| Best of All-time Lists, Best of Decade Lists, etc. | |
| Popblerd/bLISTerd (USA) - Top 100 (+50) Albums of the 2000s (2012) | 92 |
| Ratings | |
| All Music Guide (USA) - Album Ratings 1-5 Stars | 4 Stars |
| Metacritic (Metascore 0-100, Weighted Average of Reviews from USA and UK) | 69 |
| Piero Scaruffi, Italy (www.scaruffi.com), Album Ratings (Scale 1 to 10) | 4.5 |
| End of Year Lists | |
| Classic Rock Magazine (UK) - Top Albums of 2009 | 1 |
| Kerrang (UK) - Top Albums of 2009 | 2 |
| Rumba (Finland) - Top Albums of 2009 | 13 |
| RockZone (Spain) - Top Albums of 2009 | 11 |
| WAN2 (Hungary) - Top Albums of 2009 | 12 |