Stereogum's 50 Most Downloaded MP3s Of 2009

The purest year-end music list would be a playcount of the tunes you listened to most, and not the carefully sculpted, self-consciously eclectic 1-10s we end up reading. We know you're as sick as we are of parsing critics' picks, so here's at least one countdown where you won't find Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear, or Dirty Projectors in the Top 10. That's because the following fifty songs are ranked via the number of times someone clicked and downloaded them from our servers, and nothing els...

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