What could be more ridiculous than trying to rank the thousands of singles and albums you’ve bought and heard over a lifetime? Here we go …
I have re-ranked both singles and albums in December 2024, and I have also included the original charts I wrote at the end of 2009.
| | Top albums of 2009 |
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| 1 | Franz Ferdinand | Tonight: Franz Ferdinand |
| 2 | Brownies | Ourknife Yourback |
| 3 | Art Brut | Art Brut vs Satan |
| 4 | Sky Larkin | The Golden Spike |
| 5 | Duckworth Lewis Method | The Duckworth Lewis Method |
| 6 | Maximo Park | Quicken The Heart |
| 7 | Joy Formidable | A Balloon Called Moaning |
| 8 | Franz Ferdinand | Blood |
| 9 | Metric | Fantasies |
| 10 | MJ Hibbett & The Validators | Regardez, Ecoutez Et Repetez |
| 11 | Asteroids Galaxy Tour | Fruit |
| 12 | Hafdís Huld | Synchronised Swimmers |
| 13 | Camera Obscura | My Maudlin Career |
| 14 | Cerys Matthews | Don’t Look Down |
| 15 | Jarvis Cocker | Further Complications |
| 16 | Super Furry Animals | Dark Days/Light Years |
| 17 | Sea Power | Man Of Aran |
| 18 | Trash Monroe | Shooting From The Lips And Other Crimes Of Passion |
| 19 | Baddies | Do The Job |
| 20 | Lovely Eggs | If You Were Fruit |
| 21 | Duke Spirit | The Duke Spirit |
| 22 | Miike Snow | Miike Snow |
| 23 | Graham Coxon | The Spinning Top |
| 24 | Client | Command |
| 25 | Madness | The Liberty Of Norton Folgate |
| 26 | Trashcan Sinatras | In The Music |
| 27 | Charlotte Hatherley | New Worlds |
| 28 | Mika | The Boy Who Knew Too Much |
| 29 | Editors | In This Light And On This Evening |
| 30 | Therapy? | Crooked Timber |
| 31 | A Camp | Colonia |
| 32 | Sweet Billy Pilgrim | Twice Born Men |
| 33 | Senser | How To Do Battle |
| 34 | Muse | The Resistance |
| 35 | Future Of The Left | Travels With Myself And Another |
| 36 | 9bach | 9Bach |
| 37 | Hickey Underworld | The Hickey Underworld |
| 38 | We Were Promised Jetpacks | These Four Walls |
| 39 | Mew | No More Stories Are Told Today, I'm Sorry, They Washed Away |
| 40 | Patrick Wolf | The Bachelor |
| 41 | Pale | Proper Order |
| 42 | Reigning Monarchs | Reigning Monarchs |
| 43 | Royksopp | Junior |
| 44 | Violet Violet | The City Is Full Of Beasts |
| 45 | Broadcast And The Focus Group | Broadcast And The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age |
| 46 | Tom Allalone & The 78s | Major Sins Pt. 1 |
| 47 | White Lies | To Lose My Life |
| 48 | Ungdomskulen | Bisexual |
| 49 | Marillion | Less Is More |
| 50 | Pure Reason Revolution | Amor Vincit Omnia |
| 51 | Temper Trap | Conditions |
| 52 | Baïkonour | Your Ear Knows Future |
| 53 | Zalinski | Actions, Reactions & Misunderstandings |
| 54 | Florence and the Machine | Lungs |
| 55 | Boxer Rebellion | Union |
| 56 | Knifeworld | Buried Alone: Tales Of Crushing Defeat |
| 57 | Nedry | Condors |
| 58 | Frank Turner | Poetry Of The Deed |
| 59 | Kasabian | The West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum |
| 60 | Polly Scattergood | Polly Scattergood |
| 61 | Sean Taylor | Calcutta Grove |
| 62 | Biffy Clyro | Only Revolutions |
| 63 | Kings Cross | Eyetunes |
| | Original chart - top albums of 2009 |
| |
| 1 | Brownies | Ourknife Yourback |
| 2 | Franz Ferdinand | Tonight |
| 3 | Senser | How To Do Battle |
| 4 | Joy Formidable | A Balloon Called Moaning |
| 5 | Cerys Matthews | Don't Look Down |
| 6 | Therapy? | Crooked Timber |
| 7 | Art Brut | Art Brut vs Satan |
| 8 | Lovely Eggs | If You Were Fruit |
| 9 | Pure Reason Revolution | Amor Vincit Omnia |
| 10 | Duckworth-Lewis Method | The Duckworth-Lewis Method |
| 11 | Camera Obscura | My Maudlin Career |
| 12 | Baddies | Do The Job |
| 13 | Madness | The Liberty Of Norton Folgate |
| 14 | Metric | Fantasies |
| 15 | Future Of The Left | Travels With Myself And Another |
| 16 | Super Furry Animals | Dark Days/Light Years |
| 17 | Boxer Rebellion | Union |
| 18 | Frank Turner | Poetry Of The Deed |
| 19 | Tom Allalone and the 78s | Major Sins pt 1 |
| 20 | MJ Hibbett and the Validators | Regardez, Ecoutez et Repetez |
| 21 | Maximo Park | Quicken The Heart |
| 22 | Baikonour | Your Ear Knows Future |
| 23 | Hjaltalin | Sleepdrunk Sessions |
| 24 | Miike Snow | Miike Snow |
| 25 | Pale | Proper Order |
| 26 | Franz Ferdinand | Blood |
| 27 | 9bach | 9Bach |
| 28 | British Sea Power | Man Of Aran |
| 29 | We Were Promised Jetpacks | These Four Walls |
| 30 | Trash Monroe | Shooting From The Lips And Other Crimes Of Passion |
| 31 | Hickey Underworld | The Hickey Underworld |
| 32 | Jarvis Cocker | Further Complications |
| 33 | Charlotte Hatherly | New Worlds |
| 34 | Violet Violet | The City Is Full Of Beasts |
| 35 | Ungdomskulen | Bisexual |
| 36 | Trashcan Sinatras | In The Music |
| 37 | A Camp | Colonia |
| 38 | Client | Command |
| 39 | Florence and the Machine | Lungs |
| 40 | Editors | In This Light And On This Even |
| 41 | Patrick Wolf | The Bachelor |
| 42 | Polly Scattergood | Polly Scattergood |
| 43 | Sean Taylor | Calcutta Grove |
| 44 | Human Foals | Antidotes |
| 45 | Graham Coxon | The Spinning Top |
| 46 | Kasabian | The West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum |
| 47 | White Lies | To Lose My Life |
| 48 | Mika | The Boy Who Knew Too Much |
| 49 | Asteroids Galaxy Tour | Fruit |
| | Original chart - top tracks of 2009 |
| |
| 1 | Everything Everything | Photoshop Handsome |
| 2 | Mighty Roars | Elvis Lives And He Drinks Sake |
| 3 | Senser | Resistance Now |
| 4 | Lovely Eggs | I Like Birds But I Like Other Animals Too |
| 5 | Brownies | Dance Romance |
| 6 | Fiona Bevan | Moths |
| 7 | Camera Obscura | French Navy |
| 8 | We Are The Physics | Goran Ivanisevic |
| 9 | Art Brut | Alcoholics Unanimous |
| 10 | Joy Formidable | The Greatest Light Is The Greatest Shade |
| 11 | Metric | Gold Guns Girls |
| 12 | Ash | Return Of White Rabbit |
| 13 | Tom Allalone and the 78s | Sign On You Lazy Diamond |
| 14 | Hafdis Huld | Kongulo |
| 15 | Rose Elinor Dougall | Start/Stop/Synchro |
| 16 | Lovely Eggs | Have You Ever Heard A Digital Accordian |
| 17 | Cerys Matthews | It's What's Left (That Makes It Right) |
| 18 | Baikonour | Oben Beg mk3 CBC theme |
| 19 | Cheek | Hung Up |
| 20 | Senser | Brightest Rays |
| 21 | Prodigy | Omen |
| 22 | Soft Toy Emergency | Critical |
| 23 | Kovak | I'll Be Good To You |
| 24 | Hjaltalin | Traffic Music |
| 25 | Cerys Matthews | Arlington Way |
| 26 | We Were Promised Jetpacks | Quiet Little Voices |
| 27 | Future Of The Left | Arming Eritrea |
| 28 | Joy Formidable | Whirring |
| 29 | Skunk Anansie | Tear The Place Up |
| 30 | Friendly Fires | Skeleton Boy |
| 31 | Franz Ferdinand | Can't Stop Feeling |
| 32 | Choppersauraus | Boy Recesson |
| 33 | Duckworth Lewis Method | The Age Of Revolution |
| 34 | Good Shoes | The Way My Heart Beats |
| 35 | Super Furry Animals | Inaugural Trams |
| 36 | Killed By 9V Batteries | This City Is Lit When You're On Top Of It |
| 37 | Radiohead | These Are My Twisted Words |
| 38 | Robocop Kraus | Sometimes I Wonder If You'd Been A Dog In A Previous Life |
| 39 | Department S | Wonderful Day |
| 40 | Death Of The Elephant | Trypticon |
| 41 | Silversun Pickups | Substitution |
| 42 | Surfquake | Surf And Destroy |
| 43 | Eliza | Hopeless Case |
| 44 | WeirdGear | Game |
| 45 | Hickey Underworld | Mystery Bruise |
| 46 | Everything Everything | My Keys, Your Boyfriend |
| 47 | MJ Hibbett and the Validators | My Boss Was In An Indie Band Once |
| 48 | Therapy | The Head That Tried To Strangle Itself |
| 49 | Ungdomskulen | Idunno |
| 50 | White Rose Movement | Cigarette Machine (club mix) |
| 51 | Monocle Rose | Alley Cat |
| 52 | Bleech | Is It True That Boys Don't Cry |
| 53 | Pet Shop Boys | Love etc |
| 54 | Madness | Idiot Child |
| 55 | Pale | Stop It, I Might Like It |
| 56 | Miike Snow | Silvia |
| 57 | Maximo Park | Wraithlike |
| 58 | Pan I Am | Fire Dance |
| 59 | Delphic | Doubt |
| 60 | Muse | Uprising |
| 61 | Sicknurse | Sheepnesting |
| 62 | Le Corps Mince De Francoise | Something Golden |
| 63 | Black Moth Super Rainbow | Born On A Day The Sun Didn't Rise |
| 64 | Grave Architects | The Bike Song |
| 65 | Polly Scattergood | Please Don't Touch |
| 66 | Rakes | 1989 |
| 67 | Royksopp | Happy Up Here |
| 68 | Baddies | Holler For My Holiday |
| 69 | Maximo Park | Questing Not Coasting |
| 70 | Patrick Wolf | Hard Times |
| 71 | Helmholtz Resonators | Choc' Full of Chix |
| 72 | Pure Reason Revolution | Les Malheurs |
| 73 | Simian Mobile Disco | Audacity Of Huge |
| 74 | Jarvis Cocker | Further Complications |
| 75 | Blizzards | Trust Me I'm A Doctor |
| 76 | Trash Monroe | Love Dysmorphia |
| 77 | Kabeedies | Petits Filous |
| 78 | Silversun Pickups | There's No Secrets This Year |
| 79 | Boxer Rebellion | Evacuate |
| 80 | Charlotte Hatherley | White |
| 81 | Animal Kingdom | Tin Man |
| 82 | Simple Minds | Rockets |
| 83 | A Camp | Stronger Than Jesus |
| 84 | Camera Obscura | The Sweetest Thing |
| 85 | Japanese Voyeurs | Dumb |
| 86 | Jeffrey Lewis and the Junkyard | Roll Bus Roll |
| 87 | Florence And The Machine | Rabbit Heart [Raise It Up] |
| 88 | A Place To Bury Strangers | In Your Heart |
| 89 | Esser | Work It Out |
| 90 | Andy J Gallagher | Faster |
| 91 | Angry Vs The Bear | I Am Electric |
| 92 | Charlotte Hatherley | Alexander |
| 93 | Violet Violet | C-C-C-Cat |
| 94 | Editors | Papillon |
| 95 | I, Ludicrous | We're The Support Band |
| 96 | Client | Can You Feel |
| 97 | Asteroids Galaxy Tour | The Golden Age |
| 98 | Le Monnier | Save Yourself |
| 99 | Empire Of The Sun | We Are The People |
| 100 | Milk Kan | Don't Panic |
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