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The following is a list of notable music events and releases that occurred in 2009 in the United States.

Events

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January

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Mariah Carey performing "Hero" at the Inauguration Ball for President Barack Obama.

February

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March

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April

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May

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June

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July

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August

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September

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October

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November

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December

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Bands formed

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Bands reformed

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Bands on hiatus

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Bands disbanded

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Albums released

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January

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Date Album Artist Genre(s)
6 Merriweather Post Pavilion Animal Collective
12 Audacity Ugly Duckling Hip-hop
13 003[33] Oh No Not Stereo Power pop
19 The Crying Light[34] Anthony and the Johnsons Baroque pop
20 Blood Bank (EP) Bon Iver Indie folk
Noble Beast Andrew Bird Baroque pop
The Harvest Floor Cattle Decapitation
Davy[35] Coconut Records
Why There Are Mountains Cymbals Eat Guitars Indie rock
Fiction Family Fiction Family
The Empyrean John Frusciante
Grand Matt and Kim
The Crawling Distance Robert Pollard
Mirror Eye Psychic Ills Rock
Fame, Fortune and Fornication Reel Big Fish Ska punk
Mantis Umphrey's McGee Progressive rock
27 Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future The Bird and the Bee
Crooked X Crooked X
Simon (EP) Dirty Little Rabbits Indie
Fornever Hoobastank
Eye Legacy Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes
The Time of the Assassins Nickel Eye Indie rock
Whisper House Duncan Sheik Pop
Working on a Dream Bruce Springsteen Rock

February

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Date Album Artist Genre(s)
2 Changing Horses Ben Kweller
3 Feel That Fire Dierks Bentley Country
Evisceration Plague Cannibal Corpse Death metal
The Fray[11] The Fray
Sing: Chapter 1 Wynonna Judd Country
Distractions (The Loved Ones EP) The Loved Ones
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Two Tongues Two Tongues
Love, Hate and Then There's You The Von Bondies
10 Keep It Hid Dan Auerbach
The Rebirth Bobby V Contemporary R&B
Testimony: Vol. 2, Love & Politics India.Arie R&B
Ryan Leslie Ryan Leslie
Incredibad The Lonely Island Comedy hip-hop
Innocence & Instinct Red
15 Scrambles Bomb the Music Industry!
17 The Century of Self ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Art rock
The Appleseed Cast Sagarmatha
Hush Asobi Seksu Dream pop
March of the Zapotec/Holland EP Beirut
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit Jason Isbell
Hood Hop 2 J-Kwon Hip hop
Habeas Corpus Living Things Indie rock
Hold Time M. Ward
Pins & Panzers Plushgun
Carving Desert Canyons Scale the Summit
Common Existence Thursday Post-hardcore
Self-Taught Learner Lissy Trullie Indie
William Elliott Whitmore Animals in the Dark
23 Wrath Lamb of God
24 Smoke n Mirrors B-Real
200 Million Thousand Black Lips
Padded Room Joe Budden Hip hop
Hungry Bird Clem Snide Alternative country
Earthsblood God Forbid
Mr. Lucky Chris Isaak Rock and roll
This Gigantic Robot Kills MC Lars
Easy Does It Jake Owen Country
Real Recognize Real Project Pat

March

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Date Album Artist Genre(s)
1 Mama, I'm Swollen Cursive
3 The Now and Not Yet Jeremy Riddle Christian
Little Hells Marissa Nadler Folk
Middle Cyclone Neko Case
10 All I Ever Wanted Kelly Clarkson
Scream Chris Cornell
No Regrets Dope
Love vs. Money The-Dream R&B
The Distance Taylor Hicks
Round 2 J. Holiday
Death to Analog Julien-K
Not Without a Fight New Found Glory Pop-punk
Worse Than Alone The Number Twelve Looks Like You Mathcore
More Grey Hairs Reks Hip hop
Take Everything Seventh Day Slumber Christian rock
It's Blitz! Yeah Yeah Yeahs
17 When I Hit the Ground Ace Enders and a Million Different People
Beware Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Channel 10 Capone-N-Noreaga
Don't Feed da Animals Gorilla Zoe Hip hop
Naked Willie Willie Nelson Country
Cult of Static Static-X
Industry Giants Superdrag
20 NINJA 2009 Tour Sampler Nine Inch Nails, Jane's Addiction and Street Sweeper Social Club Alternative rock
24 Approaching Normal Blue October Alternative rock
Carolina Eric Church Country
Hannah Montana: The Movie Miley Cyrus
Bromst Dan Deacon
The Hazards of Love The Decemberists Folk rock|progressive rock|art rock|folk metal
Fangs Falling Up
In a Perfect World Keri Hilson R&B
Let's Do It Again Leela James
Pray IV Reign Jim Jones Hip hop
Freedom Mandisa
Shine Martina McBride Country
Crack the Sky Mastodon
Born Like This MF Doom Hip hop
On the Cover II MxPx Punk rock
Metamorphosis Papa Roach
Son of a Preacher Man John Rich Country
Boss of All Bosses Slim Thug Hip hop
A New Hope Vanna R&B

April

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Date Album Artist Genre(s)
7 Wide Open Jason Aldean Country
When Sweet Sleep Returned Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound
When Sweet Sleep Returned Billy Ray Cyrus Country
Repo Black Dice Psychedelic rock
The Last Kiss Jadakiss
Guilt Mims
Unstoppable Rascal Flatts Country
Now We Can See The Thermals
14 Mind the Drift Big Business Heavy metal
Forever in a Day Day26 R&B
Little White Lies Fastball Rock
Whatever Gets You Off The Last Vegas
House of a Thousand Guitars Willie Nile Rock
Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian Prefuse 73 Electronic
Swoon[36] Silversun Pickups
California Years Jill Sobule Folk-pop
17 Leaving the End Open Hardline Hard rock
20 The Infection Chimaira
To the Death Earth Crisis Metalcore
Asleep in the Bread Aisle Asher Roth Hip hop
21 Hell or High Water As Cities Burn Indie rock
Doors and Window Bearfoot
Love the Future Chester French
Wavering Radiant Isis
The Long Fall Back to Earth Jars of Clay
The Future Will Come The Juan MacLean
Mean Everything to Nothing Manchester Orchestra
Here, Here, and Here Meg & Dia
Deeper Than Rap Rick Ross Hip hop
Tinted Windows Tinted Windows
27 Blood OSI Progressive metal
28 Growing Up Is Getting Old Jason Michael Carroll Country
Brother's Blood Kevin Devine
Together Through Life Bob Dylan
Ben Folds Presents: University A Cappella! Ben Folds A capella
Halestorm Halestorm
The Devil You Know Heaven & Hell Heavy metal
The Voice Mike Jones Hip hop
Coaster NOFX
Help Osees
Sickology 101 Tech N9ne Hip hop
Wooden Arms Patrick Watson

May

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Date Album Artist Genre(s)
5 Fight for Love Elliott Yamin
15 Relapse Eminem
21st Century Breakdown Green Day
19 So Glad I'm Me LaKisha Jones
City of Black & White Mat Kearney
Blackout! 2 Method Man & Redman Hip hop
Love Is Ruben Studdard R&B
26 Amanda Leigh Mandy Moore

June

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Date Album Artist Genre(s)
2 Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King Dave Matthews Band Alternative rock
Let the Dominoes Fall[21] Rancid
3 The E.N.D.[22] Black Eyed Peas
16 127 Rose Avenue Hank Williams Jr. Southern rock
30 American Saturday Night Brad Paisley Country

July

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Date Album Artist Genre(s)
7 BLACKsummers'night Maxwell
14 Leave This Town Daughtry Post-grunge
21 Sleepwalking Memphis May Fire
Battlefield Jordin Sparks

August

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Date Album Artist Genre(s)
4 Gloriana Gloriana Country
11 Justin Moore Justin Moore Country
Twang George Strait Country
18 Hello Fascination Breathe Carolina
Keep on Loving You Reba McEntire Country
Ursa Major Third Eye Blind
19 Breakthrough Colbie Caillat
25 World Wide Open Love and Theft Country
The Outsiders Needtobreathe
Into the Light Phil Stacey

September

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Date Album Artist Genre(s)
1 The Man I Want to Be Chris Young Country
8 The Blueprint 3 Jay-Z Hip hop
The Visitor Jim O'Rourke
15 The Chair in the Doorway Living Colour
22 Break Through the Silence Monty Are I Alternative rock
29 Black Gives Way to Blue[27] Alice in Chains
Revolution Miranda Lambert Country
Brand New Eyes Paramore
The G Files Warren G West Coast hip hop

October

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Date Album Artist Genre(s)
6 Doin' My Thing Luke Bryan Country
American Ride Toby Keith Country
Sonic Boom[29] Kiss
Heartbreak on Vinyl Blake Lewis
13 Christmas from the Heart David Archuleta
Christmas in the Heart Bob Dylan Christmas
Gold and Green Sugarland
20 Southern Voice Tim McGraw Country
27 Full Circle Creed

November

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Date Album Artist Genre(s)
3 Oh Blue Christmas (EP) A Fine Frenzy
Play On Carrie Underwood Country pop
10 Christmas Like This Ayiesha Woods
17 Kris Allen Kris Allen
17 My World Justin Bieber
23 For Your Entertainment Adam Lambert

December

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Date Album Artist Genre(s)
1 Just like You[37] Allison Iraheta
8 Graffiti Chris Brown R&B
This Is War[38] Thirty Seconds to Mars
11 The Element of Freedom Alicia Keys
22 Christmas EP The Fray
29 Twenty One Pilots Twenty One Pilots

Best-selling albums in the U.S.

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The best-selling records in 2009 in the US according to Nielsen Soundscan:[39]

Position Album Title Artist
1 Fearless Taylor Swift
2 I Dreamed a Dream Susan Boyle
3 Number Ones Michael Jackson
4 The Fame Lady Gaga
5 My Christmas Andrea Bocelli
6 Hannah Montana: The Movie Hannah Montana
7 The E.N.D. The Black Eyed Peas
8 Relapse Eminem
9 The Blueprint 3 Jay-Z
10 Only by the Night Kings of Leon

Top songs on record

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Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 Songs

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Billboard Hot 100 Top 20 Hits

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Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 2009

Deaths

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See also

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References

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  2. ^ Gallo, Phil (January 18, 2009). "We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration". Variety. RBI. Retrieved February 8, 2009.
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  30. ^ "'3' To 1: Britney Beats Odds To Debut Atop Hot 100". Billboard. October 14, 2009. Retrieved January 17, 2014.
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