The year is coming to an end and all of the end of year rankings are beginning to show themselves. On December 1st, the Karaoke system manufacturer, Daiichi Kosho released the “2011 Yearly Karaoke Request Ranking”. Check out what made the list.

As you can probably guess, the survey isn’t for the entire year considering the year isn’t over. The rankings were based off of results from a survey conducted from January 1st through November 30th.

Without further ado…the top 20 songs and artists requested for Karaoke in 2011.

2011 Yearly Karaoke Ranking (by song)
01. “Heavy Rotation” – AKB48
02. “Mister” – KARA
03. “Gee” – Shoujo Jidai
04. “Kiseki” – GReeeeN
05. “Aitakatta” – AKB48
06. “Arigato” – Ikimono Gakari
07. “Ponytail to Shushu” – AKB48
08. “Zankoku na Tenshi no Thesis” – Takahashi Yoko
09. “Hanamizuki” – Hitoto Yo
10. “Chiisana Koi no Uta” – MONGOL800
11. “Mata Kimi no Koi Shiteru” – Sakamoto Fuyumi
12. “Story” – AI
13. “Everyday, Kachuusha” – AKB48
14. “Lovers Again” – EXILE
15. “Junrenka” – Shounan no Kaze
16. “Amagi Goe” – Ishikawa Sayuri
17. “Ai no Uta” – Koda Kumi
18. “Suirenka” – Shonan no Kaze
19. “Aitakute Aitakute” – Nishino Kana
20. “Maru Maru Mori Mori!” – Kaoru to Tomoki, Tamani Mook
(To view the Top 50, click the link)

2011 Yearly Karaoke Ranking (by artist)
01. AKB48
02. EXILE
03. Hamasaki Ayumi
04. Koda Kumi
05. Arashi
06. Mr. Children
07. Nishino Kana
08. Ikimono Gakari
09. Kobukuro
10. Kitajima Saburo
11. Misora Hibari
12. Itsuki Hiroshi
13. L’Arc~en~Ciel
14. Ishihara Yujiro
15. Southern All Stars
16. BUMP OF CHICKEN
17. GReeeeN
18. Fukuyama Masaharu
19. Shonan no Kaze
20. B’z

Looks like AKB48 cleaned up! Congrats to everyone that is on the list! So glad to see SNSD and KARA on the list!

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