UK Critics Albums Of 2009 - Chart Of Charts Updated!!

Q Magazine and Alt Sounds have published their top 50 albums of 2009, so we've added them to the existing polls from the NME, MusicOMH, Drowned In Sound, Uncut, The Guardian, The Quietus, God Is In The TV and Gigwise. If we've missed any out please let us know - we wanted to do UK publications and websites only.

1st place on a poll gets 50 points, 2nd place 49 points, down to 50th place which receives 1 point.

There are 229 albums in the chart, here are the top 50 so far;

Position / Points / Artist / Album
01) 459 - Animal Collective "Merriweather Post Pavilion"
02) 384 - Wild Beasts "Two Dancers"
03) 366 - The XX "The XX"
04) 351 - The Horrors "Primary Colours"
05) 348 - Grizzly Bear "Veckatimest"

06) 342 - Manic Street Preachers "Journal For Plague Lovers"
07) 332 - Fever Ray "Fever Ray"
08) 331 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs "It's Blitz!"
09) 300 - Fuck Buttons "Tarot Sport"
10) 290 - Dirty Projectors "Bitte Orca"

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"

26) 115 - Sonic Youth "The Enternal"
27) 115 - The Big Pink "A Brief History Of Love"
28) 115 - The Low Anthem "Oh My God, Charlie Darwin"
29) 114 - PJ Harvey And John Parish "A Woman A Man Walked By"
30) 114 - Muse "The Resistance"

31) 110 - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart "The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart"
32) 102 - Doves "Kingdom Of Rust"
33) 98 - Lady Gaga "The Fame Monster"
34) 97 - The Decemberists "The Hazards Of Love"
35) 96 - Wilco "Wilco"

36) 95 - Kasabian "West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum"
37) 92 - Girls "Album"
38) 89 - The Dead Weather "Horehound"
39) 80 - The Joy Formidable "A Ballon Called Moaning"
40) 79 - St Vincent "Actor"

41) 78 - Metric "Fantasies"
42) 74 - Biffy Clyro "Only Revolutions"
43) 74 - Memory Tapes "Seek Magic"
44) 72 - tUnE-yArDs "BiRd-BrAiNs"
45) 72 - The Hidden Cameras "Origin: Orphan"

46) 72 - Mos Def "The Ecstatic"
47) 69 - Lily Allen "It's Not Me, It's You"
48) 69 - Bill Callahan "Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle"
49) 68 - Cold Cave "Loves Comes Close"
50) 68 - The Temper Trap "Sweet Disposition"