Niedziela 2 Sty 2011, 16:02

Based on times played

My top 10 (and the difference from last year's chart positions)

Artists
1. Kamelot - 763 plays (+1)
2. She & Him - 511 plays (new)
3. Diana Vickers - 502 plays (0)
4. Lady Gaga - 474 plays (new)
5. Adam Lambert - 421 plays (-4)
6. Charice - 316 plays (new)
7. Legião Urbana - 281 plays (-1)
8. Calogero - 267 plays (0)
9. Lily Allen - 229 plays (+1)
10. Joe McElderry - 193 plays (new)

Didn't maintain top 10 positions: The Killers (#4 last year), Andre Matos (#5 last year), Céline Dion (#7 last year) and Alexandra Burke (#9 last year).

Albums
1. Poetry for the poisoned - 437 plays (new)
2. Volume One - 366 plays (new)
3. Songs from the tainted cherry tree - 346 plays (new)
4. For your entertainment - 333 plays (-3)
5. Charice - 316 plays (new)
6. The Fame Monster - 299 plays (new)
7. It's not me, it's you - 147 plays (-1)
7. wide awake - 147 plays (new)
9. Volume Two - 145 plays (new)
9. X Factor 2008 - 145 plays (new)

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Based on time spent listening

Top 10 (and the difference from the top 10 based on times played)

Artists
1. Kamelot - 3293 mins (0)
2. Lady Gaga - 1998 mins (+2)
3. Adam Lambert - 1768 mins (+2)
4. Diana Vickers - 1698 mins (-1)
5. She & Him - 1498 mins (-3)
6. Charice - 1279 mins (0)
7. Calogero - 1157 mins (+1)
8. legião urbana - 1109 mins (-1)
9. lily allen - 763 mins (0)
10. sam sparro - 603 mins (+4)

Top 10 albums
1. Poetry for the poisoned - 1726 mins (0)
2. For your entertainment - 1265 mins (+2)
3. The Fame Monster - 1240 mins (+3)
4. Songs from the tainted cherry tree - 1234 mins (-1)
5.Volume One - 969 mins (-3)
6. l'embellie - 545 mins (+5)
7. as quatro estações - 517 mins (+5)
8. It's not me, it's you - 507 mins (-1)
9. Volume Two - 466 mins (0)
10. sam sparro - 456 mins (+4)

This year's best musical discoveries of mine:
1. http://thesixtyone.com/ (thanks to salesrafael)
2. Lady Gaga's Bad Romance
3. Adam Lambert's Can't Let You Go
4. Stromae's Alors on danse
5. Matt Cardle (X Factor UK 2010 winner)
6. Amanda Grafanakis (X Factor Australia contestant)
7. Rebecca Ferguson (X Factor UK 2010 runner-up)
8. Altiyan Childs (X Factor Australia winner)
9. Sam Sparro
10. Rihanna's album Loud
11. Siobhan Magnus (from American Idol 2010)
12. Coeur de pirate

Artists I discovered and listed last year that topped my charts this year: Lady Gaga, Lily Allen and Joe McElderry (3 out of 9).

Artists I thought would top that didn't: Beyoncé, Andre Matos and Leona Lewis.

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Kamelot is the only metal group I keep hearing and Lady Gaga is this year's most memorable artist for me. She's reinventing music with every song she writes and her sounds please me like no other. I was never even interested in this kind of music before she came. I've heard and danced to The Fame (Monster) countless times, both alone in my bedroom and together with friends and complete strangers in night clubs, and Bad Romance might very well be the very best dance tune I've ever heard. It surely lifts everyone up in the night clubs I go to: it starts playing and everybody screams approvingly before they start shouting the lyrics, chanting the oohs and aahs and just dancing their collective asses off. Myself included. It's no wonder why I'm anticipating her next album so much. She's a lot more than just a crowd-pleaser: that woman is a true genius.

I'm also eager to hear more from Adam Lambert (whose song Can't Let You Go I just discovered is already one of my favorite songs of all time), Rihanna (the Loud album is her first I've liked and I think it's great), Charice (with an album that really showcases the diva within her), Matt Cardle (and his superb vocals, as seen in his X Factor journey), Rebecca Ferguson (and her exquisite and soulful voice) and all of the other X Factor contestants from this year.

I think Lady Gaga will be number one in my charts next year, along with Adam Lambert (if he releases another album), Kamelot, Rihanna, Diana Vickers, Matt Cardle and Legião Urbana. But I'm not really comfortable with making all these guesses, as it all depends on how good I find the 2011 albums to be. If there aren't a lot of good albums, then probably the great ones I found in 2010 will top again and these same artists will take the top 10 spots. I hope this year turns out to be as good as 2010 was, or perhaps even better… although it seems to me that it's gonna be the latter!