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List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2009

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Country singer Taylor Swift's second studio album, Fearless, was the best selling album of 2009.

These are the US number one albums of 2009, per the Billboard 200. Note that Billboard publishes charts with an issue date approximately 7–10 days in advance. Fearless, the second studio album by American country singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, was the best selling album of 2009, and ended atop the Billboard 200 year-end chart of the year.

Chart history

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Rapper Jay-Z gained his tenth number one album with The Blueprint 3.
Canadian singer Michael Bublé hit number one with his fourth studio album, Crazy Love.
Pop rock singer Kelly Clarkson gained her second number one album with All I Ever Wanted.
Scottish singer Susan Boyle's debut album, I Dreamed a Dream, was the Christmas number-one album.
Key
Indicates best performing album of 2009
Issue date Album Artist(s) Sales Ref.
January 3 Fearless Taylor Swift 330,000 [1][2]
January 10 262,000 [3][4]
January 17 90,000 [5][6][7]
January 24 72,000 [8][9][10]
January 31 63,000 [11][12][13]
February 7 63,000 [14][15][16]
February 14 Working on a Dream Bruce Springsteen 224,000 [17][18][19]
February 21 The Fray The Fray 179,000 [20][21][22]
February 28 Fearless Taylor Swift 92,000 [23][24][25]
March 7 62,000 [26][27][28]
March 14 73,000 [29][30][31]
March 21 No Line on the Horizon U2 484,000 [32][33][34]
March 28 All I Ever Wanted Kelly Clarkson 255,000 [35][36]
April 4 90,000 [37][38]
April 11 Now 30 Various Artists 146,000 [39][40]
April 18 Defying Gravity Keith Urban 171,000 [41][42]
April 25 Unstoppable Rascal Flatts 351,000 [43][44][45]
May 2 Hannah Montana: The Movie Soundtrack 133,000 [46][47][48]
May 9 Deeper Than Rap Rick Ross 158,000 [49][50][51]
May 16 Together Through Life Bob Dylan 125,000 [52][53][54]
May 23 Epiphany Chrisette Michele 83,000 [55][56][57]
May 30 21st Century Breakdown Green Day 215,000 [58][59][60]
June 6 Relapse Eminem 608,000 [61][62][63]
June 13 211,000 [64][65]
June 20 Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King Dave Matthews Band 424,000 [66][67][68]
June 27 The E.N.D. The Black Eyed Peas 304,000 [69][70][71]
July 4 Lines, Vines and Trying Times Jonas Brothers 247,000 [72][73][74]
July 11 The E.N.D. The Black Eyed Peas 88,000 [75][76]
July 18 Now 31 Various Artists 169,000 [77][78][79]
July 25 BLACKsummers'night Maxwell 316,000 [80][81][82]
August 1 Leave This Town Daughtry 269,000 [83][84][85]
August 8 Here We Go Again Demi Lovato 108,000 [86][87][88]
August 15 Loso's Way Fabolous 99,000 [89][90][91]
August 22 Live on the Inside Sugarland 76,000 [92][93][94]
August 29 Twang George Strait 155,000 [95][96][97]
September 5 Keep on Loving You Reba McEntire 96,000 [98][99][100]
September 12 Breakthrough Colbie Caillat 106,000 [101][102][103]
September 19 I Look to You Whitney Houston 305,000 [104][105][106]
September 26 The Blueprint 3 Jay-Z 476,000 [107][108][109]
October 3 298,000 [110][111]
October 10 Backspacer Pearl Jam 189,000 [112][113][114]
October 17 Love Is the Answer Barbra Streisand 180,000 [115][116][117]
October 24 Crazy Love Michael Bublé 132,000 [118][119][120]
October 31 213,000 [121][122][123]
November 7 New Moon Soundtrack 153,000 [124][125]
November 14 This Is It Michael Jackson 373,000 [126][127]
November 21 Play On Carrie Underwood 318,000 [128][129]
November 28 The Circle Bon Jovi 163,000 [130][131]
December 5 Battle Studies John Mayer 286,000 [132][133]
December 12 I Dreamed a Dream Susan Boyle 701,000 [134][135]
December 19 527,000 [136][137]
December 26 582,000 [138][139]

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