Top pop culture moments of 2013

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Top pop culture moments of 2013

JANUARY: Beyonce sang the National Anthem at the Presidential Inauguration and later admitted she lip-synced.

JANUARY: Kim and Kanye bask in the glow of their just-announced pregnancy.

JANUARY: Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong admitted to Oprah Winfrey what had been rumored for months -- performance enhancing drugs had contributed to his Tour de France victories.

JANUARY: First Lady Michelle Obama makes waves with her new hairdo, featuring bangs.

JANUARY: Actress Jodie Foster makes an awkward, rambling but deeply compelling speech, hailed by many in the gay community as her long-awaited coming-out.

FEBRUARY: Jennifer Lawrence tripped on the way to pick up her Best Actress Oscar for her performance in "Silver Linings Playbook" and continued to dominate the pop culture landscape with a starring role in "Hunger Games: Catching Fire" and a string of funny media interviews.

FEBRUARY: The Oscars bring triumph to Ben Affleck and "Argo," his somewhat-true movie about a truly fake one.

FEBRUARY: After admitting lip-syncing at the Presidential Inauguration, Beyonce rocks the Super Bowl Halftime Show -- live.

MARCH: In a bad start to a bad year, 19-year-old pop star Justin Bieber is booed by fans when he shows up late to a concert, struggles with his breathing and faints backstage at a show, is caught on camera clashing with a paparazzo, has his pet monkey confiscated by German authorities when he fails to produce proper papers.

APRIL: Kim Kardashian's divorce from basketball player Kris Humphries after a 72-day marriage is official.

APRIL: Gwyneth Paltrow makes waves at the "Iron Man 3" premiere in a dress with see-through panels on both sides, leaving little of her lower body to the imagination and embodying a trend of bare skin on red carpets. It's clearly working: This month, she's named People magazine's Most Beautiful Woman.

MAY: It's all bleached, spiky hair for Miley at the punk-themed Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she hobnobs with the fashion elite, cementing her status as someone we're watching this year.

MAY: Justin Bieber's Capuchin monkey "Mally" officially becomes German property.

JUNE: Miley's dad Billy Ray Cyrus announces he's divorcing Miley's mom, Tish, after 19 years, but then backs off.

JULY: We have a royal birth! As she emerges from the hospital holding Prince George, it's noted that Kate Middleton, aka the Duchess of Cambridge, isn't concealing her "mommy tummy," a development cheered by fellow moms across the world.

AUGUST: Miley Cyrus' infamous performance on the MTV Video Music Awards, showed her twerking her way in pop culture history in a teddy bear leotard that segues to a skimpy nude bikini.

SEPTEMBER: An "it" girl of the Hollywood-fashion nexus becomes even hotter. TV's "Scandal" actress KERRY WASHINGTON makes glamorous appearances at New York Fashion Week, where she judges "Project Runway" in a pretty Stella McCartney floral number, and at the Emmys, in an eye-catching Marchesa gown.

OCTOBER: Singer Sinead O'Connor is pulled into Mileygate after counseling Cyrus publicly to avoid being sexually exploited by the industry. Miley strikes back on Twitter, mentioning O'Connor's struggles with bipolar disorder.

OCTOBER: Kanye West proposes to Kim Kardashian at the AT&T Park, home of the San Francisco Giants, with a screen reading: "PLEEEASE MARRY MEEE!!" He also makes an uncomfortable appearance with Jimmy Kimmel, an effort to defuse a feud stemming from a parody skit.

NOVEMBER: People Magazine names singer and "The Voice" judge Adam Levine its Sexiest Man Alive. Levine also made headlines earlier in the year after becoming engaged to Victoria's Secret model Behati Prinsloo.

DECEMBER: MTV names Miley Cyrus Artist of the Year, a month after GQ names her the sixth least influential celebrity.

DECEMBER: Kim Kardashian ranks No. 3 on Google's list of most-searched people in the U.S., the only non-singer on the list. Fiance Kanye West is No. 10.

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JANUARY: Beyonce sang the National Anthem at the Presidential Inauguration and later admitted she lip-synced.

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