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The Best Music of 2009
Here is a selection of the best albums and songs from 2009. Hall of Famers are highlighted in orange.
For a list of the top artists who made their debut recording in 2009, check out this list.
| Albums (?) | Wikipedia | |
| Alice In Chains | Black Gives Way To Blue | ☆ |
| Alicia Keys | The Element of Freedom | ☆ |
| Animal Collective | Merriweather Post Pavilion | ☆ |
| Arctic Monkeys | Humbug | ☆ |
| Black Eyed Peas | The E.N.D. | ☆ |
| Booker T. Jones | Potato Hole | ☆ |
| Brandi Carlile | Give Up the Ghost | ☆ |
| Carrie Underwood | Play On | ☆ |
| Dave Matthews Band | Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King | ☆ |
| Florence + The Machine | Lungs | ☆ |
| Franz Ferdinand | Tonight: Franz Ferdinand | ☆ |
| Green Day | 21st Century Breakdown | ☆ |
| Grizzly Bear | Veckatimest | ☆ |
| Jay-Z | The Blueprint 3 | ☆ |
| Joe Bonamassa | The Ballad of John Henry | ☆ |
| John Mayer | Battle Studies | ☆ |
| Julian Casablancas | Phrazes for the Young | ☆ |
| Kelly Clarkson | All I Ever Wanted | ☆ |
| Kid Cudi | Man on the Moon: The End of Day | ☆ |
| Lady Gaga | The Fame Monster | ☆ |
| Lily Allen | It's Not Me, It's You | ☆ |
| Mastodon | Crack The Skye | ☆ |
| Maxwell | BLACKsummers'night | ☆ |
| Metric | Fantasies | ☆ |
| Miranda Lambert | Revolution | ☆ |
| Mumford & Sons | Sigh No More | ☆ |
| Muse | The Resistance | ☆ |
| Neko Case | Middle Cyclone | ☆ |
| Paramore | Brand New Eyes | ☆ |
| Passion Pit | Manners | ☆ |
| Pearl Jam | Backspacer | ☆ |
| Phoenix | Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | ☆ |
| Porcupine Tree | The Incident | ☆ |
| Rihanna | Rated R | ☆ |
| Shakira | She Wolf | ☆ |
| Slayer | World Painted Blood | ☆ |
| Tegan and Sara | Sainthood | ☆ |
| The Decemberists | The Hazards Of Love | ☆ |
| The xx | xx | ☆ |
| Them Crooked Vultures | Them Crooked Vultures | ☆ |
| Tony Allen | Secret Agent | ☆ |
| twenty one pilots | Twenty One Pilots | ☆ |
| Wilco | Wilco (The Album) | ☆ |
| Wolfmother | Cosmic Egg | ☆ |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs | It's Blitz! | ☆ |
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