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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 edit

Note: UK artists
  • Bold: Album contains Song of the Year
# 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 Bear   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 edit

Singles edit

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 edit

4 Entries

  • La Roux (8, 19, 24, 41)

2 Entries

  • The Big Pink (3, 22)
  • Jay-Z (6, 46)
  • Lady Gaga (9, 21)
  • Arctic Monkeys (11, 15)
  • Biffy Clyro (25, 43)
  • Grizzly Bear (32, 45)
  • Friendly Fires (34, 44)

Countries represented edit

References edit

  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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