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2009 Music Year End List Aggregate
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These numbers are obtained from the
28
lists found at the end of this page.
1
Animal Collective
Merriweather Post Pavilion
216 Points
1st Place
14
2nd Place
3
3rd Place
1
Top 10
8
Top 25
2
Other
0
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
2
Grizzly Bear
Veckatimest
145 Points
1st Place
2
2nd Place
7
3rd Place
0
Top 10
9
Top 25
8
Other
0
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
3
Phoenix
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
128 Points
1st Place
2
2nd Place
1
3rd Place
7
Top 10
10
Top 25
2
Other
2
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
4
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
It's Blitz!
111 Points
1st Place
0
2nd Place
3
3rd Place
4
Top 10
7
Top 25
9
Other
1
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
5
Dirty Projectors
Bitte Orca
105 Points
1st Place
0
2nd Place
2
3rd Place
3
Top 10
7
Top 25
11
Other
3
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
6
The xx
xx
84 Points
1st Place
1
2nd Place
1
3rd Place
2
Top 10
6
Top 25
7
Other
3
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
7
Fever Ray
Fever Ray
67 Points
1st Place
0
2nd Place
1
3rd Place
0
Top 10
6
Top 25
9
Other
2
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
8
Neko Case
Middle Cyclone
63 Points
1st Place
1
2nd Place
0
3rd Place
0
Top 10
6
Top 25
7
Other
2
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
9
Raekwon
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II
58 Points
1st Place
1
2nd Place
0
3rd Place
0
Top 10
6
Top 25
5
Other
3
Apple Music
Amazon
10
Bat For Lashes
Two Suns
58 Points
1st Place
0
2nd Place
0
3rd Place
0
Top 10
5
Top 25
10
Other
3
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
11
Fuck Buttons
Tarot Sport
57 Points
1st Place
0
2nd Place
2
3rd Place
0
Top 10
5
Top 25
4
Other
4
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
12
Girls
Album
51 Points
1st Place
0
2nd Place
0
3rd Place
0
Top 10
5
Top 25
7
Other
5
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
13
St. Vincent
Actor
50 Points
1st Place
0
2nd Place
1
3rd Place
0
Top 10
2
Top 25
9
Other
5
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
14
The Antlers
Hospice
48 Points
1st Place
1
2nd Place
0
3rd Place
0
Top 10
4
Top 25
5
Other
3
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
15
The Flaming Lips
Embryonic
46 Points
1st Place
0
2nd Place
0
3rd Place
0
Top 10
4
Top 25
7
Other
5
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
16
The Horrors
Primary Colours
45 Points
1st Place
1
2nd Place
0
3rd Place
0
Top 10
3
Top 25
5
Other
5
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
17
Wild Beasts
Two Dancers
43 Points
1st Place
0
2nd Place
0
3rd Place
0
Top 10
7
Top 25
1
Other
5
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
18
Japandroids
Post-Nothing
39 Points
1st Place
0
2nd Place
0
3rd Place
1
Top 10
3
Top 25
5
Other
3
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
19
Passion Pit
Manners
38 Points
1st Place
0
2nd Place
1
3rd Place
0
Top 10
2
Top 25
5
Other
5
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
20
Wilco
Wilco (The Album)
38 Points
1st Place
0
2nd Place
0
3rd Place
0
Top 10
2
Top 25
8
Other
4
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
21
The Avett Brothers
I and Love and You
36 Points
1st Place
1
2nd Place
0
3rd Place
2
Top 10
2
Top 25
1
Other
1
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
22
Camera Obscura
My Maudlin Career
35 Points
1st Place
0
2nd Place
0
3rd Place
0
Top 10
2
Top 25
7
Other
4
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
23
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
32 Points
1st Place
0
2nd Place
0
3rd Place
0
Top 10
2
Top 25
7
Other
1
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
24
Florence + The Machine
Lungs
31 Points
1st Place
0
2nd Place
1
3rd Place
0
Top 10
2
Top 25
3
Other
4
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
25
The Decemberists
The Hazards of Love
31 Points
1st Place
0
2nd Place
0
3rd Place
0
Top 10
3
Top 25
5
Other
1
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
26
Mos Def
The Ecstatic
31 Points
1st Place
0
2nd Place
0
3rd Place
0
Top 10
2
Top 25
4
Other
9
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
27
Arctic Monkeys
Humbug
30 Points
1st Place
0
2nd Place
0
3rd Place
0
Top 10
2
Top 25
6
Other
2
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
28
Atlas Sound
Logos
29 Points
1st Place
0
2nd Place
0
3rd Place
0
Top 10
2
Top 25
5
Other
4
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
29
Bill Callahan
Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
26 Points
1st Place
0
2nd Place
1
3rd Place
0
Top 10
0
Top 25
4
Other
6
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
30
Sunset Rubdown
Dragonslayer
26 Points
1st Place
0
2nd Place
0
3rd Place
0
Top 10
2
Top 25
4
Other
4
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
31
Manic Street Preachers
Journal For Plague Lovers
25 Points
1st Place
0
2nd Place
0
3rd Place
0
Top 10
2
Top 25
4
Other
3
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
32
Mastodon
Crack The Skye
25 Points
1st Place
0
2nd Place
0
3rd Place
0
Top 10
1
Top 25
5
Other
5
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
33
Sunn O)))
Monoliths and Dimensions
22 Points
1st Place
0
2nd Place
0
3rd Place
1
Top 10
0
Top 25
4
Other
4
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
34
JAY-Z
The Blueprint 3
22 Points
1st Place
0
2nd Place
0
3rd Place
0
Top 10
3
Top 25
1
Other
4
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
35
ANOHNI and the Johnsons
The Crying Light
22 Points
1st Place
0
2nd Place
0
3rd Place
0
Top 10
0
Top 25
4
Other
10
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
36
Future of the Left
Travels with Myself and Another
21 Points
1st Place
0
2nd Place
0
3rd Place
0
Top 10
0
Top 25
7
Other
0
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
37
U2
No Line on the Horizon
20 Points
1st Place
1
2nd Place
0
3rd Place
0
Top 10
1
Top 25
0
Other
5
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
38
Monsters of Folk
Monsters of Folk
20 Points
1st Place
0
2nd Place
0
3rd Place
0
Top 10
0
Top 25
6
Other
2
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
39
Micachu
Jewellery
18 Points
1st Place
0
2nd Place
0
3rd Place
0
Top 10
1
Top 25
2
Other
7
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
40
Kasabian
West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
17 Points
1st Place
1
2nd Place
0
3rd Place
0
Top 10
0
Top 25
2
Other
1
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
41
Andrew Bird
Noble Beast
17 Points
1st Place
0
2nd Place
0
3rd Place
0
Top 10
2
Top 25
1
Other
4
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
42
The Big Pink
A Brief History of Love
17 Points
1st Place
0
2nd Place
0
3rd Place
0
Top 10
2
Top 25
2
Other
1
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
43
The Dead Weather
Horehound
17 Points
1st Place
0
2nd Place
0
3rd Place
0
Top 10
2
Top 25
0
Other
7
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
44
Metric
Fantasies
17 Points
1st Place
0
2nd Place
0
3rd Place
0
Top 10
1
Top 25
3
Other
3
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
45
Various Artists
Dark Was The Night
17 Points
1st Place
0
2nd Place
0
3rd Place
0
Top 10
0
Top 25
5
Other
2
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
46
Bob Dylan
Together Through Life
16 Points
1st Place
0
2nd Place
0
3rd Place
0
Top 10
2
Top 25
1
Other
3
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
47
Sonic Youth
The Eternal
16 Points
1st Place
0
2nd Place
0
3rd Place
0
Top 10
1
Top 25
2
Other
5
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
48
The Low Anthem
Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
16 Points
1st Place
0
2nd Place
0
3rd Place
0
Top 10
1
Top 25
3
Other
2
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
49
HEALTH
GET COLOR
16 Points
1st Place
0
2nd Place
0
3rd Place
0
Top 10
1
Top 25
2
Other
5
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
50
Drake
So Far Gone
14 Points
1st Place
0
2nd Place
0
3rd Place
1
Top 10
1
Top 25
1
Other
0
Apple Music
Amazon
Spotify
Honorable Mention:
MF DOOM - Born Like This
(14),
Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
(14),
Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor
(14),
DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues
(13),
The-Dream - Love vs Money
(13),
Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You
(13),
Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
(13),
Bruce Springsteen - Working on a Dream
(12),
Super Furry Animals - Dark Days / Light Years
(11),
The Mountain Goats - The Life of the World to Come
(11),
The Thermals - Now We Can See
(11),
Noah and The Whale - The First Days Of Spring
(11),
Discovery - LP
(11),
Dan Deacon - Bromst
(11),
Doves - Kingdom of Rust
(11),
Kid Cudi - Man On The Moon: The End Of Day
(10),
Richard Hawley - Truelove's Gutter
(10),
Jamie T - Kings & Queens
(10),
Muse - The Resistance
(10),
Julian Casablancas - Phrazes for the Young
(10),
Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
(10),
Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
(10),
Telepathe - Dance Mother
(9),
Patrick Wolf - The Bachelor
(9),
Martyn - Great Lengths
(9),
Converge - Axe To Fall
(9),
Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
(9),
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains
(9),
Baroness - Blue Record
(9),
JJ - jj n° 2
(8),
Tinariwen - Imidiwan: Companions
(8),
Paramore - Brand New Eyes
(8),
Miranda Lambert - Revolution
(8),
Cold Cave - Love Comes Close
(8),
Shackleton - Three EPs
(8),
Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Vertical Ascent
(8),
Real Estate - Real Estate
(8),
Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster
(8),
PJ Harvey and John Parish - A Woman a Man Walked By
(8),
The Very Best - Warm Heart of Africa
(8),
Fanfarlo - Reservoir
(8),
K'naan - Troubadour
(7),
Madness - The Liberty Of Norton Folgate
(7),
A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Ashes Grammar
(7),
2562 - Unbalance
(7),
Pearl Jam - Backspacer
(7),
Röyksopp - Junior
(7),
Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
(7),
Major Lazer - Guns Don't Kill People...Lazers Do
(7),
Moderat - Moderat
(7)
How Points are Measured
Ranked Lists
1st Place:
10 points
2nd Place:
8 points
3rd place:
6 points
Top 10:
5 points
Top 25:
3 points
Other:
1 point
Unranked Lists
10 Albums or Less:
5 points
25 Albums or Less:
3 points
More than 25 Albums:
1 point
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Nov 17
Clash
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Nov 16
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,
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,
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,
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Jun 11
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Dec 07
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Nov 17
Pitchfork
,
A.V. Club
,
Stereogum
,
Tiny Mix Tapes
,
Q Magazine
Jun 23
Rolling Stone
Jul 06
MOJO
,
NPR
,
Paste
,
PopMatters
,
Spin
Dec 01
Amazon
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