I agree 2011 was not her year.
It was Adele's year but I think Adele is not the type of person to make a lot of music though.
Plus in todays worlds record sales are not the only way to measure popularity on a global scale.
I think with Youtube we get a better picture of what the entire world (minus China lol) likes.
For example mainstream media never talks about Pitbull, but he has done rather well for himself with many super hit songs and collaborations and really got popular through Youtube. That is the case for many artists these days such as those guys who made Party Rock Anthem.
Youtube is interesting, a lot of big hit songs according to the media have far lesser views then other new songs or older songs. I was thinking we could dismiss this as simply a bunch of devoted fans increasing viewcounts but with many videos with 100's of millions of views, the popularity of such songs must be genuine.
