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Top 200 of 2009
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Top 200 of 2006
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Dec 2009
#1 Tegan & Sara
Nov 2009
#1 YSP!WSP!
Oct 2009
#1 Two Hours Traffic
Sept 2009
#1 Black Mold
Aug 2009
#1 Ohbijou
July 2009
#1 Sonic Youth
June 2009
#1 Metric
May 2009
#1 Metric
April 2009
#1 Julie Doiron
Mar 2009
#1 Animal Collective
Feb 2009
#1 Animal Collective
Jan 2009
#1 The Bycycles
Dec 2008
#1 Mother Mother
Nov 2008
#1Mother Mother
Oct 2008
#1Chad VanGaalen
Sept 2008
#1Chad VanGaalen
Aug 2008
#1Wolf Parade
July 2008
#1Wolf Parade
June 2008
#1 Islands
May 2008
#1Constantines
April 2008
#1Crystal Castles
Mar 2008
#1Black Mountain
Feb 2008
#1Black Mountain
Jan 2008
#1Buck 65
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With all of 2009 behind us we can finally tally up the top 200 of 2009. And who's at the top - Canada's budding superstar Joel Plaskettt and his triple(!!!) album Three. Right behind him are Metric with Fantasies and 2007 Top 200 #1 Julie Doiron with I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day. Another previous annual Top 200 #1 (2006), the Pink Mountaintops, are at #4 with Outside Love and Canda's American Sweetheart Neko Case is at #5 with her album Middle Cyclone. Get the whole chart story in the full !earshot top 200 of 2009 and weekly charts.

Finishing up the year with the December !earshot top 200 finds Tegan and Sara at #1 with Sainthood closely followed by The Flaming Lipsand last month's chart toppers You say Party! We Say Die! Check out the full December Top 200.

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Top 200 of 2009 Reviews
The Balconies - The Balconies
Black Mold - Snow Blindness Is Crystal Antz
Andy Caldwell - Obsession
Jean-Paul De Roover - Windows and Doors
Dixon - Temporary Secretary
Grimlord - Dolce Vita Sath-an as
Hawke - +++
Infusion - All Night Sun Light
Jay-J - Love Alive
Kids On TV - Shape Shifting Mutants / Remixes Volume 1
Make Your Exit - Remind Me The Reason I Came
Modernboys Moderngirls - I Might As Well Break It
Spiral Beach - The Only Really Thing
Various - 10 Years of Statra Vol 2
Vinyl Life - Vinyl Life
Volcanoless In Canada - The Way Forward
Way Out West - We Love Machine
Whale Tooth - Whale Tooth
and more.
!earshot Top 50
For the Week Ending: Tuesday, December 22, 2009
TW  Artist - Title - (Label)
1 Tegan And Sara
Sainthood - (Sire)
2 Tom Waits
Glitter And Doom Live - (Anti-)
3 Devendra Banhart
What Will We Be - (Warner)
4 The xx
XX - (Young Turks)
5 The Parkas
You Should Have Killed Us When You Had The Chance - (Saved By Radio)
6 The Flaming Lips
Embryonic - (Warner)
7 Jenocide
Machines To Make Us Wet - (Self-Released)
8 Various
Daptone Gold - (Daptone)
9 We Are Wolves
Invisible Violence - (Dare To Care)
10 Blue Rodeo
The Things We Left Behind - (Warner)
View the full Top 50

Specialty Charts #1s
Electronic Vitaminsforyou - He Closed His Eyes So He Could Dance With You - (Self-Released)
Hip Hop M.O. - Eskimocentricity - (Self-Released)
InternationalAlex Cuba - Alex Cuba - (Caracol)
Jazz Various - Putumayo Presents: Jazz Around the World - (Putumayo)
Loud Sacrifice - The Ones I Condemn - (Sonic Unyon)
Folk/Roots/BluesCorb Lund - Losin' Lately Gambler - (New West)

!earshot December Top 200
For the Month of December 2009
TW  Artist - Title - (Label)
1 Tegan And Sara
Sainthood - (Sire)
2 The Flaming Lips
Embryonic - (Warner)
3 You Say Party! We Say Die!
XXXX - (Paper Bag)
4 The King Khan & BBQ Show
Invisible Girl - (In The Red)
5 We Are Wolves
Invisible Violence - (Dare To Care)
6 The xx
XX - (Young Turks)
7 Tom Waits
Glitter And Doom Live - (Anti-)
8 Do Make Say Think
Other Truths - (Constellation)
9 Ox
Burnout - (Weewerk)
10 Islands
Vapours - (Anti-)
View the full !earshot Top 200

Specialty Charts #1s
Electronic CFCF - Continent - (Paper Bag)
Hip Hop Brother Ali - Us - (Rhymesayers)
International Various - Ghana Special - Modern Highlife Afro-Sounds & Ghanaian Blues 1968-81 - (Soundway)
Jazz Canaille - Potential Things - (Standard Form)
Loud Converge - Axe To Fall - (Epitaph)
Folk/Roots/Blues Ox - Burnout - (Weewerk)

!earshot Top 200 of 2009
For January to December 2009
TW  Artist - Title - (Label)
1 Joel Plaskett
Three - (MapleMusic)
2 Metric
Fantasies - (Last Gang)
3 Julie Doiron
I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day - (Endearing)
4 Pink Mountaintops
Outside Love - (Jagjaguwar)
5 Neko Case
Middle Cyclone - (Anti-)
6 Grizzly Bear
Veckatimest - (Warp)
7 Great Lake Swimmers
Lost Channels - (Nettwerk)
8 You Say Party! We Say Die!
XXXX - (Paper Bag)
9 Ohbijou
Beacons - (Last Gang)
10 Sonic Youth
The Eternal - (Matador)
View the full !earshot Top 200

Specialty Charts #1s
Electronic Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care - (Domino)
Hip Hop K'Naan - Troubador - (A&M)
International Amadou And Mariam - Welcome To Mali - (Because)
Jazz Gypsophilia - Sa-Ba-Da-Ow! - (Self-Released)
Loud Mastodon - Crack The Skye - (Warner)
Folk/Roots/BluesRomi Mayes - Achin In Yer Bones - (Self-Released)

 

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