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Candy still remains the biggest loss for me. I’d never heard the Gary Barlow song before but it’s in the bottom few for me. I absolutely detest Chris Brown, so I’d probably put that last. Horrible human, horrible song. I much prefer the Shontelle version of Impossible but James’s version is passable.

I presume that Steps have made the top 50, which is a surprise to me. What may be a bigger surprise is that B*Witched might’ve made the top 50. I’m less sure on them though.

Pon de Replay was such a great debut from Rihanna.

Just giving this a mid month bump to see if we can get any more votes. :)

Thank you so much everyone for your lovely words! ❤️

Really looking forward to this rank, 2012 had some great #1's. I liked Candy, I remember winning the Take The Crown about in an online contest. Also I remember really liking follow up single Different.

Haha yes, which explains why I wasn’t overly familiar with Saturday Night but could sign the Sexy Eyes chorus. 🤣

Yes: Saturday Night - #78 Sexy Eyes- #6 Gimme Gimme - #14

I always think of Sexy Eyes being Whigfields big song. Probably because it was in Australia.

Thank you very much @Jaz13music I'm really pleased you enjoyed it! 😃 I know you'll do a fantastic job with the 2013 edition. I was a little nervous too, nut I just found a write up style that worked best for me. 🙂

Well that brings to a close my rank of the UK #1 Singles in 2011. Thank you everyone for following along with me and for commenting along with the countdown. I’ve loved following these from when @gooddelta started these mid last year and it really was an honour to be given this opportunity to participate in what is something I consider to be a very popular series in the 21st Century Throwback Forum, so thank you for that opportunity @Julian_. I found this to be quite the experience going through and revisiting all 31 UK #1’s from 2011. It brought back so many memories for me both good and bad and founds at times that doing this was quite therapeutic. So thank you for the care and love shown through as well with some of my commentaries, it really put a smile on my face. I will now pass the baton over to @RabbitFurCoat who will be taking you through the UK #1’s of 2012.

The full countdown: 1. Someone Like You – Adele 2. We Found Love – Rihanna ft Calvin Harris 3. What’s My Name – Rihanna ft Drake 4. One The Floor – Jennifer Lopez ft Pitbull 5. Don’t Hold Your Breath – Nicole Scherzinger 6. Price Tag – Jessie J ft B.o.B 7. Give Me Everything – Pitbull ft Ne-Yo, Afrojack and Nayer 8. Read All About It – Professor Green ft Emeli Sande 9. We R Who We R – Kesha 10. Dance With Me Tonight – Olly Murs 11. Grenade – Bruno Mars 12. No Regrets – Dappy 13. Heart Skips a Bit – Olly Murs ft Rizzle Kicks 14. Promises – Nero 15. Louder – DJ Fresh ft Sian Evans 16. What Makes You Beautiful – One Direction 17. Stay Awake – Example 18. All About Tonight – Pixie Lott 19. Swagger Jagger – Cher Lloyd 20. Party Rock Anthem – LMFAO ft Lauren Bennett and GoonRock 21. Wherever You Are – Military Wives ft Gareth Malone 22. The Lazy Song – Bruno Mars 23. Changed The Way You Kissed Me – Example 24. Loca People – Sak Noel 25. Don’t Wanna Go Home – Jason Derulo 26. Cannonball – Little Mix 27. When We Collide – Matt Cardle 28. Don’t Go – Wretch 32 ft Josh Kumra 29. She Makes Me Wanna – JLS ft Dev 30. Glad You Came – The Wanted 31. Wishing On a Star – X Factor Finalists 2011 ft JLS and One Direction

1 – Someone Like You - Adele 5 Weeks at #1 / Weekly Sales – 111,739 / 114,792 / 116,347 / 95,654 / 82,357 #1 in EOY 2011 – Total Sales of 1,242,917 There could only be one song taking out my gold medal for my favourite #1 single of 2011 and that is the gigantic smash hit single Someone Like You by Adele. Released as the second single from her second album 21 in February Someone Like You debuted at #36 on the UK singles chart before climbing to #33 the following week and falling to #47 in it’s third week. Then of the 15th of February Adele performed Someone Like You and that sent the song soaring up the charts, after selling less than 7,500 copies the week prior Somone Like You would rocket from #47 to #1 with sales of 111,739 copies. It then stayed at the top of the singles chart for an additional three weeks with sales of 114,792, 116,347 and 95,654 before being replaced by Don’t Hold Your Breath. It would however return to #1 the following week for one last week with sales of 82,357, by which point it had amassed sales of 632,607 copies. I’ve always loved this song and been a big fan of Adele’s right from 2008. I can still remember reading a review in the newspaper for 19 a few days before it was released and it had made me curious to check it out, so I went on YouTube to listen to Chasing Pavements and I was hooked from then. The next day I got the train into the city and asked at the music store whether they’d got any copies of 19 in to go on sale the following day, to my surprise the guy working at the shop returned with CD is hand and asked if this was it. I looked at it, said yes and then they sold it to me. Over the next few years I regularly listened to 19 so when 21 was announced I was eagerly looking forward to it. I loved 21 from the first listen and Someone Like You was my favourite song from the album, I can recall how many times I listened to that album, around the house, on the train, on car journeys I played it a heap. My preferred version of Someone Like You has to be her version from the 2011 Brits as it just feels so raw and emotional, I’d tapped the Brits that year as I wasn’t able to watch them at the time and I must’ve watched that performance at least 50 times in the first week, so much so that I think even my parents knew the words to the song… Someone Like You took a little longer to find its way to #1 internationally though. It took until the end of June to reach #1 in Australia where it stayed for 7 weeks and it took until September for it to reach #1 in the US. In the five weeks Someone Like You was at #1 it didn’t prevent any #2 from reaching the top (Price Tag and Don’t Hold Your Breath). Someone Like You would end 2011 as the highest selling song in the UK with sales of 1,242,917.

2 – We Found Love – Rihanna ft Calvin Harris 6 Weeks at #1 / Weekly Sales – 87,573 / 106,553 / 92,689 / 79,834 / 66,941 / 79,804 #5 in EOY 2011 – Total Sales of 902,500 The silver medal and that means second place in my countdown goes to an artist who continued to ride the wave of her popularity from previous years, its Rihanna with We Found Love ft Calvin Harris. Spending six weeks at #1 in two separate three week stints across October, November and December and would go on to see We Found Love end 2011 as the song with the most weeks at #1 for the year. When this was released I found it to be a real breath of fresh air as I hadn’t largely connected with many of the 10 different songs that topped the UK charts of the previous ten weeks. I have very clear memories of when this was released and it was on very regular rotation on car journeys with friends on weekends, we’d play it multiple times no matter where we went. I was going through a bit of a dry spell with listening to club bangers at this time of year but this reignited it again for me after some brilliant releases from earlier in the year. As much as I love this though it probably wouldn’t make my top 5 Rihanna or even potentially top 10 Rihanna singles. Saying that though this is still an absolute banger of a song and was so incredibly close to being my #1. Unfortunately though it fell short to a song from an artist that had one of the all time biggest years in 2011, more on that next. Of the six weeks We Found Love spend at #1 it only kept four songs with a #2 peak, Moves Like Jagger from Maroon 5 and Christina Aguilera, Lightning by The Wanted, Take A Chance On Me by JLS and Good Feeling by Flo Rida. Elsewhere on the charts over that six week period Gym Class Heros and Adam Levine debuted at #3 with Stereo Hearts, giving Adam Levine the #2 and #3 song that week. Kelly Clarkson debuted at #6 and Lana Del Rey at #9 with Mr Know It All and Video Games. Pixie Lott followed up her #1 hit All About Tonight with a #10 debut for follow up single What Do You Take Me For and One Direction’s follow up to the massively successful debut single What Makes You Beautiful debuted at #3, Gott Be You.

I loved Red Dress at the time but it's far from a Sugababes favourite of mine now. It's decent enogh though.