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"Apple late Monday published its \"Best of iTunes\" charts for 2013, revealing this year's top downloads and editors' choice picks for music, movies, TV shows, apps, books and podcasts.\r\n\r\n&amp;lt;div align=\"center\"&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img src=\"http://photos.appleinsider.com/13.12.17-Best_Of_2013.jpg\" alt=\"Best of 2013\" width=\"660\" height=\"396\" border=\"0\"&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;\r\n\r\nIn Apple's annual Best of iTunes rankings, the company reveals the most-downloaded digital media in all arms of its iTunes Store, which includes the App Store and iBookstore. In addition, editors' choice selections are offered for a number of categories like musical artist of the year and best iPhone app, among others. \r\n\r\nFor the iOS App Store, two games were the most-downloaded apps this year, with &amp;lt;a href=\"http://appleinsider.com/l/?link=https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/candy-crush-saga/id553834731\"&amp;gt;&amp;lt;em&amp;gt;Candy Crush Saga&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; and &amp;lt;a href=\"http://appleinsider.com/l/?link=https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/minecraft-pocket-edition/id479516143\"&amp;gt;&amp;lt;em&amp;gt;Minecraft - Pocket Edition&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; racking up the most downloads in the free and paid app categories, respectively. Apple's iPhone App of the Year went to language learning title &amp;lt;a href=\"http://appleinsider.com/l/?link=https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/duolingo-learn-languages-for/id570060128\"&amp;gt;&amp;lt;em&amp;gt;Duolingo&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;, while &amp;lt;a href=\"http://appleinsider.com/l/?link=https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ridiculous-fishing-tale-redemption/id601831815\"&amp;gt;&amp;lt;em&amp;gt;Ridiculous Fishing&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; nabbed iPhone Game of the Year honors.\r\n\r\nOn the iPad, Disney's &amp;lt;a href=\"http://appleinsider.com/l/?link=https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/disney-animated/id632312737?mt=8\"&amp;gt;&amp;lt;em&amp;gt;Disney Animated&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; won App of the Year, as Frogmind's &amp;lt;a href=\"http://appleinsider.com/l/?link=https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/badland/id535176909\"&amp;gt;&amp;lt;em&amp;gt;BADLAND&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; was named Game of the Year.\r\n\r\nIn the music department, Beyonce's &amp;lt;a href=\"http://appleinsider.com/l/?link=https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/beyonce/id780330041\"&amp;gt;eponymous album&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;, which debuted just last &amp;lt;a href=\"http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/12/13/beyonc-debuts-grown-woman-music-video-in-exclusive-itunes-visual-album-\"&amp;gt;last week&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;, managed to come in second to Justin Timberlake's \"&amp;lt;a href=\"http://appleinsider.com/l/?link=https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-20-20-experience/id598391518\"&amp;gt;The 20/20 Experience&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;\" as 2013's most-downloaded album. Timberlake was chosen as Artist of the Year, while Macklemore and Ryan Lewis' \"&amp;lt;a href=\"http://appleinsider.com/l/?link=https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-heist-deluxe-edition/id560097651\"&amp;gt;The Heist&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;\" won Album of the Year.  \r\n\r\nJames Bond installment \"Skyfall\" was 2013's best-selling movie and critically acclaimed \"Breaking Bad\" was the top-selling television show on iTunes. \r\n\r\nFinally, Dan Brown's \"Inferno\" came away as the top fiction novel in the iBookstore while Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's \"Lean In\" was this year's non-fiction best-seller.\r\n\r\nThe full \"&amp;lt;a href=\"http://www.itunes.com/Bestof2013\"&amp;gt;Best of 2013&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;\" list can be found in the OS X and iOS iTunes Stores."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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