The tradition continues. For the fourth year in a row, I’m listing the albums that for me musically defined 2009. Unlike last year, when the posts for this series were so damn irregular, I’m sticking to a more regular schedule and am actually going to cram in ten pieces between now and Christmas Eve… which means that at some point there’s liable to be a day or two when I put installments up within minutes of each other.

For those of you that remember the previous three years of the best-of list from here and from this blog’s predecessor, you know that there’s going to be a mix of primarily J-Pop and Western music. You also may remember that on at least two of those three occasions, Morning Musume’s then-current studio albums held the top spots (the first time being when Rainbow 7 was in a three-way tie for first with Panic! At The Disco and The Game.

It’s anybody’s ball game this year. I’ve had my list for this series written down in a Word file for at least a week, and now is the time to unleash it. The first few installments for this year-end series are already completed and the rest are in their draft phases as we speak, so things are going to be a little busier and more on time than before. There’s also a tentative Best Singles of 2009 that is in a rough stage draft right now (which in this case means I have a bunch of candidates sitting in an iTunes playlist), but that may be a bonus installment more than anything if it gets completed. For now, stay tuned – I’m already doing the final edit and the HTML coding on the #10 and #9 installments, and those will be up within hours… maybe even within an hour of this post going up.

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