List of number-one dance singles of 2011 (U.S.)

Billboard magazine compiled the top-performing dance songs in the United States during 2011 on the Dance Club Songs, the Dance Singles Sales, and the Dance Airplay. Premiered in 1976, the Dance Club Songs ranked the most popular songs on dance club based on reports from a national sample of club DJs. The Dance Singles Sales chart was launched in 1985 to compile the best-selling dance singles based on retail sales across the United States. The Dance Airplay was first published in 2003, ranking the songs based on airplay detections on dance radio.

The first club play number-one song of the year was by Swedish House Mafia and English rapper Tinie Tempah, with their collaboration "Miami 2 Ibiza".^[1] American singer-songwriter Katy Perry achieved three number-one songs on the chart, which included "Firework", "E.T. and "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)".^[2][3][4] "E.T." ranked at number one on the 2011 Hot Dance Club Songs year end chart.^[5] Australian singer-songwriter Kylie Minogue also topped the chart three times, with the songs "Better than Today",^[6] "Higher", a collaboration with Taio Cruz and Travie McCoy,^[7] and "Put Your Hands Up (If You Feel Love)".^[8] American singer Britney Spears topped the chart three times with "Hold It Against Me",^[9] "Till the World Ends"^[10] and "I Wanna Go",^[11] from her seventh album Femme Fatale. Beyoncé and Jennifer Lopez also achieved three number one songs on the chart each, the former with "Run the World (Girls)",^[12] "Best Thing I Never Had",^[13] and "Countdown",^[14] and the latter with "On the Floor",^[15] "I'm Into You",^[16] and "Papi".^[17] off of her seventh studio album "Love?" marking a comeback for the singer.^[18] The American band Selena Gomez & the Scene also achieved three number one songs on the chart each with "A Year Without Rain", "Who Says" and "Love You like a Love Song".

Barbadian recording artist Rihanna topped the chart with four songs from three different albums; the first was French DJ David Guetta's song Who's That Chick?, from his album One More Love where Rihanna appeared as a guest vocalist,^[19] "S&M" and "California King Bed" from Rihanna's fifth album Loud,^[20][21] and "We Found Love"' from her sixth album Talk That Talk.^[22] "We Found Love", a collaboration with Scottish DJ Calvin Harris, was the only song to spend more than one week at number one, and topped the chart for two consecutive weeks.^[22][23] American singer-songwriter Lady Gaga also achieved four number one songs on the chart with "Born This Way",^[24] "Judas",^[25] "The Edge of Glory",^[26] and "You and I".^[27] British singer-songwriter Leona Lewis achieved her first number one on the chart with "Collide", a collaboration with Avicii.^[28][29]

Charts history

See also

• 2011 in American music
• List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 2011

References