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.
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.
In 2011, singer
Katy Perry
broke the record for the longest consecutive run in the top ten after logging forty-nine weeks in the tier; later in the year, she went on to extend this record to sixty-nine weeks. Perry scored four top-ten singles during the year, three of which went to number one and two of which, "
Firework
" and "
E.T.
" (featuring
Kanye West
), ranked at numbers three and four respectively on
Billboard
's
year-end
Hot 100
list
.
Electropop duo
LMFAO
had the longest-running top-ten single in 2011 with "
Party Rock Anthem
" (featuring
Lauren Bennett
and
GoonRock
), which remained in the top ten for twenty-six weeks, tying with
Savage Garden
's "
Truly Madly Deeply
" for the fourth-longest top ten run for a single in
Billboard
history. In 2012, the song spent three more weeks in the top ten, extending its run to twenty-nine weeks and becoming the third-longest-running top-ten single ever. The song spent six weeks at number one and became
Billboard'
s number-two single of 2011. LMFAO scored a second top-ten single in 2011 with "
Sexy and I Know It
", which reached number one in 2012.