Regular followers of a song a day may have been wondering what happened in 2009; the site lay dormant for a year due to what shall broadly be termed 'technical difficulties'.  But songs were still stacking up behind the scenes, and a perusal of the a song a day notebook reveals the following song obsessions in 2009:

January -

Lily Allen - The Fear

Frank Turner - Reasons Not To Be An Idiot

The Firemen - Sing the Changes

Fallout Boy - America's Suitehearts

Royal Treatment Plant - Half As Much

Alesha Dixon - Breathe Slow

Fleet Foxes - Mykonos

Metro Station - Shake It

Emily Barker - Nostalgia

Katie Noonan - Logic

Kidda - Under the Sun

Noisettes - Don't Upset the Rhythm

Elsiane - Across the Stream


February -

Katie Lied - Late Arrival

Robots in Disguise - Tears

Nitin Sawhney - Days of Fire

Passion Pit - Sleepyhead

Annie Lennox - Shining Light

U2 - Get On Your Boots

Matt and Kim - Daylight

TV on the Radio - Dancing Choose

Joe Brooks - My Heart Will Wait

Frankmusik - 3 Little Words

Royksopp - Happy Up Here

Ou Est Le Swimming Pool - Jackson's Last Stand

The Script - Talk You Down


March -

Metric - Help, I'm Alive

Van She - Changes

Gotye - Night Drive

Katie Herzig - Sweeter Than This

Kyte - Boundaries

Screaming Lights - GMN

The Hot Melts - Edith

Marmaduke Duke - Rubber Lover

Loney Dear - Summers

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll

Filthy Dukes - Messages

Alexi Murdoch - Blue Mind

Them:Youth - Halo

The Ugly Suit - Chicago

The Enemy - No Time For Tears

Super Furry Animals - Inaugural Trams

Marina and the Diamonds - Obsessions

Sara Lov - Animals


April -

Iron and Wine - Die

Jesca Hoop and Guy Garvey - Murder of Birds

Bloc Party - Signs

Art Brut - Acoholics Unanimous

Them:Youth - Bows and Arrows

Elton John - Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters

The Maccabees - No Kind Words

Kyte - No-one Is Angry, Just Afraid

The Godlen Filter - Solid Gold

Soft Toy Emergency - Critical

Luscious Jackson - Naked Eye

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Hysteric


May -

Of Montreal - Jimmy

Cyndi Lauper - Echo

Kasabian - Fire

Phildel - The Kiss

Tom Baxter - Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses

The Frames - 40

The Prodigy - Warrior Dance

Motion Picture Soundtrack - Faults of a Realist

Poppy and the Jezebels - Rhubarb and Custard

Tiny Masters of Today - Pop Chart

Lady of the Sunshine - Big Jet PLane

The Chakras - Build Me A Swan

Florence and the Machine - Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)

Enter Shikari - Jugernauts

The Low Anthem - Charlie Darwin

Electric Owls - Two Storries

Lior - Lost In You

Franz Ferdinand - Can't Stop Feeling


June -

Stina Nordenstam - Sharon and Hope

Piers Faccini - Two Grains of Sand

Nouvelle Vague - Eisbär

James Yuill - This Sweet Love

All American Rejects - I Wanna

Little Comets - One Night in October

Dave Matthews Band - Funny the Way It It

Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow

Answering Machine - Obviously Cold

The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition

Freemasons - Heartbreak Make Me A Dancer

VV Brown - Shark in the Water

Jet - She's a Genius

Anjulie - Colombia

Alison Krauss - Baby, Now That I've Found You

Ane Brun - Big in Japan

Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream

Dave Matthews Band - Shake Me Like a Monkey

The Dead Weather - Hang You From The Heavens

Dave Matthews Band - Why I Am


July -

Mars Volta - Cotopaxi

Scott Matthews - Jagged Melody

Metric - Gimme Sympathy

Sara Schiralli - Bang Bang

Discovery - So Insane

Gang Gang Dance - House Jam

The Joy Formidable - Whirring

The Books and Jose Gonzalez - Cello Song

Joseph Arthur - Even Tho

Stardeath and the White Dwarf - New Heat

Radiohead - In Memory of Harry Patch

Red Box - Lean On Me

A-ha - Foot of the Mountain

Tinchy Stryder - Never Leave You

Sean Kingston - Fire Burning

The Sounds - Tony the Beat

Mika - We Are Golden

Simian Mobile Disco - Audacity of Huge


August -

Howling Bells - Digital Hearts

The Big Pink - Dominoes

Jordin Sparks - SOS (Let The Music Play)

Them Crooked Vultures - Nobody Loves Me, Neither Do I

Air - Sing Sang Sung

We Should Be Dead - Forget Romance, Let's Dance

Athlete - Black Swan Song

Friendly Fires - Strobe

Editors - Papillon

Bonaparte - Too Much

Delorean - Indio / Deli

Thomas Dybdall - A Lovestory

Michael Stipe - Everything's Coming Undone

Hockey - Song Away


September -

Florence and the Machine - Drumming Song

Joshua Radin - No Envy, No Fear

Jenny Owen Youngs - Here Is A Heart

Mumford and Sons - Little Lion Man

Snow Patrol - Just Say Yes

Miss Li - Bourgeois Shangri-La

Ian Brown - Stellify

Jay Z - Empire State of Mind

Spinnerette - Baptized By Fire

Frightened Rabbit - Swim Until You Can't See Land

Joshua Radin - Vegetable Car

Annie Stela - Past Due

Owl City - Fireflies

Jamie T - Sticks and Stones

Cold Cave - Youth and Lust

Jesca Hoop - Tulip

Yes Giantess - You Were Young

Julian Casablancas - River of Brakelights


October -

Sugababes - About a Girl

Darwin Deez - Radar Detector

Alicia Keys - Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart

Ke$ha - Tik Tok

30 Seconds to Mars - Kings and Queens

Motion Picture Soundtrack - Glass Figures

Muse - Undisclosed Desires

The Faint - Mirror Error

Fujiya and Miyagi - Sore Thumb

Asteroids Galaxy Tour - Inner City Blues

Rihanna - Hard

Fuck Buttons - The Lisbon Maru

Jay Z - Young Forever

Jamie Cullum - I'm All Over It

Fyfe Dangerfield - When You Walk In The Room


November -

Darwin Deez - Constellations

Iyaz - Replay

John Mayer - Who Says

Rockttothesky - Grizzly Man

Magistrates - Heartbreak

Ou Est Le Swimming Pool - Dance The Way I Feel

The Temper Trap - Fader

Fever Fever - Keys in the Bowl

Hook and the Twin - Bang Bang Cherry

Phildel - Beside You

The Phenomenal Handclap Band - 15 to 20

My Tiger My Timing - This Is Not The Fire

Simian Mobile Disco - Bad Blood

Julian Casablancas - 11th Dimension

Mew - Repeaterbeater

Me My Head - Just Dance

Citadels - Battleshy


December -

Lady Gaga - Bad Romance

Stornoway - Zorbing

Wave Machines - Keep The Lights On

Journey - Don't Stop Believing

Stereophonics - Innocent

Snow Patrol -Just Say Yes

TV On The Radio - Heroes

Florence and the Machine - Halo

Plan B - Stay Too Long

Editors - Walk The Fleet Road

Wiley - Take That

Lostprophets - Where we Belong

The Drums - Let's Go Surfing

Joe McElderry - The Climb