These are the Billboard magazine's number-one dance songs of 2011 on the Dance Club Songs , the Dance Singles Sales , and the Dance/Mix Show Airplay . The Hot Dance Club Songs was first published in 1976, ranking the most popular songs on dance club based on reports from a national sample of club DJs. The Dance/Mix Show Airplay was first published in 2003, ranking the songs based on dance radio airplay and mix-show plays on top 40 radio and select rhythmic radio as measured by Mediabase .
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]
Club play and sales [ edit ]
Issue date
Song
Artist(s)
Remixer(s)
Source
January 1
"Take Over Control "
Afrojack featuring Eva Simons
[ 113]
January 8
"Firework "
Katy Perry
Jump Smokers , Wideboys , Fred Falke
January 15
January 22
"Take Over Control"
Afrojack featuring Eva Simons
January 29
February 5
February 12
"Hello "
Martin Solveig featuring Dragonette
Sidney Samson , Michael Woods , Dada Life , Bassjacker
February 19
February 26
March 5
March 12
"Hold It Against Me "
Britney Spears
Adrian Lux & Nause , Jump Smokers, Ocelot, Smoke 'N Mirrors, Funk Generation, Tracy Young , Abe Clements
March 19
March 26
April 2
"On the Floor "
Jennifer Lopez featuring Pitbull
Mixin Marc & Tony Svejda, Ralphi Rosario , CCW, Low Sunday
April 9
"Born This Way "
Lady Gaga
Chew Fu , Dada Life, Grum , Bimbo Jones, Michael Woods, LA Riots , DJ White Shadow, Twin Shadow , Zedd
April 16
"S&M "
Rihanna
Dave Audé , Sidney Samson, Joe Bermudez
April 23
"More "
Usher
Gareth Wyn, Billionaire, Olli Collins & Fred Portelli
April 30
"E.T. "
Katy Perry featuring Kanye West
Dave Audé, Benny Benassi, Johnson Somerset & John Monkman, Tiësto
May 7
"Mr. Saxobeat "
Alexandra Stan
May 14
"E.T."
Katy Perry featuring Kanye West
May 21
"Addiction "
Medina
May 28
"Mr. Saxobeat"
Alexandra Stan
June 4
June 11
June 18
June 25
July 2
July 9
"Party Rock Anthem "
LMFAO Featuring Lauren Bennett & GoonRock
Wideboys, Benny Benassi, Christopher Lawrence, Russ Chimes, DJ Enferno, Kim Fai, Arion, Alyn
July 16
July 23
July 30
August 6
August 13
"What a Feeling "
Alex Gaudino Featuring Kelly Rowland
Hardwell , Sunship , Nicky Romero
August 20
"I Wanna Go "
Britney Spears
August 27
"Save the World "
Swedish House Mafia
September 3
September 10
"Cinema "
Benny Benassi featuring Gary Go
Skrillex
September 17
"Save the World"
Swedish House Mafia
September 24
"Pumped Up Kicks "
Foster the People
The Knocks, Gigamesh
October 1
"Save the World"
Swedish House Mafia
October 8
October 15
October 22
October 29
"Without You "
David Guetta featuring Usher
November 5
"In The Air"
Morgan Page , Sultan + Ned Shepard , and BT Featuring Angela McCluskey
November 12
"Without You"
David Guetta featuring Usher
November 19 [ 114]
"We Found Love "
Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris
November 26 [ 115]
December 3 [ 116]
December 10 [ 117]
December 17 [ 118]
December 24
December 31
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^ Billboard Top 40 Update (November 14, 2011)
^ Billboard Top 40 Update (November 21, 2011)
^ Billboard Top 40 Update (November 28, 2011)
^ Billboard Top 40 Update (December 12, 2011)
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