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Have you ever looked at a billboard and thought WTF? That's what happened to me yesterday afternoon. I was driving home when I passed by a billboard, on the corner of 44th and Kalamazoo in Kentwood, with a giant strawberry on it. That was it...

Last week, we reported that Adele had already beaten the record for most album sales in its first week, but now that 25's first week of sales is over, the numbers are in. Adele's new album has reportedly sold 3.38 million copies.

With the top grossing tour of the year and a No. 1 Billboard 200 album ("Midnight Memories"), One Direction claimed honors as Billboard's 2014 Artist of the Year. One Direction's "Midnight Memories" included the hit "Story of My Life." The English-Irish group includes Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan, Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson.

No surprise here, but the "Frozen" soundtrack from Walt Disney Records was ranked the No. 1 best-selling album on the 2014 year-end Billboard 200 chart. It is the first movie soundtrack to reach No. 1 on the year-end chart since "Titanic" in 1998 and is the first Disney soundtrack to top the chart since "Mary Poppins" in 1965, according to Billboard.

Whoa, whoa, whoa-- are boy bands back?! The verdict still seems to be out as to whether Lance Bass' new group Heart2Heart is legit or intended as a parody. However,  after watching the video to their debut single "Facebook Official", I don't really see how there could be any questions-- it's a total hoax. That doesn't mean I don't love it.

If you've been on 131 near Hall in the last few days, you may have seen a billboard that struck you as slightly odd. The billboard, paid for by The Center For Inquiry - Michigan says "You Don't Need God - to hope, to care, to love, to live." They are hoping that the billboard will help stop prejudice towards non-believers.

The Schwarzenegger family has been in and out of headline news all year.  First with the announced divorce proceedings between Arnold and Maria. That was in May right after we heard rumors that Arnold had fathered a child with another woman while married to Maria. Then the couple came together while their youngest son, Christopher, fought for his life following a Malibu surfing accident in July. R