NME Albums and Tracks of the Year, 2009
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.
Albums
- Bold: Album contains Song of the Year
| # | Album | Artist | Country of origin |
| 1 | Primary Colours | The Horrors | UK |
| 2 | xx | The xx | UK |
| 3 | It's Blitz! | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | USA |
| 4 | Two Dancers | Wild Beasts | UK |
| 5 | Merriweather Post Pavilion | Animal Collective | USA |
| 6 | Veckatimest | Grizzly Bear | USA |
| 7 | A Brief History of Love | The Big Pink | UK |
| 8 | Tarot Sport | Fuck Buttons | UK |
| 9 | Fever Ray | Fever Ray | SWE |
| 10 | Kings & Queens | Jamie T | UK |
| 11 | West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum | Kasabian | UK |
| 12 | Humbug | Arctic Monkeys | UK |
| 13 | La Roux | La Roux | UK |
| 14 | Journal for Plague Lovers | Manic Street Preachers | UK |
| 15 | The Pains of Being Pure at Heart | The Pains of Being Pure at Heart | USA |
| 16 | Album | Girls | USA |
| 17 | Sigh No More | Mumford & Sons | UK |
| 18 | Travels with Myself and Another | Future of the Left | UK |
| 19 | Wall of Arms | The Maccabees | UK |
| 20 | Bitte Orca | Dirty Projectors | USA |
| 21 | Get Color | Health | USA |
| 22 | Two Suns | Bat for Lashes | UK |
| 23 | Kingdom of Rust | Doves | UK |
| 24 | Love Comes Close | Cold Cave | USA |
| 25 | It's Not Me, It's You | Lily Allen | UK |
| 26 | Lungs | Florence and the Machine | UK |
| 27 | A Woman a Man Walked By | PJ Harvey & John Parish | UK |
| 28 | My Maudlin Career | Camera Obscura | UK |
| 29 | Phrazes for the Young | Julian Casablancas | USA |
| 30 | Ignore the Ignorant | The Cribs | UK |
| 31 | Jewellery | Micachu | UK |
| 32 | The First Days of Spring | Noah and the Whale | UK |
| 33 | The Blueprint 3 | Jay-Z | USA |
| 34 | Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | Phoenix | FRA |
| 35 | The Eternal | Sonic Youth | USA |
| 36 | Summertime! EP | The Drums | USA |
| 37 | Manners | Passion Pit | USA |
| 38 | King of Jeans | Pissed Jeans | USA |
| 39 | Post-Nothing | Japandroids | CAN |
| 40 | Alight of Night | Crystal Stilts | USA |
| 41 | Only Revolutions | Biffy Clyro | UK |
| 42 | Walking on a Dream | Empire of the Sun | AUS |
| 43 | Franz Ferdinand | UK | |
| 44 | Rated O | Oneida | USA |
| 45 | Truelove's Gutter | Richard Hawley | UK |
| 46 | Grey Britain | Gallows | UK |
| 47 | Dance Mother | Telepathe | USA |
| 48 | Logos | Atlas Sound | USA |
| 49 | Middle Cyclone | Neko Case | USA |
| 50 | I Had the Blues But I Shook Them Loose | Bombay Bicycle Club | UK |
Countries represented
- = 27
- = 19
- = 1
- = 1
- = 1
- = 1
Singles
| # | Track | Artist | Country of origin |
| 1 | "Zero" | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | USA |
| 2 | "Sea Within a Sea" | The Horrors | UK |
| 3 | "Dominos" | The Big Pink | UK |
| 4 | "Bonkers" | Dizzee Rascal featuring Armand Van Helden | UK / USA |
| 5 | "My Girls" | Animal Collective | USA |
| 6 | "Empire State of Mind" | Jay-Z featuring Alicia Keys | USA |
| 7 | "Let's Go Surfing" | The Drums | USA |
| 8 | "In For the Kill" | La Roux | UK |
| 9 | "Paparazzi" | Lady Gaga | USA |
| 10 | "Die Slow" | Health | USA |
| 11 | "Cornerstone" | Arctic Monkeys | UK |
| 12 | "Fire" | Kasabian | UK |
| 13 | "11th Dimension" | Julian Casablancas | USA |
| 14 | "Sticks N Stones" | Jamie T | UK |
| 15 | "Crying Lightning" | Arctic Monkeys | UK |
| 16 | "Daniel" | Bat for Lashes | UK |
| 17 | "Bicycle" | Memory Tapes | USA |
| 18 | "Hyph Mngo" | Joy Orbison | UK |
| 19 | "In For The Kill" | La Roux | UK |
| 20 | "The Fear" | Lily Allen | UK |
| 21 | "Poker Face" | Lady Gaga | USA |
| 22 | "Velvet" | The Big Pink | UK |
| 23 | "Stillness Is The Move" | Dirty Projectors | USA |
| 24 | "Bulletproof" | La Roux | UK |
| 25 | "That Golden Rule" | Biffy Clyro | UK |
| 26 | "Hooting and Howling" | Wild Beasts | UK |
| 27 | "Solo" | Chew Lips | UK |
| 28 | "Islands" | The xx | UK |
| 29 | "She Wolf" | Shakira | COL |
| 30 | "If I Had a Heart" | Fever Ray | SWE |
| 31 | "Arming Eritrea" | Future of the Left | UK |
| 32 | "While You Wait for the Others" | Grizzly Bear | USA |
| 33 | "Lisztomania" | Phoenix | FRA |
| 34 | "Jump in the Pool" | Friendly Fires | UK |
| 35 | "New in Town" | Little Boots | UK |
| 36 | "Feel It All Around" | Washed Out | USA |
| 37 | "Blood Bank" | Bon Iver | USA |
| 38 | "Hellhole Ratrace" | Girls | USA |
| 39 | "Surf Solar" | Fuck Buttons | UK |
| 40 | "Swim Until You Can't See the Land" | Frightened Rabbit | UK |
| 41 | "I'm Not Your Toy" | La Roux | UK |
| 42 | "Jackie Collins Existential Question Time" | Manic Street Preachers | UK |
| 43 | "The Captain" | Biffy Clyro | UK |
| 44 | "Skeleton Boy" | Friendly Fires | UK |
| 45 | "Two Weeks" | Grizzly Bear | USA |
| 46 | "D.O.A. " | Jay-Z | USA |
| 47 | "No Kind Words" | The Maccabees | UK |
| 48 | "Drumming Song" | Florence and the Machine | UK |
| 49 | "Cheat on Me" | The Cribs | UK |
| 50 | "I Became a Prostitute" | The Twilight Sad | UK |
Artists with Multiple entries
4 Entries- La Roux
- The Big Pink
- Jay-Z
- Lady Gaga
- Arctic Monkeys
- Biffy Clyro
- Grizzly Bear
- Friendly Fires
Countries represented
- = 31
- = 17
- = 1
- = 1
- = 1