I collected 25 “Best Music of 2008” lists from magazines, newspapers and the Internet and combined them into one meta-list.  Here are the results – all the recordings on at least three of the original source lists.  The numbers in bold indicate the number of original “Best of” lists that that listed the recording.  An asterisk means I own it.

On 23 Lists
TV On The Radio – Dear Science*

On 20 Lists
Santigold – Santigold*

On 19 Lists
Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes*

On 17 Lists
Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend*

On 16 Lists
Portishead – Third*

On 12 Lists
Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago*
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!*

On 11 Lists
Lil Wayne – Tha Carter III

On 10 Lists
Erykah Badu  – New Amerykah, Part One: 4th World War*
Coldplay – Viva La Vida*
Girl Talk – Feed The Animals
MGMT – Oracular Spectacular

On 9 Lists
The Hold Steady – Stay Positive*

On 8 Lists
Hercules And Love Affair – Hercules And Love Affair
Kings of Leon – Only by the Night
No Age – Nouns*

On 7 Lists
Deerhunter – Microcastle*
Kanye West – 808s & Heartbreak

On 6 Lists
Death Cab For Cutie – Narrow Stairs*
Bob Dylan — Tell Tale Signs, The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8, Rare and Unreleased 1989-2006
Jamey Johnson – That Lonesome Song*
Rudresh Mahanthappa – Kinsmen*
She & Him – Volume One*

On 5 Lists
Beck – Modern Guilt
The Black Keys – Attack and Release
David Byrne & Brian Eno – Everything That Happens Will Happen Today*
Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours
The Gaslight Anthem – The ’59 Sound
Al Green – Lay It Down
Hot Chip – Made in the Dark
The Knux – Remind Me in 3 Days
Wynton Marsalis & Willie Nelson – Two Men with the Blues*
Randy Newman – Harps and Angels
Robyn – Robyn
Raphael Saadiq – The Way I See It
Sigur Rós – Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust*
Sugarland – Love on the Inside
Cassandra Wilson – Loverly

On 4 Lists
James Carter – Present Tense*
Delta Spirit – Ode to Sunshine
Flight of the Conchords – Flight of the Conchords*
Fucked Up – The Chemistry Of Common Life
Jenny Lewis – Acid Tongue
Charles Lloyd – Rabo de Nube*
M83 – Saturdays = Youth
The Magnetic Fields – Distortion
Metallica – Death Magnetic
The Raconteurs – Consolers Of The Lonely*
Taylor Swift – Fearless
Lucinda Williams – Little Honey

On 3 Lists
Beach House – Devotion*
Brian Blade & The Fellowship – Season of Changes
Hayes Carll – Trouble in Mind
Toumani Diabate – The Mande Variations
Dub Colossus – A Town Called Addis*
Duffy – Rockferry
Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid
Alejandro Escovedo – Real Animal*
Flying Lotus – Los Angeles
Friendly Fires – Friendly Fires
Frightened Rabbit – The Midnight Organ Fight*
Gang Gang Dance – Saint Dymphna
Glasvegas – Glasvegas
Gnarls Barkley – The Odd Couple
Dave Holland – Pass It On
B.B. King – One Kind Favor*
Los Campesinos – Hold On Now, Youngster…*
Lykke Li – Youth Novels
My Morning Jacket – Evil Urges
Of Montreal – Skeletal Lamping
Parts & Labor – Receivers
Q-Tip – The Renaissance
The Raveonettes – Lust Lust Lust*
The Roots – Rising Down
Darius Rucker – Learn to Live
Ashton Shepherd – Sounds So Good
Vivian Girls – The Vivian Girls
Martha Wainwright – I Know You’re Married But I’ve Got Feelings Too
The Walkmen – You & Me