Marcus Miller, George Duke, and Paul Hardcastle are among the artists ending the year on iTunes's "Best Of" lists. Miller, Duke, and Hardcastle made the iTunes Store's Top Selling Smooth Jazz Album list along with Kenny G for Rhythm & Romance, Earl Klugh's The Spice of Life, Incognito for Tales From The Beach, Wayman Tisdale's Rebound, Eric Darius for Goin' All Out, and Dave Koz for his Greatest Hits.

In the Best Smooth Jazz Song category, kudos went to Shilts, Fourplay, Warren Hill, Jeff Lorber, David Sanborn, Mindi Abair, and Yellowjackets. The Sax Pack, Tim Bowman, Micheal Lingon, and Chris Standring also made the cut.

Best Reissue Albums in the Smooth Jazz genre include albums by Thelonious Monk and Nina Simone.

The iTunes lists are determined by combining of the year's top sellers along with user and iTunes Store favorites.

Jamie Foxx is his best promoter and nowhere was that more evident than in Hollywood on Thursday (December 11th) at an invitation-only event to preview his new album Intuition. The guests at the party were mostly music industry types who heard the album blaring from the Green Door club's sound system as soon as they walked in the door. Foxx joined the crowd after doing some press interviews, and entertained them with jokes and anecdotes while offering a track-by-track explanation of the disc.

Foxx has said that Intuition has more up-tempo beats than his last effort Unpredictable, and collaborations with Timberland, T-Pain, Lil Wayne, and Kanye West seemed to back up that claim. The audience at the Intuition preview moved to the beats of singles like "Just Like Me" and "Number One," and showered Foxx with applause after he'd finished talking about the album.

"Just Like Me" debuted at Number 48 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.

Foxx's last album, Unpredictable, has sold 1.98 million copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Erykah Badu's album New Amerykah, Part One (4th World War) has been named the best album of 2008 by the Associated Press. AP says that Badu "returned to form" with New Amerykah, and that the album plays "like an eclectic, absorbing jam session."

Estelle's "Shine A Light" was second on the AP list, followed by Sia's Some People Have Real Problems. Shine A Light was called "a true reflection of Estelle -- gritty, funny and full of sass." Some People Have Real Problems is, according to AP, "morose, depressing and full of despair -- yet undeniably beautiful and captivating." Kanye West's 808s & Heartbreak and Jazmine Sullivan's Fearless rounded out the Top Five, while Anthony Hamilton made the list at Number Eight for his The Point Of It All.

The Associated Press's Top Ten Albums of 2008:

New Amerykah, Part One (4th World War) -- Erykah Badu

Shine A Light -- Estelle

Some People Have Real Problems -- Sia

808s & Heartbreak -- Kanye West

Fearless -- Jazmine Sullivan

The Carter III -- Lil Wayne

Fearless -- Taylor Swift

The Point Of It All -- Anthony Hamilton

Evil Urges -- My Morning Jacket

EMC2 -- Mariah Carey