Billboard's Year End Charts are out!

Hey guys, Billboard just published their year end's charts and this is how 2012 sums up according to them.

Top 25 Tours



Madonna ends up at no.1 with a total gross of 228M from her MDNA Tour. No surprise here I guess. This tour is already among the highest-grossing concert tours currently sitting at no.14.

Coldplay came at no.5 with their Mylo Xyloto Tour (147.1M) and Gaga at no.6 with the Born This Way Ball* (124.9M).





All data is reported from Nov. 9, 2011 to Nov. 13, 2012.

*Gaga's tour does not include the first Latin American dates as they haven't been reported yet from Live Nation.

The Billboard 200



Adele finishes at no.1 for second consecutive year as the best selling album in America with her newly diamond certified album "21". Again, no surprise here. This is how the top 20 looks like.*

01 - 5,553 - 21 - Adele
02 - 2,133 - CHRISTMAS - Michael Buble
03 - 1,911 - TAKE CARE - Drake
04 - 1,749 - RED - Taylor Swift
05 - 1,349 - UP ALL NIGHT - One Direction
06 - 1,102 - TAILGATES AND TANLINES - Luke Bryan
07 - 1,077 - BABEL - Mumford & Sons
08 - 1,029 - TALK THAT TALK - Rihanna
09 - 1,027 - TUSKEGEE - Lionel Richie
10 - 1,016 - EL CAMINO - Black Keys

11 - 989 - BELIEVE - Justin Bieber
12 - 964 - OWN THE NIGHT - Lady Antebellum
13 - 940 - UNDER THE MISTLETOE - Justin Bieber
14 - 919 - BLOWN AWAY - Carrie Underwood
15 - 896 - HERE AND NOW - Nickelback
16 - 887 - 19 - Adele
17 - 859 - MYLO XYLOTO - Coldplay
18 - 850 - THE GREATEST HITS - Whitney Houston
19 - 801 - MY KINDA PARTY - Jason Aldean
20 - 739 - SOME NIGHTS - fun.

* figures updated until November 17th, 2012.

The Billboard Hot 100



Gotye was one of the revelations of 2012 in music scene. STIUTK was a smash, hitting no.1 for 8 weeks and eventually becoming the biggest song in the US this year. He has double reason to celebrate as this song also ends up as the most downloaded track (6,703,000) and the most played song in US radio. Props to him, truly deserved. The top 20 looks like this:

2. Call Me Maybe - Carly Rae Jepsen
3. We Are Young - fun. Featuring Janelle Monae
4. Payphone - Maroon 5 Featurig Wiz Khalifa
5. Lights - Ellie Goulding
6. Glad You Came - The Wanted
7. Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You) - Kelly Clarkson
8. We Found Love - Rihanna Featuring Calvin Harris
9. Starships - Nicki Minaj
10. What Makes You Beautiful - One Direction
11. Wild Ones - Flo Rida
12. Set Fire To The Rain - Adele
13. Sexy And I Know It - LMFAO
14. Some Nights - fun.
15. Wide Awake - Katy Perry
16. Good Feeling - Flo Rida
17. Whistle - Flo Rida
18. One More Night - Maroon 5
19. Drive By - Train
20. The Motto - Drake Featuing Lil Wayne

Also Rihanna was named top Hot 100 artist and Adele top Artist.

That's all folks! lol

Lights at 5? Thats odd. No real surprises. Karma for posting Alonso. Just got seeing this now.