So, us critics (if you want to call us/them that...) often get lambasted from every side, particularly when it comes to Year End Lists. Funny that not everyone agrees on everything, ennit? Our own list was published a few weeks ago and went down reasonably well, with only a miniumum of indignant outrage.

To cut the bullcrap, the people (?) over at Tomorrow Never Knows have rather handily collated a pile of end of year lists from British publications and websites and made a list of the most popularrrrro. First place in a list gets 50 points, down to 50th place which gets 1 point. Capisce? The publications which have been included are: Drowned in Sound, Music OMH, Gigwise, Q, NME, The Quietus, The Guardian, Uncut and God Is In The TV. Oh, and Alt Sounds, them too.

1. 409 - Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
2. 384 - Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
3. 332 - Fever Ray - Fever Ray
4. 326 - Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
5. 323 - The XX - The XX
6. 318 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
7. 315 - Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
8. 312 - The Horrors - Primary Colours
9. 290 - Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
10. 279 - Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
11. 250 - Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
12. 238 - Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
13. 222 - Florence And The Machine - Lungs
14. 201 - Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
15. 183 - The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
16. 159 - Noah And The Whale - The First Days Of Spring
17. 148 - Mumford And Sons - Sign No More
18. 143 - Jamie T - Kings & Queens
19. 142 - Future Of The Left - Travels With Myself And Another
20. 136 - Micachu & The Shapes - Jewellery
21. 131 - Sunn 0))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
22. 129 - The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die
23. 126 - The Maccabees - Wall Of Arms
24. 120 - Health - Get Color
25. 119 - La Roux - La Roux

On a worldwide scale, Metacritic have done much the same thing, although they go on the score the publication gave an album, as opposed to its position in any year-end list. Here's their/our Top 25 of 2009. Scores are rated out of 100. Couple of unheards in there, for sure. Brad who?

1. Nirvana - Live At Reading - 93
2. Leonard Cohen - Live In London - 91
3. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion - 89
4. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II - 88
5. Baroness - Blue Record - 88
6. Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
7. Brad Paisley - American Saturday Night - 86
8. Amadou & Mariam - Welcome To Mali - 86
9. The Antlers - Hospice - 86
10. The XX - XX - 85
11. Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms - 85
12. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest - 85
13. Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
14. Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem - 85
15. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca - 85
16. Miranda Lambert - Revolution - 85
17. Converge - Axe To Fall - 85
18. Maxwell - BLACKsummers'night - 85
19. The Felice Brothers - Yonder Is The Clock - 84
20. Levon Helm - Electric Dirt - 84
21. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport - 84
22. Tinariwen - Imidiwan: Companions - 84
23. Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years - 84
24. D.M Stith - Heavy Ghost - 84
25. The Clientele - Bonfires On The Heath - 84

As well as ALL of that lovely stuff, HypeM are also running their 2009 Zeitgeist this week, which is currently up to number 21 at the moment. I'm not going to give that away, but click here to see who they've included so far. Warning: includes Mumford & Sons.