For better or for worse, pop culture is all around us and is shaping our ever-changing world daily. Whether you agree with the following or not, here were the top changers of 2013:

Movies*:

          

 

 

 

 

Highest Grossing:
Iron Man 3
Making $409,013,994

Highest Grossing Animated:
Descpicable Me 2
Making $367,766,870

Highest Grossing Faith-Based:
Grace Unplugged
$2,507,201

Biggest Flop:
The Lone Ranger
Lost nearly $200 million

*=Domestic sales

 

Music

 

 

 

 

 

Top-Selling Single:
“Blurred Lines” by Robin Thicke

Best Selling Album:
“This is Us” by New Direction

Best-Selling Christian Album on iTunes:
“Campfire” by Rend Collective Experiment

 

TV

 

 

 

 

 

Most-Watched TV Show:
The Walking Dead (AMC)
Rating: 8.6
Total viewers: 16.48 million

First Cancelled Fall Show:
Lucky 7 (ABC)

 

Internet

 

 

 

 

 

 

Most Popular Website:
Google
1,000,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors

Most popular searches on Google for 2013:

Top Event – Boston Marathon Bombing
People – Nelson Mandela
Athletes – Oscar Pistorius

 

 

 

 

 

Movies – “Man of Steel”
Performing Arts – Cory Monteith
TV Shows – “Under the Dome”
YouTube – Ylvis – “What Does the Fox Say?”

Most Watched Youtube Video

 

 

 

 

 

“Miley Cyrus – Wrecking Ball”
451,131,022 views

Most Re-Tweeted Tweets from Twitter:

 

 

 

 

 

 “Glee” star, Lea Michele tribute to Cory Monteith

“Thank you all for helping me through this time with your enormous love & support. Cory will forever be in my heart. pic.twitter.com/XVlZnh9vOc”

Most Popular Facebook Page:
Sandy the Elephant
2,6000 comments and likes

Most popular Pinterest Pins:
Home Décor

 

Books

 

 

 

 

 

Best Selling Books from Barnes & Noble:

Fiction:
“Inferno” by Dan Brown

Non-Fiction:
“Lean In” by Sheryl Sandberg

Children’s Book:
“The Third Wheel” (Diary of a Wimpy Kid Series #7) by Jeff Kinney

Faith-Based Book:
“Proof of Heaven” by Eben Alexander