Arcade Fire top Triple J album poll for 2010

14 December 2010

Triple J listeners have voted Canadian band Arcade Fire's third album The Suburbs as the best of the year. 

They overcame recent J Award winners Tame Impala's Innerspeaker in second and Sydney folk duo Angus & Julia Stone's Down The Way, which claimed third. Triple J favourites Cloud Control and Washington scored fifth and seventh place respectively.

Over 24,000 Triple J listeners took part in the national youth broadcaster's annual poll, conducted by Music Director Richard Kingsmill, who was very happy with the results. 

“The overall reaction to the poll was really positive," he told TMN. "The excitement on twitter and text was great as we counted them down. People I think were really pleased the likes of The National, Yeasayer and LCD Soundsystem made it in the Top 10."

With nine Australian acts and 11 international acts making the top 20, Triple J listeners have favoured overseas music, but not by much.

“There were some notable Australian entries too which made people realise how strong our local scene is," added Kingsmill. "The general vibe from our audience was what a great year of music it's been. And I'm not going to disagree with that at all,” he said.

Triple J's Top 10 Albums of 2010:

1. ARCADE FIRE - The Suburbs
2. TAME IMPALA - InnerSpeaker
3. ANGUS & JULIA STONE - Down The Way
4. VAMPIRE WEEKEND - Contra
5. CLOUD CONTROL - Bliss Release
6. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - This Is Happening
7. WASHINGTON - I Believe You Liar
8. THE NATIONAL - High Violet
9. TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB - Tourist History
10. YEASAYER - Odd Blood
11. KANYE WEST - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
12. BIRDS OF TOKYO - Birds Of Tokyo
13. MARK RONSON & THE BUSINESS INTL. - Record Collection
14. GORILLAZ - Plastic Beach
15. SIA - We Are Born
16. FOALS - Total Life Forever
17. THE BLACK KEYS - Brothers
18. LITTLE RED - Midnight Remember
19. CHILDREN COLLIDE - Theory Of Everything
20. HUNGRY KIDS OF HUNGARY - Escapades

The voting for Triple J’s annual Hottest 100 begins next week - for more information head to triplej.net.au.

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