List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2011

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Lil Wayne, Bruno Mars, and Rihanna (pictured in order) tied for the most top-ten singles in 2011 with six each. Mars's "Grenade" had a four-week run at number one on the Hot 100 and ranked number six on Billboard's year-end Hot 100 list. Rihanna became the fastest solo artist to collect twenty top-ten hits when her single "We Found Love" (featuring Calvin Harris) entered the top ten six years and four months after she first appeared on the Hot 100. The song, as well as her single "S&M" (featuring Britney Spears), climbed to number one on the chart, "S&M" logging one week at the top and "We Found Love" logging ten weeks, including two in 2012.

Seventy-one singles made into top 10 of the Hot 100, the all-genre Billboard singles charts, in 2011. Sixty-eight acts had a top-ten hit during the year, with twenty achieving their first either as a lead or featured artist. Lil Wayne, Bruno Mars, and Rihanna each had six top-ten hits in 2011, tying them for the most top-ten hits during the year. LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem" (featuring Lauren Bennett and GoonRock) had a twenty-six-week run in the top ten, the longest during the year and tying with Savage Garden's "Truly Madly Deeply" as the fourth-longest in Billboard history. In the beginning of 2012, the song re-entered the top ten, extending its run to twenty-nine weeks and becoming the fourth-longest-running top-ten single ever behind "How Do I Live" by LeAnn Rimes, "Smooth" by Santana featuring Rob Thomas and "Uptown Funk" by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars, also bumping Jewel's You Were Meant For Me/Foolish Games down to fifth, with 28 weeks.

On the week ending April 30, 2011, singer Katy Perry extended her top ten streak beginning the previous year to forty-nine weeks, breaking a record held by Swedish pop band Ace of Base for seventeen years. Perry went on to log twenty more consecutive weeks in the top ten, extending her record to sixty-nine weeks, before "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" fell out of the top ten on the week ending September 24, 2011, ending her streak.

Rihanna attained her twentieth top-ten hit when "We Found Love" (featuring Calvin Harris) climbed into the top ten on the week ending October 15, 2011. This made Rihanna the fastest soloist to attain twenty top-ten hits, having done so in a six-year, four-month span, breaking a record previously held by singer Madonna.

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Key

•  ↑  – indicates single's top 10 entry was also its Hot 100 debut
•  †  – indicates best performing song of the year
• (#) – 2011 year-end top 10 single position and rank

Notes:

¹ Britney Spears was credited as a featured artist on the week ending April 30, 2011.

² Nicki Minaj and Kesha were credited as featured artists on the week ending May 14, 2011.

³ Ludacris was credited as a featured artist on the week ending July 2, 2011.

^A The single re-entered the top ten on the week ending January 8, 2011.

^B The single re-entered the top ten on the week ending January 15, 2011.

^C The single re-entered the top ten on the week ending January 22, 2011.

^D The single re-entered the top ten on the week ending February 26, 2011.

^E The single re-entered the top ten on the week ending March 5, 2011.

^F The single re-entered the top ten on the week ending April 9, 2011.

^G The single re-entered the top ten on the week ending April 23, 2011.

^H The single re-entered the top ten on the week ending May 7, 2011.

^I The single re-entered the top ten on the week ending May 14, 2011.

^J The single re-entered the top ten on the week ending May 28, 2011.

^K The single re-entered the top ten on the week ending June 11, 2011.

^L The single re-entered the top ten on the week ending June 18, 2011.

^M The single re-entered the top ten on the week ending July 2, 2011.

^N The single re-entered the top ten on the week ending August 20, 2011.

^O The single re-entered the top ten on the week ending August 27, 2011.

^P The single re-entered the top ten on the week ending September 10, 2011.

^Q The single re-entered the top ten on the week ending September 24, 2011.

^R The single re-entered the top ten on the week ending October 1, 2011.

^S The single re-entered the top ten on the week ending October 22, 2011.

^T The single re-entered the top ten on the week ending December 10, 2011.

• 2011 in American music
• List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 2011
• Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 2011

• Whitburn, Joel (2012). Pop Annual, 1955–2011 (8th ed.). Record Research Inc. ISBN 0-89820-194-2.
• Additional information obtained can be verified within Billboard's online archive services and print editions of the magazine.

• Billboard.com
• Billboard.biz
• The Billboard Hot 100