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This is a list of songs which reached number one on the Billboard Mainstream Top 40 (or Pop Songs) chart in 2011. During 2011, a total of 18 singles hit number-one on the charts. Chart history
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]
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]
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.
This is a list of songs that have peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and the magazine's national singles charts that preceded it. Introduced in 1958, the Hot 100 is the pre-eminent singles chart in the United States, currently monitoring the most popular singles in terms of popular radio play, single purchases and online streaming.
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.
This is a list of number-one albums in the United States by year from the main Billboard albums chart, currently called the Billboard 200. Billboard first began publishing an album chart on March 24, 1945. The chart expanded to 200 positions on the week ending May 13, 1967, and adopted its current name on March 14, 1992.
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.