It has been quite a good year for all music lovers in 2011 when many debutante composers broke through with astonishing level of finesse and hits that would have made experienced composers proud. This was also a year when actors started to take singing more seriously than ever before. Even lyrics seem to be going through an evolution as high class poetry no longer seems to be a requisite. Of course, there is also the new emerging fad of releasing ‘hit singles’ before the actual album. With so much going on in the world of music, find out the top 20 albums of 2011.

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