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NEWS: 2009 IN REVIEW

 

PITCHFORK

 

TOP 50 ALBUMS

#1 Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion

#2 Dirty Projectors: Bitte Orca

#17 The Very Best: Warm Heart of Africa

#46 Dan Deacon: Bromst

 

 

BEST NEW ALBUMS

Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavillion (9.6)
Various Artists: Dark Was The Night (8.6)
Dan Deacon: Bromst (8.5)
Dirty Projectors: Bitte Orca (9.2)
Yacht: See Mystery Lights (vinyl only) (8.5)
The Very Best: Warm Heart of Africa (8.6)
Animal Collective: Fall be Kind (8.9)

 

 

TOP 100 TRACKS

#1 Animal Collective: "My Girls"

#2 Dirty Projectors: "Stillness Is the Move"

#11 Animal Collective: "What Would I Want? Sky"

#23 Animal Collective: "Brother Sport"

#38 Dirty Projectors and David Byrne: "Knotty Pine"

#80 YACHT: "Psychic City (Voodoo City)"

 

 

MySPACE

YEAR IN MUSIC: BEST MUSIC/ALBUMS

#19 Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavillion

 

 

INSOUND

 

TOP SELLERS

#4 Animal Collective: Fall Be Kind [EP]

#10 Small Black / Washed Out: Split 7"

 

 

 

SPIN

TOP 40 ALBUMS
#1 Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavillion

#31 Dirty Projectors: Bitte Orca

20 BEST SONGS

#4 Animal Collective: "My Girls"

BILLBOARD

#17 Five Finger Death Punch Independent Albums

Animal Collective “Merriweather Post Pavilion” reaches #2 on Top Independent Album chart, #13 on Billboard’s Top 200 and hits #25 on Billboard Top Indie Chart. [link]

Compilation Album from Red Hot Record Label “Dark Was The Night” reaches #3 on Billboard’s Top Compilation Chart and hits #23 on Billboard Top Indie Chart. [link]

JUNO

CANADIAN MUSIC AWARDS

City and Colour's Dallas Green Wins Songwriter of the Year, following their Top 100 Chart-climb in Canada.

eMUSIC

TOP ALBUMS [link]

#19 Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavillion
#22 Animal Collective: Fall Be Kind [EP]

#37 Dirty Projectors: Bitte Orca

#138 Mayer Hawthorne: A Strange Arrangement

#155 Dark Was The Night: Red Hot Compilation

#194 The Fiery Furnaces: I'm Going Away

POPMATTERS

BEST AMAERICANA

#10 Greg Koons [link]