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Billboard's best of 2013

buzzz worthy. . .




Billboard magazine has announced its best of list for the year 2013.  Based on record sales as determined by Nielsen BDS and chart status Justin Timberlake had the best album of the year.  The magazine named Singer Bruno Mars Billboard's 2013 Artist of the Year.Mars topped eight of Billboard's year-end music chart lists, including the Hot 100 Artists, Mainstream Top 40 and Hot Digital Songs, and his 2012 album "Unorthodox Jukebox" has becoming one of this year's bestselling records with more than 1.8 million copies sold in the United States.

The top 10 from the top 200 albums of the year are:

1. 20/20 Experience" - Justin Timberlake
2. "Red" - Taylor Swift
3. "Take Me Home" - One Direction
4. "Unorthodox Jukebox" - Bruno Mars
5. "Babe" - Mumford & Sons
6. "Night Vision" - Imagine Dragons
7. "Here's to the Goodtimes" - Florida Georgia Line
8. "Truth About Love" - Pink
9."Crash My Party" - Luke Ryan
10. "Unapologetic" - Rihanna

Tamela Mann and Antony Brown and Group Therapy were the top gospel acts on the list for best album sales and best song respectively.

The top 10 gospel records of the year are:

  1. "Best Days"~Tamela Mann
  2. "WOW Gospel 2013"~Various
  3. "Grace"~Tasha Cobbs
  4. "Gravity"~Lecrae
  5. "Greater Than"~Tye Tribbett
  6. "Azusa The Next Generation"~Hezekiah Walker
  7. "United Tenors"~Hammond, Hollister, Roberson and Wilson
  8. "Jesus At the Center Live"~Israel & New Breed
  9. "Heroes For Sale"~Andy Mineo
  10. "The Evolution II"~Larry Callahan and Selected of God

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