# List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2011

The highest-selling albums and EPs in the United States are ranked in the Billboard 200 chart, which is published by Billboard magazine. The data are compiled by Nielsen Soundscan based on each album's weekly physical and digital sales. In 2011, 30 albums advanced to the peak position of the chart.
Singer-songwriter Taylor Swift's Speak Now was the first album to reach the top in 2011, spending four consecutive weeks at the top with 259,000 copies sold, while Michael Bublé's Christmas was the last album to do so, also spending four consecutive weeks there and selling 448,000 copies. The most successful album of the year was Adele's 21, which spent 13 non-consecutive weeks at number one, and sold 5 million copies. The Billboard magazine mentioned 21 as the highest-selling album in the year since 2004, when Usher's Confessions reached sales of 8 million copies. Lady Gaga's Born This Way held the record for the highest first-week total in 2011, with 1,108,000 copies sold in its first week. Lil Wayne's Tha Carter IV had the second-highest first-week total in 2011, with 964,000 copies.

## Chart history

Key :
| † | Indicates best performing album of 2011 |
| Issue date | Album | Artist(s) | Sales |
| January 1 | Speak Now | Taylor Swift | 259,000 |
| January 8 | Speak Now | Taylor Swift | 276,000 |
| January 15 | Speak Now | Taylor Swift | 77,000 |
| January 22 | Speak Now | Taylor Swift | 52,000 |
| January 29 | Showroom of Compassion | Cake | 44,000 |
| February 5 | The King Is Dead | The Decemberists | 94,000 |
| February 12 | Mission Bell | Amos Lee | 40,000 |
| February 19 | Pink Friday | Nicki Minaj | 45,000 |
| February 26 | Now 37 | Various Artists | 151,000 |
| March 5 | Never Say Never – The Remixes | Justin Bieber | 165,000 |
| March 12 | 21 † | Adele | 352,000 |
| March 19 | 21 † | Adele | 168,000 |
| March 26 | Lasers | Lupe Fiasco | 204,000 |
| April 2 | 21 † | Adele | 98,000 |
| April 9 | F.A.M.E. | Chris Brown | 270,000 |
| April 16 | Femme Fatale | Britney Spears | 276,000 |
| April 23 | 21 † | Adele | 88,000 |
| April 30 | Wasting Light | Foo Fighters | 235,000 |
| May 7 | 21 † | Adele | 153,000 |
| May 14 | 21 † | Adele | 124,000 |
| May 21 | 21 † | Adele | 155,000 |
| May 28 | 21 † | Adele | 156,000 |
| June 4 | 21 † | Adele | 137,000 |
| June 11 | Born This Way | Lady Gaga | 1,108,000 |
| June 18 | Born This Way | Lady Gaga | 174,000 |
| June 25 | 21 † | Adele | 114,000 |
| July 2 | Hell: The Sequel | Bad Meets Evil | 171,000 |
| July 9 | The Light of the Sun | Jill Scott | 135,000 |
| July 16 | 4 | Beyoncé | 310,000 |
| July 23 | 4 | Beyoncé | 115,000 |
| July 30 | Red River Blue | Blake Shelton | 116,000 |
| August 6 | 21 † | Adele | 77,000 |
| August 13 | Chief | Eric Church | 145,000 |
| August 20 | 21 † | Adele | 76,000 |
| August 27 | Watch the Throne | Jay-Z and Kanye West | 436,000 |
| September 3 | Watch the Throne | Jay-Z and Kanye West | 177,000 |
| September 10 | The R.E.D. Album | Game | 98,000 |
| September 17 | Tha Carter IV | Lil Wayne | 964,000 |
| September 24 | Tha Carter IV | Lil Wayne | 219,000 |
| October 1 | Own the Night | Lady Antebellum | 347,000 |
| October 8 | Duets II | Tony Bennett | 179,000 |
| October 15 | Cole World: The Sideline Story | J. Cole | 218,000 |
| October 22 | Clear as Day | Scotty McCreery | 197,000 |
| October 29 | Evanescence | Evanescence | 127,000 |
| November 5 | 21 † | Adele | 106,000 |
| November 12 | Mylo Xyloto | Coldplay | 447,000 |
| November 19 | Under the Mistletoe | Justin Bieber | 210,000 |
| November 26 | Blue Slide Park | Mac Miller | 144,000 |
| December 3 | Take Care | Drake | 631,000 |
| December 10 | Christmas | Michael Bublé | 227,000 |
| December 17 | Christmas | Michael Bublé | 293,000 |
| December 24 | Christmas | Michael Bublé | 479,000 |
| December 31 | Christmas | Michael Bublé | 448,000 |