The highest-selling digital singles in the United States are ranked in the Hot Digital Songs chart, published by Billboard magazine. The data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based on each single's weekly digital sales, which combines sales of different versions of a single for a summarized figure.
| † | Indicates best-charting digital song of 2011 [1] |
| Issue date | Song | Artist(s) | Weekly sales | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1 | "Grenade" | Bruno Mars | 212,000 | [2] [3] |
| January 8 | 559,000 | [4] [5] | ||
| January 15 | 425,000 | [6] [7] | ||
| January 22 | 275,000 | [8] [9] | ||
| January 29 | "Hold It Against Me" | Britney Spears | 411,000 | [10] [11] |
| February 5 | "Grenade" | Bruno Mars | 204,000 | [12] [13] |
| February 12 | "Fuckin' Perfect" | Pink | 241,000 | [14] [15] |
| February 19 | "I Need a Doctor" | Dr. Dre featuring Eminem and Skylar Grey | 226,000 | [16] [17] |
| February 26 | "Born This Way" | Lady Gaga | 448,000 | [18] [19] |
| March 5 | 509,000 | [20] [21] | ||
| March 12 | 286,000 | [22] [23] | ||
| March 19 | 231,000 | [24] [25] | ||
| March 26 | "E.T." | Katy Perry featuring Kanye West | 216,000 | [26] [27] |
| April 2 | 261,000 | [28] [29] | ||
| April 9 | 254,000 | [30] [31] | ||
| April 16 | 327,000 | [32] [33] | ||
| April 23 | 323,000 | [34] [35] | ||
| April 30 | "S&M" | Rihanna featuring Britney Spears | 293,000 | [36] [37] |
| May 7 | "E.T." | Katy Perry featuring Kanye West | 344,000 | [38] [39] |
| May 14 | 300,000 | [40] [41] | ||
| May 21 | "Rolling in the Deep" † | Adele | 294,000 | [42] [43] |
| May 28 | 353,000 | [44] [45] | ||
| June 4 | 297,000 | [46] [47] | ||
| June 11 | 254,000 | [48] [49] | ||
| June 18 | 244,000 | [50] [51] | ||
| June 25 | 224,000 | [52] [53] | ||
| July 2 | "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" | Katy Perry | 235,000 | [54] [55] |
| July 9 | 226,000 | [56] [57] | ||
| July 16 | "Party Rock Anthem" | LMFAO featuring Lauren Bennett and GoonRock | 258,000 | [58] [59] |
| July 23 | 236,000 | [60] [61] | ||
| July 30 | 215,000 | [62] [63] | ||
| August 6 | 209,000 | [64] [65] | ||
| August 13 | 202,000 | [66] [67] | ||
| August 20 | 185,000 | [68] [69] | ||
| August 27 | "Moves Like Jagger" | Maroon 5 featuring Christina Aguilera | 219,000 | [70] [71] |
| September 3 | "She Will" | Lil Wayne featuring Drake | 255,000 | [72] [73] |
| September 10 | "Moves Like Jagger" | Maroon 5 featuring Christina Aguilera | 217,000 | [74] [75] |
| September 16 | "Someone Like You" | Adele | 275,000 | [76] [77] |
| September 24 | "Moves Like Jagger" | Maroon 5 featuring Christina Aguilera | 220,000 | [78] [79] |
| October 1 | 221,000 | [80] [81] | ||
| October 8 | 233,000 | [82] [83] | ||
| October 15 | "Someone Like You" | Adele | 222,000 | [84] [85] |
| October 22 | 218,000 | [86] [87] | ||
| October 29 | 207,000 | [88] [89] | ||
| November 5 | "We Found Love" | Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris | 231,000 | [90] [91] |
| November 12 | 243,000 | [92] [93] | ||
| November 19 | 236,000 | [94] [95] | ||
| November 26 | 227,000 | [96] [97] | ||
| December 3 | 211,000 | [98] [99] | ||
| December 10 | "Sexy and I Know It" | LMFAO | 226,000 | [100] [101] |
| December 17 | "It Will Rain" | Bruno Mars | 166,000 | [102] [103] |
| December 24 | "Sexy and I Know It" | LMFAO | 149,000 | [104] [105] |
| December 31 | 152,000 | [106] [107] | ||
The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States. It is published weekly by Billboard magazine to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists. Sometimes, a recording act is remembered for its "number ones" that outperformed all other albums during at least one week. The chart grew from a weekly top 10 list in 1956 to become a top 200 list in May 1967, acquiring its existing name in March 1992. Its previous names include the Billboard Top LPs (1961–1972), Billboard Top LPs & Tape (1972–1984), Billboard Top 200 Albums (1984–1985) and Billboard Top Pop Albums (1985–1992).
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Top Album Sales is a music chart published by Billboard magazine starting in May 1991, and has existed in its current form since December 2014. It is a weekly chart documenting the best-selling albums on a weekly basis in the United States. Up until December 2014, this had been documented by the Billboard 200 chart, but that chart was altered to factor in music streaming by accounting for album-equivalent units in its tallies to document the effect of the rise of music streaming outlet such as Apple Music and Spotify. Starting in the Top Album Sales chart's debut week of May 25, 1991, Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from Soundscan, now known as Luminate. During the week of December 6, 2014, the chart switched to a methodology that blends album sales with track equivalent album units and streaming equivalent album units. The Top Album Sales chart was created to preserve the older methodology of counting pure album sales.