Adele domination on the music charts: The British singer is Billboard’s top artist of 2012.

Billboard said on Friday Adele is the year’s biggest artist and her diamond 21 album, released in February 2011, is this year’s top album. Adele earned both prizes last year.

The year’s top three songs are Gotye’s Somebody That I Used to Know, Carly Rae Jepsen’s Call Me Maybe and fun.’s We Are Young, respectively.

Adele is also the top female artist. Drake is the top male artist, One Direction is the top new artist and Maroon 5 is the year’s top group.

Billboard said Drake, Taylor Swift, fun. and Don Omar are the top acts in the R&B/hip-hop, country, rock and Latin fields, respectively.

Adele’s second album was also the fourth best seller in the UK iTunes chart of the year, with Emeli Sande’s Our Version of Events taking top spot.

Following its release in February 2011, 21 performed strongly in the US music charts after Adele’s Grammy-sweeping win in six categories in February this year.

She has also landed Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe nominations for her James Bond theme song Skyfall this week, becoming a strong contender in the best song category for Hollywood’s awards season.

She said in a statement on Thursday: “Thank you so much for the honour of being included in something as brilliant as the Golden Globes! Never in a million years did I ever think I’d come close to such a thing!”

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