Another second round category. This woman was in fourth place after the first round. Passion won out here.

BEST POP: Adele

Really? I mean, it ultimately made my top three, but the fact that it ran away with first place tells me that perhaps no one on ATRL watched any other videos this year...

Should have been the Black Keys, but I do like "The Pretender."

Are we really not classifying her as pop music anymore? That's where I voted for her...

Just started listening to her album for this vote and I love it!

Um, okay...

Well, at least the person who won actually had a hit in 2011.

Meh.

This should probably be hidden away. This is an embarrassment.

Not as close as I thought it would be ...

BEST INTERNATIONAL SINGLE: Adele, "Someone Like You"

I prefer Rolling In The Deep.

Dead, and I thought my noms were bad

Not a bad choice, just the most obvious one.

I'm sorta miffed about Adele for Best Pop.

Not when Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Rihanna and Britney all released (arguably) strong albums this year. And that's only if we went the obvious root and voted for mainstream females - there are other possibilities, as well.

Ikr.

You can blame me for that one. I voted for 21 because I liked it and it was huge and it one of the only albums (international or otherwise) that I actually heard in full this year...

Let's move over to the American side of things. Here comes (arguably the last) shock!

BEST MALE: Frank Ocean

4 isn't pop AT ALL.