AllMusic's Favorite Soundtrack Albums of 2009

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.

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)