'Price Tag' still remains one of Jessie's best. Fun singalong track. I'd not been keen on 'Do It Like A Dude' before then but like all of her other singles from the album which is fine overall too. I also liked her first stint on the Voice but had quickly thereafter gone off her personality wise.

5 – Don’t Hold Your Breath – Nicole Scherzinger

1 Week at #1 / Weekly Sales – 98,091

#33 in EOY 2011 – Total Sales of 435,700

Finishing in fifth place in my countdown of the #1 singles in the UK in 2011 is Nicole Scherzinger. Don’t Hold Your Breath was released as the second single from Nicole’s debut album Killer Lover. Selling 98,091 in the last week of March it was enough to knock Adele’s hit Someone Like You down to #2. Nicole’s career in the pop music industry began 11 years prior in 2000 when she successfully auditioned for the American version of the reality tv show Popstars. After making the group Eden’s Crush and winning Popstars Eden’s Crush earned themselves a top ten single and album in America before it all fell apart in 2001. Four years later in 2005 Nicole would resurface as part of a new girl group The Pussy Cat Dolls and this is where she quickly rose to fame with the group racking up multiple top 10 singles around the world throughout 2005 and 2006. Then in 2007 Nicole made her first attempt at a solo career where she released four singles from what was meant to be her debut album, however only one of those made a small dent on the global charts with the other three having no impact at all. The subsequent album was shelved with some of the songs finding there way onto the second Pussy Cat Dolls album. Then in late 2010 Nicole made her second attempt to launch a solo career and this got off to a much better start when Poison reached #3 in the UK and #7 in Ireland.

Don’t Hold Your Breath followed next and would go on to become Nicole’s biggest hit worldwide. Despite only reaching #86 in America the song would go on to each #4 in Ireland, #21 in New Zealand and #18 in Australia, as well as #1 in the UK of course.

I really enjoyed this song from the very first time I heard it, I found that it stood out a little as it wasn’t quite club banger nor was it a ballad or r’n’b song and I found it kind of hit that sweet spot. It also made me want to go back and give a proper listen to Poison as that was never released properly as a single in Australia, I enjoyed both so much that it led to me going out to buy her album Killer Love.

Elsewhere in the charts this week The Wanted debuted at #3 with their new single Gold Forever, new English girl group Parade debuted at #10 with their debut single Louder, Snoop Dogg landed at #16 with his new single Sweat and Ellie Gould would reach a peak of #49 with Lights, the final single from her debut album of the same name. This was roughly one year before it would go on to reach #2 in the US.

Definitely her best song solo career wise for me. A major bop though it probably would slide down a few spots as other 1s that year would leap ahead now.

Fair 5th place. I think I actually prefer Poison still to this, I really loved that. But it was a pleasant, breezy kind of track and nice to see Nicole get a solo No.1, not sure at the time I expected it to get to No.1.

Fully agree on the top four and three of the remaining songs are in my all-time top 100 songs.

Some memorable lyrics recently, from the Kodak rhyme to Jessie's introductory "Coconut Man, Moonhead and Pea - you ready?"! I enjoyed 'Price Tag' when it first came out but grew quite tired of the overplay and it never really recovered in my affections.

Unfortunate for Jessie that Dr. Luke and B.o.B are both pretty tainted names now.

Ooft the memories of 'Price Tag's second week at number 1... I was at peak Gaga looning with the Born This Way era and was gutted she shot herself in the foot with the mid-week release. At least the song was a multi-week chart-topper in the U.S.

My experience with 'Don't Hold Your Breath' has been the complete opposite of 'Price Tag' - I remember finding it quite dull at the time (and posted that opinion a fair amount in the chart show thread lol, one of the songs that reminds me of joining BuzzJack) but I revisited it in more recent years and thought it sounded great, so not sure what I was thinking at the time. Much better material than Nicole's first solo attempt.

Yeah I agree, I’d put Nicole 5th of the remaining ones. That doesn’t mean I don’t like it though, a really catchy song that I’m happy to hear out in the real world.

My 2 favourites are still yet to come!

Price Tag is Jessie's best track until her recent comeback earlier this year in "good song shock horror" but everything is relative and a number 28 peak for me is about still right for a song I got fed up with hearing at the time, her other stuff just didn't impress me much until California - which wasnt even given a proper single release according to Wikipedia, what, eh, it's only her best record!

Don't Hold Your Breath I like, a definite top 10 dancepop smash for me at the time and it still sounds good. My Nicole chart-topper though is Right There, so good that even 50 Cent being on it didn't detract at all. In my list of top personal chart-toppers of 2011, that might well have been top 5.

Absolutely love 'Don't Hold Your Breath', it was a bit of a surprise #1 for me at the time but I was so glad to see her get it.

Also, how am I only just learning she was in a short-lived girl group before the Pussycat Dolls?

Great start to the top 5, I think 'Don't Hold Your Breath' is a phenomenal pop song that I was well behind at the time as I was very much into the pop sound around then, hit the spot very nicely following up 'Poison'.

Promises was alright nothing special tbh

Heart skips a beat is one of Holly's best and the rizzle kicks feature is sublime shame they pretty much went downhill after this

No regrets is. An athem probably the best if not top 3 best number 1s of 2011 definitely one of the strongest self love songs before we seemed to get oversaturated with them at the time

Grenade was decent enough, pretty much bruno by the numbers

Dance with me tonight was fun enough but I agree heart skips a beat is the stronger of the number ones here, its still a bop though so a decent placing is deserved

We are who we are is a decent enough kesha track glad it finally gave her a number 1 even if she did have much more deserving songs of the accolade but still a fun bop regardless id of ranked it somewhere around the middle

Read all about it was as perfect as you can get for a ballad a phenomenal track id personally placed it top 3 such a shame both artists went down hill rapidly after this

Give me everything nice enough track dance floor 101 really id rank it a few places lower but its far from terrible

Price tag is one of jessies strongest singles and much deserved number 1 unlike a lot of who you are tracks it hasnt aged at all (shame do it like a dude got block but this more than made up for it)

Dont hold your breathe is decent enough id rank it 5 places lower at least myself i much preferred Wet at the time shame that didnt go number 1 instead

I find "Don’t Hold Your Breath" rather boring and a bit mid, so would place it somewhere in the middle.

4 – One The Floor – Jennifer Lopez ft Pitbull

2 Weeks at #1 / Weekly Sales – 133,179 / 91,749

#10 in EOY 2011 – Total Sales of 784,100

At the beginning of 2011 I certainly didn’t have Jennifer Lopez having a career resurgence with a global smash hit single on my bingo card. After experiencing diminishing returns globally from her previous two albums one would naturally presume that Jennifer Lopez’s hit making days were behind her, especially after her 2007 album Brave sank like a stone and failed to produce a top 10 hit for the first time in her career. Though I think from the moment anyone heard this it was going to be hard to deny this would be an undeniable smash, I mean it ticked all the boxes for a 2011 hit. It was a dance/pop club banger, it was produced by ‘it producer’ RedOne and featured Pitbull. So it was no surprise when On The Floor debuted at #1 with sales of 133,179 and knocking off Adele’s massive hit Someone Like You.

Of all the ‘in the club’ songs of 2011 this would have to be my favourite. I was a Jennifer Lopez at the time and loved Do It Well and Hold It Don’t Drop it from her previous album so this felt like a natural progression for her to me and like with We R Who We R this came out at one of the happiest times of my life. I have so many memories of listening to this song and others from this time on my 1hr train journey to work ever morning and then home again in the afternoon, every time I listen to this song it just transports me straight back to being 22 years old sitting on a train in Melbourne’s city going to work in the morning and seeing my work colleagues getting on the train. So with this and the majority of the top 5 nostalgia plays a fairly significant part in how I still view these songs, though I still think they’re great songs in their own right.

On The Floor is certainly catchy with that sample, it’s not my favourite of this year but I definitely enjoy it.

I was absolutely obsessed with this track, it may even be my No.1, but I'll see when I rank them after. I had never loved a J.Lo song anywhere near the amount I loved this. Great use of a sample, such solid production, a wonderful chorus and post chorus singalong part, and of course, Pitbull and that rap. The solo version without him that all the compilations feature these days sounds a little empty to me so he definitely adds to it.

This is my favourite song from the club banger era, bar none, it went all the way OFF in a club, that's for sure.

A storming banger comeback for J Lo!

“On The Floor” is good and works very well in a club indeed.I still think I prefer “Lambada” though.

“Don’t Hold Your Breath” was certainly a surprisingly strong pop song. I like “Right There” too.

17 hours ago, 777666jason said:

Heart skips a beat is one of Holly's best and the rizzle kicks feature is sublime shame they pretty much went downhill after this

Which can't say a lot for Rizzle Kicks, given that's the first time anybody had ever heard of them

'On the Floor' I quite liked at the time. Certainly for Pitbull much preferable to his other pop star #1 collab 'Timber'.

Edited Friday at 16:092 days by TheSnake

On the floor is a banger glad jlo had a huge hit with it as she hasnt replicated it much since

Edited Saturday at 08:172 days by 777666jason

'On The Floor' is a banger, it was nice to see her grab a #1 smash long after it looked like her career was on the scrap heap!