Most Shocking Band Break-up
Mumford and Sons
Most Shocking Band Regroup
The Postal Service
(Until they broke up again less than eight months later)Most-Watched Television Show
“NCIS”
(Wait, who’s still watching that?)Best-Performing New Series of the Year
“Blacklist”
Youngest Man Booker Prize Winner
28-year-old New Zealander Eleanor Catton for 2013’s “The Luminaries”
Best-Performing Single
“Thrift Shop” by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
Best-Performing Album
“The 20/20 Experience” by Justin Timberlake
32% Increase in digital music streaming
(as opposed to a 6-percent decrease in music purchases)
Beyonce
Broke iTunes records with her surprise album, the self-titled LP is currently the fastest-selling album ever, taking No. 1 in 104 countries
Longest Movie
The Wolf of Wall Street (two hours, 59 minutes = 176 minutes)
2 blockbuster films were helmed by female directors
(“Frozen,” which was co-directed by Jennifer Lee with Chris Buck, and “Carrie” by Kimberly Peirce)
Jennifer Lawrence
Named the most bankable star of the year after starring in “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” and “American Hustle” back to back
$1,215,439,994
The amount that “Iron Man 3” made at the international box office, making it the fifth-highest grossing film of all time
In turn, that helped give Disney its best year in box-office history. But it still couldn’t beat Warner Brothers, which was armed with formidable hits “Gravity,” “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” and “Man of Steel.”
