ADELE TOPS THE 2011 MUSIC SCENE
December 25, 2011 - 2:33 pm
Jim Farber writes for the New York Daily News: Adele’s album-length moan about a lost love dominated the last 12 months like no other disk. That’s not only because it sold in pre-industry-meltdown numbers of 5 million and counting. It’s because, for the first time in memory, the most popular album turned out to be the best.