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]
| Note: UK artists |
| Album | Artist | Country of origin | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Primary Colours | |||
| 2 | xx | |||
| 3 | It's Blitz! | Yeah Yeah Yeahs |  | |
| 4 | Two Dancers | |||
| 5 | Merriweather Post Pavilion | | ||
| 6 | Veckatimest | | ||
| 7 | A Brief History of Love | |||
| 8 | Tarot Sport | |||
| 9 | Fever Ray |  | ||
| 10 | Kings & Queens | |||
| 11 | West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum | |||
| 12 | Humbug | |||
| 13 | La Roux | |||
| 14 | Journal for Plague Lovers | |||
| 15 | The Pains of Being Pure at Heart | | ||
| 16 | Album | | ||
| 17 | Sigh No More | |||
| 18 | Travels with Myself and Another | |||
| 19 | Wall of Arms | |||
| 20 | Bitte Orca | | ||
| 21 | Get Color | | ||
| 22 | Two Suns | |||
| 23 | Kingdom of Rust | |||
| 24 | Love Comes Close | | ||
| 25 | It's Not Me, It's You | |||
| 26 | Lungs | |||
| 27 | A Woman a Man Walked By | |||
| 28 | My Maudlin Career | |||
| 29 | Phrazes for the Young | | ||
| 30 | Ignore the Ignorant | |||
| 31 | Jewellery | |||
| 32 | The First Days of Spring | |||
| 33 | The Blueprint 3 | | ||
| 34 | Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix |  | ||
| 35 | The Eternal | | ||
| 36 | Summertime! EP | | ||
| 37 | Manners | | ||
| 38 | King of Jeans | | ||
| 39 | Post-Nothing |  | ||
| 40 | Alight of Night | | ||
| 41 | Only Revolutions | |||
| 42 | Walking on a Dream |  | ||
| 43 | ||||
| 44 | Rated O | | ||
| 45 | Truelove's Gutter | |||
| 46 | Grey Britain | |||
| 47 | Dance Mother | | ||
| 48 | Logos | | ||
| 49 | Middle Cyclone | | ||
| 50 | I Had the Blues But I Shook Them Loose |
= 19 = 1 = 1 = 1 = 1| Note: UK artists |
| Track | Artist | Country of origin | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Zero" | | ||
| 2 | "Sea Within a Sea" | |||
| 3 | "Dominos" | |||
| 4 | "Bonkers" | / | ||
| 5 | "My Girls" | | ||
| 6 | "Empire State of Mind" | | ||
| 7 | "Let's Go Surfing" | | ||
| 8 | "In For the Kill" | |||
| 9 | "Paparazzi" | | ||
| 10 | "Die Slow" | | ||
| 11 | "Cornerstone" | |||
| 12 | "Fire" | |||
| 13 | "11th Dimension" | | ||
| 14 | "Sticks 'n' Stones" | |||
| 15 | "Crying Lightning" | Arctic Monkeys | ||
| 16 | "Daniel" | |||
| 17 | "Bicycle" | | ||
| 18 | "Hyph Mngo" | |||
| 19 | "In For The Kill" (Skream's Let's Get Ravey remix) | La Roux | ||
| 20 | "The Fear" | |||
| 21 | "Poker Face" | Lady Gaga | | |
| 22 | "Velvet" | The Big Pink | ||
| 23 | "Stillness Is The Move" | | ||
| 24 | "Bulletproof" | La Roux | ||
| 25 | "That Golden Rule" | |||
| 26 | "Hooting and Howling" | |||
| 27 | "Solo" | |||
| 28 | "Islands" | |||
| 29 | "She Wolf" |  | ||
| 30 | "If I Had a Heart" | | ||
| 31 | "Arming Eritrea" | |||
| 32 | "While You Wait for the Others" | | ||
| 33 | "Lisztomania" | | ||
| 34 | "Jump in the Pool" | |||
| 35 | "New in Town" | |||
| 36 | "Feel It All Around" | | ||
| 37 | "Blood Bank" | | ||
| 38 | "Hellhole Ratrace" | | ||
| 39 | "Surf Solar" | |||
| 40 | "Swim Until You Can't See the Land" | |||
| 41 | "I'm Not Your Toy" | La Roux | ||
| 42 | "Jackie Collins Existential Question Time" | |||
| 43 | "The Captain" | Biffy Clyro | ||
| 44 | "Skeleton Boy" | Friendly Fires | ||
| 45 | "Two Weeks" | Grizzly Bear | | |
| 46 | "D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)" | Jay-Z | | |
| 47 | "No Kind Words" | |||
| 48 | "Drumming Song" | |||
| 49 | "Cheat on Me" | |||
| 50 | "I Became a Prostitute" |
4 Entries
2 Entries
= 17 = 1 = 1 = 1