On June 16, 2009, Monuments and Melodies was released to the public, and opened at No. 5 on the Billboard 200.

Although many of their previous albums, including Pleasure to Kill ( 1986 ), were quite popular in the United States, Kreator did not experience major American commercial success until the 2009 release of their twelfth studio album, Hordes of Chaos, which peaked at number 165 on the Billboard 200 and debuted at No. 16 on the Media Control Charts, the band's highest ever chart position in Germany.

Male acts that emerged in the same period include Calvin Harris, Empire of the Sun, Frankmusik, Hurts, Kaskade, LMFAO, and Owl City, whose single " Fireflies " ( 2009 ) topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

American singer-songwriter Kesha is also a popular synthpop artist, with her synthesized debut single " Tik Tok " topping the Billboard Hot 100 for nine weeks in 2009, while topping the end of year chart in the US in 2010.

* A compilation album called, Amore !, debuted at Number One on Billboard magazines Top Pop Catalog Albums chart in its February 21, 2009 issue.

AFI's eighth studio album Crash Love was released in 2009, peaking at number 12 on the Billboard 200, selling 52, 000 copies in its first week of release.

The first single from the album, " Medicate ", was released on August 25, 2009 and reached number 7 on the Billboard Alternative Songs Chart.

* Nominated in a new category, " Top Album of the Year-Latin Female " in the " Billboard Latin Music Awards " ( 2009 )

On December 11, 2009, Jay-Z was ranked as the 10th most successful artist of 2000s by Billboard and ranking as the 5th top solo male artist and as the 4th top rapper behind Eminem, Nelly, and 50 Cent.

Rubio's big comeback took place in the month of April at the 2009 Latin Billboard Music Awards where Rubio performed the lead single Causa y Efecto for the first time.

Their sixth studio album, Not Without a Fight ( 2009 ) topped the Billboard Independent Albums chart and was produced by Mark Hoppus.

In 2009, Bon Jovi released The Circle, which marked a return to their hard rock sound and reached number one on the Billboard 200.

Jones has won nine Grammy Awards and was Billboard magazine's 60th-best-selling music artist of the 2000 – 2009 decade.

Billboard named her the top jazz artist of the 2000 – 2009 decade, establishing herself as one of the best-selling artists of all time.

In 2009, the group became one of only 11 artists to have simultaneously held the No. 1 and No. 2 spots on the Billboard Hot 100, with their singles " Boom Boom Pow " and " I Gotta Feeling "; which topped the chart for an unprecedented 26 consecutive weeks.

" Imma Be " was released as the fourth single in the U. S. on December 15, 2009, reaching number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks, becoming the group's 3rd number one single on that chart.

The album was released on June 30, 2009, debuting at No. 7 on the Billboard 200, marking the band's highest chart position for an album.

In 2009, Arnold lent her voice to the ballad " Trust ," a duet with Keyshia Cole, that peaked in the top five on Billboard Hot R & B / Hip-Hop Songs chart.

The " Super Mario Bros. theme " reached number one on Billboard Magazines Hot Ringtones chart in 2009.

On December 10, 2009, it was announced that their song " Ichibu to Zenbu " won the " Billboard Japan Hot 100 of the Year 2009 " award.

On April 23, 2009, WKAQ-TV one became the first commercial station in transmitting programming in High Definition in Puerto Rico with Billboard Latin Music Awards.

In April 2009, Billboard reported that the Jayhawks have reunited.

A recording of the results, the 2009 CD " Bridge Music " ( on the Delos label DE1045 ), entered the Billboard Classical Crossover Music Chart at # 18, and has been released globally.

* " Bubbles turn on chemical catalysts ", Science News magazine online, April 6, 2009.

According to a report in Nature magazine, ( November, 2009 ) the first year-by-year accounting of this mechanism during the industrial era, and the first time scientists have actually measured it, suggests " the oceans are struggling to keep up with rising emissions — a finding with potentially wide implications for future climate.

In 2008, 2009, and 2010, Site Selection magazine ranked Dayton the # 1 mid sized metropolitan area in the nation for economic development.

Glen Benton, 2009 Deicide was formed in Tampa, Florida on July 21, 1987, after guitarist Brian Hoffman called Glen Benton, replying to an advertisement the latter had placed in a local music magazine.

In February 2009, the Polish paper Polska wrote that over one third of the Federation top officials were former Nazi activists, and based this on an article published by the German magazine Der Spiegel in 2006.

In July 2009, women's magazine Cosmopolitan ranked Pink Prison as No. 1 in its Top Five of the best women ’ s porn, calling it the " role model for the new porn-generation ".

The manga was published in two issues of the Model Graphix magazine, published on February 25 and March 25, 2009.

In their December 2009 issue, Grassroots Motorsports magazine named the Miata as the most important sports car built during the previous 25 years.

In 2009, a poll of 217 Formula One drivers conducted by the British magazine Autosport named Schumacher as " the second-greatest Formula One driver who ever lived ", just behind Ayrton Senna, and the most complete driver, just ahead of Senna.

In October 2009, ExxonMobil licensed the brand to Forbes magazine, which retitled the guide's various designations, e. g., Forbes Travel Guide, Forbes Five Stars, and so on.

With its 500th issue ( June 2009 ), amid company-wide cutbacks at Time Warner, the magazine temporarily regressed to a quarterly publication before settling to six issues per year in 2010.

In 2009, an interviewer proposed to Al Jaffee, " There's a group of Mad afficionados who feel that if Harvey Kurtzman had stayed at Mad, the magazine would not only have been different, but better.

Between 2006 and 2009, the magazine published 14 issues of Mad Kids, a spinoff publication aimed at a younger demographic.

In December 2009, the Los Angeles Times reported that the owners of Rolling Stone magazine planned to open a Rolling Stone restaurant in the Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, California in the spring of 2010.

While being interviewed for a February 2009 issue of Rolling Stone magazine, Kurzweil expressed a desire to construct a genetic copy of his late father, Fredric Kurzweil, from DNA within his grave site.

Time magazine ran an article ' Rethinking Marx ' and put Karl Marx on the cover of its European edition in a special for the 28 January 2009 Davos meeting.

SFU has been rated as Canada's best comprehensive university ( in 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 ) in the annual rankings of Canadian universities in Maclean's magazine since 1991.

The 2009 U. S. News & World Report ranking of undergraduate business programs puts Albers in the top 30 % of AACSB accredited schools and one of the top 20 private business schools in the U. S. Albers's part-time MBA program has been recognized as one of the top 50 in the nation, according to the latest issue of U. S. News & World Reports “ America's Best Graduate Schools 2009 .” The Executive Leadership Program was ranked by CRO Corporate Responsibility Officer magazine among the top 10 executive training programs in corporate responsibility.

In October 2009, it was announced that Marge would be featured on the front cover of the November issue of Playboy becoming the first cartoon character to appear on the cover of the magazine.

Career Post, a leading job magazine reports that Virgin Islands unemployment rate in 2009 was close to 7. 8 % as compared to the Continental United States ' unemployment number of 9. 7 % during the same period.

It once enjoyed being the third most popular magazine in the UK, but ABC-audited sales have since dropped to an average of 76, 408 per issue in 2009 ( from 1. 2 million ).

Although she was quoted by a 1997 Time magazine article as saying she was germophobic, Diaz specifically denied this on the June 26, 2009, edition of Real Time with Bill Maher, saying that a small comment she made 12 years earlier regarding public bathroom doorknobs was distorted out of proportion.

Metal Edge magazine, in publication from 1985 to 2009, had its annual Readers Choice Awards during most of its run.

In 2009 Jones was voted " Sexiest Man In The World " in the Hungarian magazine Periodika.