Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" was the number 1 song of the year, topping the Hot 100 for 7 consecutive weeks.

Four of Katy Perry's singles, "Firework", "E.T.", "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" and "Teenage Dream" managed to enter the list, with "Firework" and "E.T." being numbers 3 and 4 respectively.

Bruno Mars' single "Just the Way You Are" jumped three spots from the previous year's list, from 18 to 15, but his song "Grenade" topped it at position 6. He also had "The Lazy Song" at 26 and was featured on "Lighters" at 34.

Nicki Minaj's single "Super Bass" was number 8 on the list, as it peaked at number 3 on the Hot 100, she became the first female rapper to hit top 5 since Missy Elliott's song "Lose Control".

Lil Wayne has the most singles on the list with six including three lead singles from his album, Tha Carter IV, with two singles "How to Love" and "6 Foot 7 Foot", ranking in the Top 50 at numbers 23 and 41 respectively, while "She Will" made it at number 95.

Barbadian singer Rihanna had five songs included on the list, four of which were from her fifth album, Loud, and one from her sixth album, Talk That Talk.

Billboard publishes annual lists of songs based on chart performance over the course of a year based on Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems and SoundScan information. For 2011, the list of the top 100 Billboard Hot 100 Year-End songs was published on December 9, calculated with data from December 4, 2010 to November 26, 2011. At the number one position was Adele's "Rolling in the Deep", which stayed atop the Hot 100 for seven consecutive weeks, and in the top thirty for most of the year.

See also

• 2011 in American music
• List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 2011
• List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2011

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