You know how the old saying goes. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose...

Between the divorces, public meltdowns and court sentences, there was just something in that bad boy (and bad girl) water that made these ten artists lose big in 2014. Here's to all the photographic evidence of that bad behavior, y'all. May they pull it together in 2015, and give others time to shine.

10. WES SCANTLIN Scantlin is on this list for two reasons. The first is because he had this meltdown, captured on video. The second is because unfortunately, nobody really seemed to care all that much about said meltdown except for the person in the crowd the Puddle of Mudd front man hit in the face with the mike he threw. Here's what happened.

Scantlin was playing in Dallas on April 16 and, according to fans, was lip syncing and got called out on it. But it's Scantlin, so he completely unraveled onstage, flipping the bird and throwing shit -- including his microphone, which he obviously wasn't using -- into the crowd. Then he decided to throw his shirt into the pit and yell, "It ain't my fault that I'm the hottest motherfucker in the god damn building" as he hightailed it offstage.

So yeah. He's a big fat baby.

9. LIL WAYNE Poor Weezy. So far this year, his album has been delayed, he's tried to get out of his record contract, and he's in a big ol' tiff with his buddy Birdman, who is apparently the one holding him hostage in said contract.

Lil Wayne has spent the last few weeks ranting on social media about his disagreement with Birdman, saying his supposed friend is trying to screw up his career by refusing to release his new album. He's been tweeting stuff like, "I want off this label and nothing to do with these people," and "I am a prisoner and so is my creativity," but apparently Birdman isn't ready to let Tunechi off the hook. For now he's stuck on the YMCMB label, which, along with the lackluster sales of his recent albums, makes him one of our biggest (though blingiest) losers of 2014.

8. BONO Bono had to be one very, very bummed out Irish rocker this year. After all, people were super-pissed that U2's new album, Songs of Innocence, appeared on their iTunes accounts without warning. After all, those things are pretty much impossible to remove from your library.

But then, adding insult to hated-album injury, he wrecked his bike in New York's Central Park when trying to avoid another rider, causing a "high energy bicycle accident." Multiple X-rays and CAT scans and five freaking hours of surgery were required for his injuries, which included a facial fracture to the orbit of his eye, three separate fractures of his left shoulder blade, and an especially disgusting fracture of his left humerus bone that shattered in six different places and tore through his skin. Ouch.

7. MARIAH CAREY Remember when Mariah was going back with ODB like babies with pacifiers? Well, now she's just kinda going in circles, it seems. But it's not all her fault; there's a good chance that whole divorce from what's-his-name may have had something to do with it. It's probably pretty embarrassing for the songbird that she married Nick Cannon in the first place, and now he's on some publicity tour where he's alluding to the idea that he's sleeping with Wiz Khalifa's ex-wife, Amber, which has got to be adding insult to injury.

Plus she's had some pretty terrible performances lately, like a very off-key Christmas show at Rockefeller Center and another at the Beacon Theater, where she not only lost her mike pack, but lost a shoe and cried during "Hero" -- the song Cannon once said he uh, pleasured himself to when she was gone. (Ew.) After the year she's had, we'd probably cry too...poor Mariah.

6. BLAKE SHELTON Is Blake Shelton ever not having a bad year? It's almost like the dude could live on this list. He's like a walking new-country mess, despite that sweet Voice gig he's got going on. His latest album, Bringing Back the Sunshine, completely freakin' tanked -- only selling only a little more than 200,000 copies -- which is an impressive(ly bad) accomplishment for someone whose name is at a household level now.

5. MADONNA Madonna has never been that much of a graceful loser, but she was especially not graceful earlier this week when her new album got leaked. Sucks, right? Well, what sucks worse is that she compared it to "artistic rape." Yeah.

"This is artistic rape!! These are early leaked demos, half of which won't even make it on my album," Madonna wrote Wednesday in a now-deleted Instagram post. "The other half have changed and evolved...This is a form of terrorism. Wtf!!!! Why do people want to destroy artistic process??? Why steal? Why not give me the opportunity to finish and give you my very best?"

The comparison to violent sexual crimes seems like a bit of an overreaction, but perhaps Madonna is still smarting from the fact that last year she was one of the world's highest-paid musicians, and this year she fell off that list altogether. Her nemesis Lady Gaga is still on there, though.

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