2011 Year End Media Charts

Top Songs of 2011
Rank	Song	Artist	Plays
1	Rolling in the Deep	Adele	137
2	Paradise	Coldplay	120
3	The Shrine	Fleet Foxes	119
4	Pumped Up Kicks	Foster the People	98
5	Montana	Youth Lagoon	95
6	Little Lion Man	Mumford & Sons	94
7	Apollo Throwdown	The Go! Team	94
8	Good Life	OneRepublic	92
9	Nomadic Code	Conjure One	91
10	I Follow Rivers	Lykke Li	86
11	My Eyes	NERO	86
12	Around the Bend	The Asteroids Galaxy Tour	83
13	Jar of Hearts	Christina Perri	81
14	Princess of China	Coldplay, Rihanna	80
15	Hey Anna Lena	Bell X-1	80
16	Keyboard Milk	Royksopp	79
17	Sunset in July	311	77
18	Nova	VNV Nation	72
19	The Lazy Song	Bruno Mars	70
20	The Golden Age	The Asteroids Galaxy Tour	70
21	Tonight	Seether	69
22	Pink Nightmares	Infected Mushroom	69
23	Sim Sala Bim	Fleet Foxes	67
24	Marry You	Bruno Mars	66
25	Every Teardrop is a Waterfall	Coldplay	64
26	Rumour Has It	Adele	64
27	Master of Disaster	Seether	63
28	Judas	Lady Gaga	62
29	Liquor Store Blues	Bruno Mars	62
30	Stay Young, Go Dancing	Deathcab for Cutie	61
31	We Found Love	Rihanna, Calvin Harris	60
32	Walk	Foo Fighters	59
33	Bust Out Brigade	The Go! Team	59
34	Justice	Rev Theory	58
35	Left Behind	The Birthday Massacre	57
36	S & M	Rihanna	54
37	Just the Way You Are	Bruno Mars	53
38	Switchblade	Incubus	51
39	Flying	Bilal	51
40	Cheers (Drink to That)	Rihanna	50
41	Born Free	Kid Rock	48
42	Porn Star Dancing	My Darkest Days	48
43	Monday Morning	Deathcab for Cutie	47
44	Misery	Maroon 5	45
45	The Cascades	Fleet Foxes	45
46	Lotus Flower	Radiohead	45
47	The Only One	The Black Keys	44
48	Listen to Your Love	Mona	44
49	Overlord	Black Label Society	43
50	Pass Slowly	Seether	43
2011
Top Albums
Rank	Album	Artist	Units (M)
1	21	Adele	8.1
2	Helplessness Blues	Fleet Foxes	7.5
3	Rolling Blackouts	The Go! Team	6.3
4	Doo-Wops & Hooligans	Bruno Mars	6.2
5	Holding on to Strings Better Left to Fray	Seether	5.3
6	Mylo Xyoto	Coldplay	4.8
7	Loud	Rihanna	4.4
8	Airtight's Revenge	Bilal	3.7
9	Codes and Keys	Deathcab for Cutie	3.5
10	Born This Way	Lady Gaa	3.5
Top Books
Rank	Book	Author	Units (M)
1	The Help	Kathryn Stocket	5.0
2	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot	2.4
3	The Way of Kings	Brandon Sanderson	2.3
4	Bossypants	Tina Fey	1.8
5	The Habitation of the Blessed	Catherynne Valente	1.5
6	The Hidden Reality	Brian Green	1.5
7	Ready Player One	Ernest Cline	1.4
8	The Emperor of All Maladies	Siddhartha Mukherjee	1.1
9	In the Garden of Beasts	Erik Larson	0.9
10	Love and Capital	Mary Gabriel	0.9
Top Movies
Rank	Movie		Units (M)
1	The Tree of Life		16.4
2	Black Swan		13.8
3	Midnight in Paris		12.3
4	The King's Speech		10.8
5	The Help		10.3
6	Moneyball		10.2
7	Limitless		9.7
8	Thor		9.6
9	True Grit		9.1
10	Drive		8.5

Christmas Eve With My Soul Mate in New York

The bells are ringing all night in Little Italy,
The protesters are camping out at Zuccotti.
So let's have a snazzy Manhattan pizza,
Crafted by the finest chefs on this side of the Atlantic,
Who twirl the dough on their fingertips
Like Harlem Globetrotters spinning basketballs
Or the hand of God wobbling the Earth on its axis
Beneath the custard smile of the moon.
Someday we'll go there,
Where the Creator and the Joker showoff their tricks.

The City of Dreaming Books, Walter Moers

    It’s alive I tell you, alive! Everything in this book is alive. Even the book itself might be as well, possessed by the Orm and all the astral dust in between Earth and Bookholm. Moers conjures up a vast catalog of species and settings in this metafiction-fantasy, which is mostly set in the catacombs below a city of readers and writers. Some parts in this book are unforgettable, like the trombomusic, the trash dump, the crystal caves, and the mine-shaft “rollercoaster”, which might be the most intense segment of any book I’ve read this year. For fans of adventure, don’t let the metafiction dissuade you; after 100 pages the wild journey begins, a journey that left me scratching my head in between the epic, often horrifying dangers that lurk beneath Bookholm's dark, mysterious caverns. I’m quite certain that fans of the Abarat series by Clive Barker will love this to pieces. They are very similar in the factors of genre, style, and outlandish creativity. So, if you love Abarat , read this!