Rank	Title – Artist	Points
1	Pumped Up Kicks – Foster The People	100
2	Rolling In The Deep – Adele	99
3	The Edge Of Glory – Lady Gaga	98
4	Mr. Saxobeat – Alexandra Stan	97
5	Moves Like Jagger – Maroon 5 Featuring Christina Aguilera	96
6	S&M – Rihanna	95
7	If I Die Young – The Band Perry	94
8	Love You Like A Love Song – Selena Gomez & The Scene	93
9	Tonight Tonight -  Hot Chelle Rae	92
10	Someone Like You – Adele	91
11	Hello – Martin Solveig & Dragonette	90
12	I Feel Pretty / Unpretty – Glee Cast	89
13	Party Rock Anthem – LMFAO Featuring Lauren Bennett & GoonRock	88
14	Who Says – Selena Gomez & The Scene	87
15	You Make Me Feel… – Cobra Starship Featuring Sabi	86
16	Friday – Rebecca Black	85
17	Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) – Katy Perry	84
18	Give Me Everything – Pitbull Featuring Ne-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer	83
19	Grenade – Bruno Mars	82
20	Stereo Hearts – Gym Class Heroes Featuring Adam Levine	81
21	Price Tag – Jessie J	80
22	Hair – Lady Gaga	79
23	On The Floor – Jennifer Lopez Featuring Pitbull	78
24	In The Dark – Dev	77
25	Run The World (Girls) – Beyonce	76
26	F**kin’ Perfect – P!nk	75
27	E.T. – Katy Perry Featuring Kanye West	74
28	Set Fire To The Rain – Adele	73
29	Sexy And I Know It – LMFAO	72
30	GANG FIGHT — a Bad Lip Reading	71
31	Mr. Know It All – Kelly Clarkson	70
32	Underwater – Allison Harvard	69
33	Judas – Lady Gaga	68
34	We Found Love – Rihanna Featuring Calvin Harris	67
35	Rumor Has It – Adele	66
36	Rocketeer – Far East Movement featuring Ryan Tedder	65
37	Right There – Nicole Scherzinger	64
38	Can’t Hug Every Cat – schmoyoho	63
39	The Lazy Song – Bruno Mars	62
40	Stereo Love – Edward Maya & Vika Jigulina	61
41	Super Bass – Nicki Minaj	60
42	Good Life – OneRepublic	59
43	DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love – Usher Featuring Pitbull	58
44	Firework – Katy Perry	57
45	Blow – Ke$ha	56
46	I Do – Colbie Caillat	55
47	Tonight (I’m Lovin’ You) – Enrique Iglesias Featuring Ludacris & DJ Frank E	54
48	(ROCKIN’) ALL NITE LONG — A Bad Lip Reading	53
49	Back to December- Taylor Swift	52
50	Call Your Girlfriend – Robyn	51
51	You And I – Lady Gaga	50
52	Not Over You – Gavin DeGraw	49
53	The Time (Dirty Bit) – The Black Eyed Peas	48
54	Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya – Daniwell-P	47
55	Just Can’t Get Enough – The Black Eyed Peas	46
56	F**k You (Forget You) – Cee Lo Green	45
57	Only Girl (In The World) – Rihanna	44
58	Lighters – Bad Meets Evil Featuring Bruno Mars	43
59	I Love You This Big – Scotty McCreery	42
60	Don’t Hold Your Breath – Nicole Scherzinger	41
61	Where You At – Jennifer Hudson	40
62	Brighter Than The Sun – Colbie Caillat	39
63	Blame It (On the Alcohol) – Glee Cast	38
64	Hold It Against Me – Britney Spears	37
65	Yeah 3X – Chris Brown	36
66	Candles – Glee Cast	35
67	Just A Kiss – Lady Antebellum	34
68	Don’t You Wanna Stay – Jason Aldean With Kelly Clarkson	33
69	Moment 4 Life – Nicki Minaj Featuring Drake	32
70	Just The Way You Are – Bruno Mars	31
71	BLACK UMBRELLA (The Right Stuff) — a Bad Lip Reading	30
72	Honey Bee – Blake Shelton	29
73	Landslide – Glee Cast	28
74	Written In The Stars – Tinie Tempah Featuring Eric Turner	27
75	What The Hell – Avril Lavinge	26
76	Night Nurse – Cascada	25
77	Be My Baby – Wonder Girls	24
78	Born This Way – Lady Gaga	23
79	Dynamite – Taio Cruz	22
80	All Of The Lights – Kanye West	21
81	Rumour Has It / Someone Like You – Glee Cast	20
82	Domino – Jessie J	19
83	Coming Home – Diddy-Dirty Money feat. Skylar Grey	18
84	Ours – Taylor Swift	17
85	Get It Right – Glee Cast	16
86	I Wanna Go – Britney Spears	15
87	We R Who We R – Ke$ha	14
88	Skyscraper – Demi Lovato	13
89	Never Say Never – Justin Bieber Featuring Jaden Smith	12
90	The Trouble With Girls – Scotty McCreery	11
91	Jar Of Hearts – Christina Perri	10
92	Where Them Girls At – David Guetta Featuring Flo Rida & Nicki Minaj	9
93	Footloose – Blake Sheldon	8
94	Fly – Nicki Minaj Featuring Rihanna	7
95	The One That Got Away – Katy Perry	6
96	It Will Rain – Bruno Mars	5
97	Raise Your Glass – P!nk	4
98	Till The World Ends – Britney Spears	3
99	I Need A Doctor – Dr. Dre Featuring Eminem & Skylar Grey	2
100	Life’s A Happy Song – The Muppets	1

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Top 30 Artists of 2011:         #1 – Adele      

Total Points -             329

Charted Songs -

2          Rolling In The Deep – Adele  99 points

10        Someone Like You – Adele    91 points

28        Set Fire To The Rain – Adele  73 points

35        Rumor Has It – Adele 66 points

Last Year’s Rank:     N/A

Good job, someone who is zaftig topped my charts. Not like I’m anti-zaftig people, just more surprised that our society would accept Adele for her sexy vocals instead of her bodily stature.

Granted, I do think that Adele got…lucky that Amy Winehouse died. One less jazzy sounding British person to deal with.

I loved Adele when she came out with 19, I was convinced that “Chasing Pavements” was a great song and an awesome video. She kinda went hush for a little bit with those kind of songs that you would hear on Grey’s Anatomy so I wasn’t sure how much of an impact she’d make on the US’ music scene. Nevertheless, I was excited when I heard “Rolling in the Deep.” The song was great, this wonderful combination of a bit angry with this thumping backbeat. Soaring vocals didn’t hurt either. I also caught the music video and thought it was done really tastefully. I think I mentioned Pop Up Video a lot, but in this one, they explain the ninja’s dancing:

The thing about Rolling in the Deep was that it refused to die, whether it was the radio, my iPod, or the Pandora subscription I had for my “Glee Channel” (odd right?). I thought the cover from Glee was awful on the first try, the second listen… I’m still wavering on its whole “Old Man River” vibe that they tried. She did the song on Dancing with the Stars which actually was amazing, even though I think she may have sang it a key lower.

She makes me want to keep singing. Granted, Travis Wall makes me want to dance, but that’s another story.

Adele had a similar issue that The Band Perry did, which was that her songs, especially “Someone Like You” didn’t really fit radio stations like KTU that played dance. So they tried to tack on a random dance beat. I’m not sure how much it worked, but they did get Adele’s music to play on the dance stations, which made me happy.

I’ve heard that Adele has recovered from her throat surgery, so I’m hoping that she’ll be in 100% tip-top shape by the Grammys. I’d love to see her do an epic performance.

Aaand…I’m done. Congratulations goes out to Adele for topping my list, even though I know she doesn’t read this blog and she’s gotten awards much bigger than some random blogger loving you, but you know what? It’s cool.

Top 30 Artists of 2011:         2          Lady Gaga    

Total Points –             318

Charted Songs:

3          The Edge Of Glory – Lady Gaga        98 points

22        Hair – Lady Gaga        79 points

33        Judas – Lady Gaga      68 points

51        You And I – Lady Gaga         50 points

78        Born This Way – Lady Gaga   23 points

Last Year’s Rank:     5

Color me shocked that Lady GaGa isn’t number one on my list. She seemed to be everywhere, I mean she convinced Howard Stern that she’s good people. She tried to whore out her album just so that it could sound like it sold a lot of copies when it was basically given out like Halloween candy. Her song “The Edge of Glory” was great and so 90s dance-y that it was perfect. Part of “Hair” sounds like Pat Benitar’s “We Belong” …which is a good thing. I think. Finally, “Judas” actually grew on me a lot.

… I’m in the school that thinks “Born this way” sounds too much like “Express Yourself.” Sure, it’s “Anthemic” (I hate that word. It sounds part of a bug) but it’s okay. The song “S&M” used the word “boudoir” much better.

I think my favorite performances of Lady Gaga came from her Thanksgiving special, which I got to watch a few days later, since I was Black Friday shopping.

Even if she kept talking about how she was Italian the whole time…I get it. You’re an Italian from New York. What, you want to be on Jersey Shore next?

Top 30 Artists of 2011:         #3 – Glee Cast           

Total Points –             226

Charted Songs:

Last Year’s Rank:     4

12        I Feel Pretty / Unpretty – Glee Cast    89 points

63        Blame It (On the Alcohol) – Glee Cast           38 points

66        Candles – Glee Cast    35 points

73        Landslide – Glee Cast 28 points

81        Rumour Has It / Someone Like You – Glee Cast       20 points

85        Get It Right – Glee Cast         16 points

Glee hasn’t been getting the best of ratings after the first season but eh, I’m still watching. I think that they do have more guts to try different things, but original songs were kind of a miss for me. I thought “Get it right” was alright. A little silly for girls being all anti-feminist. But what would I know about feminists?

Glee had some great mash-ups between the back end of Season 2 and the front end of Season 3, but the best had to be “Rumor Has It / Someone Like You”

Glee fell back from 3 to 4, but Glee probably was the most stable of all the groups that I’ve placed, probably because the show was so stable, the question is whether the show will succeed in Season 4.

Top 30 Artists of 2011:         #4 – Bruno Mars       

Total Points –             223

Charted Songs:

19        Grenade – Bruno Mars            82 points

39        The Lazy Song – Bruno Mars  62 points

58        Lighters – Bad Meets Evil Featuring Bruno Mars      43 points

70        Just The Way You Are – Bruno Mars 31 points

96        It Will Rain – Bruno Mars       5 points

Last Year’s Rank:     2

I totally forgot about the whole Bruno Mars / Cocaine thing until out of nowhere he did more community service than he ever did. I think that Bruno Mars’ songs were just there and I don’t really judge it well. I mean I loved “Grenade,” but I swear that it peaked when the girls on <em>American Idol</em> did a group version. I also loved the Rock Band version even though it’s a bit high on my register.

I’m still not won over by “It will Rain” because it just sounds whiny and bitchy. Oh and “The Lazy Song” is catchy mostly because of three reasons: whistling, talking about Snuggies, and playing with one’s self for a while. How can you disagree with snuggies and playing with yourself?

I can’t fully fault Bruno Mars because he’s part Filipino. That’s already winning.

Top 30 Artists of 2011:         #5 – Katy Perry         

Total Points –             265

Charted Songs:

17        Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) – Katy Perry      84 points

27        E.T. – Katy Perry Featuring Kanye West        74 points

44        Firework – Katy Perry 57 points

95        The One That Got Away – Katy Perry           6 points

Last Year’s Rank:     9

I’m not surprised that Katy Perry got divorced; her getting married to Russell Brand was almost more of a Punk’D than Ashton Kutcher was with Demi Moore. Katy Perry is just broadly accessible even though some of her songs are a bit too much alike.

I’m still planning on turning “The One That Got Away” into a Christmas song, stay tuned for that.

“E.T.” for me was a happy change. It was just enough of a hip-hop touch. I actually prefer the non Kanye West version. And while it’s a bit difficult to dance to on Just Dance 3, it’s worth a try.

Speaking of Just Dance related things, “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)” grew on me less for the song and more for the music video, which not only had guys from Glee, but it had Rebecca Black. Oh and them dancing to “Hot Stuff” from Just Dance 2.

Eh, here’s the pop up video version:

Top 30 Artists of 2011:         #6 – Pitbull     

Total Points –             219

Charted Songs:

18        Give Me Everything – Pitbull Featuring Ne-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer  83 points

23        On The Floor – Jennifer Lopez Featuring Pitbull        78 points

43        DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love – Usher Featuring Pitbull  58 points

Last Year’s Rank:     13

Hah. Pitbull made a Kodak reference. It makes me wonder how many people will get that in 10 years with Kodak being bankrupt. Either way, Pitbull is the local (albeit short) whore that is in every song right? It feels like it. Somehow he’s so smooth that even I would totally consider if he asked.

It’s kind of like you can’t get rid of Pitbull because he’s the accessible go-to rapper to get your music to have a little bit of Latin flair. Even though he likes using a lot of similes.

Eh, he made fun of Lindsay Lohan and she got angry. Bitch should be honored people still remember her.

Top 30 Artists of 2011:         #7 – Rihanna 

Total Points –             213

Charted Songs:

6          S&M – Rihanna           95 points

34        We Found Love – Rihanna Featuring Calvin Harris   67 points

57        Only Girl (In The World) – Rihanna   44 points

94        Fly – Nicki Minaj Featuring Rihanna  7 points

Last Year’s Rank:     1

Rihanna…what can I say about her that someone else hasn’t said? Everything ranging from her being amazing to her being awful. Her videos tend to be fun and her live performances have gotten more theatrical post-GaGa making everything a bit more visually stunning. She had a lot of hits, but “S&M” dominated the front half and “We Found Love” dominated the second half. Interestingly, she’s only 7 on my list. Meaning there was clearly some more influencial and prolific people.

Not the point.

Rihanna is good. She has one Grammy by herself (for “Only Girl (in the World)” and three others in collaboration. I forgot that she was in “Run this Town” which is a very catchy song. Interestingly, she never won any American award for “Love the Way You Lie.”

I loved this performance from I.aM.Me, who deserved their win on ABDC.

Top 30 Artists of 2011:         #8 – Selena Gomez & The Scene     

Total Points –             182

Charted Songs:

14        Who Says – Selena Gomez & The Scene        87 points

8          Love You Like A Love Song – Selena Gomez & The Scene 93 points

Last Year’s Rank:     25

Selena Gomez is a Disney product, I get it. Even worse, she’s dating Justin Bieber. Why do I like her music then? It’s accessible techno-pop that is so overproduced that it’s likable. I think both songs that I loved from Selena Gomez may have been because “The Scene” was really good. I don’t think that Selena Gomez is an amazing performer live, look at this:

It’s not amazing. It’s nothing to write home to. Unless you are Chelsie Hightower. Granted, the song was a bit butchered so that it could fit into a shorter window which makes the song seem even worse. Maybe I’m a fourteen girl inside who needs reinforcing music to tell me that “I’m Beautiful.” “Who Says” is very summery and causal which works well for playing in the background. I mean the song could even fit on a Lite FM-style station, and still blend in.

Selena’s other song that ranked, “Love You Like A Love Song” fits again for it’s dance capabilities. Here’s it’s Pop up Video version:

So that’s why it’s purple!