In the issue of Billboard dated January 1, Taylor Swift was at number one with Speak Now, the album's seventh week in the top spot. Swift's album held the peak position for the first seven weeks of 2011 before being displaced by Jason Aldean's My Kinda Party. The latter album was the year's longest-running chart-topper, spending 12 weeks atop the chart in five separate spells between February and July. It was displaced from the top spot for the first time in the issue dated March 5 by Need You Now by the group Lady Antebellum, which returned to number one having already spent 29 weeks at the top of the chart the previous year. The group was the only act to achieve more than one number one during 2011, as it returned to the top spot in October with Own the Night, which spent five non-consecutive weeks atop the chart before the end of the year and was the final chart-topper of 2011.
