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62 50 Cent
70 AFI
65 Air
70 Alice In Chains
53 Kris Allen
78 Amerie
79 Annie
76 Anti-Pop Consortium
86 The Antlers
75 Arctic Monkeys
68 As Tall As Lions
82 Atlas Sound
77 The Avett Brothers
67 Backstreet Boys
59 Bad Lieutenant
68 Devendra Banhart
71 Lou Barlow
88 Baroness
69 Basement Jaxx
81 David Bazan
72 Beak>
72 Brendan Benson
84 Biffy Clyro
72 The Big Pink
95 Big Star
46 Billy Talent
75 The Black Crowes
72 The Black Heart Procession
68 Blitzen Trapper
75 BLK JKS
53 Bon Jovi
76 A.A. Bondy
65 Boys Like Girls
76 Brand New
73 Tyondai Braxton
83 Brother Ali
72 Ian Brown
75 Michael Buble
77 Built To Spill
61 Colbie Caillat
78 Califone
69 Mariah Carey
81 Brandi Carlile
72 Julian Casablancas
83 Rosanne Cash
71 Castanets
65 The Cave Singers
82 Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
64 Exene Cervenka
79 Vic Chesnutt
75 Choir Of Young Believers
81 Circulatory System
67 The Clean
84 The Clientele
72 Cold Cave
85 Converge
71 Eric Copeland
76 The Cribs
79 Cymbals Eat Guitars
62 Dashboard Confessional
71 Datarock
59 Dead By Sunrise
76 Dead Man's Bones
77 Del The Funky Homosapien & Tame One
88 Destroyer
73 Do Make Say Think
63 The Dodos
77 Drive-By Truckers
67 Bob Dylan
58 Echo & The Bunnymen
61 Electric Six
44 The Entrance Band
69 Fanfarlo
71 Jay Farrar And Benjamin Gibbard
63 Felix Da Housecat
68 Fink
66 Orenda Fink
79 The Flaming Lips
66 Flight Of The Conchords
79 Florence And The Machine
67 John Fogerty
83 Fuck Buttons
71 Nelly Furtado
47 Gary Go
68 Ghostface Killah
79 Girls
69 Gossip
62 David Gray
66 David Guetta
65 Calvin Harris
79 Richard Hawley
74 Mayer Hawthorne
66 Headlights
79 HEALTH
77 Joe Henry
67 Hockey
67 Whitney Houston
80 Hudson Mohawke
68 Imogen Heap
59 Jack Ingram
79 Islands
74 Jamie T
65 Jay-Z
51 Jet
68 Daniel Johnston
76 Norah Jones
77 Karen O And The Kids
72 Toby Keith
69 Kid Cudi
75 Kid Sister
66 Kings Of Convenience
62 Sean Kingston
64 KISS
63 Mark Knopfler
73 Kris Kristofferson
68 KRS-One & Buckshot
76 La Roux
85 Miranda Lambert
72 Ledisi
71 Sondre Lerche
56 Juliette Lewis
62 Leona Lewis
82 Lightning Bolt
74 Little Dragon
44 Pixie Lott
83 Patty Loveless
73 Lyle Lovett
79 Lucero
75 Baaba Maal
77 Madness
84 Madonna
85 Manic Street Preachers
61 Maps
73 Mario
55 Massive Attack
57 Matisyahu
62 John Mayer
67 Reba McEntire
66 Tim McGraw
65 Brian McKnight
79 Mew
75 Mika
68 Amy Millan
76 Mission Of Burma
75 Molina And Johnson
80 Monsters Of Folk
66 Morrissey
85 Mount Eerie
76 The Mountain Goats
62 Múm
72 Muse
66 Willie Nelson
82 Nirvana
96 Nirvana
80 No Age
71 Noah And The Whale
75 Noisettes
79 Nudge
64 OneRepublic
47 Dolores O'Riordan
74 Os Mutantes
78 Osso
67 Alec Ounsworth
81 Owen
73 Paramore
78 Pastels And Tenniscoats
54 Sean Paul
80 Pearl Jam
69 Jemina Pearl
72 Jack Penate
65 Phish
82 Pissed Jeans
61 Pitbull
79 A Place To Bury Strangers
79 Polvo
72 Porcupine Tree
72 Port O'Brien
79 Q-Tip
79 R.E.M.
88 Raekwon
69 Rain Machine
70 Ramona Falls
75 Dizzee Rascal
74 The Raveonettes
79 Real Estate
76 Jay Reatard
81 Rodrigo Y Gabriela
66 Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
78 Russian Circles
69 Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions
78 Say Anything
61 Sally Shapiro
78 Shudder To Think
70 Simian Mobile Disco
58 Simple Minds
72 Six Organs Of Admittance
80 Slayer
61 The Slits
78 Soulsavers
77 Speech Debelle
58 Spiral Stairs
58 Squarepusher
55 Steel Panther
75 Sufjan Stevens
52 Rod Stewart
68 Joss Stone
83 Barbra Streisand
77 A Sunny Day In Glasgow
74 Susanna And The Magical Orchestra
79 The Swell Season
80 David Sylvian
83 Taken By Trees
80 Tegan And Sara
68 The Temper Trap
78 The Dutchess & The Duke
71 The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
74 Them Crooked Vultures
72 Themselves
82 They Might Be Giants
67 Third Eye Blind
66 J Tillman
69 Times New Viking
57 Tokio Hotel
67 Trey Songz
73 Frank Turner
71 The Twilight Sad
60 Carrie Underwood
56 The Used
68 Various Artists
69 Various Artists
77 The Very Best
70 Kurt Vile
65 Vivian Girls
71 Volcano Choir
73 Rufus Wainwright
78 Wale
57 Weezer
81 White Denim
76 Why?
83 Wild Beasts
80 Wildbirds & Peacedrums
69 Robbie Williams
59 Andrew W.K.
65 Wolfmother
84 The xx
79 Yo La Tengo
83 Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band
52 Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson
59 Zero 7

Stars indicate the most critically-acclaimed albums.

New Releases:

Added 20 November 2009

Kris Allen

by Kris Allen

This is the first major label album for the winner of the eighth season of American Idol. [Rock/Pop]

Waking Up

by OneRepublic

This is the second album for the Grammy-nominated rock band from Colorado. [Rock/Alternative/Pop]

Real Estate

by Real Estate

The New Jersey indie rock band that includes ex-Titus Andronicus member Martin Courtney releases its debut album. [Rock/Indie]

Butter

by Hudson Mohawke

The Scottish electronic artist releases his debut full-length album. [Electronic]

2009 High Scores

1	Nirvana Live At Reading	96
2	Leonard Cohen Live In London	91
3	Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion	89
4	Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II	88
5	Brad Paisley American Saturday Night	86
6	Sunn O))) Monoliths & Dimensions	86
7	Amadou & Mariam Welcome To Mali	86
8	The Antlers Hospice	86
9	Grizzly Bear Veckatimest	85
10	Manic Street Preachers Journal For Plague Lovers	85

All-Time High Scores

1	Brian Wilson SMiLE	97
2	Loretta Lynn Van Lear Rose	97
3	Led Zeppelin How The West Was Won	97
4	Nirvana Live At Reading	96
5	OutKast Stankonia	95
6	Ali Farka Toure Savane	94
7	Madvillain Madvillainy	93
8	Talking Heads The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads [2004 Version]	93
9	Bob Dylan Love And Theft	93
10	Tom Waits Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards	92

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Added 19 November 2009

Echo

by Leona Lewis

The second album for the "X Factor" winner features production help from a variety of people including Justin Timberlake, Ryan Tedder, John Shanks, and Max Martin. [Rock/R&B/Pop]

Reality Killed The Video Star

by Robbie Williams

The former Take That singer releases his latest solo album produced by Trevor Horn. [Rock/Pop]

Parallel Uni-Verses

by Del The Funky Homosapien & Tame One

Parallel Thought produced the first album for the team up of Del The Funky Homosapien and Tame One. [Rap]

1372 Overton Park

by Lucero

The rock band from Tennessee releases their first album on the Universal Republic label. [Rock/Alt-Country]

Added 18 November 2009

Beak>

by Beak>

The debut album for the trio from Bristol was written in 12 days. [Rock/Indie]

Ultraviolet

by Kid Sister

The debut album for the rap artist features guest appearances by David Banner, Estelle, Kanye West and Too Short. It was originally scheduled to be released as "Dream Date" in 2008. [Rap/Dance]

Them Crooked Vultures

by Them Crooked Vultures

The debut album for the supergroup composed of the Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl, Queens Of The Stone Age's Josh Homme, and Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones. [Rock]

Xenophanes

by Omar Rodriguez-Lopez

Mars Volta's Omar Rodriguez Lopez releases his first Spanish-only solo album. [Rock/Alternative]

Added 17 November 2009

Before I Self Destruct

by 50 Cent

The fourth studio album for the rapper is finally released and features appearances by Eminem, Ne Yo, Lloyd Banks, and R. Kelly. [Rap]

Don't Stop

by Annie

The second album for the Norwegian singer features guest appearances by Franz Ferdinand's Alex Kapranos and Datarock's Fredrik Saroea. [Rock/Pop]

The Fall

by Norah Jones

The fourth album for the singer-songwriter was produced by Jacquire King. [Rock/Singer-Songwriter]

Battle Studies

by John Mayer

The singer-songwriter's latest album was co-produced with Steve Jordan. [Rock/Pop]

Added 16 November 2009

Only Revolutions

by Biffy Clyro

The fifth studio album for the Scottish rock trio was produced by Garth "GGGarth" Richardson. [Rock/Alternative]

Other Truths

by Do Make Say Think

The post-rock group releases its latest album, which has only four tracks (each are eight or more minutes long). [Rock/Indie]

Threadbare

by Port O'Brien

This is the latest album for the California-based indie rock trio. [Rock/Indie]

Higher Than The Stars

by The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

The four-track EP features a song remixed by Saint Etienne. [Rock/Indie]

Added 13 November 2009

The Fountain

by Echo & The Bunnymen

The first studio album in four years for the British rock band was produced with John McLaughlin and Simon Perry. [Rock]

One Fast Move Or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur

by Jay Farrar And Benjamin Gibbard

Son Volt's Jay Farrar and Death Cab For Cutie's Benjamin Gibbard helped write songs for a documentary about Jack Kerouac in 2007. This album is a further expansion of the project. [Rock/Alt-Country]

Ask The Night

by Orenda Fink

This is Orenda Fink 's second solo album, after stints with bands Art In Manila and O+S. [Rock/Indie/Folk]

Poetry Of The Deed

by Frank Turner

The former singer for the UK punk band Million Dead releases his third solo album. [Rock/Indie]

Added 12 November 2009

Ignore The Ignorant

by The Cribs

This is the first album for the British rock band to feature the Smiths' Johnny Marr as lead guitarist. [Rock/Indie]

Never Cry Another Tear

by Bad Lieutenant

This is the debut album for the rock band formed by three members of New Order, Jake Evans, and Blur's Alex James appears as a guest. [Rock/Alternative/Pop]