@@@.....Razz Awards 2011: We run the rule over the best in music over the last 12 months

It’s been a great year for music. From Adele singing Someone Like You at the Brits and her album 21 barely leaving the top three all year, to the return of Lady Gaga and the dominance of girls like Rihanna and Katy Perry, to ­continuing Scottish talent in the shape of Emeli Sande.

Here showbiz Editor Rick Fulton gives you the Razz Awards 2011.

Artist of 2011 - Adele

Can it be anyone else? Adele’s second album 21 is the biggest-selling album of 2011. Along with her debut album 19, she sold more than 20 million albums in 2011 with 21 shifting 16 million copies alone. It is now the biggest selling album of the century. She also become the first living artist in nearly 50 years to have two top five singles and albums in the charts at the same time. Problems with her throat dampened the celebrations but 2012 will hopefully see more touring.

UK Band - The Horrors

The Southend band started off as a goth joke, using daft names and raiding The Cure’s back catalogue. But this year’s third album Skying was incredible. The band, lead by Faris Badwan, made an album that sounded like The Doors. A must-see at T in 2012.

UK Female - Adele

Just because you sell alot doesn’t always mean you’re any good. But Adele certainly was. Once seen as Amy Winehouse lite, Adele showed she had the songs and the pipes to match the other troubled British soul star.

UK Male - Ed Sheeran

At the start of the year there were claims rock music was dead but Ed Sheeran proved the doubters wrong. With no more than a battered guitar Ed mixed personal folk tunes with R&B rhythms and urban poetry.

International Male - Bruno Mars

This year Bruno followed 2010’s Grenade and Just The Way You Are with number one The Lazy Song and Marry You. Never off the airwaves he also performed a show-stopping gig on The X Factor.

International Female - Rihanna

A very hard category this with Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and Beyonce all worthy winners. But Rihanna pips it for her amazing tour, her number one with Calvin Harris, We Found Love that gave the Scot his first American number one and showed she had good taste in collaborations and her changing hairstyles.

Best pop act - The Wanted

The nicest guys in pop offer a little something more than JLS, Take That, One Direction or the almost departed Westlife. Adding dance groves on songs like Glad You Came and Lightening add an edge often lacking in the other boybands.

Best Girl Group - Little Mix

OK so they’ve only had one single, a cover and won X Factor but Little Mix have already shot to the top of the girl group tree. It’s not hard really. They were the first girl band to do so well and the first group to win. Girls Aloud are still on hiatus (but due to return in 2012), Sugababes are all but over and The Saturdays just don’t seem to find a bigger fanbase.

Newcomer - Emeli Sande

It’s been an incredible year for the Scots singer (whose real name is Adele fact fans). Not only did she go to number two with her debut single Heaven she then went to number one singing on Professor Green’s Read All About It.

Scottish Band - Twin Atlantic

It’s been a long time since a Scots act broke through into the UK mainstream charts. We have to look back to 2006 and The View and The Fratellis. But Twin Atlantic could buck the trend. Offering a hard rock edge like Biffy Clyro, they are on the cusp of big things.

Best Live Gig - Adele

Given her on-going throat problems just seeing Adele live in 2011 was an event in itself, especially as she doesn’t like festivals. The September gig at the 02 Academy, Glasgow was a moment to savour.

Best Festival - T in the Park

No not because it’s Scottish. T in the Park continues to stand shoulder to shoulder with any of the English festivals and with its decent food and dance tent offered a festival-beating line-up in 2011 of Beyonce, Coldplay, Plan B, Foo Fighters and Pulp.

Best Festival moment - Primal Scream

When the lad set off the flare in the King Tut’s tent on the Saturday night the whole crowd came together like it was a rave in 1988. Free of drugs the Scream have never been better live and after playing Screamadelica did the big hits. Utterly amazing and for me the best T moment - ever.

Most Surprising Reunion - Stone Roses

After two albums they split very acrimoniously and it didn’t look like Ian, John, Mani and Reni would ever play again. But in October they announced they were back and would tour in 2012 including a headline slot at T in the Park. Baggy’s back but let’s hope Ian’s voice is better than in the Nineties.

Sadly missed - Amy Winehouse

Many thought it would happen but everyone was still shocked when the Rehab singer was announced dead. A troubled soul who had so much more to give, already with Lioness, the vaults are being ransacked.

***Best of 2011: Nicole Richie's Sexy Boob Job!

On the heels of Kate Hudson's 2010 subtle breast enhancement, once flat-chested Nicole Richie, 30, opted for small implants.

The mom of Sparrow, 2, and Harlow, 3, -- with husband Joel Madden, 32, -- unveiled her new cleavage during a bikini-filled vacation with pals in Mexico in September.

"Breast-feeding killed what boobs she did have," a source told Us Weekly of the House of Harlow 1960 designer. "And she wanted to stay sexy for Joel."

One thing the reality star hasn't altered since becoming a mom and a wife? Her enviable style.

"I'm still wearing 5-inch heels," the Fashion Star mentor recently told WWD. "My fashion really hasn't changed at all."

J.R. Martinez: Are shotgun weddings old news?

Get those dancing shoes ready!

Dancing with the Stars' champion J.R. Martinez and his girlfriend Diana Gonzalez-Jones are expecting a baby girl in the spring. The 28-year-old Iraq war veteran is so excited for fatherhood that he's already mapping out his daughter's future!

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"I'm thinking I'm going to have my girl play sports. I'm going to have her be active," he told Us Weekly. "Maybe [she'll] go to Karina Smirnoff's dance studio for lessons one day!"

Although Martinez only publicly announced his girlfriend was expecting earlier this month, he's actually known since September. "I kept it under wraps and focused on my dancing," he said.

As for Martinez's future with Gonzalez-Jones, his girlfriend of one year? "We thought we'd get married, give ourselves a couple of years and do more things, experience things as a couple and then we'd start to think about kids," he told Us. "But life doesn't always work that way! Things happen! And I do see myself being with her forever."

Tim Gunn Vs GaGa : Part Deux

Tim Gunn Fires Back Against Lady Gaga: ‘She Wears Costumes’

The war of words between Tim Gunn and Lady GaGa is heating up again.

The Project Runway mentor is finally responding to Gagita calling him a bully on The View back in August and still stands by his costume comment:

    "What I’ve said about her is very matter-of-fact. She doesn’t wear clothes, she wears costumes! So would I ever put her on a best dressed list or list her among fashion icons? Of course not."

Tim goes on to add:

    "She’s remarkably talented and the world’s a better place for having her, but best dressed list? Not in my vocabulary!"
Fair enough. Everybody's entitled to their own opinion.

Tim Gunn Fires Back Against Lady Gaga: ‘She Wears Costumes’

The style expert won’t back down to the popstar — even if she did call him a fashion bully on ‘The View’! He responds to her accusations here.

Tim Gunn is known for his style expertise and he isn’t afraid to voice his opinion — although it looks like his honesty has stuck a chord with Lady Gaga. The singing star went on The View on Aug. 1, where she called Tim a “bully” — but he was quick to respond to her accusations. “What I’ve said about her is very matter-of-fact. She doesn’t wear clothes, she wears costumes! So would I ever put her on a best dressed list or list her among fashion icons? Of course not,” he told us.

Tim went on to compliment Gaga, even if he might not be fond of some of her outrageous wardrobe choices. “She’s remarkably talented and the world’s a better place for having her, but best dressed list? Not in my vocabulary!”