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

Perez Hilton — Is this going to shock anyone? Obviously not! The Associated Press has named their top albums of the year 2011, and not surprisingly, Goddess Adele and her latest effort, the simply STUNNING 21 has hit the number one spot! 100% well-deserved! And che... more info

The Newsroom — Adele is back and looking better than ever. Hey everyone this is Ani Esmailian for Hollyscoop. After taking a brief break from music to undergo throat surgery, Adele is back and even better than ever. Adele tweeted a photo of herself, the first we'..... more info

411 Mania — She's giving up drinking too... more info