The Year in Pop

Adele finishes 2016 in a familiar place: on top. Nearly five years after her last blockbuster album — 2011’s "21," which spent 24 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 — the 28-year-old British pop powerhouse returned as if she had never left, closing out 2016 as Billboard’s top artist for a record third time.

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