Photos of the Year 2011

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A lot can happen in the world in one year, especially in the world of music. As 2011 comes to a close we take a look at the indelible images that told the story of these 12 months far better than any words ever could. From babies to young love to award wins to disaster and mayhem, we’ve captured 2011 in Photos. Beyonce’s baby bump, Bieber and Selena’s beach frolic, Chris Brown’s morning show meltdown? It all happened this year and we have the photos to prove it. Click the arrows on the photo above to see the gallery.

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August 28: Beyonce reveals her baby bump on the red carpet and while performing at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards.

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May 2011: Justin & Selena share an intimate moment on vacation in Hawaii.

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September 12: Nicki Minaj and editor-in-chief of American Vogue Anna Wintour are seen on the sidelines of the Carolina Herrera Spring 2012 show during New York Fashion Week.

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March 22: Chris Brown storms off of the set of Goodmorning America after host Robin Roberts brings up his 2009 assault of Rihanna.

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November 7: Fans outside cheer as the guilty verdict is read against Conrad Murray for the death of Michael Jackson.

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February 6: Lil Wayne shows up at Super Bowl XLV showing team spirit by wearing a cheesehead.

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August 28: Lady Gaga presents the Best Pop Video award to s very uncomfortable Britney Spears during the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles, California.

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July 23: Justin Bieber and his dad get a tattoo of ‘Jesus’ in Hebrew.

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August 9: An aerial photos taken north east of the centre of London where the Sony distribution centre in Enfield is engulfed in fire.

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August 13: The stage collapses at the Indiana State Fair just before the country duo Sugarland were scheduled to perform, killing at least four people and injuring at least twelve more.

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August 31: Insane Clown Posse and Jack White team up to cover classical greats such as Mozart.

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May 3: Beyonce surprises students in Harlem as part of Michelle Obama’s ‘Let’s Move’ initiative.

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September 22: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, rapper Snoop Dogg, and entrepreneur Sean Parker pose backstage at Sean Parker’s Celebration of Music.

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November 20: Selena Gomez, Nicki Minaj, Katy Perry and Taylor Swift in the audience at the 2011 American Music Awards in Los Angeles.

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July 25: Amy Winehouse’s father Mitch Winehouse, mother Janis Winehouse and brother Alex Winehouse look at floral tributes left at her house by fans in London, England.

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November 18: Heavy D’s casket is carried out of the Church in Mount Vernon, NY.

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February 4: Bruno Mars stands in court on a felony drug possession charge in Las Vegas.

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January 5: Taylor Swift and Ellen joke around as they arrive at the Covergirl 50th Anniversary Celebration.

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May 22: Britney Spears and Rihanna perform at the 2011 Billboard Music Awards.

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January 14: Justin Bieber plays tv-host on the 16th Annual Critcs’ Choice Movie Awards’ red carpet.

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February 6: Christina Aguilera sings the National Anthem at Super Bowl XLV in Arlington, Texas.

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February 13: An egg-like container carries Lady Gaga across the red carpet for the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards.

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September 12: Nicki Minaj and designer Betsey Johnson pose for pictures during the 2012 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week.

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October 4: Florence + the Machine perform onstage for Chanel during Paris Fashion Week.

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February 16: Steven Tyler, Jennifer Lopez, and Randy Jackson at Hollywood Week on American Idol.

Justin and Selena vs. the parazzi

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February 10: Comedian Aziz Ansari, Kanye West, and Kid Cudi attend the Best New Menswear Designers in America Fall 2011 Collections.

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February 13: Arcade Fire onstage accepting their award during the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards for Album of the Year.

February 28: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross wins the award for Best Original Score for ‘The Social Network’ at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards.

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February 13: Esperanza Spalding wins Best New Artist at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards.

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June 26: Chris Brown poses in the press room at the 2011 BET Awards.

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May 22: Beyonce accepts the Millennium Award from her mother Tina Knowles onstage during the 2011 Billboard Music Awards.

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October 29: A freshly-peeled Heidi Klum celebrates her 2011 Halloween party with Questlove at TAO in Las Vegas.

February 9: Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight, Elton John, and Dionne Warwick attend the amFAR New York Gala to kick off Fall 2011 Fashion Week at Cipriani Wall Street.

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March 19: Jay-Z and Kanye West take to the stage to close out SXSW.

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March 19: Odd Future’s Tyler, the Creator looks out towards the crowd during Billboard’s SXSW showcase.

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March 30: Snoop Dogg , Charlie Sheen, and Rob Patterson tweets a picture of themselves recording their WINNING song.

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October 31: Jessica Simpson made a baby announcement on her site appearing as a proud future ‘mummy’.

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April 1: Mariah Carey tweets a pic of her painted baby-belly.

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September 20: Justin Bieber tweets a picture of himself, Selena Gomez, and many babies! He adds “Brangelina 2.0 hahahahahaha”.

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February 24: Jennifer Hudson and son David attend the 4th Annual Essence Black Women in Hollywood luncheon.

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July 7: Alicia Keys and Swizz Beats are seen here with little baby Egypt in New York City.

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May 3: Gwen Stefani in Primrose Hill with her children Kingston and Zuma.

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November 16: Lady Gaga brings out her monster and frightens a baby in London.

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June 19: Justin Bieber wears a t-shirt of Saved By The Bell’s Tiffani Amber Thiessen’s character Kelly Kapowski at the MuchMusic Awards. Later she returns the favor by wearing a Justin Bieber tee in New York City.

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March 28: Amber Rose and Wiz Khalifa attend the “Roll One with Wiz Khalifa” Bowling Party at Chelsea Piers.

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April 1: Susan Boyle celebrates her 50th birthday at home in Scotland.

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March 26: Perez Hilton and Selena Gomez attend Perez Hilton’s “Blue Ball” birthday celebration in Hollywood.

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April 7: Miley Cyrus imitates Gucci Mane’s grillzz on Twitter.

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February 6: Black Eyed Peas’ Fergie and Will-I-Am perform the Super Bowl XLV halftime show in Arlington, Texas.

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April 13: Jennifer Lopez on location for ‘I’m into You’ video shoot in Chichen-Itza, Mexico

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April 17: Kanye West performs during day 3 of the Coachella Music Festival.

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April 16: Lady Gaga poses with the Evil Queen from Disney’s ‘Snow White’ in Florida.

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April 20: Christina Aguilera poses with drag queens at The Abbey’s Gay Walk of Fame.

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MARRIED: LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian The country-pop sweetheart married actor Cibrian in a private California ceremony on April 22, 2011.

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May 2: Madonna, Beyonce, and Taylor Swift attend the ‘Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty’ Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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May 8: Justin Bieber hugs his momma before ‘The Late Show with David Letterman’.

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May 12: Katy Perry tweets “sucking face with a kanga. yep.” as she kisses a kangaroo.

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May 23: T-Pain and Ke$ha shows off their musical love-affair via twitter.

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May 25: American Idol finalists Lauren Alaina and Scotty McCreery walk onstage during Fox’s ‘American Idol 2011’ finale results show.

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June 6: Taylor Swift and Shania Twain during the recreation of ‘Thelma & Louise’ for CMT Music Awards.

MARRIED: The Kills’ Jamie Hince and Kate Moss The British guitarist and the supermodel got hitched on July 1, 2011 in Southrop, England

MARRIED: Shania Twain and Frederic Thiebaud The country star and her fiancee Frederic wed in Puerto Rico on Jan. 1, 2011.

MARRIED: Chely Wright and Lauren Blitzer The country singer married GLBT Civil Rights activist Blitzer on August 21, 2011 at an outdoor ceremony in Connecticut.

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June 11: Lilly Allen weds at the St. James the Great Church in England to Sam Cooper.

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MARRIED: Sinead O’Connor and Barry Herridge Irish singer O’Connor tied the knot with therapist Barry Herridge on Dec. 8, 2011 — her 45th birthday — in a drive-thru ceremony in Las Vegas.

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October 9: The Beatles’ Paul McCartney and Nancy Shevell get married in London, UK.

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June 23rd, 2011: Justin Bieber attends the Justin Bieber fragrance launch at Macy’s Herald Square in New York City.

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March 14: Alice Cooper brings a snake to the press room at the 26th annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony.

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Bettie White holds Slash’s pet snake at the 2011 Beastly Ball in Los Angeles.

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July 17: Hodgy Beats of Odd Future stage dives at their performance during the 2011 Pitchfork Music Festival.

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July 20: Rihanna poses with her momma and grand-momma backstage during the LOUD 2011 Summer Tour.

July 27: Riots break out at the “Electric Daisy Carnival Experience” Los Angeles premiere in Hollywood.

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Gucci Mane is covered with tattoos — most noticeably an ice cream cone on his cheek.

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Foo Fighters, Lollapalooza, August 2011.

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November 11: Black Sabbath announces they are reuniting record their first studio album with original frontman Ozzy Osbourne since 1978.

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August 18: Nicki Minaj and Britney Spears pose backstage during the Femme Fatale Tour.

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February 11: Justin Bieber and Jimmy Fallon play #doublebieber at Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

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August 14: Beyonce kicks off the first of four nights in her sold-out concert series, “4 Intimate Nights with Beyonce” at the Roseland Ballroom.

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August 20: Machine Gun Kelly was arrested in a mall in Ohio after starting a flash mob in a mall.

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August 28: Justin Bieber photobombs behind Katy Perry and Russell Brand at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards.

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September 3: Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam on stage during PJ20 Pearl Jam Festival.

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December 1: President Barack Obama greets singers Bono and Alicia Keys after making remarks at a World AIDS Day event hosted by the ONE Campaign and (RED) at George Washington University in Washington D.C.

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September 22: Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas appears with her wax figure after it was unveiled at Madam Tussauds Las Vegas.

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October 5: Kylie Minogue receives an Honorary Degree at Angela Ruskin University in Chelmsford, England.

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October 5: Steve Jobs is remembered outside the Fifth Avenue Apple Store in New York City.

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October 8: The kids of the Jackson family gather on stage during the “Michael Forever” tribute concert.

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October 22: Russell Simmons, Russell Brand and Katy Perry show up at Occupy Wall Street in New York.

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October 10: Russell Simmons and Kanye West stirred up the streets when they visited the Occupy Wallstreet Protest in Manhattan, New York.

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October 12: 8 year-old Sophie and 5 year-old cousin Rosie from Essex, England makes an appearance on the Elle DeGeneres Show to meet their idol Nicki Minaj.

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October 16: DJ Khaled, Rick Ross and Gucci Pucci celebrate the not-so-catastropic outcome of Rick Ross’ health scare. Khaled tweets, “My brother ROZAY!!IS GOOD!!!”

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October 31: A pregnant Bee-yonce and Mike-ye Wackson attend a party at The Darby in New York, 2011.

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October 31: Britney Spears thigh-cradles Joe Jonas during her Femme Fatale tour in London.

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November 7: Photographer Amy Harris files a police report against Odd Future’s Left Brain after an assault on October 30th at the Voodoo Experience in New Orleans.

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November 9: Nicki Minaj performs on the runway at the 2011 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show.

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November 18: Taylor Swift tweets “I’ll never forget when Bruce Springsteen played ‘Dancing in the Dark’ backstage at my show on my guitar, then signed it. Such a beautiful night in Raleigh.”

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November 20: Justin Bieber dances onstage with the LMFAO crew at the 2011 American Music Awards in Los Angeles.