This is an exact copy/paste of Metacritic's old aggregate year end list. Since being under new management, they have taken down these lists and discontinued the process. This is here purely for archival reasonsMore Collective thinking: A roundup of music critic top ten lists
While the music critics collectively determined Animal Collective to have the top album of the year at the time of its release, where did Merriweather Post Pavilion rate at the end of the year? To find out, we have tallied each publication's Best of 2009 lists to determine the albums appearing most frequently in the Top 10 (and those most frequently crowned the best album of the year). We have even expanded our usual selection of publications to include several magazines, websites, and newspapers whose reviews don't normally appear on our pages.
Note that the list below is not weighted or scored in any way; albums are simply ranked by the frequency with which they appear in critic Top 10 lists, in any position on those lists. (The number of times they appear in the #1 position is indicated as a convenience.) A full list of publications used -- with links to many of the individual lists -- appears beneath the table.
View a full listing of each publication's Top 10 lists in Metacritic's Music section.
| Album | # 1's | Top Ten Lists | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Merriweather Post Pavilion by Animal Collective | 16 | 32 | 89 |
| 2 | Veckatimest by Grizzly Bear | 2 | 26 | 85 |
| 3 | Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix by Phoenix | 3 | 25 | 82 |
| 4 | It's Blitz by Yeah Yeah Yeahs | 0 | 19 | 82 |
| 5 | Bitte Orca by Dirty Projectors | 0 | 18 | 85 |
| 6 | Middle Cyclone by Neko Case | 2 | 15 | 79 |
| 7 | xx by The xx | 1 | 10 | 84 |
| 8 | Embryonic by The Flaming Lips | 0 | 8 | 79 |
| 8 | Fever Ray by Fever Ray | 0 | 8 | 81 |
| 8 | Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II by Raekwon | 1 | 8 | 88 |
| 8 | Two Dancers by Wild Beasts | 1 | 8 | 83 |
| 12 | Tarot Sport by Fuck Buttons | 0 | 7 | 83 |
| 13 | I and Love and You by The Avett Brothers | 3 | 6 | 77 |
| 13 | Lungs by Florence and The Machine | 0 | 6 | 79 |
| 13 | Post-Nothing by Japandroids | 0 | 6 | 83 |
| 13 | Two Suns by Bat For Lashes | 0 | 6 | 76 |
| 17 | Actor by St. Vincent | 1 | 5 | 81 |
| 17 | Album by Girls | 0 | 5 | 79 |
| 17 | Primary Colours by The Horrors | 1 | 5 | 82 |
| 17 | The Blueprint 3 by Jay-Z | 1 | 5 | 65 |
| 17 | The Pains of Being Pure at Heart by The Pains of Being Pure at Heart | 0 | 5 | 76 |
| 17 | Wilco (The Album) by Wilco | 0 | 5 | 76 |
| 23 | American Saturday Night by Brad Paisley | 2 | 4 | 86 |
| 23 | BLACKsummers'night by Maxwell | 2 | 4 | 85 |
| 23 | Hospice by The Antlers | 0 | 4 | 86 |
| 23 | Logos by Atlas Sound | 0 | 4 | 82 |
| 23 | My Maudlin Career by Camera Obscura | 0 | 4 | 80 |
| 23 | No Line on the Horizon by U2 | 1 | 4 | 72 |
| 23 | The Hazards of Love by The Decemberists | 0 | 4 | 74 |
| 30 | 21st Century Breakdown by Green Day | 0 | 3 | 70 |
| 30 | brand new eyes by Paramore | 0 | 3 | 73 |
| 30 | Crack The Skye by Mastodon | 0 | 3 | 82 |
| 30 | Love vs Money by The-Dream | 0 | 3 | 83 |
| 30 | Manners by Passion Pit | 0 | 3 | 76 |
| 30 | Rated R by Rihanna | 0 | 3 | 76 |
| 30 | Revolution by Miranda Lambert | 0 | 3 | 85 |
| Other albums receiving at least one #1 ranking: | ||||
| Because I Was In Love by Sharon Van Etten | 1 | 1 | xx | |
| Fortress Around My Heart by Ida Maria | 1 | 2 | 74 | |
| Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age by Broadcast And The Focus Group | 1 | 1 | 74 | |
| So Far Gone by Drake | 1 | 2 | xx | |
| Toeachizown by Dam-Funk | 1 | 1 | xx | |
| Travail, Transformation and Flow by Steve Lehman Octet | 1 | 1 | xx | |
| West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum by Kasabian | 1 | 1 | 68 | |
The 44 individual Best of 2009 lists used to compile the above data were from (with their #1 picks in parentheses):
- Amazon [Editors' Picks] (Neko Case)
- Associated Press (Animal Collective)
- Billboard (Jay-Z)
- Boston Globe - separate lists for critics:
- Joan Anderman (The Avett Brothers),
- James Reed (Sharon Van Etten), and
- Sarah Rodman (The Avett Brothers)
- Chicago Sun-Times (Ida Maria)
- Chicago Tribune (St. Vincent)
- Clash Magazine (Animal Collective)
- Cokemachineglow (Raekwon)
- Delusions of Adequacy (Animal Collective)
- Drowned in Sound (Phoenix)
- Dusted [Managing Editor Otis Hart] (Dam-Funk)
- Exclaim! (Animal Collective)
- Filter (Animal Collective)
- Gigwise (Wild Beasts)
- The Guardian (The xx)
- Hartford Courant (Neko Case)
- Hitfix [Managing Editor Katie Hasty] (Grizzly Bear)
- Lost At Sea (Phoenix)
- Mojo (Animal Collective)
- MusicOMH (Animal Collective)
- The New York Times - separate lists for critics:
- Jon Pareles (Maxwell),
- Nate Chinen (Steve Lehman Octet), and
- Jon Caramanica (Drake)
- NME (The Horrors)
- No Ripcord (Animal Collective)
- The Onion AV Club (Phoenix)
- Paste (The Avett Brothers)
- Pitchfork (Animal Collective)
- PopMatters (Animal Collective)
- Q (Kasabian)
- Rolling Stone (U2)
- Slant Magazine (Animal Collective)
- Slate (Brad Paisley)
- Spin (Animal Collective)
- Sputnikmusic (Animal Collective)
- Time Magazine (Brad Paisley)
- Tiny Mix Tapes (Animal Collective)
- Treble (Animal Collective)
- Uncut (Animal Collective)
- Under The Radar (Grizzly Bear)
- Washington Post (Maxwell)
- The Wire (Broadcast and The Focus Group)
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