Jones of Led Zeppelin, release their only studio album to date, Them Crooked Vultures. It reaches the top 10 of seven separate national all-format album charts. UK band Snow Patrol releases their greatest hits album Up to Now. It charts in the top 10 of six separate national all-format album charts. Weezer releases their seventh studio album, Raditude. It debuts at number seven on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 66,000 copies in its opening week. December In protest of X-Factor's saccharine pop music dominance in the UK around Christmas, a fan campaign is started to get Rage Against the Machine's 1992 protest song "Killing in the Name" to top the singles chart. The campaign is successful, making it officially the number one Christmas song in the UK for 2009. Year end Shinedown occupies the top two spots for the 2009 year-end chart for the Billboard'' Mainstream Rock songs chart, "Second Chance" and "Sound of Madness" respectively. The third most popular song is Mudvayne's "Do What You Do". Deaths Les Paul of the Gibson Les Paul Band breakups Oasis The Verve References 2009 in music 2009-related lists Rock music by year