World Cup 2011

The best new startups of 2011 combine an innovative idea with a motivated group of people to create new products or service or improve on products and services we already use and adore. Each of these companies are in their infancy right now but have made a big splash on the world already.

List of the best soccer players who played in the 2011 season around the world, including international football stars like Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

In the three years-plus interim between this and his last studio album, Ben Harper traversed the world, and the already introspective singer/songwriter has clearly done even more soul-searching and emerged with his most earnest

The more things change, the more Lemmy stays the same. He is a pillar of stability in the wobbly world of metal, where bands and trends come and go.

Judas Priest attempted to take the mainstream rock world by storm with 1986′s TURBO, with its melodic tendencies and polished production.

Take 6 brings its Grammy Award-winning fusion of gospel music, R&B, pop, and jazz to the world on this, their debut.

In 1990, the joint efforts of the World Cup and the Three Tenors provided opera singing with its biggest ever foray into the pop charts.

“A Whole New World (Aladdin’s Theme),” performed by Peabo Bryson & Regina Belle, won 1994 Grammy Awards for Record Of The Year, for Pop Duo Or Group With Vocal and for Song For A Motion Picture Of Television.

Like Feist, the Asteroids Galaxy Tour, and Tommy Sparks, most people’s first exposure to French-Israeli singer/songwriter Yael Naim came through the use of her music on a world-wide Apple TV ad.

Bossa nova vocalist Bebel Gilberto has partnered with such world-famous artists as Kenny G, David Byrne, Amon Tobin, Smoke City, the Thievery Corporation, Towa Tei, Caetano Veloso, Chico Buarque, and João Gilberto.