I really enjoy end of year round ups where blogs, labels, industry sites, and music industry folk put out there best of 2011 lists.

It gives me an opportunity to try to catch up on all the stuff I’ve missed throughout the year.

I enjoy them so much that I decided to put a few together into a kind of round-up of end of year round-ups list.  I hope you find some things you enjoy in the list below…

1)    Warp Records :: Not had chance to listen to these yet but I’m pretty sure there’s some stuff that will make it onto my iPod here: Top 10 Albums of 2011 & Bleep Staff Best of 2011 & Top Ten Artists Of 2011 & Top Ten Labels Of 2011 & Top Ten EPs Of 2011 & finally Top Ten Comps Of 2011.  Can’t wait to make time to listen to all of this

2)    Thorny Bleeders top 20 blog posts of 2011… Thorny Bleeder is a resource I scour regularly for new music marketing information and advice.  A great resource.  I’m sure there’s some great stuff in this best of 2011 list.

3)    Another top blog posts of 2011 post from The DIY Musician and the people now behind CD Baby could have some pretty useful stuff in it

4)   Found a handful of best songs of 2011 from a few reputable sources: Wired’s top 100 songs of 2011 (Spotify Playlist), The Guardian’s Best Songs of 2011 (Spotify Playlist), Drowned in Sound’s list of best of 2011 lists, Pitchfork’s 100 Tracks of 2011 & 50 Albums of 2011

5)    Not really an end of 2011 roundup, but this post about Midemlab’s International Music Tech Pitch Competition could be introducing us to some of the businesses that independent musicians may become familiar with in 2012: Midemlab Taps 30 Cutting Edge Music Startups

Really looking forward to getting my teeth into some of these links myself and I may add to this short list if I stumble upon any other great end of 2011 round-ups.

Rich