List of Billboard number-one R&B/hip-hop albums of 2009

This page lists the albums that reached number one on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Top Rap Albums charts in 2009. The Rap Albums chart partially serves as a distillation of rap-specific titles from the overall R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.

The top-selling R&B/hip-hop album for the year was I Am... Sasha Fierce by Beyoncé, which was released in November 2008.