
October 04 - October 10, 2009
| TW | LW | # | ARTIST | ALBUM | LABEL |
| 1 | -- | 1 | Vivian Girls | Everything Goes Wrong | In The Red |
| 2 | 11 | 2 | Why? | Eskimo Snow | Anticon |
| 3 | 6 | 4 | Vic Chesnutt | At The Cut | Constellation |
| 4 | 15 | 4 | Arctic Monkeys | Humbug | Domino |
| 5 | 7 | 7 | Lightning Dust * | Infinite Light | Jagjaguwar |
| 6 | 19 | 3 | Kill The Lights * | Fog Area | Independent |
| 7 | 5 | 5 | Hidden Cameras * | Origin: Orphan | Arts & Crafts |
| 8 | 10 | 5 | Health | Get Color | Lovepump United |
| 9 | 1 | 6 | Jay Reatard | Watch Me Fall | Matador |
| 10 | 2 | 5 | Two Hours Traffic * | Territory | Bumstead |
| 11 | 17 | 5 | Amy Millan * | Masters Of The Burial | Arts & Crafts |
| 12 | -- | 1 | Ettes | Do You Want Power | Take Root |
| 13 | -- | 1 | Spiral Beach * | The Only Really Thing | Sparks |
| 14 | 50 | 2 | Cousins * | Out On Town | Youth Club |
| 15 | -- | 1 | You Say Party! We Say Die! * | XXXX | Paper Bag |
| 16 | 4 | 11 | Ohbijou * | Beacons | Last Gang |
| 17 | 26 | 5 | Still Life Still * | Girls Come Too | Arts & Crafts |
| 18 | -- | 1 | Bloodshot Bill * | Git High Tonight | Transistor 66 |
| 19 | 16 | 3 | Wild Beasts | Two Dancers | Domino |
| 20 | -- | 1 | York Redoubt * | York Redoubt | Noyes |
| 21 | 14 | 9 | Rural Alberta Advantage * | Hometowns | Independent |
| 22 | 27 | 4 | Amelia Curran * | Hunter, Hunter | Six Shooter |
| 23 | RE | 6 | Zeus * | Sounds Like Zeus | Arts & Crafts |
| 24 | 13 | 3 | Rick White Album * | 1/3/07 | Blue Fog |
| 25 | -- | 1 | Antipop Consortium | Fluorescent Black | Big Dada |
| 26 | 21 | 2 | Reigning Sound | Love And Curses | In The Red |
| 27 | 49 | 7 | Band Of Skulls | Baby Darling Doll Face Honey | Shangri-La |
| 28 | -- | 1 | Vincat * | Hoi Polloi | Hive Creative Labs |
| 29 | 31 | 14 | Sunset Rubdown * | Dragonslayer | Jagjaguwar |
| 30 | 42 | 2 | Spirits * | Spirits | Sonic Unyon |
| 31 | RE | 16 | Japandroids * | Post-Nothing | Unfamiliar |
| 32 | 12 | 5 | Miesha And The Spanks * | Mmmade For Me | Transistor 66 |
| 33 | 9 | 3 | Polvo | In Prism | Merge |
| 34 | 37 | 21 | Joel Plaskett * | Three | MapleMusic |
| 35 | 3 | 8 | Black Mold * | Snow Blindness Is Crystal Antz | Flemish Eye |
| 36 | -- | 1 | B-Lines * | Burnt CDs | Nominal |
| 37 | -- | 1 | Silver Starling * | Silver Starling | Last Gang |
| 38 | -- | 1 | Spins * | Icebergs Moving Through Open Plains | Independent |
| 39 | 8 | 6 | Various Artists * | Friends Of Bellwoods Vol. 2 | Out Of This Spark |
| 40 | -- | 1 | Various Artists * | Everybody Dance Now Vol. 4 | Independent |
| 41 | RE | 3 | Cougarettes * | Milk Fangs | Independent |
| 42 | 39 | 3 | Various Artists * | Beatroute 5th Anniversary | Independent |
| 43 | -- | 1 | Cuff The Duke * | Way Down Here | Universal |
| 44 | 28 | 7 | Dan Mangan * | Nice, Nice Very Nice | File Under Music |
| 45 | -- | 1 | Dead Letters * | Dead Letters | Independent |
| 46 | 33 | 5 | Young Galaxy * | Invisible Republic | Fontana North |
| 47 | -- | 1 | Big Rude Jake * | Quicksand | Independent |
| 48 | -- | 1 | Brandi Disterheft * | Second Side | Justin Time |
| 49 | -- | 1 | Dancehall Free For All * | 9-5 Lives | Independent |
| 50 | -- | 1 | Islands * | Vapours | Anti |
Charts compiled from the following stations:
CFBU, CFBX, CFMH, CFMU, CFOU, CFRC, CFRE, CFRU, CFUR, CFUV, CHLY, CHMA, CHMR, CHOQ, CHRW, CHRY, CHUO, CHYZ, CIBL, CIOI, CISM, CITR, CIUT, CJAM, CJLO, CJSF, CJSW, CJUM, CKDU, CKLU, CKUA, CKUT, CKXU

| 1 | Stars * Set Yourself On Fire |
| 2 | Death From Above 197 You're A Woman, I'm A... |
| 3 | Tom Waits Real Gone |
| 4 | Neko Case The Tigers Have Spoken |
| 5 | Arcade Fire * Funeral |

| 1 | Nightwish Once |
| 2 | Amon Amarth Fate Of The Norns |
| 3 | Megadeth The System Has Failed |
| 4 | Cradle Of Filth Nymphetamine |
| 5 | Augury Concealed |

| 1 | De La Soul The Grind Date |
| 2 | Talib Kweli The Beautiful Struggle |
| 3 | K-OS * Joyful Rebellion |
| 4 | Mixmaster Mike Bangzilla |
| 5 | McEnroe & Birdapes * Nothing Is Cool |

| 1 | Books On Tape The Business End |
| 2 | Junior Boys * Last Exit |
| 3 | DJ Krush Jaku |
| 4 | Solvent * Apples & Synthesizers |
| 5 | Peas Filters |

| 1 | Zap Mama Ancestry In Progress |
| 2 | Issa Bagayogo Tassoumakan |
| 3 | Various Artists Is It Rolling Bob?: Regga |
| 4 | Steel Pulse African Holocaust |
| 5 | Mike Brooks The Earth Is The Fullness |

| 1 | Art Ens. Of Chicago Sirius Calling |
| 2 | Bill Frisell Unspeakable |
| 3 | Buddy Rich No Funny Hats |
| 4 | Brad Mehldau Live In Tokyo |
| 5 | Medeski Martin & Woo End Of The World Party... |


