mother Father Brother Sister]]'' || [[Misia]] || Debut
|-
| rowspan="22" style="text-align:center;"|30
| ''[[As Tradition Dies Slowly]]'' || [[Morning Again]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Aquamosh]]'' || [[Plastilina Mosh]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Behind the Front]]'' || [[Black Eyed Peas]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Best Of (James album)|The Best Of]]'' || [[James (band)|James]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[Car Wheels on a Gravel Road]]'' || [[Lucinda Williams]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Carry On (Crosby, Stills & Nash album)|Carry On]]'' || [[Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Comin' Atcha! (Cleopatra album)|Comin' Atcha!]]'' || [[Cleopatra (group)|Cleopatra]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Concerto Suite for Electric Guitar and Orchestra]]'' || [[Yngwie Malmsteen]] ||-
|-
| ''[[808:88:98]]'' || [[808 State]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[El Niño (Def Squad album)|El Niño]]'' || [[Def Squad]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Embrya]]'' || [[Maxwell (musician)|Maxwell]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Life Won't Wait]]'' || [[Rancid (band)|Rancid]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Live & Rare (Rage Against the Machine album)|Live & Rare]]'' || [[Rage Against the Machine]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Live at the Jazz Cafe]]'' || [[D'Angelo]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Miles from Our Home]]'' || [[Cowboy Junkies]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Newpower Soul]]'' || [[The New Power Generation]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Punk-O-Rama Vol. 3]]'' || Various Artists || Compilation
|-
| ''[[Ruthless for Life]]'' || [[MC Ren]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Something's Gotta Give (Agnostic Front album)|Something's Gotta Give]]'' || [[Agnostic Front]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Static (Bleach album)|Static]]'' || [[Bleach (American band)|Bleach]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Step Up to the Microphone]]'' || [[Newsboys]] || Major label debut
|-
| ''[[System of a Down (album)|System of a Down]]'' || [[System of a Down]] || Debut
|}