I collected over 27 lists of “Best Music of 2009” and combined them into one list.  The results are below – every recording that was on 4 or more of the original source lists.  The numbers in bold and underlined indicate the number of lists the recording was on; an asterisk means I own it.

On 27 Lists
Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

On 23 Lists
Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest*

On 19 Lists
Neko Case – Middle Cyclone* 

On 18 Lists
Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion*

On 17 Lists
Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca*

On 16 Lists
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz!*

On 14 Lists
Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx … Pt. II 

On 12 Lists
Wilco – Wilco (The Album)

On 11 Lists
Mastodon – Crack the Skye
Mos Def – The Ecstatic

On 10 Lists
Jay-Z – The Blueprint 3
Sonic Youth – The Eternal

On 9 Lists
Antony & the Johnsons – The Crying Light
Bat For Lashes – Two Suns
Andrew Bird – Noble Beast*
The Flaming Lips – Embryonic*
Fever Ray – Fever Ray
Girls – Album
Passion Pit – Manners*
St. Vincent – Actor* 

On 8 Lists
Bill Callahan – Sometimes I Wish I Were An Eagle*
Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart – The Pains of Being Pure At Heart
The XX – XX*

On 7 Lists
The Antlers – Hospice
The Avett Brothers – I and Love and You*
The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love*
Drake – So Far Gone
Florence And The Machine – Lungs
Japandroids – Post-Nothing
Micachu & the Shapes – Jewellery
U2 – No Line On The Horizon
Wild Beasts – Two Dancers

On 6 Lists
The Dead Weather – Horehound
Bob Dylan – Together Through Life
The Horrors – Primary Colours
The Low Anthem – Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
Yo La Tengo – Popular Songs 

On 5 Lists
Arctic Monkeys – Humbug
Atlas Sound – Logos
BLK JKS – After Robots
Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career*
Converge – Axe to Fall
Dan Deacon – Bromst
Dinosaur Jr. – Farm
DOOM – Born Like This
Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport
Future of the Left – Travels with Myself and Another
Miranda Lambert – Revolution
Manic Street Preachers – Journal For Plague Lovers
Metric – Fantasies
Monsters of Folk – Monsters of Folk
Bruce Springsteen – Walking On A Dream
Sunn O))) – Monoliths & Diamonds

On 4 Lists
Amadou & Mariam – Welcome to Mali
Art Brut – Art Brut vs. Satan
Julian Casablancas – Phrazes for the Young
The Black Crowes – Before the Frost…Until the Freeze
Cymbals Eat Guitars – Why There Are Mountains
Doves – Kingdom Of Rust
The Dream – Love vs. Money
Richard Hawley – Truelove’s Gutter
Vijay Iyer – Historicity*
Lucero – 1372 Overton Park
Madness – The Liberty Of Norton Folgate
Matt & Kim – Grand
Maxwell – BLACKsummers’night
A.C. Newman – Get Guilty
Pearl Jam – Backspacer
Jay Reatard – Watch Me Fall
Oumou Sangaré – Seya
Them Crooked Vultures – Them Crooked Vultures
Tinariwen – Imidiwen Companions*
Various Artists – Dark Was The Night*