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Adele named No. 1 on Rolling Stone's Best of 2011 list

Grammy nomination favorite: Adele
Singer Adele's "21" album was chosen as the best of 2011 by Rolling Stone.

(CBS) Rolling Stone magazine has named Adele's album "21" the best of 2011 and it named her song "Rolling In The Deep" 2011's top single.

The British singer, who was recently nominated for six Grammy's, including "Album of the Year," sold more than 13 million copies of her sophomore album. Adlele's "21" is officially the U.K.'s best-selling album of the 21st century and the biggest-selling album in the U.K. and U.S. this year, according to Rolling Stone.

Second on the best albums list is Jay-Z and Kanye West's collaboration, "Watch The Throne," followed by Paul Simon's, "So Beautiful Or So What." Fleet Foxes' "Helplessness Blues" and "The King Of Limbs" by Radiohead rounded off the top five on the list.

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