Top 500 Songs Of 2009 - #50-#41

#50 Alice In Chains - "Lesson Learned" from "Black Gives Way To Blue"

#49 The Avett Brothers - "Head Full Of Doubt / Road Full Of Promise" from "I And Love And You"

#48 The Manchester Orchestra - "I've Got Friends" from "Mean Everything To Nothing"

#47 The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Heads Will Roll" from "It's Blitz!"

#46 Jay-Z - "Run This Town" from "The Blueprint 3" - Jay-Z and Kanye West trade lyrics while Rihanna sings the chorus. It doesn't get much better than this.

#45 Death Cab For Cutie - "Little Bribes" from "The Open Door"

#44 Alice In Chains - "Your Decision" from "Black Gives Way To Blue"

#43 Tegan And Sara - "Hell" from "Sainthood" - A big step forward creatively for Tegan and Sara, whose music was always good, but now seems more mature and less twee.

#42 Metric - "Help I'm Alive" from "Fantasies" - One of the best "new" bands of 2009, Metric released a sensational album and it was propelled to the forefront by this hit single with a tremendous hook.

#41 And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - "Halcyon Days" from "The Century Of Self"