Alright, it's finally here. The decisions have been long and tough (particularly the Album of the Year choice) and coming to a decision was not an easy task. Just know, whatever the result, every album nominated is fantastic and worthy of its nomination. The winners are:

Pop Album:
John Mayer - Continuum
Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton - Knives Don't Have Your Back
KT Tunstall - Eye To The Telescope
Yusuf Islam - An Other Cup
Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds

Rock Album:
Bob Dylan - Modern Times
The Who - Endless Wire
The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
The Subways - Young for Eternity

Hip-Hop/Rap Album
K-os - Atlantis: Hymns for Disco
The Roots - Game Theory
Outkast - Idlewild
Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
Lupe Fiasco - Food and Liquor

R&B/Soul Album
John Legend - Once Again
Ali Farka Toure - Savane
Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
Corinne Bailey Rae - Corinne Bailey Rae
Mary J. Blige - Reflections: A Retrospective

Country
Solomon Burke - Nashville
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Food
Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways
Calexico - Garden Ruin
Bruce Springsteen - We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions

Electronic/Dance
Thom Yorke - The Eraser
MSTRKRFT - The Looks
The DFA - DFA Remixes: Chapter 1
Goldfrapp - Supernature

Alternative/Indie
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
Silversun Pickups - Carnavas
The Flaming Lips - At War With the Mystics
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife

Metal
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
Tool - 10,000 Days
Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death
Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

Album of the Year
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
Tool - 10,000 Days

Single of the Year
Wolf Like Me - TV on the Radio
ELEctrik HeaT - the seekwiLL - K-os
Steady, As She Goes - The Raconteurs
Vicarious - Tool
Other Side of the World - KT Tunstall

Debut Album
The Subways - Young For Eternity
The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
Silversun Pickups - Carnavas
Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
KT Tunstall - Eye to the Telescope

Artistic Achievement Award
Danger Mouse