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  Who Charted 2012 Year-End Edition: Starring Adele, Taylor Swift, Gotye, and the Black Keys

  December 17, 2012 – Billboard have released their roundup of the year's biggest success (via sales, streams, airplay, "impact"), and the results might surprise you. Like, for one, Justin Bieber wasn't even invited to the party. So for this rare annual edition of "Who Charted?" SPIN breaks down the two biggest charts in the land: The Billboard 200 albums list, and the Hot 100 songs stack, and sheds a little light on the state of our musical nation. …
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  Madonna's Nipple-Flashing, Gun-Waving MDNA World Tour Cashes In

  December 14, 2012 – Madonna's massive, controversy-skirting MDNA tour has paid off: the Material Girl raked in $228 million from the live shows, making her muscular jaunt around the world the year's highest grossing tour, Billboard reports. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band were a somewhat distant second, claiming a total of $199 million after playing to a little more than two million people. …
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  Taylor Swift's 'I Knew You Were Trouble' Video Is Lana Del Rey's 'Ride' All Over Again

  December 13, 2012 – So here's a thing that a crossover female pop star might want to do in 2012: hire Anthony Mandler to make you an extended arty music video, bookended by spoken word pieces, about falling in with leather-clad cool guys and having crazy desert adventures that end disastrously. …
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  Golden Girls: Taylor Swift, Adele Nominated for Best Song Golden Globe

  December 13, 2012 – Nominations for the 70th Annual Golden Globes were announced Thursday morning (December 13) and Taylor Swift, Adele, and Jon Bon Jovi are all vying for the Best Original Song statuette. Swift's bleary-eyed ballad for The Hunger Games, "Safe & Sound," faces off against "Skyfall," Adele's retro Bond theme for the film of the same name. …
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  Who Charted? Taylor Swift Is Back on Top as Ke$ha Creeps in From Below

  December 12, 2012 – First! Taylor Swift's record-smashing Red climbs back to the top to rack up a fourth (non-consecutive) week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. She sold 167,000 copies of her fourth album last week, according to Nielsen SoundScan. We'd like to believe that about, oh, I dunno, maybe 55 percent of that came from SPIN giving Red the No. 38 slot on our Best Albums of 2013 list. Figuring in the No. …
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  Jingle Ball 2012 By the Numbers: Screaming Bieber Fans, the Wanted Creeped Out, and... Steven Seagal?

  December 10, 2012 – Friday night once again brought Z100's annual Jingle Ball pop summit to NYC, making Madison Square Garden's sold-out arena a spectacle before the doors even opened. Thousands upon thousands of pre-teens piled onto each other outside of the venue eager to get a glipse of any of the chart-topping heartthrobs that were scheduled to perform inside. Bieber was the name that we heard screamed the most, of course. …
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  Everything You Need to Know About the 55th Grammy Awards Nominations

  December 6, 2012 – Who got the most nods? It's a free-for-all! Six different acts earned six nominations apiece. They are: fun., Frank Ocean, Mumford & Sons, Kanye West, Jay-Z, and the Black Keys' Dan Auerbach. Not counting Auerbach's producer nomination, the Black Keys, Miguel, and jazz musician Chick Corea all totaled five nods apiece. Nas, fun. …
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  Who Charted? Christmas Creeps as Alicia Keys Grabs Another No. 1

  December 5, 2012 – First! Alicia Keys pushes Rihanna off of her pedestal, with Unapologetic falling all the way down to No. 6 (72K sold according to Nielsen SoundScan) as the more established songstress launches her Girl on Fire at No. 1 (159K). This is nothing new for Keys, who's seen all but one of her four previous studio albums (and one live set) sit atop the 10. She shouldn't get too comfy up there, however. …
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  Who Charted? Taylor Swift Beats 'Now,' PSY Fever Subsides

  November 14, 2012 – First! God bless Taylor Swift for holding steady at No. 1 for a third week. Not because she happens to be our new BFF — although, those little dubstep noises she makes are totes adorbs — but because by selling another 196K copies of her record-breaking and well-reviewed Red, she kept that abomination known as Now That's What I Call Music! 44 away from the highest seat in the land. …
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  MTV EMAs 2012: Taylor Swift Is Popular in Europe, Too

  November 12, 2012 – Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber cleaned up at the 2012 MTV European Music Awards on Sunday (November 11), tying for the most wins with three statues apiece. Swift, who was recently shut out stateside at the Country Music Association Awards, took home trophies for Best Female, Best Look, and Best Live Act. …
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