Rank | Album (2009) | Artist/Group |
1 | Merriweather Post Pavilion | Animal Collective |
2 | Veckatimest | Grizzly Bear |
3 | Bitte Orca | Dirty Projectors |
4 | It’s Blitz! | Yeah Yeah Yeahs |
5 | Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | Phoenix |
6 | Middle Cyclone | Neko Case |
7 | xx | The xx |
8 | Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II | Raekwon |
9 | Actor | St. Vincent |
10 | Album | Girls |
11 | Fever Ray | Fever Ray |
12 | Wilco (The Album) | Wilco |
13 | Post-Nothing | Japandroids |
14 | Two Suns | Bat for Lashes |
15 | Embryonic | The Flaming Lips |
16 | The Ecstatic | Mos Def |
17 | Manners | Passion Pit |
18 | Crack The Skye | Mastodon |
19 | Two Dancers | Wild Beasts |
20 | Hospice | The Antlers |
21 | Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle | Bill Callahan |
22 | The Crying Light | Antony And The Johnsons |
23 | Tarot Sport | Fuck Buttons |
24 | Journal for Plague Lovers | Manic Street Preachers |
25 | Monoliths & Dimensions | Sunn O))) |
26 | My Maudlin Career | Camera Obscura |
27 | The Pains of Being Pure at Heart | The Pains of Being Pure at Heart |
28 | I And Love And You | The Avett Brothers |
29 | La Roux | La Roux |
30 | Primary Colours | The Horrors |
31 | Lungs | Florence And The Machine |
32 | Jewellery | Micachu & The Shapes |
33 | Blue Record | Baroness |
34 | Born Like This | DOOM |
35 | Get Color | HEALTH |
36 | The Blueprint 3 | Jay-Z |
37 | BLACKsummers’night | Maxwell |
38 | Logos | Atlas Sound |
39 | Humbug | Arctic Monkeys |
40 | Dragonslayer | Sunset Rubdown |
41 | The Hazards of Love | The Decemberists |
42 | Bromst | Dan Deacon |
43 | Travels With Myself and Another | Future of the Left |
44 | Noble Beast | Andrew Bird |
45 | The Eternal | Sonic Youth |
46 | Welcome To Mali | Amadou & Mariam |
47 | 21st Century Breakdown | Green Day |
48 | No Line On The Horizon | U2 |
49 | Backspacer | Pearl Jam |
50 | A Woman a Man Walked By | PJ Harvey and John Parish |
51 | Kings & Queens | Jamie T |
52 | It’s Not Me, It’s You | Lily Allen |
53 | Oh My God, Charlie Darwin | The Low Anthem |
54 | Axe to Fall | Converge |
55 | Real Estate | Real Estate |
56 | A Brief History Of Love | The Big Pink |
57 | Catacombs | Cass McCombs |
58 | The Life of the World to Come | The Mountain Goats |
59 | The First Days of Spring | Noah And The Whale |
60 | Monsters of Folk | Monsters of Folk |
61 | Popular Songs | Yo La Tengo |
62 | The Resistance | Muse |
63 | Horehound | The Dead Weather |
64 | Guns Don’t Kill People...Lazers Do | Major Lazer |
65 | Fantasies | Metric |
Note: The above ranking is based on statistics of 22 well-known year-end lists of best albums of 2009, including Rolling Stone, Spin, Q Magazine, Pitchfork, MetaCritic, Tiny Mix Tapes, Slant Magazine, Paste Magazine, Filter, Drowned In Sound, PopMatters, NME, Billboard, The AV Club, Boston Globe, CokeMachineGlow, Chicago Tribune, Dusted, Amazon.com, MusicOMH, BestAlbumsOf2009.com, and The Guardian.