The Best Of The Best Of 2010 Lists & Links

As the year comes to an end, many networks, sites, critics and journalists write up the 'year in review.' Some tell the story with statistics, others with images and others with lists. Here is a compilation of links to those from various reputable publications and sites listing "The Best of 2010" in categories such as social media trends, tweets and statuses, world news stories, the year in pictures, art, advertising, business, fashion, gadgets, movies, sports, tv, and books. All in one convenient place.

SOCIAL MEDIA:

• Twitter 2010 Year In Review


• YouTube 2010 Year in Review (top videos in numerous categories).


• Memology: Facebook's Top Status Trends of 2010.

• Biggest Social Media Fails (Huffington Post)

• Top 10 Companies On Twitter (Ad Age)

NEWS STORIES

• CBS Top World News of 2010

• ABC News - Best of 2010

• NBC's Sizzling Celebrity Scandals of 2010

• Yahoo: Year In Review - The standout news, pop-culture trends, and search obsessions.

• 2010 Year In Review - The Guardian

• Famous Deaths of 2010

• Best of Fashion

MOVIES & FILMS:


• MSN's Top Movies of 2010

• Best feature films of 2010 according to Roger Ebert

• Newsweek's Best 2010 Movies by David Ansen

• 10 Best Movies of 2010, Lisa Schwarzbaum picks for EW

• 10 Best Movies of 2010, Owen Gleiberman's picks for EW

• Richard Roepers' top 10 films of 2010

• Moviefone's top 50 films of 2010

• John Waters and Mark Webber pick their 10 favorite films of 2010 for ArtForum

• Top 10 grossing films from Hollywood Reporter

TELEVISION & ADVERTISING:

• Most watched single telecast and regularly scheduled programs of 2010 according to the Nielson Ratings

• TV Squad's top ten TV Commercials of 2010

• The U.K’s 10 Most-liked TV Ads of 2010

• Ad Age's Book Of Tens (ten top ad stories, ten best ad songs, ten most viral, etc)

• Creativity's Award Report 2010 (winning companies, creatives and ad campaigns)

• Warming Glow's top 10 tv shows of 2010

ART & PHOTOGRAPHY:

• Art: The Year In Review by Kenneth Baker for the SF Chronicle

• Huffington Post: The Best and Worst moments in Art

• Blake Gopnik's Best Art of 2010 for The Washington Post

• Laura Cumming's Best of Art for The Observer

• The Year In Pictures from the NY Times (97 amazing images)

• The Year In Pictures from The Independent

BOOKS:

• NPR's Best Books of 2010

• New York Times 10 Best Books of 2010

• O's Best Books of 2010

BUSINESS:

• Huffington Posts covers the AP's Top 10 Business Year in Review

• Bloomberg Businessweek year in review

SPORTS:

• Fox Sports year in review - Best and worst of the sporting world

• The Final Score's top 10 Sports Stories of 2010

• The Onion - Sports Year In Review 2010

• Top 10 Sports Stories of 2010 according to Los Angeles' Daily News

POPULAR WEBSITES & SOME OF THEIR "BEST OF" LISTS

• Time Magazine's best blogs of 2010

• NOTCOT's top 100 design posts of the year

• NotCouture's top 100 fashion posts of the year

• Treehugger's most popular and memorable stories of 2010

• Refinery 29 - Fashion 2010: The Year In Review

• Tech Crunch - Top 40 iPhone apps of 2010 by Alex Ahlund

• GameSpy 2010 Year In Review of Gaming

• 200 Best Gadgets of 2010 according to Walyou

• Year In Review - The Best Of The Web

• Best Internet Memes (according to People magazine)

Year In Review - VIDEOS:
Jib Jab's 2010 Year In Review:


Brian Williams tribute to those we lost in 2010:


Adweek's media Year In Review 2010:

Google 2010 Zeitgeist:

The 52nd Grammy Photos - The Ones That Matter.... The Fashions.

Above: Beyoncé was the big winner of the night, taking home 6 Grammys

So, by now you know who was music to everyone's ears at the 2010 52nd Annual Grammys. If you don't, just check any news site or the official Grammy site.

Rather than run through every performance, all the nominees, tributes, blah blah blah..., I've chosen to shown you photos from last night's event that were the most significant, memorable, beautiful and just plain bizarre. Of course, I had to include the best dressed and the biggest fashion fiascos, too.



above: Lady Gaga (looking suspiciously like the offspring of milk's Rock God White Gold and Twisted Sister's Dee Snider) in her duet with Elton John

In short, Beyoncé was the big winner (Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Kings of Leon and Black-Eyed Peas also took home multiple awards) and there were some seriously star-studded duets; Lady Gaga and Elton John, Taylor Swift and Stevie Nicks, Mary J. Blige and Andrea Bocelli, to name a few.


above: Taylor Swift and Stevie Nicks

above: the Black Eyed Peas

The outfits for the onstage performances were a wild mix of styles, colors, materials or lack thereof:


above, clockwise from upper left: Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Pink and Fergie

Love was shown for Haiti and Neil Young. There was a moving Michael Jackson tribute, Bon Jovi sang Living On A Prayer (as chosen by the public) and the unexpected introduction of Pink as an aerialist in addition to being a singer.


above: Paris and Prince Jackson accept the lifetime achievement award for their father Michael Jackson at the Grammys.


above: Pink sang and Cirque due Solei-ed her way through her Grammy performance of Glitter In the Air as she unfurled from above to reveal a glittery crotch and some seriously toned buttocks.




But what about music to your eyes? Who wore what - and in some cases, why? There were some real visual cacophonies on the red carpet along with some harmonious ones.

52nd Grammy Dresses; The Good, The Bad and The Butt Ugly.

Here's the fashion rundown for you- on the women only (sorry guys, you all looked pretty darn great):

Encore!

Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood

Lea Michele and Miley Cyrus:

Nicole Kidman and Beyoncé:

Keri Hilson and Mya:


A Little Pitchy:

Katie Perry and Heidi Klum:

Fergie and Kathy Griffith:

Pink and Rihanna:

Jennifer Hudson and Mary J. Blige:


Out Of Tune:

Kei$ha and Snooki:

J-Lo and Paloma:

Adrienne Lau and Saila Durcal:

Ledisi and Olivia Fox:


TONE DEAF

Imogean Heap:


Ciara and Britney Spears:


above: Oh Britney, what were you thinking?

Nadeea:

Lady Gaga:


And as she sat in the audience after her peformance and arrival:

images courtesy of Getty images, The AP and People magazine

See all the winners, nominees and more at the official Grammy site and if you haven't, check out the special site for the 52nd Grammys, We're All Fans, created by TBWA Chiat Day, Los Angeles.

Over the years, my Grammy posts have moved further away from the music and more toward the fashion (the music almost always rocks and is easy to find), hopefully gratifying the visually driven short-attention span blog audience. Here's the last two years:

2009 Grammys. Good Tunes But God-awful Garb.

The 50th Grammy Run Down. Complete with pics.