Noel Edmonds, eggnog, walnuts: Christmas wouldn't be the same without them. It'd be much better. Thankfully there's one tradition you can rely on, the Guide's annual act of enumeration. From mixtapes to monkeys, we've clocked the year's key trends and put numbers next to them.
Click on the links below and read on …
2011: Celeb lists, unavoidable stars and sick
2011 in cinema: Broken Britain v animals
Grace Dent's TV OD 2011 roundup
2011: the year of boring music
The best mixtapes of 2011, plus club names of the year
Drama lessons: what we learned from 2011 TV
The Guide's guide to the next 12 months
John Patterson's 2011 film roundup
Peter Robinson's 2011 music roundup
