Yeah Yeah Yeahs Is The CHARTattack Staff Top Album For 2009

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs' It's Blitz! is the CHARTattack staff's favourite album of the year 2009.

We polled all our editors, writers and photographers for their top 10 albums of the year, the weighed them 10 points for first, nine for second, etc. Contributors who submitted top five lists had theirs weighted in twos, i.e. ten, eight, six points...

You can see the individual top album lists from every CHARTattack contributor here.

So without further ado, here are the Top 15 albums of the year, as determined by the CHARTattack staff (feel free to click on the link to see what we said about the album when it came out).

1. YEAH YEAH YEAHS It's Blitz!
2. PHOENIX Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
3. GRIZZLY BEAR Veckatimest
4. DIRTY PROJECTORS Bitte Orca
5. (tie) THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
5. (tie) THE XX The XX
6. (tie) ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Merriweather Post Pavilion
6. (tie) JAPANDROIDS Post-Nothing
7. METRIC Fantasies
8. (tie) GIRLS Album
8. (tie) PINK MOUNTAINTOPS Outside Love
9. BAND OF SKULLS Baby Darling Doll Face Honey
10. TIMBER TIMBRE Timber Timbre