[News] Monkey3 releases song rankings for the year 2011


Year 2011 is almost at its end to give way to 2012. Music analyst site Monkey3 has compiled the most popular tracks over the past months and released the top 40 rankings for the year of 2011 based on a combination of Top 50 weekly charts, number of downloads and streams from January 1 to December 7, 2011.

These past months was undeniably been dominated by female artists as reflected on the top 10 rankings. T-ara received the most love and reigned on top with "Roly Poly". The sexy ladies of miss A with "Goodbye Baby" and SISTAR with "So Cool" claimed the 2nd and 3rd spot respectively. The soloist sweetheart IU came on 4th with her hit track "Good Day".

Completing the top 10 list, SECRET's took the 5th spot with one of their most popular songs, "Starlight Moonlight". Followed by Davichi's "Don't Say Goodbye" on 6th, 2NE1's "I Am The Best" on 7th, f(x)'s "Danger" on 8th, SISTAR19's "Ma Boy" on 9th and lastly the only male artist on the top 10, Huh Gak with "Hello".

Check out the list below:

Top 10 Most Popular Songs

1. T-ara - “Roly-Poly”
2. miss A - “Goodbye Baby”
3. SISTAR - “So Cool”
4. IU - “Good Day”
5. SECRET - “Starlight Moonlight”
6. Davichi - “Don’t Say Goodbye”
7. 2NE1 - “I Am The Best”
8. f(x) - “Danger”
9. SISTAR19 - “Ma Boy”
10. Huh Gak - “Hello”


Artists with Most Hits

1. 2NE1 - 4 songs
2. IU - 3 songs
3. f(x)  - 2 songs
   SISTAR  - 2 songs
   SECRET  - 2 songs
   B2ST  - 2 songs
   4minute - 2 songs


Longest duration on Top 10 weekly charts

1. IU’s “Good Day” - 9 consecutive weeks
   T-ara’s “Roly-Poly” - 9 consecutive weeks
   SISTAR’s “So Cool” - 9 consecutive weeks
2. SISTAR19's “Ma Boy”  - 6 consecutive weeks
   G.NA’s “Black & White” - 6 consecutive weeks
   SECRET’s “Shy Boy” - 6 consecutive weeks
   miss A’s “Goodbye Baby” - 6 consecutive weeks
   f(x)’s “Pinocchio” - 6 consecutive weeks
   Davichi’s “Don’t Say Goodbye” - 6 consecutive weeks
   B2ST’s “Fiction” - 6 consecutive weeks

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