On 12. 12. 12 and a horrible / boring / nothing special year in music here's again the annual list of the
top 10 biggest artist of the year worldwide, + in conmemoration of her first decade in music the ultimate Avril Lavigne top 10 hits (THE QUEEN!)
Maroon 5
With the band already having a big 2011 thanks to the tremendous hit
'Moves like Jagger' that was still overplayed this year, they released their 4th album
Overexposed which include singles
'Payphone' and
'One More Night', They start touring the world in Latin America, Asia and Australia and will continue in North America and Europe.
Lead singer
Adam Levine was part of hit tv show, The Voice in which he is one of the judges and coaches, they were nominated for many awards including the Grammy's but they didn't end up coming victorious only winning:
1 People's Choice Award
1 Teen Choice Award
1 American Music Award
Madonna
With a feud against
Lady Gaga and one of her worst and less successful eras 'Queen Of Pop' comeback at the at Halftime Show during the
Super Bowl XLVI becoming the
most-watched SB halftime show ever with 114 million viewers, She release her 12th album
MDNA which debut at #1 worldwide selling to date only around 1 million copies which include the singles '
Give Me All Your Luvin' feat.
Nicki Minaj &
M.I.A.,
'Girl Gone Wild' and
'Turn Up The Radio'.
As the queen of concerts the
MDNA Tour was named the top grossing tour of 2012 visiting Europe, North America, Latin America and Israel, there were no awards or nominations for this era.
Carly Rae Jepsen
Thanks to the discovery of king
Justin Bieber also coming from Canada the
breaktrough / 'one-hit wonder' of 2012 appear with smash
song of the year 'Call Me Maybe' that hit #1 worldwide, becoming the
2nd most watched video of 2012 with over 350 million views on Youtube/VEVO and is currently nominated for a
Grammy which also gave her tons of awards:
3 Much Music Awards
1 Teen Choice Award
1 Billboard Music Award
1 MTV Europe Music Award
1 American Music Award
Kiss her debut album flop, she collab with
Owl City on
'Good Time' and as tour she is the opening act of Justin Bieber's
Believe Tour.
Pitbull
With Mr. Worldwide already big in music industry the
king of collaborations continues starting with
"Get It Started" feat. Shakira of his latest album
Global Warming which also include the hit club single
''Don't Stop the Party'' that was practically his first solo single since 09 hit '
'I Know U Want Me'', He was attached to
Men in Black 3 soundtrack with
'Back In Time' and his about to release another collab feat.
Legend X on
''Feel This Moment''.
He also contributed once again with
JLo on
''Dance Again'' and some others,
The Planet Pit World Tour made it worldwide from Latin America, to Europe, North America and Australia as awards he won:
1 Billboard Music Award
1 ALMA Award
Katy Perry
With a 3 year era
Teenage Dream was re-released under the title
The Complete Confection which sold another million this year around the globe,
'Part of Me' was the album's sixth #1 single in the US and gave name to her
3D film that grossed $30 million worldwide.
'Wide Awake' was the last single, as usual since her era begin in 2010 she was nominated in most of the awards but didn't win that much, this year she only won:
5 People's Choice Awards
2 Much Music Awards
1 American Music Award
1 Teen Choice Award
1 Billboard Music Award (special record award)
Nicki Minaj
The
Rap Queen and extravagant diva finally went big in 2012 with the re-release of her album
Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded which sold 1.4 million worldwide and include the
smash hit single 'Starships' as well as
'Pound The Alarm' and other rap singles. Her collabs continue strong this year feat.
David Guetta in
'Tun Me On',
'Give Me All Your Lovin'' feat.
Madonna and
'Beauty And A Beat' with
Justin Bieber where the biggest ones she made.
The Pink Friday Tour was her first world tour that visited Australia, North America, Europe and part of Asia,
she launch her first fragrance and already have a
feud against legendary Mariah Carey in which both will be judges of
American Idol in 2013, as awards she won:
1 MTV Video Music Award
2 Teen Choice Awards
1 American Music Award
1 MTV Europe Music Award
1 BET Award
Taylor Swift
With an
Avril Lavigne wannabe sound and image the
ex-country US queen release
Red one of the
best selling albums of 2012 with 3.8 million copies sold, almost 3 only in the US, lead single
'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together' went to #1 in the US becoming her first #1 song on the Billboard chart,
'I Knew You Were Trouble',
'Being Again' were other singles and at the beginin' of the year
'Safe & Sound' from the
soundtrack The Hunger Games.
As of every year she dates a new man of hollywood and is currently in a
relationship with One Direction singer Harry Styles, she will visit stadiums and arenas in North America with
The Red Tour in 2013, as awards she still won some in country and:
3 MTV Europe Music Awards
3 Teen Choice Awards
1 Kids' Choice Award
1 Billboard Music Award (special award)
One Direction
The group of the year and teen sensation slay girls around the world and
made the boy bands comeback, debut single
"What Makes You Beautiful" went to #1 in europe and latin america becoming a youtube sensation and one the
most watched videos with over 300 million views subsequent singles
'One Thing',
'Gotta Be You' and
'More than This' help their debut album
Up All Night to become one of the
best selling albums of 2012 with more than 3.6 million copies worldwide, they recently release the follow up
Take Me Home that did the same smashing globally, including the latest singles
'Live While We're Young' and
'Little Things'.
As of tour they visited Europe, North America and Australia, they will make it bigger with the
One Direction 2013 World Tour, youngest member 18 year-old
Harry Styles is dating 23 year-old Taylor Swift and as awards along with
Justin Bieber they were the ones with most trophies winning:
2 MTV Video Music Awards
3 Teen Choice Awards
2 MTV Europe Music Awards
1 BRIT Award
1 ARIA Music Award
1 Bambi Award
6 Kids' Choice Awards (WW)
Justin Bieber
Bieber Fever might go a bit down but still strong for 2012
the new king of pop is growing and showing a more mature side with the release of
Believe the #1 album which sold 2.5 million worldwide and include the hit singles
'Boyfriend',
'As Long As You Love Me' and
'Beauty And A Beat' feat.
Nicki Minaj, he also collab on
'Live My Life' for
Far East Movement,
Forbes ranked him #3 with $55 M + gave him the magazine cover,
#1 on Billboard Social 50 artist,
and
#1 highest viewed overall artist on YouTube/Vevo with 3 billion views.
He release his 2nd fragrance
Girlfriend, while supposedly
split with gf Selena Gomez after 2 years getting back together days later, He start touring North America with the
Believe Tour will continue WW in 2013 and made a huge
free show in Mexico City for 300,000 people, Won Artist Of the Year at the AMAs and was the act with more awards:
3 American Music Awards
3 MTV Europe Music Awards
4 Teen Choice Awards
1 Billboard Music Award
1 Juno Award
1 Kid Choice Award
2 MTV Video Music Awards Japan
Rihanna
Female of 2012 and as part of every year Rihanna smash specially thanks to
#1 hit single 'We Found Love' which became a global success same as
'Where Have You Been', she sold 1.6 million worldwide with her 2 albums this year including her latest release
Unapologetic, lead single
'Diamonds' went to #1 globally,
forbes puts her at #4 with $53 M and
Google at #2 most popular woman,
Rebelle her
2nd fragrance was released, her acting debut was on
Battleship her first theatrical feature film, she embarked on a mini tour 777 consisting of 7 shows, 7 countries in 7 days and was in a
come and not with ex Chris Brown, as awards:
1 American Music Award
1 Brit Award
1 Grammy Award
1 MTV Video Music Award
1 MTV Europe Music Award
1 NRJ Award
2 Peoples Choice Awards
1 Teen Choice Award
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