List of 2009 albums

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in 2009. These albums are (1) original, i.e. excluding reissues, remasters, and compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) notable, defined as having received significant coverage from reliable sources independent of the subject.

For additional information about bands formed, reformed, disbanded, or on hiatus, for deaths of musicians, and for links to musical awards, see 2009 in music.

First quarter

January

List of albums released in January 2009

Go to:    January   |   February   |   March   |   April   |   May   |   June   |   July   |   August   |   September   |   October   |   November   |   December   |   Back to top
Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Ref.
January 6	Animal Collective	Merriweather Post Pavilion	Psychedelic pop, electronic pop, synth-pop	Domino
January 9	Saxon	Into the Labyrinth	Heavy metal	SPV/Steamhammer	[1]
January 12	Fever Ray	Fever Ray	Electronic pop	Rabid
	Ugly Duckling	Audacity	Hip hop	Fat Beats Records	[2]
January 13	Kreator	Hordes of Chaos	Thrash metal	SPV/Steamhammer	[3]
	Oh No Not Stereo	003			[4]
	Various artists	Notorious	Hip hop	Bad Boy
January 19	Antony and the Johnsons	The Crying Light	Baroque pop	Secretly Canadian
	White Lies	To Lose My Life...	Post-punk revival, indie rock	Fiction
January 20	A. C. Newman	Get Guilty	Indie rock	Matador, Last Gang
	Andrew Bird	Noble Beast	Baroque pop	Fat Possum, Bella Union
	Anya Marina	Slow & Steady Seduction: Phase II			[5]
	BeauSoleil	Alligator Purse			[6]
	Bon Iver	Blood Bank	Indie folk	Jagjaguwar
	Cattle Decapitation	The Harvest Floor	Deathgrind, technical death metal	Metal Blade	[7]
	Coconut Records	Davy	Indie pop, indie rock	Young Baby Records
	Cymbals Eat Guitars	Why There Are Mountains	Indie rock	Cymbals Eat Guitars
	Fiction Family	Fiction Family	Folk, rock	ATO, lowercase people
	John Frusciante	The Empyrean	Experimental rock, psychedelic rock, post-rock	Record Collection
	Matt and Kim	Grand	Dance-punk, indie rock, indie pop	Fader Label, Universal
	Psychic Ills	Mirror Eye		The Social Registry
	Reel Big Fish	Fame, Fortune and Fornication	Ska punk	Rock Ridge Music	[8]
	Robert Pollard	The Crawling Distance	Rock, indie rock	Guided by Voices
	Umphrey's McGee	Mantis	Progressive rock	SCI Fidelity	[9]
January 23	Napalm Death	Time Waits for No Slave	Grindcore	Century Media
	Sepultura	A-Lex	Groove metal, thrash metal, death metal	SPV
January 26	Architects	Hollow Crown	Metalcore, mathcore	Century Media, Distort, United By Fate Records
	Franz Ferdinand	Tonight: Franz Ferdinand	Indie rock, dance-punk, new wave	Domino
	The Phantom Band	Checkmate Savage	Folk, pop, blues	Chemikal Underground
January 27	The Bird and the Bee	Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future	Indie pop, electronic	Blue Note
	Bruce Springsteen	Working on a Dream	Rock	Columbia
	Crooked X	Crooked X	Hard rock, heavy metal	Capitol	[10]
	Dirty Little Rabbits	Simon	Indie	The End	[11]
	Duncan Sheik	Whisper House		RCA Victor
	Hoobastank	Fornever	Post-grunge, alternative rock	Island
	Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes	Eye Legacy	Hip hop, R&B	Mass Appeal, eOne
	Nickel Eye	The Time of the Assassins		Rykodisc	[12]
	Ten Second Epic	Hometown	Alternative rock, emo	Black Box Music	[13]

February

List of albums released in February 2009

Go to:    January   |   February   |   March   |   April   |   May   |   June   |   July   |   August   |   September   |   October   |   November   |   December   |   Back to top
Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Ref.
February 2	Adagio	Archangels in Black	Symphonic metal, progressive metal, doom metal	Listenable	[14]
	Ben Kweller	Changing Horses	Country rock, alt-country, folk rock	ATO, The Noise Company
February 3	Cannibal Corpse	Evisceration Plague	Death metal	Metal Blade
	Dierks Bentley	Feel That Fire	Country	Capitol Nashville
	The Fray	The Fray	Alternative rock, pop rock	Epic
	The Loved Ones	Distractions	Punk rock, Americana	Fat Wreck Chords	[15]
	The Pains of Being Pure at Heart	The Pains of Being Pure at Heart	Indie pop, noise pop, dream pop	Slumberland
	Two Tongues	Two Tongues	Pop-punk, indie rock, emo	Vagrant
	The Von Bondies	Love, Hate and Then There's You	Alternative rock, garage rock	Majordomo
February 4	Hideki Sakamoto and Naoki Satō	428: Fūsa Sareta Shibuya de Original Soundtrack		Lantis	[16]
	Lily Allen	It's Not Me, It's You	Electropop	Regal, Parlophone
February 9	Hot Leg	Red Light Fever	Glam metal, hard rock, glam rock	Barbecue Rock Records
	Van Morrison	Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl	Folk rock	Listen to the Lions Records
February 10	Bobby V	The Rebirth	R&B	Blu Kolla Dreams, EMI	[17]
	Dan Auerbach	Keep It Hid	Blues rock, garage rock, indie folk	Nonesuch
	India Arie	Testimony: Vol. 2, Love & Politics	R&B	Soulbird Records, Universal Republic
	The Lonely Island	Incredibad	Comedy hip hop	Universal Republic
	Malajube	Labyrinthes	Indie rock	Dare to Care	[18]
	Red	Innocence & Instinct	Alternative metal, Christian rock, post-grunge	Sony Music, Essential
	Ryan Leslie	Ryan Leslie	R&B, hip hop	NextSelection Lifestyle Group, Casablanca, Universal Motown
February 11	Vota	Vota	Christian rock	INO, Columbia	[19]
February 13	Mando Diao	Give Me Fire!	Indie rock, garage rock	Universal	[20]
February 15	Bomb the Music Industry!	Scrambles	Indie rock, punk rock	Quote Unquote, Asian Man	[21]
February 16	Morrissey	Years of Refusal	Alternative rock	Decca, Lost Highway
	Various artists	Dark Was the Night	Alternative rock, indie pop, indie rock	4AD
February 17	...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead	The Century of Self	Art rock	Richter Scale, Justice Records
	The Appleseed Cast	Sagarmatha	Indie rock, post-rock	Vagrant, The Militia Group	[22]
	Asobi Seksu	Hush	Dream pop	Polyvinyl
	Beirut	March of the Zapotec/Holland	Indie folk, Balkan folk, electronica	Pompeii Records
	J-Kwon	Hood Hop 2		Hood Hop Music	[23]
	Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit	Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit	Americana, folk	Lightning Rod Records
	Lissy Trullie	Self-Taught Learner		American Myth Records, Wichita
	Living Things	Habeas Corpus	Indie rock	Jive
	M. Ward	Hold Time	Alternative, folk	Merge, 4AD
	Mishka	Above the Bones			[24]
	Plushgun	Pins & Panzers	New wave, indie rock, synth-pop	Tommy Boy	[25]
	Scale the Summit	Carving Desert Canyons	Progressive metal, djent, instrumental rock	Prosthetic	[26]
	Thursday	Common Existence	Post-hardcore	Epitaph
	William Elliott Whitmore	Animals in the Dark			[27]
February 20	Toni Gonzaga and Sam Milby	Love Duets	Pop	Star Music	[28]
February 23	Blut Aus Nord	Memoria Vetusta II – Dialogue with the Stars	Atmospheric black metal	Candlelight	[29]
	Gui Boratto	Take My Breath Away	House, minimal techno	Kompakt	[30]
	Lamb of God	Wrath	Groove metal, thrash metal	Epic, Roadrunner
	The Prodigy	Invaders Must Die	New rave	Cooking Vinyl
February 24	B-Real	Smoke n Mirrors	West Coast hip hop, Latin hip hop	Duck Down
	Black Lips	200 Million Thousand	Garage punk, psychedelic rock	Vice
	Chris Isaak	Mr. Lucky	Rock and roll	Wicked Games, Reprise	[31]
	Clem Snide	Hungry Bird	Alternative country	429
	Gentleman Reg	Jet Black	Indie pop	Arts & Crafts
	God Forbid	Earthsblood	Thrash metal, metalcore	Century Media	[32]
	Howie Beck	How to Fall Down in Public	Indie rock	13 Clouds Records	[33]
	Jake Owen	Easy Does It	Country	RCA Nashville	[34]
	Joe Budden	Padded Room	Hip hop	Amalgam Digital
	K'naan	Troubadour	Canadian hip hop, worldbeat	A&M/Octone
	Marianas Trench	Masterpiece Theatre	Pop-punk, symphonic rock	604	[35]
	MC Lars	This Gigantic Robot Kills	Nerdcore, ska punk, West Coast hip hop	Oglio	[36]
	Project Pat	Real Recognize Real	Gangsta rap, Southern hip hop	Hypnotize Minds, Asylum	[37]
February 27	Now, Now Every Children	Cars	Indie pop	Tapete	[38]
	U2	No Line on the Horizon	Rock	Mercury, Island, Interscope

March

List of albums released in March 2009

Go to:    January   |   February   |   March   |   April   |   May   |   June   |   July   |   August   |   September   |   October   |   November   |   December   |   Back to top
Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Ref.
March 1	Cursive	Mama, I'm Swollen	Emo, indie rock	Saddle Creek
March 2	The Answer	Everyday Demons	Hard rock	Albert
	Red Light Company	Fine Fascination	Alternative rock	Lavolta Records
March 3	Marissa Nadler	Little Hells	Folk	Kemado	[39]
	Neko Case	Middle Cyclone	Alternative country, indie folk	Anti-
	Shout Out Out Out Out	Reintegration Time	Electro, alternative dance, dance-punk	Nrmls Wlcm Records
March 6	The Church	Untitled #23	Alternative rock, neo-psychedelia, psychedelic rock	Unorthodox Records, Second Motion	[40]
	Kelly Clarkson	All I Ever Wanted	Pop, pop rock	RCA
	Yeah Yeah Yeahs	It's Blitz!	Synth-punk, alternative rock	Dress Up Records, DGC, Interscope
March 9	Fight Like Apes	You Filled His Head with Fluffy Clouds and Jolly Ranchers, What Did You Think Was Going to Happen?			[41]
	Mel Parsons	Over My Shoulder	Folk, alternative country	Cape Road Recordings	[42]
	Micachu	Jewellery	Avant-pop, art pop, electronic pop	Rough Trade
	Pure Reason Revolution	Amor Vincit Omnia	New prog, electronic rock, electronica	Superball	[43]
	Polly Scattergood	Polly Scattergood	Indie pop, experimental	Mute
	Starsailor	All the Plans	Alternative rock, post-Britpop	Virgin, EMI
March 10	Attack in Black	Years (by One Thousand Fingertips)	Folk rock	Dine Alone	[44]
	Bell Orchestre	As Seen Through Windows	Instrumental rock	Arts & Crafts	[45]
	Chris Cornell	Scream	Dance-pop, pop rock	Mosley Music, Suretone
	Dope	No Regrets	Industrial metal, alternative metal, nu metal	eOne	[46]
	The-Dream	Love vs. Money	R&B	Radio Killa, Def Jam
	Handsome Furs	Face Control	Electropunk	Sub Pop
	J. Holiday	Round 2	R&B, hip hop	Music Line Group, Capitol
	Julie Doiron	I Can Wonder What You Did with Your Day	Indie rock	Jagjaguwar, Endearing	[47]
	Julien-K	Death to Analog	Electronic rock, dance-rock, alternative dance	Metropolis,	[48]
	New Found Glory	Not Without a Fight	Pop-punk	Epitaph
	The Number Twelve Looks Like You	Worse Than Alone	Mathcore	Eyeball	[49]
	Propagandhi	Supporting Caste	Punk rock	G7 Welcoming Committee, Smallman Records, Hassle Records	[50]
	RBD	Para olvidarte de mí	Latin pop	EMI	[51]
	The Riverboat Gamblers	Underneath the Owl			[52]
	Seventh Day Slumber	Take Everything	Christian rock	BEC	[53]
	Yngwie Malmsteen	Angels of Love	Folk rock, instrumental rock, neoclassical metal	Koch, Rising Force Records	[54]
March 12	Miss Kittin & The Hacker	Two	Electronica, electroclash, dance	Nobody's Bizzness
	Super Junior	Sorry, Sorry	K-pop, R&B, dance	SM
March 13	Peter Doherty	Grace/Wastelands	Alternative rock	EMI, Astralwerks
	Utada	This Is the One	Pop, R&B	Island
March 16	Delirious?	My Soul Sings	Rock, Christian rock	Sparrow, Furious? Records	[55]
	Pestilence	Resurrection Macabre	Death metal	Mascot	[56]
	Super Furry Animals	Dark Days/Light Years	Alternative rock, experimental rock	Rough Trade
March 17	Ace Enders and a Million Different People	When I Hit the Ground	Indie rock	Vagrant	[57]
	Bonnie "Prince" Billy	Beware	Americana, alternative country, indie folk	Drag City
	Capone-N-Noreaga	Channel 10	East Coast hip hop, hardcore hip hop, gangsta rap	SMC	[58]
	Gorilla Zoe	Don't Feed da Animals	Hip hop	Bad Boy South, Block, Atlantic
	Mstrkrft	Fist of God	Electro house	Last Gang, Dim Mak, Downtown
	Static-X	Cult of Static	Industrial metal, nu metal	Reprise
	Superdrag	Industry Giants	Punk rock, power pop, shoegaze	Superdrag Sound Laboratories, Thirty Tigers	[59]
	Willie Nelson	Naked Willie	Country	Legacy	[60]
March 18	Pet Shop Boys	Yes	Synth-pop	Parlophone
	Röyksopp	Junior	Electronic pop	Wall of Sound
March 20	HammerFall	No Sacrifice, No Victory	Power metal, heavy metal	Nuclear Blast	[61]
	Nine Inch Nails, Jane's Addiction and Street Sweeper Social Club	NINJA 2009 Tour Sampler	Alternative rock	The Null Corporation	[62]
March 23	Therapy?	Crooked Timber	Alternative metal, alternative rock	Demolition Records	[63]
March 24	Blue October	Approaching Normal	Alternative rock	Universal
	Dan Deacon	Bromst	Indietronica, noise pop	Carpark	[64]
	The Decemberists	The Hazards of Love	Folk rock, chamber pop, progressive folk	Capitol, Rough Trade
	Falling Up	Fangs	Art rock, experimental rock	BEC	[65]
	Flo Rida	R.O.O.T.S.	Pop-rap	Poe Boy, Atlantic
	Jim Jones	Pray IV Reign	Hip hop	eOne, Columbia, Sony Music
	Joel Plaskett	Three	Indie rock, folk rock, folk	MapleMusic	[66]
	John Rich	Son of a Preacher Man	Country	Warner Bros.	[67]
	Junior Boys	Begone Dull Care	Synth-pop	Domino
	Keri Hilson	In a Perfect World...	R&B	Mosley Music, Zone 4, Interscope
	KMFDM	Blitz	Industrial rock, electro-industrial	Metropolis	[68]
	Leela James	Let's Do It Again		Shanachie
	Mastodon	Crack the Skye	Progressive metal	Reprise
	Martina McBride	Shine	Country	RCA Nashville
	MF Doom	Born Like This	Hip hop	Lex
	Mono	Hymn to the Immortal Wind		Temporary Residence Limited
	MxPx	On the Cover II		Tooth & Nail	[69]
	Papa Roach	Metamorphosis	Glam metal, hard rock	DGC, Interscope
	Slim Thug	Boss of All Bosses	Hip hop	Koch	[70]
	Vanna	A New Hope	Post-hardcore, metalcore	Epitaph
	Various artists	Hannah Montana: The Movie	Pop, country	Walt Disney
	Yanni	Yanni Voices		Yanni Wake Records, Disney Pearl	[71]
March 25	Ayumi Hamasaki	Next Level	Electronic	Avex Trax
March 30	Kaki King	Mexican Teenagers	Instrumental rock	Cooking Vinyl	[72]
	The Leisure Society	The Sleeper	Folk-pop	Willkommen Records	[73]
	Peter Bjorn and John	Living Thing	Indie pop	Wichita, Startime
	The Xcerts	In the Cold Wind We Smile	Indie rock, post-hardcore, power pop	Xtra Mile, King Tuts Recordings	[74]
March 31	Bow Wow	New Jack City II	Hip hop, gangsta rap, R&B	LBW Entertainment, Columbia
	Burn Halo	Burn Halo	Hard rock, alternative metal, post-grunge	Rawkhead Records	[75]
	Death Cab for Cutie	The Open Door	Alternative rock	Atlantic, Barsuk
	Diana Krall	Quiet Nights	Jazz, bossa nova	Verve
	Gavin DeGraw	Free	Soft rock	J
	Great Lake Swimmers	Lost Channels	Folk rock	Nettwerk
	Keith Urban	Defying Gravity	Country	Capitol Nashville
	Queensrÿche	American Soldier	Hard rock, progressive metal	ATCO, Rhino	[76]
	Rodney Atkins	It's America	Country	Curb
	Stevie Nicks	The Soundstage Sessions	Rock	Reprise	[77]
	UGK	UGK 4 Life	Hip hop	Jive

Second quarter

April

List of albums released in April 2009

Go to:    January   |   February   |   March   |   April   |   May   |   June   |   July   |   August   |   September   |   October   |   November   |   December   |   Back to top
Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Ref.
April 1	BWO	Big Science	Pop	Bonnier Music	[78]
	Lacuna Coil	Shallow Life	Gothic metal, alternative metal, nu metal	Century Media, EMI
	El Perro del Mar	Love Is Not Pop	Pop	Licking Fingers	[79]
April 3	Bat for Lashes	Two Suns	Art rock	Echo, Parlophone
April 6	Doves	Kingdom of Rust	Indie rock	Heavenly
	Lady Sovereign	Jigsaw	Hip hop, grime, electronica	EMI
	The Veils	Sun Gangs	Indie, Alternative rock	Rough Trade	[80]
April 7	Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound	When Sweet Sleep Returned	Psychedelic rock	Tee Pee	[81]
	Band of Skulls	Baby Darling Doll Face Honey	Blues rock, indie rock, hard rock	Shangri-La Music	[82]
	Billy Ray Cyrus	Back to Tennessee	Country	Lyric Street
	Black Dice	Repo	Ambient music, electronic	Paw Tracks
	Casiotone for the Painfully Alone	Advance Base Battery Life		Tomlab	[83]
	The Ettes	Danger Is			[84]
	Jadakiss	The Last Kiss	East Coast hip hop, hardcore	D-Block, Ruff Ryders, Roc-A-Fella
	Jason Aldean	Wide Open	Country, country rock	Broken Bow	[85]
	MercyMe	10	Rock	INO
	Metric	Fantasies	Indie rock, new wave	Metric Music International, Last Gang, Mom + Pop
	Mims	Guilt	Hip hop, East Coast hip hop, rap rock	Capitol, EMI
	Neil Young	Fork in the Road	Rock, folk rock	Reprise
	Rascal Flatts	Unstoppable	Country	Lyric Street
	The Thermals	Now We Can See	Indie rock, punk rock	Kill Rock Stars
	The Tragically Hip	We Are the Same	Alternative rock	Universal Music Canada
April 9	Woods	Songs of Shame	Folk, psychedelic folk	Woodsist, Shrimper
April 13	Soap&Skin	Lovetune for Vacuum	Experimental, dark wave, electronica	Couch Records, PIAS
April 14	Big Business	Mind the Drift	Heavy metal	Hydra Head
	The Boy Least Likely To	Law of the Playground	Indie pop	Too Young to Die	[86]
	Day26	Forever in a Day		Bad Boy, Atlantic	[87]
	Den Saakaldte	All Hail Pessimism			[88]
	Fastball	Little White Lies	Rock	RED	[89]
	Jill Sobule	California Years		Pinko Records
	The Juan MacLean	The Future Will Come	House, nu-disco	DFA
	k-os	Yes!	Alternative hip hop	Universal Music Canada
	The Last Vegas	Whatever Gets You Off	Hard rock, glam metal, heavy metal	Eleven Seven Music	[90]
	Prefuse 73	Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian	Electronic	Warp
	Silversun Pickups	Swoon	Alternative rock, shoegaze	Dangerbird
	Willie Nile	House of a Thousand Guitars	Rock	River House Records	[91]
April 17	Depeche Mode	Sounds of the Universe	Synth-pop, electronic rock	Mute
	Hardline	Leaving the End Open	Hard rock	Frontiers	[92]
April 20	Art Brut	Art Brut vs. Satan	Indie rock, art punk, garage rock	Downtown, Cooking Vinyl
	Asher Roth	Asleep in the Bread Aisle	Pop rap	School Boy, SRC, Universal Motown
	Camera Obscura	My Maudlin Career	Indie pop	4AD
	Chimaira	The Infection	Groove metal, metalcore	Ferret, Nuclear Blast
	Earth Crisis	To the Death	Metalcore	Century Media	[93]
	Fightstar	Be Human	Alternative rock, symphonic rock, post-hardcore	Search and Destroy Records, PIAS
April 21	As Cities Burn	Hell or High Water	Indie rock	Tooth & Nail
	Bearfoot	Doors and Windows	Bluegrass, Americana	Compass	[94]
	Chester French	Love the Future	Indie pop, futurepop, synth-pop	Star Trak, Interscope
	The Horrors	Primary Colours	Shoegaze, post-punk revival, gothic rock	XL
	Isis	Wavering Radiant	Post-metal, sludge metal, progressive metal	Ipecac
	Jars of Clay	The Long Fall Back to Earth	Pop rock, Christian rock	Gray Matters, Essential
	Manchester Orchestra	Mean Everything to Nothing	Indie rock, alternative rock	Favorite Gentlemen Recordings
	Meg & Dia	Here, Here and Here	Alternative rock, indie rock, indie pop	Warner Bros., Sire	[95]
	Rick Ross	Deeper Than Rap	Hip hop	Maybach, Slip-n-Slide, Def Jam
	Tinted Windows	Tinted Windows	Alternative rock, power pop	S-Curve
April 24	Heaven & Hell	The Devil You Know	Heavy metal	Rhino, Roadrunner
April 25	Serebro	OpiumRoz	Electronic rock	Monolit Records	[96]
April 27	The Enemy	Music for the People	Indie rock, punk rock	Warner Bros.
	OSI	Blood	Progressive metal	Inside Out Music
April 28	Ben Folds	Ben Folds Presents: University A Cappella!	A cappella	Sony Music
	Bob Dylan	Together Through Life	Folk rock, blues rock	Columbia
	Halestorm	Halestorm	Hard rock, post-grunge	Atlantic
	Immaculate Machine	High on Jackson Hill	Indie rock	Mint	[97]
	Japandroids	Post-Nothing	Indie rock, noise rock	Unfamiliar Records
	Julian Marley	Awake	Reggae	Universal, Tuff Gong	[98]
	Kevin Devine	Brother's Blood	Indie rock, alternative rock	Favorite Gentlemen Recordings, Big Scary Monsters	[99]
	Mike Jones	The Voice	Hip hop	Ice Age, Asylum	[100]
	NOFX	Coaster	Punk rock, skate punk	Fat Wreck Chords	[101]
	Patrick Watson	Wooden Arms	Dream pop, psychedelic folk	Secret City
	Pilot Speed	Wooden Bones	Rock	MapleMusic, Wind-up	[102]
	Tech N9ne	Sickology 101	Hip hop	Strange Music
	Thee Oh Sees	Help	Alternative rock, garage rock, noise rock	In the Red	[103]
	Wyrd	Kalivägi			[104]
April 30	Nek	Un'altra direzione	Pop rock, soft rock	Warner Music	[105]

May

List of albums released in May 2009

Go to:    January   |   February   |   March   |   April   |   May   |   June   |   July   |   August   |   September   |   October   |   November   |   December   |   Back to top
Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Ref.
May 1	Madina Lake	Attics to Eden	Alternative rock, post-hardcore	Roadrunner
	Peaches	I Feel Cream	Electroclash, synth-pop, electropunk	XL
May 2	Gallows	Grey Britain	Hardcore punk, metalcore	Warner Bros.
May 3	Ciara	Fantasy Ride	R&B	Jive, LaFace, Sony Music
May 4	Fischerspooner	Entertainment	Electropop
	The Maccabees	Wall of Arms	Indie rock	Fiction
May 5	Akron/Family	Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free	Experimental rock, indie folk	Dead Oceans
	The Chariot	Wars and Rumors of Wars	Metalcore, mathcore	Solid State
	Chrisette Michele	Epiphany	R&B	Def Jam
	Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band	Outer South	Folk rock, indie rock, Americana	Merge
	Cracker	Sunrise in the Land of Milk and Honey	Alternative rock	429	[106]
	The Dangerous Summer	Reach for the Sun	Pop-punk, alternative rock	Hopeless
	Decyfer Down	Crash	Post-grunge, alternative metal Christian rock	INO	[107]
	The Devil Wears Prada	With Roots Above and Branches Below	Metalcore	Ferret Music	[108]
	Hatebreed	For the Lions	Metalcore, hardcore punk, groove metal	Koch	[109]
	New York Dolls	Cause I Sez So	Garage rock	Atco
	Newsboys	In the Hands of God	Christian rock, pop rock	Inpop	[110]
	Psychostick	Sandwich	Comedy rock, metalcore, hardcore punk	Rock Ridge Music	[111]
	St. Vincent	Actor	Baroque pop, indie pop, progressive pop	4AD
	Yusuf Islam	Roadsinger	Folk rock	Island	[112]
	Zao	Awake?	Metalcore	Ferret Music	[113]
May 8	Epica	The Classical Conspiracy	Symphonic death metal, neoclassical metal	Nuclear Blast	[114]
May 11	In Case of Fire	Align the Planets	Progressive rock, alternative rock, new prog	Search and Destroy Records
	Marmaduke Duke	Duke Pandemonium	Alternative rock, dance-pop, funk	14th Floor
	Maxïmo Park	Quicken the Heart	Alternative rock, indie rock, post-punk revival	Warp
May 12	Aiden	Knives	Horror punk, melodic hardcore	Victory	[115]
	Cam'ron	Crime Pays	Hip hop	Diplomat, Asylum, Warner Bros.
	The Crystal Method	Divided by Night	Electronica	Tiny e Records
	Meat Puppets	Sewn Together	Alternative rock	Megaforce
	Paul Wall	Fast Life	Hip hop, Southern hip hop	Swishahouse, Asylum	[116]
May 13	Dead by April	Dead by April	Metalcore, melodic death metal, alternative metal	Universal	[117]
May 15	Coldplay	LeftRightLeftRightLeft	Alternative rock	Capitol, Parlophone	[118]
	Eminem	Relapse	Horrorcore, hip hop	Aftermath
	Green Day	21st Century Breakdown	Pop-punk, alternative rock, punk rock	Reprise
	Passion Pit	Manners	Electropop, synth-pop	Frenchkiss
May 18	Kate Voegele	A Fine Mess	Pop, pop rock	MySpace, Interscope	[119]
	Madness	The Liberty of Norton Folgate	Ska, pop, reggae	Lucky Seven, Yep Roc
	Manic Street Preachers	Journal for Plague Lovers	Post-punk, alternative rock	Columbia
	Old Man's Child	Slaves of the World	Symphonic black metal	Century Media	[120]
	Sunn O)))	Monoliths & Dimensions	Drone metal, avant-garde, dark ambient	Southern Lord
May 19	Busta Rhymes	Back on My B.S.	East Coast hip hop, hardcore hip hop	Universal Motown
	Carbon Leaf	Nothing Rhymes with Woman		Vanguard	[121]
	CKY	Carver City	Alternative metal, stoner metal, alternative rock	Roadrunner
	Diane Birch	Bible Belt	Soul, blues	S-Curve
	DJ Drama	Gangsta Grillz: The Album (Vol. 2)	Hip hop	Grand Hustle, Atlantic	[122]
	Family Force 5	Dance or Die with a Vengeance	Crunkcore, Christian rock, Dance	Transparent Media Group	[123]
	IAMX	Kingdom of Welcome Addiction	Electronic rock, industrial rock, dark cabaret	Metropolis, 61Seconds Records	[124]
	Iron & Wine	Around the Well	Folk rock	Sub Pop
	Mat Kearney	City of Black & White	Rock, pop	Aware, Columbia	[125]
	Method Man & Redman	Blackout! 2	Hip hop	Def Jam
	Ruben Studdard	Love Is		Hickory	[126]
	Tori Amos	Abnormally Attracted to Sin		Universal Republic
	White Rabbits	It's Frightening	Indie rock	TBD, Mute	[127]
May 20	Marilyn Manson	The High End of Low	Glam rock, industrial metal	Interscope
May 22	Esmée Denters	Outta Here	Synth-pop, R&B	Interscope, Tennman	[128]
	Miike Snow	Miike Snow	Indie pop, electropop	Downtown
May 25	1349	Revelations of the Black Flame	Black metal, avant-garde metal	Candlelight	[129]
	Devin Townsend	Ki	Progressive rock, jazz rock	HevyDevy Records	[130]
	Iggy Pop	Préliminaires	Jazz, rock, blues	Astralwerks, Virgin
	Phoenix	Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix	Indie pop, synth-pop, new wave	V2, Loyauté, Glassnote
May 26	Black Moth Super Rainbow	Eating Us		Graveface
	Electrik Red	How to Be a Lady: Volume 1	R&B	Radio Killa, Def Jam	[131]
	Eros Ramazzotti	Ali e radici	Pop, rock	Sony BMG	[132]
	Grizzly Bear	Veckatimest	Indie rock, psychedelic folk, folk rock	Warp
	Hayden	The Place Where We Lived	Acoustic rock, indie folk, alternative country	Hardwood, Universal Music Canada	[133]
	Mandy Moore	Amanda Leigh		Storefront Records, RED
	Minsk	With Echoes in the Movement of Stone	Post-metal, doom metal	Relapse	[134]
	Wisin & Yandel	La Revolución	Reggaeton, R&B, electropop	WY, Machete
May 27	Amorphis	Skyforger	Melodic death metal, power metal, heavy metal	Nuclear Blast	[135]
May 28	Rock Plaza Central	...At the Moment of Our Most Needing	Indie rock	Paper Bag	[136]
May 29	Eskimo Joe	Inshalla	Alternative rock	Warner	[137]

June

List of albums released in June 2009

Go to:    January   |   February   |   March   |   April   |   May   |   June   |   July   |   August   |   September   |   October   |   November   |   December   |   Back to top
Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Ref.
June 1	Daniel Merriweather	Love & War	R&B, pop, soul	Columbia, Marlin Records
	Patrick Wolf	The Bachelor	Indietronica, folktronica, electronica	Bloody Chamber Music
	Rancid	Let the Dominoes Fall	Punk rock, ska punk	Hellcat, Epitaph
June 2	311	Uplifter	Alternative rock, reggae rock	Volcano	[138]
	Dave Matthews Band	Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King	Alternative rock	RCA
	Eels	Hombre Lobo	Rock	Vagrant
	Emery	...In Shallow Seas We Sail	Post-hardcore, screamo	Tooth & Nail	[139]
	The Sounds	Crossing the Rubicon	New wave, post-punk revival	Arnioki Records, Original Signal Records
	Taking Back Sunday	New Again	Alternative rock, pop rock, pop-punk	Warner Bros.
June 3	The Black Eyed Peas	The E.N.D.	Pop, hip hop, EDM	Interscope
	Miley Cyrus (Hannah Montana)	Hannah Montana 3	Country pop, pop rock	Walt Disney
	Titãs	Sacos Plásticos	Pop rock	Arsenal Music	[140]
June 5	Chickenfoot	Chickenfoot	Hard rock, blues rock, heavy metal	Redline, earMUSIC, WHD Entertainment	[141]
	Karnivool	Sound Awake	Progressive rock, alternative metal	Cymatic Records	[142]
	Kasabian	West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum	Indie rock, psychedelic rock, space rock	RCA
	Little Boots	Hands	Electropop	679, Atlantic
June 8	Datarock	Red	Dance-punk, funk, nu-disco	Young Aspiring Professionals	[143]
	Placebo	Battle for the Sun	Alternative rock	PIAS
	Steel Panther	Feel the Steel	Glam metal, heavy metal, comedy rock	Universal
June 9	Anti-Flag	The People or the Gun	Punk rock	SideOneDummy
	The Clarks	Restless Days	Rock	High Wire Music	[144]
	Coalesce	OX	Metalcore, mathcore	Relapse	[145]
	Dirty Projectors	Bitte Orca	Indie rock, art pop	Domino
	Dredg	The Pariah, the Parrot, the Delusion	Alternative rock, progressive rock, experimental rock	Ohlone Recordings, Independent Label	[146]
	Elvis Costello	Secret, Profane & Sugarcane	Americana, country folk, country rock	Hear Music, Universal
	The Friday Night Boys	Off the Deep End	Power pop, pop-punk	Fueled by Ramen	[147]
	Little Boots	Illuminations	Synth-pop, nu-disco, dance-pop	Elektra	[148]
	Mos Def	The Ecstatic	Conscious rap, alternative hip hop	Downtown
	A Skylit Drive	Adelphia	Post-hardcore, screamo	Fearless	[149]
	Sonic Youth	The Eternal	Indie rock, experimental rock	Matador
	There for Tomorrow	A Little Faster	Alternative rock, pop-punk, emo	Hopeless	[150]
June 11	Ashley Tisdale	Guilty Pleasure	Pop rock	Warner Bros.
	Idlewild	Post Electric Blues	Indie rock	Cooking Vinyl
June 12	A-ha	Foot of the Mountain	Synth-pop	We Love Music, Polydor, Universal
	Hilltop Hoods	State of the Art	Australian hip hop	Golden Era	[151]
	Jonas Brothers	Lines, Vines and Trying Times	Pop rock	Hollywood
June 15	Magnum	Into the Valley of the Moonking	Rock	SPV	[152]
	Spinnerette	Spinnerette	Alternative rock, indie rock	Anthem, Hassle Records
	We Were Promised Jetpacks	These Four Walls	Indie rock, post-punk revival, folk rock	Fat Cat
June 16	Everyday Sunday	Best Night of Our Lives	Christian rock	Inpop	[153]
	Major Lazer	Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do	EDM, dancehall, reggae	Downtown
	Spinal Tap	Back from the Dead	Comedy rock, heavy metal	Spuzzle Records, Polymer Records
	Street Sweeper Social Club	Street Sweeper Social Club	Rap rock, alternative rock, funk rock	Warner Bros.
June 19	Gossip	Music for Men	Indie rock, garage rock, dance-punk	Columbia
	Riverside	Anno Domini High Definition	Progressive rock, progressive metal, jazz fusion	Mystic Production, Inside Out Music, SPV	[154]
	The Temper Trap	Conditions	Indie rock, indie pop	Liberation Music, Infectious, Glassnote
	VNV Nation	Of Faith, Power and Glory	Futurepop, electro-industrial, electropop	Anachron Records	[155]
June 22	Amazing Baby	Rewild	Indie rock	Shangri-La Music, Cooperative Music
	White Denim	Fits	Indie rock, psychedelic rock	Downtown, Full Time Hobby
June 23	Alexisonfire	Old Crows / Young Cardinals	Post-hardcore	Dine Alone
	Cheap Trick	The Latest	Hard rock, power pop	Cheap Trick Unlimited
	The Cliks	Dirty King	Alternative rock	Warner Bros., Tommy Boy	[156]
	Darkest Hour	The Eternal Return	Melodic death metal	Victory	[157]
	The Dear Hunter	Act III: Life and Death	Progressive rock, symphonic rock, experimental rock	Triple Crown	[158]
	Deer Tick	Born on Flag Day	Indie rock, alternative country	Partisan
	Dinosaur Jr.	Farm	Alternative rock	Jagjaguwar
	Dream Theater	Black Clouds & Silver Linings	Progressive metal, progressive rock	Roadrunner
	Ginuwine	A Man's Thoughts	R&B, soul, hip hop	Notifi Records, Asylum, Warner Bros.
	Hit the Lights	Coast to Coast	Pop-punk, easycore	Triple Crown	[159]
	Jay Brannan	In Living Cover	Folk, acoustic	Great Depression Records, Nettwerk	[160]
	The Lemonheads	Varshons	Alternative rock, punk rock	The End
	The Mars Volta	Octahedron	Progressive rock, experimental rock	Warner Bros., Mercury
	Maylene and the Sons of Disaster	III	Heavy metal, Southern metal	Ferret Music	[161]
	Paulina Rubio	Gran City Pop	Latin pop, dance-pop	Universal Music Latino
	Pete Yorn	Back and Fourth	Alternative rock	Columbia	[162]
	Reverie Sound Revue	Reverie Sound Revue	Indie rock	Boompa	[163]
	Regina Spektor	Far	Anti-folk, indie rock	Sire
	Sunset Rubdown	Dragonslayer	Indie rock	Jagjaguwar
	Tortoise	Beacons of Ancestorship	Post-rock	Thrill Jockey
June 24	Ringo Sheena	Sanmon Gossip	Jazz pop	Virgin
June 26	La Roux	La Roux	Synth-pop	Polydor
June 29	Anaal Nathrakh	In the Constellation of the Black Widow	Black metal, grindcore, industrial metal	Candlelight, FETO Records	[164]
	Moby	Wait for Me	Downtempo, ambient, electronica	Little Idiot Records, Mute
June 30	Ace Hood	Ruthless	Hip hop	We the Best, Def Jam	[165]
	Brad Paisley	American Saturday Night	Country	Arista Nashville
	Killswitch Engage	Killswitch Engage	Metalcore	Roadrunner
	Maino	If Tomorrow Comes...	Hip hop	Hustle Hard Records, Atlantic
	Mark Karan	Walk Through the Fire	Rock	Quacktone Records, DIG Music	[166]
	Obituary	Darkest Day	Death metal	Candlelight	[167]
	Rob Thomas	Cradlesong	Pop rock	Atlantic
	Suicide Silence	No Time to Bleed	Deathcore	Century Nedia
	Wilco	Wilco	Alternative country	Nonesuch

Third quarter

July

List of albums released in July 2009

Go to:    January   |   February   |   March   |   April   |   May   |   June   |   July   |   August   |   September   |   October   |   November   |   December   |   Back to top
Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Ref.
July 3	Cascada	Evacuate the Dancefloor	Eurodance, dance-pop, electropop	Zooland
	Florence and the Machine	Lungs	Indie pop, art rock, baroque pop	Island
	Suffocation	Blood Oath	Technical death metal	Nuclear Blast
July 4	Atmosphere	Leak at Will	Hip hop, alternative hip hop	Rhymesayers	[168]
July 7	All Time Low	Nothing Personal	Emo pop, pop-punk	Hopeless
	Big D and the Kids Table	Fluent in Stroll	Dub, ska, reggae	SideOneDummy	[169]
	Born of Osiris	A Higher Place	Progressive metalcore, deathcore	Sumerian	[170]
	Céu	Vagarosa		Urban Jungle, Six Degrees
	Death by Stereo	Death Is My Only Friend	Heavy metal, hardcore punk	Serjical Strike	[171]
	Job for a Cowboy	Ruination	Death metal	Metal Blade
	LMFAO	Party Rock	Pop, dance-pop, EDM	will.i.am Music, Cherrytree Records, Interscope
	Marcy Playground	Leaving Wonderland... in a Fit of Rage	Alternative rock	Woz Records	[172]
	Maxwell	BLACKsummers'night	R&B, neo soul, funk	Columbia
	Poison the Well	The Tropic Rot	Post-hardcore	Ferret	[173]
	Stellastarr	Civilized	Indie rock, post-punk	Bloated Wife Records
July 10	Billy Talent	Billy Talent III	Post-punk, post-hardcore, punk rock	Warner Music Canada, Roadrunner
July 13	Clark	Totems Flare	IDM, experimental, electro	Warp	[174]
	Clutch	Strange Cousins from the West	Stoner rock, blues rock	Weathermaker Music	[175]
	He Is Legend	It Hates You	Hard rock, stoner rock, alternative rock	LAB, Tragic Hero	[176]
	Judas Priest	A Touch of Evil: Live	Heavy metal	Sony Music, Epic	[177]
	The Rumble Strips	Welcome to the Walk Alone	Rock	Island
July 14	Adelitas Way	Adelitas Way	Alternative metal, hard rock, post-grunge	Virgin	[178]
	Arkaea	Years in the Darkness	Metalcore, groove metal, industrial metal	eOne	[179]
	August Burns Red	Constellations	Melodic metalcore	Solid State
	Brooke White	High Hopes & Heartbreak	Folk-pop	June Baby Records
	Daughtry	Leave This Town	Post-grunge	RCA
	The Dead Weather	Horehound	Garage rock, blues rock	Third Man, Warner Bros.
	DevilDriver	Pray for Villains	Groove metal, melodic death metal	Roadrunner	[180]
	John Forté	Stylefree the EP			[181]
	Krizz Kaliko	Genius	Alternative hip hop, R&B	Strange Music	[182]
	Owl City	Ocean Eyes	Synth-pop, electronica	Universal Republic
	Project 86	Picket Fence Cartel	Post-hardcore, alternative metal	Tooth & Nail	[183]
	pureNRG	The Real Thing	CCM, pop	Fervent	[184]
	Sick Puppies	Tri-Polar	Alternative metal, nu metal, post-grunge	Virgin	[185]
July 17	Ana Popović	Blind for Love	Electric blues, blues rock, jazz	Eclecto Groove	[186]
	Jordin Sparks	Battlefield	Pop, R&B	Jive
July 21	Civil Twilight	Civil Twilight	Indie rock, alternative rock	Wind-up	[187]
	Demi Lovato	Here We Go Again	Rock, power pop	Hollywood
	The Fiery Furnaces	I'm Going Away	Indie rock	Thrill Jockey
	Our Lady Peace	Burn Burn	Alternative rock	Coalition Entertainment
	Portugal. The Man	The Satanic Satanist	Psychedelic pop	Equal Vision
	Set Your Goals	This Will Be the Death of Us	Pop-punk	Epitaph
	Sugar Ray	Music for Cougars	Pop rock	Pulse Recordings
July 28	Fabolous	Loso's Way	Hip hop	Desert Storm, Def Jam
	George Thorogood and the Destroyers	The Dirty Dozen	Blues rock, boogie rock	EMI America	[188]
	Kristinia DeBarge	Exposed	Pop, R&B	Island, Sodapop Records
July 31	Frankmusik	Complete Me	Electropop, synth-pop, dance-pop	Island

August

List of albums released in August 2009

Go to:    January   |   February   |   March   |   April   |   May   |   June   |   July   |   August   |   September   |   October   |   November   |   December   |   Back to top
Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Ref.
August 3	Bap Kennedy	Howl On	Country rock	Lonely Street Discs
	Enochian Theory	Evolution: Creatio Ex Nihilio	Progressive rock	Mascot	[189]
	The Twang	Jewellery Quarter	Indie rock	B-Unique
	Wild Beasts	Two Dancers	Indie rock, art rock, dream pop	Domino
August 4	Amanda Blank	I Love You	Dirty rap, Baltimore club, electropop	Downtown
	Anchor & Braille	Felt	Acoustic rock, baroque pop, folk	Wood Water Records	[190]
	Fruit Bats	The Ruminant Band	Folk rock	Sub Pop	[191]
	Gloriana	Gloriana	Country	Reprise Nashville, Warner Bros. Nashville
	Jay Reatard	Watch Me Fall	Garage rock, indie rock, power pop	Matador
	Julian Plenti	Julian Plenti Is... Skyscraper	Alternative rock, art rock	Matador
	Modest Mouse	No One's First, and You're Next	Alternative rock	Epic
	Nightmare of You	Infomaniac	Indie rock	The Bevonshire Label, Brookvale Records	[192]
	Touché Amoré	...To the Beat of a Dead Horse	Post-hardcore, melodic hardcore, screamo	6131 Records	[193]
August 5	Mutemath	Armistice	Alternative rock, post-rock	Teleprompt, Warner Bros.
August 7	Behemoth	Evangelion	Blackened death metal	Nuclear Blast, Metal Blade
August 9	Thrice	Beggars	Experimental rock, post-hardcore, alternative rock	Vagrant
August 10	Jessie James	Jessie James	Country, pop	Mercury
August 11	Britt Nicole	The Lost Get Found	Christian rock, Christian hip hop	Sparrow
	Cobra Starship	Hot Mess	Dance-pop, synth-pop, alternative rock	Fueled by Ramen, Decaydance, Columbia
	Dan Mangan	Nice, Nice, Very Nice	Indie rock	Arts & Crafts	[194]
	George Strait	Twang	Country	MCA Nashville
	Justin Moore	Justin Moore	Country, country rock	Valory	[195]
	Robert Cray	This Time	Blues	Vanguard, Nozzle Records	[196]
	Slaughterhouse	Slaughterhouse	Hardcore hip hop	eOne
	Winds of Plague	The Great Stone War	Deathcore, symphonic metal	Century Media	[197]
August 14	Calvin Harris	Ready for the Weekend	Dance	Fly Eye, Columbia
	Sparks	The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman	pop opera	Lil' Beethoven
	The xx	xx	Indie pop, dream pop, indie rock	Young Turks
August 15	Dappled Cities	Zounds	Alternative	Speak 'n Spell, Dangerbird	[198]
August 17	Mew	No More Stories...	Alternative rock, indie rock, progressive rock	Evil Office Records, Columbia
August 18	As Tall as Lions	You Can't Take It with You	Indie rock	Triple Crown	[199]
	Brendan Benson	My Old, Familiar Friend	Rock	ATO
	Broadway Calls	Good Views, Bad News	Pop-punk, punk rock	SideOneDummy	[200]
	David Nail	I'm About to Come Alive	Country	MCA Nashville	[201]
	Dawes	North Hills	Folk rock	ATO
	Gwar	Lust in Space	Thrash metal, heavy metal, comedy rock	Metal Blade	[202]
	Otep	Smash the Control Machine		Victory	[203]
	Reba McEntire	Keep On Loving You	Country	Starstruck, Valory
	Sean Paul	Imperial Blaze	Dancehall	Atlantic
	Shiloh	Picture Imperfect	Pop-punk, pop rock	Universal Music Canada	[204]
	Third Eye Blind	Ursa Major	Rock, alternative rock	Mega Collider
August 19	Arctic Monkeys	Humbug	Hard rock, stoner rock, psychedelic rock	Domino
	Colbie Caillat	Breakthrough	Pop, pop rock	Universal Republic
	Jet	Shaka Rock	Hard rock	Virgin, Real Horrorshow Records	[205]
August 21	Kisschasy	Seizures	Pop rock, alternative rock	Below Par	[206]
August 24	Athlete	Black Swan	Pop	Fiction	[207]
	David Guetta	One Love	House	Virgin, EMI, Astralwerks
	Imogen Heap	Ellipse	Electronica, ambient	Megaphonic, RCA Victor
	LeToya	Lady Love		Capitol	[208]
August 25	Blitzen Trapper	Black River Killer	Alternative country	Sub Pop
	Collective Soul	Collective Soul (Rabbit)	Alternative rock, hard rock, post-grunge	Loud & Proud, Roadrunner	[209]
	fun.	Aim and Ignite	Baroque pop, indie pop	Nettwerk
	Hockey	Mind Chaos	Indie rock, dance-punk	Capitol
	Ingrid Michaelson	Everybody	Indie pop	Cabin 24 Records	[210]
	Jack Ingram	Big Dreams & High Hopes	Country	Big Machine	[211]
	Leeland	Love Is on the Move	Christian rock	Reunion, Essential	[212]
	Matisyahu	Light	Reggae fusion, hip hop	Epic, JDub, Or Music
	Matt Redman	We Shall Not Be Shaken	CCM, worship	Sparrow, sixsteps	[213]
	Municipal Waste	Massive Aggressive	Crossover thrash	Earache	[214]
	Needtobreathe	The Outsiders	Alternative rock, Christian rock, Southern rock	Atlantic
	Oh, Sleeper	Son of the Morning	Metalcore	Solid State	[215]
	Sidewalk Prophets	These Simple Truths	Christian music	Word, Curb	[216]
	Skillet	Awake	Christian metal, hard rock, alternative metal	Atlantic
	Still Life Still	Girls Come Too			[217]
	Young Galaxy	Invisible Republic	Indie rock	Fontana North	[218]
August 28	A Fine Frenzy	Bomb in a Birdcage		Virgin	[219]
	Guilt Machine	On This Perfect Day	Progressive metal	Mascot	[220]
	Miley Cyrus	The Time of Our Lives	Pop rock	Hollywood
	Pitbull	Pitbull Starring in Rebelution	Hip house, electro hop, pop rap	J, Polo Grounds, Mr. 305
	Urthboy	Spitshine	Australian hip hop	Elefant Traks	[221]
	Whitney Houston	I Look to You	Pop, soul	Arista
August 31	3 Inches of Blood	Here Waits Thy Doom	Heavy metal, power metal	Century Media	[222]
	The Black Crowes	Before the Frost...Until the Freeze	Southern rock, blues rock, hard rock	Silver Arrow	[223]
	Chevelle	Sci-Fi Crimes	Alternative metal, hard rock	Epic
	Derek Webb	Stockholm Syndrome	Synth-pop, electronica, Christian music	INO
	Juliette Lewis	Terra Incognita	Rock	The End	[224]
	Noah and the Whale	The First Days of Spring	Indie folk	Vertigo, Cherrytree
	The Used	Artwork	Emo, alternative rock, post-hardcore	Reprise
	The Wildhearts	¡Chutzpah!	Hard rock, heavy metal, pop rock	Backstage Alliance

September

List of albums released in September 2009

Go to:    January   |   February   |   March   |   April   |   May   |   June   |   July   |   August   |   September   |   October   |   November   |   December   |   Back to top
Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Ref.
September 1	Andrew W.K.	55 Cadillac	New-age, rock	Ecstatic Peace!, Skyscraper Music Maker
	Chris Young	The Man I Want to Be	Neotraditional country, honky-tonk	RCA Nashville	[225]
	Insane Clown Posse	Bang! Pow! Boom!		Psychopathic
	Jason Gray	Everything Sad Is Coming Untrue	Contemporary Christian music, folk rock	Centricity	[226]
	Skindred	Shark Bites and Dog Fights	Alternative metal, reggae rock, nu metal	Bieler Bros.	[227]
	Terri Clark	The Long Way Home	Country	Capitol Nashville	[228]
	They Might Be Giants	Here Comes Science	Children's, educational	Walt Disney
September 7	The Cribs	Ignore the Ignorant	Indie rock, alternative rock	Wichita
	Frank Turner	Poetry of the Deed	Folk rock	Xtra Mile, Epitaph
	Jamie T	Kings & Queens	Indie rock, post-punk revival, hip hop	Virgin, Tearbridge International
	Raised Fist	Veil of Ignorance	Hardcore punk	Burning Heart	[229]
	Sean Kingston	Tomorrow	Hip hop, reggae fusion, R&B	Beluga Heights, Epic
September 8	BarlowGirl	Love & War	Christian rock	Fervent	[230]
	Boys Like Girls	Love Drunk	Pop-punk, pop rock, power pop	Columbia
	Circulatory System	Signal Morning	Psychedelic rock, noise rock	Cloud Recordings
	Cuff the Duke	Way Down Here	Alternative country, folk rock	Noble Recordings	[231]
	Infected Mushroom	Legend of the Black Shawarma	Psychedelic trance, trip hop, industrial	Perfecto, Hom-Mega Productions	[232]
	Jay-Z	The Blueprint 3	Hip hop	Roc Nation, Atlantic
	Jim O'Rourke	The Visitor	Folk, orchestral pop, progressive rock	Drag City
	Os Mutantes	Haih or Amortecedor	Experimental rock, psychedelic rock, progressive rock	Anti-
	Phish	Joy		JEMP
	Polvo	In Prism	Indie rock, math rock, progressive rock	Merge
	Raekwon	Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II	Hip hop	Ice H2O, EMI
	Saosin	In Search of Solid Ground	Post-hardcore, alternative rock	Virgin	[233]
	Sonata Arctica	The Days of Grays	Power metal, symphonic metal, progressive metal	Nuclear Blast	[234]
	Sondre Lerche	Heartbeat Radio	Pop, rock	Rounder
	Thousand Foot Krutch	Welcome to the Masquerade	Christian metal, nu metal, alternative metal	Tooth & Nail
	Yo La Tengo	Popular Songs	Indie rock	Matador
September 9	Ensiferum	From Afar	Folk metal, melodic death metal, power metal	Spinefarm	[235]
	Europe	Last Look at Eden	Hard rock, blues rock	Universal	[236]
September 11	Muse	The Resistance	Art rock, progressive rock, symphonic rock	Warner Bros., Helium-3
	Nelly Furtado	Mi Plan	Latin pop, pop rock	Nelstar Entertainment, Universal Music Latino
	No Angels	Welcome to the Dance		Polydor
	Pixie Lott	Turn It Up	Pop, R&B	Mercury
September 14	The Big Pink	A Brief History of Love	Indie rock, noise pop	4AD
	David Gray	Draw the Line	Folk rock	Mercer Street, IHT
	Porcupine Tree	The Incident	Progressive rock, progressive metal	Roadrunner
September 15	Ace Frehley	Anomaly	Hard rock, heavy metal	Bronx Born Records	[237]
	Asking Alexandria	Stand Up and Scream	Metalcore	Sumerian	[238]
	The Black Dahlia Murder	Deflorate	Melodic death metal	Metal Blade
	The Dodos	Time to Die	Indie folk, alternative	Frenchkiss
	Dying Fetus	Descend into Depravity	Technical death metal	Relapse	[239]
	Every Time I Die	New Junk Aesthetic	Southern rock, hardcore punk, metalcore	Epitaph
	Kid Cudi	Man on the Moon: The End of Day	Alternative hip hop, psychedelia	Dream On, GOOD Music, Universal Motown
	Kittie	In the Black	Groove metal	eOne
	Living Colour	The Chair in the Doorway	Funk metal, experimental rock, alternative metal	Megaforce
	Megadeth	Endgame	Thrash metal	Roadrunner
	M.O.P.	Foundation	East Coast hip hop, hardcore hip hop	Koch
	Moneen	The World I Want to Leave Behind	Indie rock	Dine Alone	[240]
	New Boyz	Skinny Jeanz and a Mic	Pop-rap, hyphy	Shotty Music, Asylum, Warner Bros.
	Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson	Break Up	Indie folk, alternative rock	Atco, Rhino
	Shadows Fall	Retribution	Thrash metal	Everblack Industries
	Uncle Kracker	Happy Hour	Alternative rock, country	Top Dog Records, Atlantic	[241]
September 16	I Am Kloot	B	Indie rock	Skinny Dog	[242]
September 20	Dizzee Rascal	Tongue n' Cheek	Dance, hip hop	Dirtee Stank, Liberation Music
	Pearl Jam	Backspacer	Alternative rock, hard rock	Monkeywrench
September 21	Alberta Cross	Broken Side of Time	Indie rock, alternative country, blues rock	Ark, ATO
	Basement Jaxx	Scars		XL, Ultra Music, Interscope
	Marduk	Wormwood	Black metal	Regain	[243]
	Mika	The Boy Who Knew Too Much	Pop	Casablanca, Universal Republic
	Stellar Kart	Everything Is Different Now	Pop-punk	INO
September 22	Brand New	Daisy	Post-hardcore, noise rock, art rock	Interscope, DGC
	Brother Ali	Us	Hip hop	Rhymesayers Entertainment
	David Crowder Band	Church Music	Christian rock, worship	sixsteps
	Despised Icon	Day of Mourning	Deathcore	Century Media	[244]
	Five Finger Death Punch	War Is the Answer	Groove metal, hard rock	Prospect Park, Spinefarm	[245]
	Girls	Album	Indie pop, indie rock	True Panther Sounds
	Hawk Nelson	Live Life Loud	Christian rock, alternative rock, pop-punk	BEC	[246]
	The Hidden Cameras	Origin:Orphan	Indie rock	Arts & Crafts
	Islands	Vapours	Indie rock	Anti-
	Lights	The Listening	Synth-pop, indietronica, alternative rock	Sire, Universal Music Canada
	Mariah Carey	Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel	Hip hop, R&B	Island
	Monsters of Folk	Monsters of Folk	Alternative rock, indie folk	Shangri-La Music, Rough Trade
	Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Speed of Life	Country, country rock, folk rock	NGDB Records	[247]
	Pillar	Confessions	Post-grunge, heavy metal, hard rock	Essential
	Rufus Wainwright	Milwaukee at Last!!!		Decca
	The Twilight Sad	Forget the Night Ahead	Indie rock, shoegaze	Fat Cat
	Why?	Eskimo Snow	Indie rock	Anticon
September 25	Paradise Lost	Faith Divides Us – Death Unites Us	Gothic metal, doom metal	Century Media
September 28	Arch Enemy	The Root of All Evil	Melodic death metal	Century Media	[248]
	Basshunter	Bass Generation	Eurodance		[249]
	Kris Kristofferson	Closer to the Bone	Country	New West	[250]
	Newton Faulkner	Rebuilt by Humans	Folk rock, pop rock, art rock	Ugly Truth Records	[251]
	Paloma Faith	Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful?	Pop, soul, jazz	Epic
	Various artists	More than a Game	Hip hop, R&B	Zone 4, Interscope	[252]
September 29	AFI	Crash Love	Pop rock	Interscope
	Alice in Chains	Black Gives Way to Blue	Heavy metal, sludge metal, doom metal	Virgin
	Barbra Streisand	Love Is the Answer	Jazz	Columbia
	Breaking Benjamin	Dear Agony	Alternative metal, post-grunge	Hollywood
	Cherry Poppin' Daddies	Skaboy JFK	Ska	Space Age Bachelor Pad Records, Rock Ridge Music	[253]
	Dethklok	Dethalbum II	Melodic death metal	Williams Street
	Drummer	Feel Good Together	Indie rock	Audio Eagle Records	[254]
	The Ettes	Do You Want Power		Take Root Records	[255]
	Foreigner	Can't Slow Down	Rock	Rhino	[256]
	illScarlett	1UP!	Ska punk, reggae rock, alternative rock	Sony Music Canada	[257]
	Kill Hannah	Wake Up the Sleepers	Post-punk revival, dance-punk, alternative rock	Original Signal, Universal Motown	[258]
	Lynyrd Skynyrd	God & Guns	Southern rock, blues rock, heavy metal	Roadrunner	[259]
	Miranda Lambert	Revolution	Country	Columbia Nashville
	Om	God Is Good	Psychedelic rock, stoner metal, doom metal	Drag City	[260]
	Paramore	Brand New Eyes	Alternative rock, pop-punk, emo pop	Fueled by Ramen
	Revocation	Existence Is Futile	Technical death metal, thrash metal	Relapse	[261]
	Selena Gomez & the Scene	Kiss & Tell	Electronic rock, pop rock	Hollywood
	Strung Out	Agents of the Underground	Skate punk, punk metal, metalcore	Fat Wreck Chords	[262]
	Warren G	The G Files	West Coast hip hop	Koch Records	[263]
September 30	Air	Love 2	Electronica, space rock	Virgin
	Backstreet Boys	This Is Us	Pop, electropop	Jive

Fourth quarter

October

List of albums released in October 2009

Go to:    January   |   February   |   March   |   April   |   May   |   June   |   July   |   August   |   September   |   October   |   November   |   December   |   Back to top
Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Ref.
October 2	Mumford & Sons	Sigh No More		Island, Glassnote
	Natalie Imbruglia	Come to Life	Pop	Island
	Scar Symmetry	Dark Matter Dimensions	Melodic death metal	Nuclear Blast	[264]
	Tokio Hotel	Humanoid		Cherrytree, Island
October 6	Betty Davis	Is It Love or Desire?		Light in the Attic	[265]
	Blessthefall	Witness	Metalcore, post-hardcore	Fearless	[266]
	Brandi Carlile	Give Up the Ghost	Folk rock	Columbia
	Built to Spill	There Is No Enemy	Indie rock	Warner Bros., ATP
	Chris Tomlin	Glory in the Highest: Christmas Songs of Worship	Christmas, CCM	sixstepsrecords	[267]
	downhere	How Many Kings: Songs for Christmas	Christian rock, Christmas	Centricity Music	[268]
	Everclear	In a Different Light	Alternative rock, post-grunge	429	[269]
	The Fall of Troy	In the Unlikely Event	Mathcore, progressive rock	Equal Vision	[270]
	Family Force 5	Family Force 5's Christmas Pageant	Christmas, Christian rock, crunkcore	Transparent Media Group, Tooth & Nail	[271]
	Fat Joe	Jealous Ones Still Envy 2	Hip hop	Terror Squad, Capitol
	Fee	Hope Rising	Contemporary Christian music, Christian rock	INO	[272]
	Horse the Band	Desperate Living	Metalcore, Nintendocore, experimental rock	Vagrant
	Joe Perry	Have Guitar, Will Travel	Hard rock	Roman Records	[273]
	Kiss	Sonic Boom	Hard rock, heavy metal	Roadrunner
	Luke Bryan	Doin' My Thing	Country	Capitol Nashville	[274]
	Matthew Good	Vancouver	Rock	Universal Music Canada	[275]
	Mayday Parade	Anywhere but Here	Pop-punk, pop rock	Fearless, Atlantic
	The Mountain Goats	The Life of the World to Come	Folk rock, indie rock	4AD
	Port O'Brien	Threadbare			[276]
	Powerman 5000	Somewhere on the Other Side of Nowhere	Industrial metal	Mighty Loud Records	[277]
	The Raveonettes	In and Out of Control	Indie rock, shoegaze, noise pop	Fierce Panda, Vice
	Relient K	Forget and Not Slow Down	Alternative rock, rock	Mono vs Stereo, Jive
	Tiësto	Kaleidoscope	Progressive trance, electro house	Musical Freedom Records
	Todd Agnew	Need	Christian rock	Ardent, INO
	We Shot the Moon	A Silver Lining	Alternative rock	Afternoon	[278]
October 9	Michael Bublé	Crazy Love	Vocal jazz, traditional pop	Reprise
	Shakira	She Wolf	Electropop, new wave	Epic
October 12	Bad Lieutenant	Never Cry Another Tear	Alternative rock	Triple Echo Records
	Bowling for Soup	Sorry for Partyin'	Pop-punk	Jive	[279]
	Cate Le Bon	Me Oh My	Indie rock, folk rock, psychedelic rock	Irony Bored
	Echo & the Bunnymen	The Fountain	Alternative rock
	Editors	In This Light and on This Evening	Post-punk revival, dark wave, synth-pop	Kitchenware
	Mario	D.N.A	R&B	J
	Tord Gustavsen Ensemble	Restored, Returned	Jazz	ECM	[280]
October 13	Baroness	Blue Record	Sludge metal, progressive metal	Relapse
	David Archuleta	Christmas from the Heart	Christmas, pop	Jive	[281]
	Dead by Sunrise	Out of Ashes	Alternative rock, hard rock, alternative metal	Warner Bros.
	Five for Fighting	Slice	Soft rock	Aware, Wind-up	[282]
	The Flaming Lips	Embryonic	Acid rock, psychedelic rock	Warner Bros.
	Kottonmouth Kings	Hidden Stash 420		Suburban Noize	[283]
	Lightning Bolt	Earthly Delights	Noise rock	Load
	Nellie McKay	Normal as Blueberry Pie – A Tribute to Doris Day	Pop	Verve	[284]
	Sherwood	QU	Rock	MySpace	[285]
	Sugarland	Gold and Green	Christmas, country	Mercury Nashville	[286]
October 16	Rammstein	Liebe ist für alle da	Neue Deutsche Härte, industrial metal	Universal
October 20	Bomshel	Fight Like a Girl	Country	Curb
	Converge	Axe to Fall	Metalcore, hardcore punk, post-hardcore	Epitaph
	Electric Six	Kill	Rock	Metropolis
	Flight of the Conchords	I Told You I Was Freaky		Sub Pop
	Joss Stone	Colour Me Free!	Soul	Virgin
	Kings of Convenience	Declaration of Dependence	Indie pop, indie folk	Virgin
	Kutless	It Is Well	Christian rock, soft rock, worship	BEC	[287]
	Priestess	Prior to the Fire	Hard rock	Indica Records, Tee Pee
	Royce da 5′9″	Street Hop	Hip hop	M.I.C. Records	[288]
October 21	Gorgoroth	Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt	Black metal	Regain
October 23	Cheryl Cole	3 Words	Dance-pop, R&B	Fascination, Polydor
	The Swell Season	Strict Joy	Indie folk	Plateau, Anti-
	Wolfmother	Cosmic Egg	Hard rock, psychedelic rock	Modular
October 26	Morningwood	Diamonds & Studs	Alternative rock, dance-rock, power pop	VH1 Records	[289]
	Tegan and Sara	Sainthood		Sire
	Train	Save Me, San Francisco	Rock, roots rock, pop rock	Columbia
October 27	3	Revisions	Progressive rock	Metal Blade	[290]
	Atreyu	Congregation of the Damned	Metalcore, alternative metal	Hollywood, Roadrunner	[291]
	Between the Buried and Me	The Great Misdirect	Progressive metal, technical death metal, avant-garde metal	Victory
	Creed	Full Circle	Post-grunge, alternative metal, hard rock	Wind-up
	Hem	Twelfth Night		Waveland Records	[292]
	John Nolan	Height		Doghouse	[293]
	Pelican	What We All Come to Need	Post-metal	Southern Lord
	The Red Chord	Fed Through the Teeth Machine	Deathgrind	Metal Blade
	R.E.M.	Live at the Olympia	Alternative rock	Warner Bros.
	Squirrel Nut Zippers	Lost at Sea		Hillbilly Productions	[294]
	Swollen Members	Armed to the Teeth	Hip hop	Suburban Noize
	Tech N9ne	K.O.D.	Hardcore hip hop, horrorcore, crunk	Strange Music
October 30	John K. Samson	City Route 85	Acoustic	Anti-, Epitaph	[295]
	Weezer	Raditude	Power pop, pop rock	DGC, Interscope, Geffen

November

List of albums released in November 2009

Go to:    January   |   February   |   March   |   April   |   May   |   June   |   July   |   August   |   September   |   October   |   November   |   December   |   Back to top
Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Ref.
November 2	Delirious?	History Makers	Rock, Christian rock		[296]
	Julian Casablancas	Phrazes for the Young	Alternative rock, synth-pop, new wave	RCA
	Katatonia	Night Is the New Day	Alternative metal, doom metal	Peaceville
	Various artists	The Inbetweeners Soundtrack	Alternative rock, punk rock, R&B	EMI	[297]
November 3	The Almost	Monster Monster	Alternative rock, emo	Tooth & Nail
	Amerie	In Love & War	R&B, soul, hip hop	Feenix Rising, Def Jam
	Andrea Bocelli	My Christmas	Christmas	Universal, Decca, Verve
	Carrie Underwood	Play On	Country	Arista Nashville
	Every Avenue	Picture Perfect	Pop-punk, alternative rock, power pop	Fearless	[298]
	Ryan Leslie	Transition	R&B, hip hop	Casablanca, Universal	[299]
	Say Anything	Say Anything	Pop-punk, emo, post-hardcore	RCA	[300]
	Shwayze	Let It Beat	Alternative hip hop	Suretone	[301]
	Slayer	World Painted Blood	Thrash metal	American, Sony Music
	Steven Curtis Chapman	Beauty Will Rise	CCM	Sparrow
	We Came as Romans	To Plant a Seed	Metalcore	Equal Vision	[302]
November 4	Swallow the Sun	New Moon	Death-doom, melodic death metal, gothic metal	Spinefarm, Svart	[303]
November 6	Mars Argo	Technology Is a Dead Bird		Grocerybag Media	[304]
November 7	Wale	Attention Deficit	Alternative hip hop	Allido, Interscope
November 9	50 Cent	Before I Self Destruct	Gangsta rap, hardcore hip hop	Shady, G-Unit, Aftermath
	Biffy Clyro	Only Revolutions	Alternative rock	14th Floor
	Howard Jones	Ordinary Heroes	Pop	DTox	[305]
	Leona Lewis	Echo	R&B, pop	Syco
	Robbie Williams	Reality Killed the Video Star	Pop	Virgin
November 10	Big Kenny	The Quiet Times of a Rock and Roll Farm Boy	Country, rock, pop	Glotown Records, Love Everybody, Bigger Picture
	Bon Jovi	The Circle	Hard rock, pop rock	Island
	Crooked I	Mr. Pigface Weapon Waist			[306]
	Dashboard Confessional	Alter the Ending	Emo, alternative rock	Interscope
	Ella Fitzgerald	Twelve Nights in Hollywood	Vocal jazz	Verve	[307]
	Flyleaf	Memento Mori	Post-grunge, alternative metal	A&M Octone
	Jamie Cullum	The Pursuit	Crossover jazz, pop	Decca	[308]
	Krallice	Dimensional Bleedthrough	Black metal	Profound Lore, Gilead Media
	Puscifer	"C" Is for (Please Insert Sophomoric Genitalia Reference Here)	Trip hop, post-industrial		[309]
	Switchfoot	Hello Hurricane	Alternative rock, art rock, post-rock	Atlantic
	Tori Amos	Midwinter Graces	Christmas, traditional	Universal Republic
	Throwdown	Deathless	Groove metal	eOne
	Wyclef Jean	From the Hut, to the Projects, to the Mansion		Carnival House Records	[310]
November 11	Norah Jones	The Fall	Rock	Blue Note
November 13	Katy Perry	MTV Unplugged	Acoustic, lounge	Capitol
	N-Dubz	Against All Odds	Hip hop, pop rap, R&B	All Around the World
	OneRepublic	Waking Up	Pop rock	Mosley Music, Interscope
	Powderfinger	Golden Rule	Rock, alternative rock	Universal Music	[311]
	Them Crooked Vultures	Them Crooked Vultures	Hard rock	RCA, DGC, Interscope
November 16	Felt	Felt 3: A Tribute to Rosie Perez	Hip hop	Rhymesayers
	Shakespears Sister	Songs from the Red Room	Pop rock, synth-pop, new wave	SF Records
	Stereophonics	Keep Calm and Carry On	Rock, alternative rock, pop rock	V2, Mercury
November 17	Casting Crowns	Until the Whole World Hears	Christian rock, contemporary Christian music	Beach Street
	The Devin Townsend Project	Addicted	Progressive metal, alternative metal, hard rock	HevyDevy, Inside Out Music
	The Empire Shall Fall	Awaken	Metalcore	Angle Side Side Records	[312]
	Hedley	The Show Must Go	Alternative rock, pop rock	Universal Music Canada, Island
	John Mayer	Battle Studies	Pop rock	Columbia
	Justin Bieber	My World	Teen pop, dance-pop	Island, Teen Island, RBMG
	Kid Sister	Ultraviolet	Hip hop, electro, R&B	Fool's Gold, Downtown, Universal Republic
	Kris Allen	Kris Allen	Pop rock, alternative rock	Jive, 19
	Phil Wickham	Heaven & Earth	Contemporary Christian music, worship	INO
	Rakim	The Seventh Seal	Hip hop	SMC, Universal, Fontana
November 18	B'z	Magic	Hard rock, pop rock	Vermillion	[313]
	Dark Funeral	Angelus Exuro pro Eternus	Black metal	Regain
	Lady Gaga	The Fame Monster	Electropop	Interscope
November 20	Rihanna	Rated R	Pop, hip hop, R&B	Def Jam, SRP Records
November 23	Adam Lambert	For Your Entertainment	Pop, dance-pop, pop rock	RCA, 19
	Birdman	Priceless	Hip hop	Cash Money, Universal Motown
	Jay Sean	All or Nothing	R&B	Jayded Records, 2Point9, Cash Money
	Susan Boyle	I Dreamed a Dream	Operatic pop, crossover, easy listening	Syco Music, Columbia
	Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers	The Live Anthology	Heartland rock, rock	Reprise
	Tom Waits	Glitter and Doom Live	Experimental rock	Anti-
November 24	Seabird	The Silent Night EP	Alternative rock, indie		[314]
	Wiz Khalifa	Deal or No Deal	Hip hop	Rostrum, iHipHop, Fontana
November 27	Westlife	Where We Are	Pop, pop rock	S, RCA, Sony Music
November 29	Pope Benedict XVI	Alma Mater	Christmas	Geffen	[315]
November 30	R. Kelly	Untitled	R&B	Jive

December

List of albums released in December 2009

Go to:    January   |   February   |   March   |   April   |   May   |   June   |   July   |   August   |   September   |   October   |   November   |   December   |   Back to top
Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Ref.
December 1	Allison Iraheta	Just like You	Pop rock, teen pop	19, Jive
	The Bravery	Stir the Blood	Post-punk revival	Island
	Juvenile	Cocky & Confident	Hip hop	Atlantic, UTP Records, eOne
	MxPx	Punk Rawk Christmas	Christian punk, skate punk, Christmas	Rock City Recording Company	[316]
	Priscilla Renea	Jukebox	Pop, rock, R&B	Capitol	[317]
	Thalía	Primera Fila	Latin pop	Sony Music Latin
December 7	Buraka Som Sistema	FabricLive.49	Kuduro, grime	Fabric Records	[318]
December 8	B.G.	Too Hood 2 Be Hollywood	Gangsta rap, Southern hip hop	Chopper City
	By Divine Right	Mutant Message	Indie rock	Hand Drawn Dracula	[319]
	Chris Brown	Graffiti	R&B, Eurodisco, synth-pop	Jive
	Gucci Mane	The State vs. Radric Davis	Hip hop, dirty south	1017 Brick Squad, Asylum, Warner Bros.
	The Mighty Mighty Bosstones	Pin Points and Gin Joints	Ska punk	Big Rig	[320]
	Puddle of Mudd	Volume 4: Songs in the Key of Love & Hate	Post-grunge	Flawless, Geffen	[321]
	Snoop Dogg	Malice n Wonderland	Hip hop	Doggystyle, Priority
	Thirty Seconds to Mars	This Is War	Alternative rock, progressive rock, experimental rock	Virgin
	Timbaland	Shock Value II	Hip hop, R&B, pop	Blackground, Mosley Music
	We the Kings	Smile Kid	Pop-punk, pop rock, power pop	S-Curve
December 11	Alicia Keys	The Element of Freedom	R&B	J
December 14	Kylie Minogue	Kylie Live in New York	Pop, dance, electronica	Parlophone	[322]
December 15	Obie Trice	Special Reserve	Hip hop	MoSS Appeal Music	[323]
	Robin Thicke	Sex Therapy: The Session	R&B, soul, hip hop	Star Trak, Interscope
	Seabird	Rocks into Rivers	Contemporary Christian music	Credential	[324]
	t.A.T.u.	Waste Management	Electronic, dance-pop	T.A. Music, Misterya Zvuka
December 18	Mary J. Blige	Stronger with Each Tear		Matriarch Records, Geffen
December 21	Cold War Kids	Behave Yourself	Indie rock, soul	Downtown, V2
	Eminem	Relapse: Refill	Hip hop	Aftermath, Shady, Interscope
	Hurricane Chris	Unleashed	Hip hop	Polo Grounds Music, J
	Mudvayne	Mudvayne	Nu metal, alternative metal	Epic
	Various artists	We Are Young Money	Hip hop, R&B	Young Money
December 22	John Reuben	Sex, Drugs and Self-Control	Christian hip hop	Gotee	[325]
December 25	Tyler, the Creator	Bastard	Alternative hip hop	Tyler, the Creator
December 28	Codeine Velvet Club	Codeine Velvet Club	Baroque pop	Island
December 29	Twenty One Pilots	Twenty One Pilots	Emo	Twenty One Pilots