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Adele's 21 dominates yet another year

 

Friday 14 December 2012 16:26 GMT
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It's another year and another Adele domination on the music charts: The British singer is Billboard's top artist of 2012.

Billboard said today that Adele is the year's biggest artist and her diamond 21 album, released in February 2011, is this year's top album. Adele earned both prizes last year.

The year's top three songs are Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know," Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" and fun.'s "We Are Young."

Adele is also the top female artist. Drake is the top male artist, One Direction is the top new artist and Maroon 5 is the year's top group.

Billboard said Drake, Taylor Swift, fun. and Don Omar are the top acts in the R&B/hip-hop, country, rock and Latin fields, respectively.

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