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| Ignorance | ||||
| Playing God | ||||
| Brick by Boring Brick | ||||
| Turn It Off | ||||
| The Only Exception | ||||
| Feeling Sorry | ||||
| Looking Up | ||||
| Where the Lines Overlap | ||||
| Misguided Ghosts | ||||
| All I Wanted Decode |
Give Lil Wayne some credit. He treats his ability to rap as a craft on par with any other skill or trade. Practice makes perfect. Since striking out on his own as a solo artist some years ago, Wayne has probably recorded more songs and verses than many will in their entire career. The practice worked. The man has made his millions through almost complete saturation of the hip-hop radio and blog circuit. Scarcely a week goes by without a new track, feature or news of one. While No Ceilings is merely one of a plethora of Lil Wayne-related releases currently planned or already on the market, it is notable for breaking current hip-hop tradition by eschewing Auto-Tune. Just the man, the mic and the track.
Only by the Night is the fourth studio album by American rock band Kings of Leon, released worldwide in September 2008. Writing for the band's fourth album commenced just days after the release of their third, Because of the Times. The album was recorded by producers Angelo Petraglia and Jacquire King through February 2008 in Nashville's Blackbird Studios.
I Am… Sasha Fierce is the third studio album by American R&B and pop singer Beyoncé, released November 8, 2008 on Columbia Records. The double album introduces her alter-ego "Sasha Fierce". I Am... Sasha Fierce was also released as a deluxe edition, and later an accompanying remix album with videography, a platinum edition, and a re-release to celebrate one year since the album's first release.
Their next album Monkey Business was another worldwide hit, certified 3x Platinum in the US, spawning two hit singles "My Humps"and "Don't Phunk With My Heart". In 2009, the group is one of only eleven artists to have ever held the number 1 and 2 spots on the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time with their singles "Boom Boom Pow" and "I Gotta Feeling", from the album The 
Rated R is the fourth studio album by Barbadian R&B singer-songwriter Rihanna, released November 20, 2009 on Def Jam Recordings. Recording sessions for the album took place during March to November 2009 at Milk Studios and Germano Studios in Manhattan, New York, Studios Davout in Paris, France, and Westlake Recording Studios in Los Angeles, California. Conceived after Rihanna's assault by her then-boyfriend, singer Chris Brown, Rated R features a foreboding and angry tone, in terms of musical and lyrical direction, and incorporates elements of hip hop, rock, and dubstep.
The Element of Freedom is the fourth studio album by American R&B musician Alicia Keys, released December 11, 2009 on J Records. Recording sessions for the album took place during May to September 2009 at The Oven Studios in Long Island, New York. It features production by Keys, Jeff Bhasker, Swizz Beatz, Noah "40" Shebib, and Kerry "Krucial" Brothers.
Featuring a rich blend of upbeat tunes alongside Urban/Pop hits, the album presents a beautiful showcase of Leona Lewis’ enchanting vocals. Despite previous attempts from Lewis’s lawyers to ban the release of Best Kept Secret by UEG Music, claiming that the singer had not given her consent, the album was released in January 2009 when the label insisted it owned the rights to the music and Lewis would receive a 50% share of the album’s profits. However, a television advert for the album was banned by the Advertising Standards Authority, who said in a statement: “We considered that the claim ‘Leona Lewis’s new album’ misleadingly implied it was the singer’s latest recording rather than a new CD of tracks recorded some years ago.” The album was released to iTunes in standard and deluxe editions, and two EPs, “Private Party” and “Dip Down”/”Joy”, were released in September 2009.
Tim Mosley's megalomania is totally justified. He's among the most consistently inventive producers of the past decade, and his profile has risen immeasurably thanks to recent hits on which he's both dial-twister and co-star. However, Shock Value proves he's a better supporting player than a main attraction -- and his attempts to stretch into new stylistic areas stretch credibility instead. 
Probably the most massively overhyped release by any DJ in 2009 was the debut album by N.A.S.A, The Spirit of Apollo, which turned out to be a ridiculously unpleasant mess of sonic overreaching, due substantially to the massive number of collaborations stuffed into the album. The number of collaborations on Dutch DJ Tiësto's Kaleidoscope is certainly enough to get your attention, but doesn't really come close to the calamity that N.A.S.A. dove into. For one thing, Tiësto obviously has enough good sense to restrict disparate collaborators to individual tracks, instead of forcing them together like some unholy peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
