Billboard chooses Modern Times year's best album

Billboard magazine has chosen Bob Dylan's Modern Times as the best album of 2006.

It was the second top billing for the 65-year-old singer, after Modern Times topped Rolling Stones magazine's picks of the year earlier this week.

The album, Dylan's first in five years, topped Billboard sales charts earlier this year.

Billboard picked its top 10 based on the opinions of its 48 staff and freelancers.

Another veteran American rocker, Bruce Springsteen, came second with his We Shall Overcome — the Seeger Sessions.

The Beatle's Love, a remix of original Apple recording sessions created for a Cirque du Soleil show, was tied for ninth place.

The top 10 list actually has 12 albums, because there were two ties:

Bob Dylan, Modern Times.
Bruce Springsteen, We Shall Overcome — The Seeger Sessions.
Gnarls Barkley, St. Elsewhere.
Arctic Monkeys, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not.
TV On The Radio, Return to Cookie Mountain.
Tom Waits, Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards.
The Hold Steady, Boys and Girls in America.
A tie between Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stadium Arcadium and Dixie Chicks, Taking the Long Way.
A tie: Tool, 10,000 Days, and The Beatles, Love.
Corinne Bailey Rae, Corinne Bailey Rae.

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