Here's Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet's EOY international list. They also have a Norwegian list, which I will return to later
1. Bob Dylan - Modern Times
2. Nellie McKay - Pretty Little Head
3. Bruce Springsteen - We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Session
4. Joanna Newsom - YS
5. The Klezmatics - Wonder Wheel: Lyrics by Woody Guthrie
6. Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
7. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
8. Dixie Chicks - Taking the Long Way
9. The Knife - Silent Shout
10. Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
11. Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
12. Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death
13. Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways
14. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
15. Neil Young - Living With War
16. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
17. Snoop Dogg - The Blue Carpet Treatment
18. Candi Staton - His Hands
19. The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
20. TV On the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
21. Infadels - We Are Not The Infadels
22. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
23. Spank Rock - YOYOYOYOYO
24. The Blow - Paper Television
25. PJ Harvey - The Peel Sessions - 1991 - 2004
26. Built to Spill - You In Reverse
27. Sufjan Stevens - Presents: Songs For Christmas
28. Willie Nelson - You Don't Know Me: The Songs Of Cindy Walker
29. Lindsay Buckingham - Under the Skin
30. Wolfmother - Wolfmother
And here's the list of the best Norwegian albums of the year:
1. 120 Days - 120 Days
2. Marit Larsen - Under the Surface
3. Kristin Asbjørnsen - Wayfaring Stranger
4. Rockettothesky - To Sing You Apple Trees
5. Motorpsycho - Black Hole/Blank Canvas
6. Lindstrøm - It's a Feedelity Affair
7. Darkthrone - The Cult is Alive
8. Tellusalie - Is the Outside Still There
9. Roy Lønhøiden - Sanger Fra Skogen
10. Mira Craig - Mira Mira
11. The Whitest Boy Alive - Dreams
12. DumDum Boys - Gravitasjon
13. Maria Solheim - Will There
14. Hanne Hukkelberg - Rykestrasse 68
15. Magnus Hængsle - Magnus Hængsle
16. In the Country - Losing Stones, Collecting Bones
17. Elvira Nikolaisen - Quiet Exit
18. The White Birch - Come Up For Air
19. Darkside of the Force - El Dia De Los Puercos
20. Odd Nordstoga - Heim te Mor