2011

Top Selling Singles

1. Someone Like You — Adele.
2. Moves Like Jagger — Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera.
3. Party Rock Anthem — LMFAO (feat. Lauren Bennett & GoonRock).
4. Price Tag — Jessie J (feat. B.o.B).
5. We Found Love — Rihanna (feat. Calvin Harris).
6. Give Me Everything — Pitbull (feat. Ne-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer).
7. Grenade — Bruno Mars.
8. The A Team — Ed Sheeran.
9. Rolling In The Deep — Adele.
10. On The Floor — Jennifer Lopez (feat. Pitbull).

Christmas No.1: “Wherever You Are” — Military Wives (Gareth Malone & the Military Wives choir)

Top Selling Albums

1. 21 — Adele
2. Christmas — Michael Bublé
3. Doo-Wops & Hooligans — Bruno Mars
4. 19 — Adele (catalog sales continued)
5. Mylo Xyloto — Coldplay
6. 21 /
7. Loud – Rihanna
8. Born This Way – Lady Gaga
9. Who You Are – Jessie J
10. + – Ed Sheeran

At the Box Office

1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2. The King’s Speech
3. The Inbetweeners Movie
4. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
5. Transformers: Dark of the Moon
6. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 
7. Transformers: Dark of the Moon 
8. Bridesmaids 
9. Tangled 10 Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Cost of Living

Average house price	£221,300
Average salary	£25,000
Average car price	£28,000
Petrol	£1.34
Pint of beer	£3.00
Packet of 20 Cigarettes	£5.63
Pint of milk	45p

In the News

• Inmates riot at Ford Open Prison. Windows are smashed and part of the prison is set on fire
• A pilot dies when an RAF Red Arrows aeroplane crashed at the Bournemouth Air Festival
• Value-added tax increased to 20% from 17.5%
• Arab Spring — major uprisings across the Middle East & North Africa
• UK riots — widespread riots in English cities (e.g., Tottenham) with major national attention.
• Royal wedding — Prince William and Catherine Middleton (29 April )
• Eurozone sovereign-debt crisis (Greece) — ongoing bailouts, austerity debates and markets turmoil.
• Fallout from Phone-hacking scandal and Leveson inquiry
• The Daily Sport and Sunday Sport tabloid newspapers cease publication and enter administration
• Steve Jobs dies (Oct )
• The Fixed-term Parliaments Act is passed, requiring general elections to take place at fixed five-year intervals
• Junior Individual Savings Accounts replace Child Trust Funds.

On the Telly

• Royal Wedding — Prince William & Catherine – single most-watched broadcast of the year
• The X Factor
• Britain’s Got Talent
• Strictly Come Dancing
• John Nettles appears in his final ever episode of Midsomer Murders,
• The BBC announces that its landmark Television Centre is up for sale
• Nick Hewer, one of Alan Sugar’s advisers on The Apprentice is revealed as the latest host of Countdown

Music

• The Stone Roses announce their reunion tour after splitting in 1996.

Top Selling Christmas Toys

• LeapPad Explorer (LeapFrog) — Toy Retailers Association / Toy of the Year winner; major education-tablet toy for kids
• Moshi Moshlings / Moshi Monsters related toys
• Fijit Friends (Mattel) / Rock-on Elmo / Doggie Doo

Gadgets

• Apple iPhone 4S — with Siri voice assistant
• Apple iPad 2; thinner/lighter and hugely influential in the tablet boom.
• Raspberry Pi

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