New Zealand Top 50 Singles of 2008

This is a list of the Top 50 singles in 2008 in New Zealand, as listed by the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ).

Chart

Songs in grey shading indicates a song of New Zealand origin.

Rank	Artist	Title	Album	Weeks in chart	Peak
1	Jordin Sparks featuring Chris Brown	No Air	Jordin Sparks	20	1 (7 weeks)
2	Flo Rida featuring T-Pain	Low	Mail on Sunday	30	1 (3 weeks)
3	Tiki Taane	Always On My Mind	Past, Present, Future	36	1 (2 weeks)
4	Chris Brown	Forever	Exclusive: The Forever Edition	22	1 (8 weeks)
5	Chris Brown	With You	Exclusive	20	1 (4 weeks)
6	Lady Gaga	Poker Face	The Fame	13	1 (8 weeks)[1]
7	Usher featuring Young Jeezy	Love in This Club	Here I Stand	21	1
8	Leona Lewis	Bleeding Love	Spirit	23	1 (3 weeks)[2]
9	Katy Perry	I Kissed a Girl	One of the Boys	22	1
10	Nesian Mystik	Nesian 101	Elevator Musiq	19	1
11	P-Money featuring Vince Harder	Everything	(non-album single)	17	1 (3 weeks)
12	Lady Gaga featuring Colby O'Donis	Just Dance	The Fame	24	3
13	Kid Rock	All Summer Long	Rock N Roll Jesus	18	3
14	Basshunter	Now You're Gone	Now You're Gone – The Album	17	3
15	Kings of Leon	Sex On Fire	Only by the Night	20	2
16	Rihanna	Take a Bow	Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded	15	2
17	T.I.	Whatever You Like	Paper Trail	14	1
18	Lil Wayne	Lollipop	Tha Carter III	16	3
19	Pink	So What	Funhouse	20	1 (5 weeks)
20	Ne-Yo	Closer	Year of the Gentleman	22	3
21	Rihanna	Disturbia	Good Girl Gone Bad	21	1 (3 weeks)
22	Rihanna	Don't Stop The Music	Good Girl Gone Bad	18	4
23	Phil Collins	In the Air Tonight	Face Value	12	1 (2 weeks)
24	T.I. featuring Rihanna	Live Your Life	Paper Trail	13	2
25	Katy Perry	Hot n Cold	One of the Boys	19	5
26	Opshop	One Day	Second Hand Planet	28	4
27	Beyoncé Knowles	If I Were a Boy	I Am… Sasha Fierce	10	2
28	Britney Spears	Piece of Me	Blackout	19	4
29	Pussycat Dolls	When I grow up	Doll Domination	21	5
30	Duffy	Mercy	Rockferry	22	4
31	Madonna featuring Justin Timberlake	4 Minutes	Hard Candy	17	3
32	Soulja Boy	Yahhh!	souljaboytellem.com	14	3
33	Three 6 Mafia	Lolli Lolli (Pop That Body)	Last 2 Walk	13	5
34	The Veronicas	Untouched	Hook Me Up	29	9
35	Estelle featuring Kanye West	American Boy	Shine	17	5
36	Leona Lewis	Better In Time	Spirit	21	6
37	Ne-Yo	Miss Independent	Year of the Gentleman	12	4
38	Jordin Sparks	One Step at a Time	Jordin Sparks	12	2
39	Lil Mama featuring T-Pain and Chris Brown	Shawty Get Loose	VYP (Voice of the Young People)	11	3
40	Metro Station	Shake It	Metro Station	27	9
41	Keri Hilson	Energy	In a Perfect World…	11	2
42	Flight Of The Conchords	Distant Future EP	Distant Future EP	14	8
43	Miley Cyrus	See You Again	Hannah Montana 2/Meet Miley Cyrus	17	11
44	MGMT	Electric Feel	Oracular Spectacular	19	10
45	Gabriella Cilmi	Sweet About Me	Lessons to Be Learned	21	6
46	Chris Brown featuring Keri Hilson	Superhuman	Exclusive: The Forever Edition	17	15
47	Usher	Moving Mountains	Here I Stand	13	6
48	T-Pain	Church	Epiphany (album)	15	7
49	Soulja Boy	Crank That	souljaboytellem.com	14	7
50	The Ting Tings	That's Not My Name	We Started Nothing	12	8

Notes

1. ^ "Poker Face" was at number one for the last eight weeks of 2008, followed by two additional weeks at the beginning of 2009, for a total of 10 weeks. As this chart only concerns 2008, it is listed as eight weeks here.
2. ^ "Bleeding Love" was at number one for two non-consecutive (w/c 17 December and 31 December) weeks in December 2007, followed by three additional weeks at the beginning of 2008, for a total of 5 weeks. As this chart only concerns 2008, it is listed as three weeks here.

External links

• The Official NZ Music Chart, RIANZ website