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| Black Stone Cherry |
2 Professor Elemental 323
3 Christina Aguilera 322
3 BBC Radio 4 322
5 The Unthanks 318
6 Muse 315
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| Professor Elemental |
6 Dessa 315
8 Stacie Collins 312
9 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 308
10 Rancid 305
11 Coheed and Cambria 295
12 Megadeth 291
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| Stacie Collins |
14 Metallica 283
15 The Wildhearts 278
16 The Beatles 269
17 Marillion 267
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| Nneka |
19 Status Quo 261
20 Mastodon 259
21 Magnum 257
22 Etran Finatawa 256
23 Manu Chao 255
23 Ace Frehley 255
25 Nneka 254
26 Madness 251
27 Marilyn Manson 245
28 Mumford & Sons 242
29 Therapy? 233
29 The Proclaimers 233
29 Million Dollar Reload 233
32 The Decemberists 232
33 Britney Spears 231
33 Antonín Dvořák 231
35 Igor Stravinsky 230
36 Georg Friedrich Händel 226
37 Lee "Scratch" Perry 224
38 Port Isaac's Fisherman's Friends 222
39 Rachel Unthank & The Winterset 221
40 Antonio Vivaldi 215
40 Street Sweeper Social Club 215
42 The Rolling Stones 214
43 The Answer 212
44 Led Zeppelin 207
45 Electric Light Orchestra 204
45 Voodoo Six 204
47 Rush 203
48 Siouxsie and the Banshees 200
49 The Prodigy 197
49 Florence + the Machine 197
That's a reasonably eclectic year for me. Black Stone Cherry's Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea drove them to the top of my chart, and the endlessly hilarious Professor Elemental got his creator Paul Alborough second spot.
My top ten are well split between old favourites, Christina, Muse, The Unthanks, and listening that was new to me in 2011 like country rocker Stacie Collins, BSC, Professor Elemental's wonderful steampunk chap hop and Dessa's clever and articulate rap.
Further down my charts are well filled with lots of old favourites - try as I might to search out new and weird music I just can't help coming back to the likes of The Wildhearts, Metallica, Megadeth, Led Zeppelin, Madness or Siouxsie and the Banshees. New acts that push their way into my most listened of the year included Manu Chao's upbeat Freanch/Spanish/Basque folk pop, Nigeria's pop/rnb singer Nneka, Czech composer Antonín Dvořák and the rock bands Voodoo Six and Million Dollar Reload.
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