Perez Hilton — It's a very Merry Christmas for Adele and Michael Buble! The Canadian crooner's Christmas album is expected to hold onto the number one spot on the Billboard 200 charts for the fifth consecutive week, which ends at the close of business on December 2... more info

ContactMusic — 2011 was without a doubt The Year of Adele You could barely turn on a TV set radio or laptop without being confronted with the sound of her voice or her image and there wasnt a dry eye in the house when she performed Someone Like You at the 2011 BR..... more info

ContactMusic — Adele - 212011 was the year that the allure of Adele went global Expanding on the success of her debut album 19 her sophomore release was produced by Rick Rubin and has earned the Londoner both success and credibility at once With tracks like Rolli..... more info

411 Mania — From Rihanna ranting on Twitter over a racist comment and Miley Cyrus angering her fans to Adele's Vogue cover shoot, Adam Lambert fighting his boyfriend, Steve Jobs getting a Grammy and more, 411's Nick Krenn breaks down the Right, the wRong and the... more info

411 Mania — The Christmas sales bump is good for them... more info

Guardian Music — The key moments in making music in 2011 so, so dullBBC wins the rights to The VoiceThere was always the chance that the BBC would Fame Acadify this US format, pompously focusing on a quest for authenticity in a place where there was demand for none, ... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — While I too was moved by Adele’s visceral heartbreak, the indulgence of Kanye and Jay’s “… in Paris” and obsessed over Beyonce’s frenetic “Countdown,” I became more intrigued by a crop of L.A.-based artists and their genre-pushing, ur... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — We already posted Pitchfork's and SPIN's, so... here's Rolling Stone's top 50 albums of 2011. It's got tons of big sellers and major label players taking high spots like Adele, Jay-Z and Kanye West, Paul Simon, and Lady Gaga,... more info

Jam! Showbiz Music, Canada — If you told us this time last year that Adele would rule the charts for majority of 2011, we'd have said you were crazy. more info

411 Mania — The awards just keep on coming… more info