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"There&amp;apos;s still two months left in 2009, during which some of the most highly anticipated releases of the year by Rihanna, 50 Cent, Adam Lambert and Clipse are due. But that&amp;apos;s not stopping Amazon.com from announcing their Top 100 albums of 2009 today, along with their customers&amp;apos; list of the year&amp;apos;s best. Neko Case&amp;apos;s Middle Cyclone takes first place on the store&amp;apos;s countdown while U2&amp;apos;s No Line on the Horizon tops &amp;quot;Customer Favorites.&amp;quot; The customer list, based solely on sales and not ratings, also ranks Susan Boyle&amp;apos;s I Dreamed a Dream and Adam Lambert&amp;apos;s For Your Entertainment &amp;#x2014; even though neither has been released yet.\n\nThe Yeah Yeah Yeahs&amp;apos; It&amp;apos;s Blitz!, Phoenix&amp;apos;s Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart&amp;apos;s self-titled LP and the Avett Brothers&amp;apos; I And Love And You also made the Amazon Top Five. K&amp;apos;Naan&amp;apos;s Troubadour and Jay-Z&amp;apos;s The Blueprint 3 were Amazon&amp;apos;s highest-ranking hip-hop albums, coming in at Eight and Nine. Phoenix also topped Amazon&amp;apos;s Top Songs of 2009 with &amp;quot;Lisztomania,&amp;quot; and the Black Eyed Peas scored both Number One and Two on the best-selling list with &amp;quot;Boom Boom Pow&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;I Gotta Feeling.&amp;quot; Further down the album list, Wilco&amp;apos;s Wilco (The Album scored Number 12, U2&amp;apos;s No Line placed 31 and Muse&amp;apos;s The Resistance squeezed on at 89. \n\nSo what&amp;apos;s noticeably absent? For starters, two of the year&amp;apos;s best rock releases, Bruce Springsteen&amp;apos;s Working on a Dream and Green Day&amp;apos;s 21st Century Breakdown. The critics at Amazon also weren&amp;apos;t fans of Eminem&amp;apos;s Relapse, leaving the album off both their Top 100 albums of 2009 and their Top 10 list of the year&amp;apos;s best hip-hop releases. \n\nIn these next decade-ending two months, prepare yourself for an avalanche of both Best of 2009 and Best of the 2000s lists, including Rolling Stone&amp;apos;s own year- and decade- end favorites."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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