My top 80 albums of 2018 based entirely on the total number of documented plays in iTunes, Google Music, Spotify, the Amazon Cloud Player, and physical media. Every album on the list was purchased in some manner.

1-80

1. YOB Our Raw Heart

2. Ghost Prequelle

3. Rivers Of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name

4. Zeal and Ardor Stranger Fruit

5. Graveyard Peace

6. High On Fire Electric Messiah

7. Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love

8. Alice In Chains Rainier Fog

9. Voivod The Wake1

0. Death Grips Year Of The Snitch

11. Deville Pigs With Gods

12. Robyn Honey

13. Death Alley Superbia

14. Daughters You Won't Get You Want

15. Mol Jord16. The Magpie Solute High Water I

17. A Star Is Born Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

18. Church Of The Cosmic Skull Science Fiction

19. Sleep The Sciences

20. Four Stroke Baron Planet Silver Screen

21. Corrossion Of Conformity No Cross No Crown 

22. Ty Tabor Alien Beans 

23. Prince Piano & A Micorphone 1983 

24. Sevendust All I See Is War 

25. A Perfect Circle Eat The Elephant 

26. Emma Ruth Rundele On Dark Horses 

27. Behemoth I Loved You At Your Darkest 

28. Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats Wasteland 

29. Windhand Eternal Return 

30. El Ten Eleven Banker's Hill

31. Clutch Book Of Bad Decisions 

32. David Byrne American Utopia 

33. Turbonegro Rocknroll Machine 

34. Monster Magnet Mindfucker 

35. Janelle Monae Dirty Computer 

36. Coheed And Cambria The Unheavenly Creatures 

37. Crippled Black Phoenix Great Escape 

38. J Mascis Elastic Days 

39. Oceans Of Slumber The Banished Heart 

40. Nothing Dance On The Blacktop

41. Murder By Death The Other Shore

42. The Mascalito Vampires The Rumba Rock N Roll Kings

43. Orange Goblin The Wolf Bites Back

44. TesseracT Sonder

45. Judas Priest Firepower

46. Jack White Boarding House Reach

47. Khemmis Desolation

48. Skeletonwitch Devouring Radiant Light

49. Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour

50. Author & Punisher Beastland

51. Five Finger Death Punch And Justice For None

52. Longhare Radio Prebide!

53. Coilguns Millenials

54. Sundrifter Visitations

55. Cardi B Invasion Of Privacy

56. ASG Survive Sunrise

57. Striker Play To Win

58. Slugdege Esoteric Malacology

59. Ariana Grande Sweetner

60. Sumac Love In Shadow

61. Shining Animal

62. Machine Head Catharsis

63. Ultraphonix Original Human Music

64. Soulfly Ritual

65. DevilDriver Outlaws 'Til The End: Vol 1

66. Doro Forever Warriors, Forever United

67. Dee Snider For The Love Of Metal

68. Phil Campbell And The Bastard Sons The Age Of Absurdity

69. Tax The Heat Change Your Position

70. Tremonti A Dying Machine

71. Fu Manchu Clone of the Universe

72. Earthless Black Heaven

73. Ministry Amerikkant

74. A Cult Leader A Patient Man

75. Halestorm Vicious

76. Legend Of The Seagullmen Legend Of The Seagullmen

77. The Ocean Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic

78. Tribulation Down Below

79. Vein Errorzone

80. Portal Ion