Gruppe Album A: Radiohead - "In Rainbows" vs. Patrick Wolf - "The Magic Position"
Gruppe Album A: Dimmu Borgir - "In Sorte Diaboli" vs. Aereogramme - "My Heart Has A Wish That You Would Not Go"

Gruppe Album B: Maxïmo Park - "Our Earthly Pleasures" vs. The White Stripes - "Icky Thump"
Gruppe Album B: Polarkreis 18 - "Polarkreis 18" vs. Daft Punk - "Alive 2007"

Gruppe Album C: Interpol - "Our Love To Admire" vs. the GazettE - "STACKED RUBBISH"
Gruppe Album C: Nightwish - "Dark Passion Play" vs. Wir Sind Helden - "Soundso"

Gruppe Album D: Modest Mouse - "We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank" vs. Enter Shikari - "Take to the Skies"
Gruppe Album D: Maximum the Hormone - "Buiikikaesu" vs. Foo Fighters - "Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace"

Gruppe Album E: Nine Inch Nails - "Year Zero" vs. Timbaland - "Timbaland Presents: Shock Value"
Gruppe Album E: Kate Nash - "Made Of Bricks" vs. Paradise Lost - "In Requiem"

Gruppe Album F: Arcade Fire - "Neon Bible" vs. Klaxons - "Myths of the Near Future"
Gruppe Album F: Dream Theater - "Systematic Chaos" vs. Serj Tankian - "Elect The Dead"