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Billboard.com has published its comprehensive Best of 2012 rundown. It's more objective than some of the other "End of the Year" lists because it's based on hard numbers, like album, song and ticket sales, chart performance, et cetera. And for the second year in a row, ADELE topped their overall Top 100 Artists of the Year list.
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Billboard.com has published its comprehensive Best of 2012 rundown. It's more objective than some of the other "End of the Year" lists because it's based on hard numbers, like album, song and ticket sales, chart performance, et cetera.
--For example, their Top 100 Artists of the Year list is based on each artist's performance on the Billboard Hot 100 songs and Billboard 200 albums charts.
--For the second year in a row, ADELE topped that list. Here are the Top 20:
1.) Adele
2.) Rihanna
3.) Taylor Swift
4.) Drake
5.) Justin Bieber
6.) Nicki Minaj
7.) Katy Perry
8.) Maroon 5
9.) LMFAO
10.) One Direction
11.) Flo Rida
12.) Coldplay
13.) Jason Aldean
14.) Fun
15.) Carly Rae Jepsen
16.) Kelly Clarkson
17.) Lady Gaga
18.) Luke Bryan
19.) Bruno Mars
20.) David Guetta
(--You can find the complete list at Billboard.com.)