Amazon.com releases picks for Best Music of 2009
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Amazon.com has published its choices for best music of 2009, with both editors' and customers' favorites for songs and albums of the year.
U2: No Line on the Horizon was the bestselling album of the year in both CD and mp3 format, while Amazon.com editors chose Neko Case's
Middle Cyclone as album of the year.
Amazon.com's 10 bestselling CDs of 2009:
U2: No Line on the Horizon
Susan Boyle: I Dreamed a Dream
Diana Krall: Quiet Nights
Bruce Springstein: Working on a Dream
Bob Dylan: Together Through Life
Green Day: 21st Century Breakdown
Dave Matthews Band: Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King
Playing for Change: Songs Around the World
Michael Bublé: Crazy Love
Neko Case: Middle Cyclone
The editors' top ten list in the same category presents an entirely different mix of albums, with only Middle Cyclone (chosen as number one by the editors) appearing on both lists. Other editors' picks include It's Blitz by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Pheonix by Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, and The Pain of Being Pure at Heart's self-titled album.
Also included a "You Might Have Missed" list, where editors highlight their favorite "underheard" albums of the year.
Amazon.com's Best of Music 2009
- 1 BANNED: The most controversial films
- 2 Spotify: 1 million plays, £108 return
- 3 Six Grammys, five years off: Adele puts love before career
- 4 Rich art collectors 'know the price of everything – and the value of nothing'
- 5 Adam Riches: A comedian who strikes fear into his audience
- 6 Mona Lisa's 'twin sister' is discovered – 500 years late
- 7 The artist vandalising advertising with poetry
- 1 Spotify: 1 million plays, £108 return
- 2 How Koscielny became prince of the Emirates
- 3 Apple admits it has a human rights problem
- 4 Mark Steel: If religion is 'marginal', I'm the Pope
- 5 No secularism please, we're British
- 6 Lightning kills an entire football team
- 7 Matthew Norman: There's always the Human Rights Act, Trevor
- 8 Special report: The hungry generation
- 9 I was born to be a killer. Every night I see the Devil in my dreams
- 10 Six Grammys, five years off: Adele puts love before career
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