In Buzz 10, we use Social Radar to determine the 10 most buzzed about topics across the web via Twitter, blogs, discussion boards, media, and social networks. For this Buzz 10, we determined the top 10 most talked about musicians in 2010.
10. Lil Wayne
After spending several months in jail in 2010, Weezy recorded and released a new track 6 foot 7 and is working on a new album due out in 2011.
9. Eminem
Eminem came back in a big way in 2010, releasing his seventh studio album, Recovery, in June. He opened the 2010 MTV VMA’s with his Rihanna collaboration Not Afraid and recently received 10 Grammy nominations.
8. Miley Cyrus
Miley’s third studio album, Can’t Be Tamed, was released in June and fourth and final season of Hannah Montana began airing on Disney Channel in July.
7. Jay Z
Every year is a big year for the business man. Hot off his Blueprint 3 release, Hov performed a series of concerts with Eminem and is preparing to release a five track EP with Kanye West entitled Watch My Throne.
6. Beyonce
Queen B didn’t release a new album is 2010, but is reportedly working with Jim Jonsin, The Dream and Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins on tracks for a forthcoming album.
5. Rihanna
Burgeoning mogul Rihanna had a huge year. Her collaboration with Eminem Love the Way You Lie reached #1 on the Billboard charts this summer, making her the female artist with the fifth-most number ones in the chart’s history. In November, RiRi released her fifth album, Loud, which produced multiple Top 10 singles. Rihanna also signed with Jay-Z’s Roc Nation management and is starting her own company, Rihanna Entertainment.
4. Kanye West
Love him or hate him, Kanye West always makes a splash. After joining Twitter this summer, West quickly amassed nearly 2 million followers with his honest, open posts about the Taylor Swift debacle, collaborating with Justin Bieber and his new album, My Beautiful Dark Twister Fantasy. Always the innovator, Kanye released a 35-minute short film video for his single Runaway, blending music, art and fashion.
3. Michael Jackson
Although he passed away in 2009, Michael Jackson continues to have a major impact on the music industry. After his death, Jackson became the best-selling artist of 2009 in the United States selling over 8.2 million albums. The documentary This Is It offered a rare, behind-the-scenes look as he developed, created and rehearsed for his final sold-out concerts at London’s O2 Arena that never happened. Sony released Michael, his first posthumous album and Ubisoft released a new dancing-and-singing video game called Michael Jackson: The Experience.
2. Lady GaGa
Rolling Stone‘s July cover featuring a semi-naked GaGa sold three times more than the magazine’s average for the past twelve months. Her cover shoots for Cosmopolitan and Elle also achieved good sales figures for each magazine, while her Vanity Fair cover was the publication’s second best-selling of the year after the issue featuring Angelina Jolie. She has 25 million Facebook fans and 7.6 million Twitter followers. Her second major studio album and third major release Born This Way, will be released in May and is being described as a marriage of electronic music with major metal or rock ‘n’ roll, pop, anthemic style melodies with sledge-hammering dance beats.
1. Justin Bieber
UK newspaper The Observer published a report indicating that Justin Bieber is more influential in the social networking sphere than President Barack Obama or The Dalai Lama. Vanity Fair proclaims he will be the face of 2011. What is our world coming to?
