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Taylor Swift's 2010 album Speak Now was the first number-one of 2011. It spent four consecutive weeks at the top. Michael Bublé's Christmas was the last number-one album of the year, with four consecutive weeks atop the chart. Born This Way by Lady Gaga scored the biggest sales week of 2011, opening with 1,108,000 copies sold.
In the iteration of the chart dated 2 January, Mary Chapin Carpenter's The Age of Miracles spent its fifth week at number one, retaining its position from the final year of 2010. The album would hold at the top spot for the first four weeks of the year before being displaced by 34 Number Ones , a compilation album by country legend Alan Jackson .
Their appearance on the song "Old Alabama" gave the namesake band their first number one for 18 years. [5] Sara Evans gained her first number one single since 2005 with "A Little Bit Stronger", [6] and was the only female solo artist to have a multi-week number one single during the year. Four acts topped the chart for the first time in 2011.
Singer Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" topped the chart for seven consecutive weeks and over the course of the year became the best-performing single of 2011. [4] With "E.T." and "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)", Katy Perry became the first female artist in history to have five number-one singles from one album. [8]
In 2011, eight different songs topped the chart in 52 issues of the magazine, based on weekly airplay data from radio stations compiled by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems. On the first chart of the year, the number one spot was held by Mariah Carey with "Oh Santa!", the song's third consecutive week at number one. [1]
The Irish Singles Chart is a record chart compiled by Chart-Track on behalf of the Irish Recorded Music Association. The chart week runs from Friday to Thursday. [1] Irish duo Jedward gained two number ones in 2011 with Lipstick and Bad Behaviour.
In the realm of free diversions from waiting in line at the supermarket, Android devices had an excellent year. As sure as we are that hardcore Android enthusiasts will disagree, the lot of more ...
The chart week runs from Friday to Thursday, and the chart compilations are published on Tuesday for the record industry. The entire top 100 singles and top 100 albums are officially released the following Friday by Media Control. The charts are based on sales of physical singles and albums from retail outlets as well as permanent music downloads.