Club play and sales
| † | Indicates best charting dance/club single of 2011 |
These are the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play and Singles Sales number-one hits of 2011.
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]
| † | Indicates best charting dance/club single of 2011 |
These are the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play and Singles Sales number-one hits of 2011.
| 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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