List of 2009 albums

This is a list of music albums released in the year 2009.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Albums released

All releases are an LP unless otherwise stated.
Multiple entries for the same day are arranged alphabetically by the album's name.
Release dates may vary in different countries.

See also

• 2009 in music
• Timeline of musical events

Release		Album	Artist	Notes
<font-size=300%> J A N U A R Y	2	December 32	3 Feet Smaller
	6	Ordinary Riches	Company of Thieves	Digital
		Love, Save the Empty	Erin McCarley
	12	Audacity	Ugly Duckling
	13	New World Orphans	Hed PE
		Hordes of Chaos	Kreator
		Life In-Between	Royal Bliss
		Notorious	Various Artists
	19	To Lose My Life...	White Lies	Debut
	20	Merriweather Post Pavilion	Animal Collective
		The Crying Light	Antony and the Johnsons
		From the Heart	Babyface
		Alligator Purse	BeauSoleil
		Noble Beast	Andrew Bird
		Davy	Coconut Records
		Simon	Dirty Little Rabbits	EP
		The Empyrean	John Frusciante
		Slow & Steady Seduction: Phase II	Anya Marina
		Grand	Matt and Kim
		The Crawling Distance	Robert Pollard
		Fame, Fortune and Fornication	Reel Big Fish
		Mantis	Umphrey's McGee
	21	Serious Japanese	Teriyaki Boyz
	23	A-Lex	Sepultura
		Time Waits for No Slave	Napalm Death
	26	Tonight: Franz Ferdinand	Franz Ferdinand
	26	Checkmate Savage	The Phantom Band
	27	Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future	The Bird and the Bee
		Crooked X	Crooked X	Debut
		For(N)ever	Hoobastank
		Eye Legacy	Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes	Posthumous
		13 Japanese Birds Vol. 1: Suzume	Merzbow
		Radio Disney Jams, Vol. 11	Various Artists
		The Time of the Assassins	Nickel Eye	Debut
		Working on a Dream	Bruce Springsteen
		Hometown	Ten Second Epic
	30	Un'altra direzione	Nek
		Slaughterhouse on the Prairie	Buckethead
	31	All Hail Pessimism	Den Saakaldte
<font-size=300%> F E B R U A R Y	2	Archangels in Black	Adagio
		Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue with the Stars	Blut Aus Nord
	3	Feel That Fire	Dierks Bentley
		Evisceration Plague	Cannibal Corpse
		The Fray	The Fray
		Changing Horses	Ben Kweller
		Distractions	The Loved Ones	EP
		The Pains of Being Pure at Heart	The Pains of Being Pure at Heart	Debut
		Lonely Road	The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
		Two Tongues	Two Tongues
		Love, Hate and Then There's You	The Von Bondies
	9	Red Light Fever	Hot Leg	Debut
	10	It's Not Me, It's You	Lily Allen
		Testimony: Vol. 2, Love & Politics	India.Arie
		Incredibad	The Lonely Island
		Labyrinthes	Malajube
		Innocence & Instinct	Red
		The Rebirth	Bobby Valentino
		VOTA	VOTA	CD release
	15	Scrambles	Bomb the Music Industry!
	16	Years of Refusal	Morrissey
	17	The Century of Self	...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
		Sagarmatha	The Appleseed Cast
		Hush	Asobi Seksu
		Audrye Sessions	Audrye Sessions
		March of the Zapotec/Holland EP	Beirut
		Fallbrooke	Fallbrooke
		Hood Hop 2	J-Kwon
		Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit	Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
		Habeas Corpus	Living Things
		Years of Refusal	Morrissey
		Pins and Panzers	Plushgun	Debut
		Absolute Zero	Tetrafusion	Debut
		Carving Desert Canyons	Scale the Summit
		What It Takes	The Sleeping
	24	Smoke N Mirrors	B-Real
		200 Million Thousand	Black Lips
		Padded Room	Joe Budden
		Hungry Bird	Clem Snide
		Ordinary Riches	Company of Thieves	CD
		Jet Black	Gentleman Reg
		Earthsblood	God Forbid
		For the Lions	Hatebreed
		Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience	Jonas Brothers
		Troubadour	K'naan
		Wrath	Lamb of God
		13 Japanese Birds Vol. 2: Fukurou	Merzbow
		Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl	Van Morrison	Live
		Easy Does It	Jake Owen
		Real Recognize Real	Project Pat
		Kalivägi	Wyrd
<font-size=300%> M A R C H	2	The Liberty of Norton Folgate	Madness
		Invaders Must Die	The Prodigy
		Fine Fascination	Red Light Company
	3	Middle Cyclone	Neko Case
		Neverender: Children of The Fence Edition	Coheed and Cambria	Box set
		Loudest Common Denominator	Drowning Pool	Live CD/DVD
		Reintegration Time	Shout Out Out Out Out
		The Now and Not Yet	Jeremy Riddle
		No Line on the Horizon	U2
	7	Better Than Heavy	Mongrel	Debut
	9	Jewellery	Micachu	Debut
		Polly Scattergood	Polly Scattergood
		Amor Vincit Omnia	Pure Reason Revolution
		All the Plans	Starsailor
		Questamation	Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker
		It's Blitz!	Yeah Yeah Yeahs
	10	A Million Trillion Stars	Boomkat	Physical release
		Yes	Pet Shop Boys
		Angels of Love	Yngwie Malmsteen
		All I Ever Wanted	Kelly Clarkson
		Love vs. Money	The-Dream
		Round 2	J. Holiday
		No Regrets	Dope
		Scream	Chris Cornell
		Mama, I'm Swollen	Cursive
		Supporting Caste	Propagandhi
		Not Without A Fight	New Found Glory
	11	Disco Defenders	Alcazar
	12	Sorry, Sorry	Super Junior
	16	My Soul Sings	Delirious?	Last album, Live CD/DVD
	17	When I Hit the Ground	Ace Enders and a Million Different People
		Channel 10	Capone-N-Noreaga
		Don't Feed Da Animals	Gorilla Zoe
		The Quiet Hype	Jupiter Rising
		Fist of God	MSTRKRFT
		Naked Willie	Willie Nelson
		Industry Giants	Superdrag
	18	The Queen	Velvet
	23	Crooked Timber	Therapy?
		Junior	Röyksopp
	24	Bromst	Dan Deacon
		Boss of All Bosses	Slim Thug
		Crack the Skye	Mastodon
		Fortress Round My Heart	Ida Maria	US
		The Hazards of Love	The Decemberists
		Hymn to the Immortal Wind	Mono
		Hannah Montana: The Movie	Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus
		In A Perfect World...	Keri Hilson
		Now 30	Various Artists
		Pray IV Reign	Jim Jones
		Running With the Wasters	The Takeover UK
	25	NEXT LEVEL	Ayumi Hamasaki
	31	New Jack City II	Bow Wow
		R.O.O.T.S.	Flo Rida
		UGK 4 Life	UGK
<font-size=300%> A P R I L	1	Big Science	BWO
	6	Kingdom of Rust	Doves
		Sun Gangs	The Veils
	7	10	MercyMe	Compilation
		Fantasies	Metric
		Back to Tennessee	Billy Ray Cyrus
		Goodbye To The Machine	Hurt	Europe
		Guilt	Mims
		The Ultimate Collection	Newsboys	compilation
		Unstoppable	Rascal Flatts
		The Last Kiss	Jadakiss
		We Are the Same	The Tragically Hip
		When Sweet Sleep Returned	Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound
	13	Lovetune for Vacuum	Soap&Skin	Debut
	14	Forever in a Day	Day26
		Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian	Prefuse 73
		Little White Lies	Fastball
	20	Asleep in the Bread Aisle	Asher Roth
		Be Human	Fightstar
		Sounds of the Universe	Depeche Mode
	21	The Infection	Chimaira
		Deeper Than Rap	Rick Ross
		The Long Fall Back to Earth	Jars of Clay
	28	Coaster	NOFX
		The Devil You Know	Heaven & Hell	Debut
The Voice		Mike Jones
<font-size=300%> M A Y	5	Awake?	Zao
		Cause I Sez So	New York Dolls
		Crash	Decyfer Down
		Epiphany	Chrisette Michele
		Fantasy Ride	Ciara
		For the Lions	Hatebreed
		Grey Britain	Gallows
		In the Hands of God	Newsboys
		Outer South	Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band
		Primary Colours	The Horrors
		The Promise	Bif Naked
		Roadsinger (To Warm You Through The Night)	Yusuf
		Sandwich	Psychostick
		Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free	Akron/Family
		Skull Gang	Skull Gang
		Sunrise in the Land of Milk and Honey	Cracker
		To the Death	Earth Crisis	North American release
		Wars and Rumors of Wars	The Chariot
		With Roots Above and Branches Below	The Devil Wears Prada
	7	Born in 69	Bob Sinclar
	11	Duke Pandemonium	Marmaduke Duke
	12	Crime Pays	Cam'ron
		Divided by Night	The Crystal Method
		This Is The One	Utada
		Align the Planets	In Case of Fire
		Fast Life	Paul Wall
	13	Dead by April	Dead by April
	15	21st Century Breakdown	Green Day
		LeftRightLeftRightLeft	Coldplay	Live album/free download
	18	Journal For Plague Lovers	Manic Street Preachers
		Manners	Passion Pit
	19	Back on My B.S.	Busta Rhymes
		City of Black & White	Mat Kearney
		Blackout! 2	Method Man & Redman
		Relapse	Eminem
		Kingdom of Welcome Addiction	IAMX
	25	Préliminaires	Iggy Pop
	26	Ali e radici	Eros Ramazzotti
		Procol Harum - In Concert With the Danish National Concert Orchestra and Choir	Procol Harum	Live
		Veckatimest	Grizzly Bear
		With Echoes in the Movement of Stone	Minsk
	27	Skyforger	Amorphis
29	Fairytales	Alexander Rybak
<font-size=300%> J U N E	1	The Battle	Patrick Wolf
	2	...In Shallow Seas We Sail	Emery
		Let the Dominoes Fall	Rancid
		Mitchel Musso	Mitchel Musso
		Crossing the Rubicon	The Sounds
	3	The E.N.D.	Black Eyed Peas
	5	Chickenfoot	Chickenfoot	Debut
	8	West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum	Kasabian
		Hands	Little Boots
		Battle for the Sun	Placebo
	9	Disney Channel Playlist	Various Artists
		The Eternal	Sonic Youth
	15	Greatest Hits	Aqua
		Suites & Sweets	Bradley Joseph
		Born Legendary	Hussein Fatal
		Spinnerette	Spinnerette	uk release
	16	Lines, Vines and Trying Times	Jonas Brothers
		Best Night of Our Lives	Everyday Sunday
		Street Sweeper Social Club	Street Sweeper Social Club	Debut
	23	Old Crows / Young Cardinals	Alexisonfire
		Black Clouds & Silver Linings	Dream Theater
		Farm	Dinosaur Jr
		The Eternal Return	Darkest Hour
		Octahedron	The Mars Volta
		III	Maylene and the Sons of Disaster
		Back and Fourth	Pete Yorn
	30	Killswitch Engage	Killswitch Engage
<font-size=300%> J U L Y	3	Blood Oath	Suffocation	UK Release
		Evacuate the Dancefloor	Cascada
	7	Nothing Personal	All Time Low
		Shane Tutmarc	Shouting at a Silent Sky
		Drama Junkie Queen	Billy Boy on Poison
		A Higher Place	Born of Osiris
		Strange Cousins from the West	Clutch
		The Tropic Rot	Poison the Well
		Ruination	Job for a Cowboy
	13	Totems Flare	Clark
	14	Pray for Villains	DevilDriver
		A Touch of Evil: Live	Judas Priest
		Constellations (August_Burns_Red_album)	August Burns Red
		Billy Talent III	Billy Talent
		Leave This Town	Daughtry
		Horehound	The Dead Weather	Debut
		Ocean Eyes	Owl City	Digital release
		Picket Fence Cartel	Project 86
		Tri-Polar	Sick Puppies
	15	Years In The Darkness	Arkaea	Debut
	17	Battlefield	Jordin Sparks
	21	It Hates You	He Is Legend
		Malefeasance	L'Acéphale
		Music For Cougars	Sugar Ray
		Burn Burn	Our Lady Peace
A Little Happiness		Aimee Allen
28	Guilty Pleasure	Ashley Tisdale
<font-size=300%> A U G U S T	4	Signal Morning	Circulatory System
		Fearless	Phillips, Craig and Dean
		Bright Side of Life	Rebelution
		No One's First and You're Next	Modest Mouse
		Take Over	Aaron Shust
	7	Evangelion	Behemoth	Nuclear Blast Records Release
	9	Beggars	Thrice	UK Release
	11	Hot Mess	Cobra Starship
		The Lost Get Found	Britt Nicole
		Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II	Raekwon
		The Great Stone War	Winds of Plague
	18	My Old, Familiar Friend	Brendan Benson
		Rebirth	Lil Wayne
		You Can't Take It with You	As Tall As Lions
		Ursa Major	Third Eye Blind
	24	Humbug	Arctic Monkeys	UK Release
		Light	Matisyahu
		Ellipse	Imogen Heap
	25	Aim and Ignite	fun.	Debut
		Awake	Skillet
		Hitmixes	Lady Gaga	Remix E.P.
		Love Is on the Move	Leeland
		Son of the Morning	Oh, Sleeper
		Rabbit	Collective Soul
		Shaka Rock	Jet
		Lady Love	LeToya
		The Outsiders	Needtobreathe
		These Simple Truths	Sidewalk Prophets	Debut
		Tomorrow	Sean Kingston
		We Shall Not Be Shaken	Matt Redman
		Your Songs	Harry Connick, Jr.	Vinyl LP
	29	Rebelution	Pitbull	Polo Grounds Music
		Breakthrough	Colbie Caillat
	31	Sci-Fi Crimes	Chevelle	Epic Records
		Artwork	The Used
		The Time of Our Lives	Miley Cyrus	Walmart Exclusive E.P.
<font-size=300> S E P T E M B E R	1	Before the Frost...Until the Freeze	The Black Crowes	Silver Arrow Records
		Everything Sad Is Coming Untrue	Jason Gray
		Ocean Eyes	Owl City	Physical release
		Stockholm Syndrome	Derek Webb
	7	Poetry of the Deed	Frank Turner
		Veil of Ignorance	Raised Fist
	8	Love & War	BarlowGirl
		Love Drunk	Boys Like Girls
		Popular Songs	Yo La Tengo
		The Blueprint 3	Jay-Z
		Heartbeat Radio	Sondre Lerche
		Welcome to the Masquerade	Thousand Foot Krutch
	9	Last Look at Eden	Europe
	11	Welcome to the Dance	No Angels
	14	Turn It Up	Pixie Lott
	15	Anomaly	Ace Frehley	Bronx Born Records
		Keep the Party Alive EP	Family Force 5	EP
		Endgame	Megadeth
		Break Up	Scarlett Johansson & Pete Yorn	Atco/Rhino
		Man on the Moon: The End of Day	Kid Cudi	Debut
		Mi Plan	Nelly Furtado
		The Chair in the Doorway	Living Colour
		The Resistance	Muse
		The Incident	Porcupine Tree	Roadrunner
	20	Backspacer	Pearl Jam
	21	Tongue N' Cheek	Dizzee Rascal
		The Boy Who Knew Too Much	Mika
	22	Daisy	Brand New
		Church Music	David Crowder Band
		War Is the Answer	Five Finger Death Punch
		Live Life Loud	Hawk Nelson
		The Listening	Lights
		Confessions	Pillar
		The Days of Grays	Sonata Arctica
		Monsters of Folk	Monsters of Folk	Shangri-La Music
		Life Starts Now	Three Days Grace
	25	Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us	Paradise Lost
	28	Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful?	Paloma Faith
		Love and Terror	The Cinematics
	29	1UP!	illScarlett
		Agents of the Underground	Strung Out
		Beautiful Creatures	Bob Schneider
		Black Gives Way to Blue	Alice in Chains
		Brand New Eyes	Paramore	Fueled by Ramen
		Celebration	Madonna
		Crash Love	AFI
		Dear Agony	Breaking Benjamin
		Dethalbum II	Dethklok
		Kiss & Tell	Selena Gomez
<font-size=300> O C T O B E R	5	Love 2	Air	Europe release
	6	Forget and Not Slow Down	Relient K
		How Many Kings: Songs for Christmas	Downhere
		Hope Rising	Fee
		Family Force 5 Christmas Pageant	Family Force 5
		Humanoid	Tokio Hotel
		Mehri Edo	Chrispa
		Need	Todd Agnew
		Glory in the Highest: Christmas Songs of Worship	Chris Tomlin
		Sonic Boom	Kiss
		There Is No Enemy	Built to Spill
		This Is Us	Backstreet Boys
		WOW Hits 2010	Various Artists
		The Life Of The World To Come	The Mountain Goats
	9	She Wolf	Shakira
	12	In This Light and On This Evening	Editors
	13	Out of Ashes	Dead By Sunrise
		QU	Sherwood
	16	Liebe ist für alle da	Rammstein
	20	It Is Well	Kutless
	21	The Butterfly Effect	Diana Yukawa	Sony Music
	26	This Is It	Michael Jackson	Posthumous release; Sony Music
		3 Words	Cheryl Cole
		Digital Rock Star	Space Cowboy
	27	The Great Misdirect	Between the Buried and Me
		Save Me San Francisco	Train
		Congregation of the Damned	Atreyu
		Full Circle	Creed
Funhouse: The Tour Edition		P!nk
<font-size=300%> N O V E M B E R	3	Everything Is Different	Shane & Shane
		In Love & War	Amerie
		World Painted Blood	Slayer
		Play On	Carrie Underwood
		Monster Monster	The Almost
		Say Anything	Say Anything
		Beauty Will Rise	Steven Curtis Chapman
		Raditude	Weezer	US Release
	9	Only Revolutions	Biffy Clyro
	10	Memento Mori	Flyleaf
		Hello Hurricane	Switchfoot
	17	Addicted	The Devin Townsend Project
		Echo	Leona Lewis
		History Makers	Delirious?	Greatest hits album
		Kris Allen	Kris Allen	Major Label Debut
		Jeremy Camp Live	Jeremy Camp	Live album
		MTV Unplugged	Katy Perry	Live album
		Until the Whole World Hears	Casting Crowns
		Heaven & Earth	Phil Wickham
		Fireflies and Songs	Sara Groves
		Waking Up	OneRepublic
		Them Crooked Vultures	Them Crooked Vultures
	23	The Fame Monster	Lady GaGa
		Rated R	Rihanna
		All Or Nothing	Jay Sean
		She Wolf	Shakira	US Release
	For Your Entertainment	Adam Lambert
24	Early Seger Vol. 1	Bob Seger	Compilation album