NME Albums and Tracks of the Year, 2009

The NME Album of the Year and Single Of The Year were announced on 1 December 2009. It was the 36th countdown of the most popular albums and tracks of the year, as chosen by music reviewers and independent journalists who work for the magazine and for NME.com.[1][2]

Albums

Note: UK artists
# Album Artist Country of origin
1 Primary Colours The Horrors  United Kingdom
2 xx The xx  United Kingdom
3 It's Blitz! Yeah Yeah Yeahs  United States
4 Two Dancers Wild Beasts  United Kingdom
5 Merriweather Post Pavilion Animal Collective  United States
6 Veckatimest Grizzly Band  United States
7 A Brief History of Love The Big Pink  United Kingdom
8 Tarot Sport Fuck Buttons  United Kingdom
9 Fever Ray Fever Ray  Sweden
10 Kings & Queens Jamie T  United Kingdom
11 West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum Kasabian  United Kingdom
12 Humbug Arctic Monkeys  United Kingdom
13 La Roux La Roux  United Kingdom
14 Journal for Plague Lovers Manic Street Preachers  United Kingdom
15 The Pains of Being Pure at Heart The Pains of Being Pure at Heart  United States
16 Album Girls  United States
17 Sigh No More Mumford & Sons  United Kingdom
18 Travels with Myself and Another Future of the Left  United Kingdom
19 Wall of Arms The Maccabees  United Kingdom
20 Bitte Orca Dirty Projectors  United States
21 Get Color Health  United States
22 Two Suns Bat for Lashes  United Kingdom
23 Kingdom of Rust Doves  United Kingdom
24 Love Comes Close Cold Cave  United States
25 It's Not Me, It's You Lily Allen  United Kingdom
26 Lungs Florence and the Machine  United Kingdom
27 A Woman a Man Walked By PJ Harvey & John Parish  United Kingdom
28 My Maudlin Career Camera Obscura  United Kingdom
29 Phrazes for the Young Julian Casablancas  United States
30 Ignore the Ignorant The Cribs  United Kingdom
31 Jewellery Micachu  United Kingdom
32 The First Days of Spring Noah and the Whale  United Kingdom
33 The Blueprint 3 Jay-Z  United States
34 Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix Phoenix  France
35 The Eternal Sonic Youth  United States
36 Summertime! EP The Drums  United States
37 Manners Passion Pit  United States
38 King of Jeans Pissed Jeans  United States
39 Post-Nothing Japandroids  Canada
40 Alight of Night Crystal Stilts  United States
41 Only Revolutions Biffy Clyro  United Kingdom
42 Walking on a Dream Empire of the Sun  Australia
43 Tonight: Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand  United Kingdom
44 Rated O Oneida  United States
45 Truelove's Gutter Richard Hawley  United Kingdom
46 Grey Britain Gallows  United Kingdom
47 Dance Mother Telepathe  United States
48 Logos Atlas Sound  United States
49 Middle Cyclone Neko Case  United States
50 I Had the Blues But I Shook Them Loose Bombay Bicycle Club  United Kingdom

Countries represented

Singles

Note: UK artists
# Track Artist Country of origin
1 "Zero" Yeah Yeah Yeahs  United States
2 "Sea Within a Sea" The Horrors  United Kingdom
3 "Dominos" The Big Pink  United Kingdom
4 "Bonkers" Dizzee Rascal featuring Armand Van Helden  United Kingdom /  United States
5 "My Girls" Animal Collective  United States
6 "Empire State of Mind" Jay-Z featuring Alicia Keys  United States
7 "Let's Go Surfing" The Drums  United States
8 "In For the Kill" La Roux  United Kingdom
9 "Paparazzi" Lady Gaga  United States
10 "Die Slow" Health  United States
11 "Cornerstone" Arctic Monkeys  United Kingdom
12 "Fire" Kasabian  United Kingdom
13 "11th Dimension" Julian Casablancas  United States
14 "Sticks N Stones" Jamie T  United Kingdom
15 "Crying Lightning" Arctic Monkeys  United Kingdom
16 "Daniel" Bat for Lashes  United Kingdom
17 "Bicycle" Memory Tapes  United States
18 "Hyph Mngo" Joy Orbison  United Kingdom
19 "In For The Kill" (Skream's Let's Get Ravey remix) La Roux  United Kingdom
20 "The Fear" Lily Allen  United Kingdom
21 "Poker Face" Lady Gaga  United States
22 "Velvet" The Big Pink  United Kingdom
23 "Stillness Is The Move" Dirty Projectors  United States
24 "Bulletproof" La Roux  United Kingdom
25 "That Golden Rule" Biffy Clyro  United Kingdom
26 "Hooting and Howling" Wild Beasts  United Kingdom
27 "Solo" Chew Lips  United Kingdom
28 "Islands" The xx  United Kingdom
29 "She Wolf" Shakira  Colombia
30 "If I Had a Heart" Fever Ray  Sweden
31 "Arming Eritrea" Future of the Left  United Kingdom
32 "While You Wait for the Others" Grizzly Bear  United States
33 "Lisztomania" Phoenix  France
34 "Jump in the Pool" Friendly Fires  United Kingdom
35 "New in Town" Little Boots  United Kingdom
36 "Feel It All Around" Washed Out  United States
37 "Blood Bank" Bon Iver  United States
38 "Hellhole Ratrace" Girls  United States
39 "Surf Solar" Fuck Buttons  United Kingdom
40 "Swim Until You Can't See the Land" Frightened Rabbit  United Kingdom
41 "I'm Not Your Toy" La Roux  United Kingdom
42 "Jackie Collins Existential Question Time" Manic Street Preachers  United Kingdom
43 "The Captain" Biffy Clyro  United Kingdom
44 "Skeleton Boy" Friendly Fires  United Kingdom
45 "Two Weeks" Grizzly Bear  United States
46 "D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)" Jay-Z  United States
47 "No Kind Words" The Maccabees  United Kingdom
48 "Drumming Song" Florence and the Machine  United Kingdom
49 "Cheat on Me" The Cribs  United Kingdom
50 "I Became a Prostitute" The Twilight Sad  United Kingdom

Artists with Multiple entries

4 Entries

2 Entries

Countries represented

References

  1. ↑ "50 Best Tracks of 2009 | NME.COM". nme.com. Retrieved 2014-03-12.
  2. ↑ "Albums and Tracks of the Year for 2009 - NME.COM". nme.com. Retrieved 2014-03-12.
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