Top 100 2011

Position	Artist	Title
1	Adele	Someone Like You
2	Adele	Rolling In The Deep
3	Lmfao	Party Rock Anthem
4	Jessie J Ft BoB	Price Tag
5	Ed Sheeran	The A Team
6	Pitbull / Ne-Yo / Afrojack / Nayer	Give Me Everything
7	Adele	Set Fire To The Rain
8	Lady Gaga	Born This Way
9	Lady Gaga	The Edge Of Glory
10	Nicki Minaj	Super Bass
11	Rihanna	S&M
12	Christina Perri	Jar Of Hearts
13	Bruno Mars	Grenade
14	Aloe Blacc	I Need a Dollar
15	Snoop Dogg	Sweat
16	Jennifer Lopez Ft Pitbull	On The Floor
17	Adele	Make You Feel My Love
18	Bruno Mars	The Lazy Song
19	Chris Brown Ft Benny Benassi	Beautiful People
20	Katy Perry	Firework
21	Maroon 5 Ft Christina Aguilera	Moves Like Jagger
22	Martin Solveig & Dragonette	Hello
23	Bruno Mars	Just the Way You Are
24	Chris Brown	Yeah 3x
25	David Guetta ft Rihanna	Who's That Chick?
26	Bruno Mars	Marry You
27	David Guetta Ft Flo Rida & Nicki Minaj	Where Them Girls At
28	Alexandra Stan	Mr. Saxobeat
29	Rihanna	Only Girl (In The World)
30	Example	Changed the Way You Kiss Me
31	Jessie J	Do It Like A Dude
32	Beyonce	Best Thing I Never Had
33	Rizzle Kicks	Down With The Trumpets
34	Katy Perry	Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)
35	Olly Murs Ft Rizzle Kicks	Heart Skips A Beat
36	Jessie J	Nobody's Perfect
37	Foster The People	Pumped Up Kicks
38	Birdy	Skinny Love
39	Cee Lo Green	F**k You
40	The Wanted	Turbulence
41	Nicole Scherzinger	Don't Hold Your Breath
42	Calvin Harris Ft Kelis	Bounce (Feat. Kelis)
43	Noah & The Whale	L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N.
44	Chipmunk Ft Chris Brown	Champion
45	Dr Dre Ft Eminem & Skylar Grey	I Need A Doctor
46	David Guetta Ft Usher	Without You
47	One Direction	What Makes You Beautiful
48	Rihanna ft Drake	What's My Name?
49	Katy Perry	E.T.
50	Bad Meets Evil Ft Bruno Mars	Lighters
51	Chase & Status Ft Liam Bailey	Blind Faith
52	Lmfao	Sexy And I Know It
53	Rihanna Ft Calvin Harris	We Found Love
54	Mann	Buzzin
55	Pink	F**kin' Perfect
56	Taio Cruz / McCoy / Minogue	Higher
57	David Guetta Ft Taio Cruz & Ludacris	Little Bad Girl
58	Kanye West Ft Drake & Rihanna	All Of The Lights
59	Rihanna	California King Bed
60	Nicole Scherzinger	Right There
61	Diddy Dirty Money Ft Skylar Grey	Coming Home
62	The Black Eyed Peas	Just Can't Get Enough
63	JLS	Eyes Wide Shut
64	Wynter Gordon	Dirty Talk
65	Jennifer Lopez Ft Lil Wayne	I'm Into You
66	Dev Ft The Cataracs	Bass Down Low
67	DJ Fresh Ft Sian Evans	Louder
68	Ed Sheeran	Lego House
69	Lady Gaga	Judas
70	Pixie Lott	All About Tonight
71	Ellie Goulding	Your Song
72	Will Young	Jealousy
73	Tinie Tempah ft Ellie Goulding	Wonderman
74	Wiz Khalifa	Black And Yellow
75	Enrique Iglesias Ft Ludacris	Tonight (I'm Lovin' You)
76	Cee Lo Green	Bright Lights Bigger City
77	Calvin Harris	Feel So Close
78	Chris Brown Ft Justin Bieber	Next To You
79	Coldplay	Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall
80	Beyonce	Run The World (Girls)
81	Tracy Chapman	Fast Car
82	Katy B ft Ms Dynamite	Lights On
83	Kesha	We R Who We R
84	Charlene Soraia	Wherever You Will Go
85	Jls ft Dev	She Makes Me Wanna
86	The Black Eyed Peas	The Time (Dirty Bit)
87	Jason Derulo	Don't Wanna Go Home
88	Alexis Jordan	Good Girl
89	Tiesto Vs Diplo / Busta Rhymes	C'Mon (Catch 'Em By Surprise)
90	Labrinth Ft Tinie Tempah	Earthquake
91	Dappy	No Regrets
92	Coldplay	Paradise
93	The Black Eyed Peas	Don't Stop The Party
94	Emeli Sande	Heaven
95	Jeremih ft 50 Cent	Down On Me
96	Nero	Guilt
97	Swedish House Mafia	Save The World
98	Wretch 32 Ft L	Traktor
99	Jessie J	Who's Laughing Now
100	Pink	Raise Your Glass

 

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A Synopsis of The Events in 2011

This was the year when the people of Samoa lost a day. The decision to redraw the International Date Line to the east of Samoa instead of the west meant that the citizens of Samoa went to bed on the evening of 29th December but woke up on the morning of 31st December.

There were natural disasters aplenty in 2011. Firstly we saw flooding in Queensland Australia, and an earthquake in New Zealand's South Island. Japan was hit by an earthquake and tsunami, causing damage to the Fukushima nuclear plant, and precipitating the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl. Hurricane Irene wreaked havoc in the Caribbean, the east coast of USA and Canada. For the second year in succession, Pakistan was badly affected by flooding, then as the end of the year was in sight, Typhoon Washi brought flash floods and landslides to the Philippines.

This was also the year of the “Arab Spring”. It started in Tunisia with a young man setting himself on fire to protest against the ruling regime. This act served to ignite the resentment against the rulers and led to widespread demonstrations and riots leading to the overthrow of the government. This discontent rapidly spread to other Arab countries ultimately affecting Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Yemen, Jordan, Bahrain and Syria. We saw Egypt’s President Mubarak put on trial, and Libya’s Colonel Gadhafi killed by rebels after a short but bloody uprising.

Another terrorist was brought to justice as US President Barack Obama broke the news that US special forces had tracked down Osama Bin Laden to a house in Pakistan and killed the most wanted terrorist who was architect of the 9/11 attacks in 2001, which caused the deaths of almost 3,000 people.

In Norway, a gunman shot 69 people at a summer camp whilst a bomb he had planted in Oslo killed another 8 people. Closer to home, there was more pleasant news as the UK celebrated a Royal Wedding. Prince William married Kate Middleton and the couple were given the title of Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

Later in the year, harmony was shattered as a peaceful protest about the fatal shooting of  a 29 year old man in Tottenham, escalated to a riot. Rioting and looting spread to several other English cities before additional police were brought in from other areas to bring the situation under control.

In 2011, we lost

• Sports personalities, boxers Henry Cooper and Joe Frazier, golfer Seve Ballasteros and IndyCar driver Dan Wheldon.
• Showbiz stars Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Russell, Peter Falk, Pete Postlethwaite, Susannah York and film director Ken Russell
• And from the music world, Amy Winehouse, Gerry Rafferty, Bert Jansch, Jet Harris, Gary Moore, Dobie Gray, Bond movie composer John Barrie, Walker Brothers frontman John Walker, E Street Band sax player Clarence Clemons, Andrew Gold, Poly Styrene (X-Ray Spex), jazz pianist George Shearing, Nick Ashford (Ashton and Simpson), Jerry Leiber, co-writer of  "Hound Dog" and "Jailhouse Rock”, Andrea True and DJ Jimmy Saville.

There was another death connected to the music world. Steve Jobs, the enigmatic CEO of Apple retired in August. His retiral was short lived as he lost his battle with cancer in October. Under his stewardship, Apple fundamentally changed the way we listened to music with the iPod and the iPhone. Against a troubled world economic background, Apple continued to go from strength to strength. The release of the iPad 2 early in the year saw it selling out in its first week. Its appeal was such that The Times of India reported on a Chinese teenager who had sold his right kidney to buy one. The much anticipated update to Apple’s iPhone 4 turned out not to be the iPhone 5, but the iPhone 4S. However, the real explosion in smart phone sales was for phones based on Google’s Android operating system, which had, according to Gartner Research, increased their share of worldwide sales from 17% in 2010 to 43% by the end of August.

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