The Billboard Dance Club Songs chart is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles in that category in the United States. The first 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]}

These are the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play and Singles Sales number-one hits of 2011.

See also

• List of number-one dance airplay hits of 2011 (U.S.)
• 2011 in music
• List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance Club Songs chart

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