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The Billboard Digital Song Sales chart is a chart that ranks the most downloaded songs in the United States. Its data is compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based on each song's weekly digital sales, which combines sales of different versions of a song by an act for a summarized figure.
It broke several all-time Billboard 200 records, including becoming the first album by a female artist to spend its first 12 weeks at the chart's number-one spot. [1] It also earned over 2 million album-equivalent units in its first week—the largest sum of the year and a record seventh album by Swift to earn more than a million units in a ...
"A Bar Song (Tipsy)" by Shaboozey is the longest-running number-one song of the year and the decade with nineteen weeks atop the chart so far. [1] "I Had Some Help" by Post Malone featuring Morgan Wallen achieved the highest weekly sales and streams for a song in 2024. [2] "
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]
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 .
This page lists the albums that reached number-one on the overall Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, the R&B Albums chart, and the Rap Albums chart in 2024. The R&B Albums and Rap Albums charts partly serve as respective distillations for R&B and rap-specific titles of the overall R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.
Beyoncé scored her fourth number-one with 4, which topped the chart for two weeks. Rapper Lil Wayne's Tha Carter IV sold 964,000 copies in its first week, marking the second biggest opening-week sales of 2011. With Pink Friday, Nicki Minaj became the first female rapper since Eve in 1999 to achieve a number-one album.