Through the week of the 20th, the AllMusic Blog will be publishing our editors’ favorite albums of 2009. We’ll be covering well over a dozen genres and styles, from rap to reggae, R&B to electronic, country to Latin, blues to metal, folk to soundtracks, and several points in-between. Right now, on the AllMusic Blog, we take a look at our favorite soundtrack albums of 2009. Be sure to check our overall feature of new albums and classical releases, AllMusic Loves 2009, and our other 2009 in Review posts.

Film Scores:

Carter Burwell – A Serious Man
 
 
 
 
 
 

Danny Elfman – Terminator Salvation
 
 
 
 
 
 

Michael Giacchino – Star Trek
 
 
 
 
 
 

Henry Jackman – Monsters vs. Aliens
 
 
 
 
 
 

Karen O. & the Kids – Where the Wild Things Are
 
 
 
 
 
 

Christopher Young – Drag Me to Hell
 
 
 
 
 
 

Adrian Younge – Black Dynamite
 
 
 
 
 
 

Movie Soundtracks:

(500) Days of Summer (Soundtrack)
 
 
 
 
 
 

Fantastic Mr. Fox (Soundtrack)
 
 
 
 
 
 

Inglourious Basterds
 
 
 
 
 
 

Notorious
 
 
 
 
 
 

Pirate Radio
 
 
 
 
 
 

Songs That Made Woody Allen Movies Great
 
 
 
 
 
 

Television:

Glee Cast – Glee: The Music, Vol. 1
 
 
 
 
 
 

Mad Men, Vol. 2
 
 
 
 
 
 

True Blood
 
 
 
 
 
 

Broadway:

Hair (2009 Broadway Revival Cast)
 
 
 
 
 
 

Next to Normal (Original Cast Recording)
 
 
 
 
 
 

Rock of Ages (Broadway Cast)
 
 
 
 
 
 

West Side Story (2009 Broadway Cast)