  We briefly review the predictions of the thermal model for hadron production
in comparison to latest data from RHIC and extrapolate the calculations to LHC
energy. Our main emphasis is to confront the model predictions with the
recently released data from ALICE at the LHC. This comparison reveals an
apparent anomaly for protons and anti-protons which we discuss briefly. We also
demonstrate that our statistical hadronization predictions for J/$\psi$
production agree very well with the most recent LHC data, lending support to
the picture in which there is complete charmonium melting in the quark-gluon
plasma (QGP) followed by statistical generation of J/$\psi$ mesons at the phase
boundary.
