Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 11)

Dancing with the Stars returned for an 11th season on September 20, 2010. The cast was announced during the August 30 episode of Bachelor Pad
Bachelor Pad
Bachelor Pad is an elimination-style two-hour American reality television game show that debuted on August 9, 2010 on ABC. The show features contestants from The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, who compete for a final cash prize of $250,000...

during a live press conference that included a Q&A session with host Tom Bergeron

Tom Bergeron

Tom Bergeron is an American television personality and game show host, best known as the host of the ABC reality series Dancing with the Stars and host of America's Funniest Home Videos . He was also host of Hollywood Squares and a fill-in host for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire...

and co-host Brooke Burke

Brooke Burke

Brooke Burke Charvet , better known by her maiden name, Brooke Burke, is an actress, dancer, model and television personality...

and the new cast. There are twelve celebrity cast members this season. The pairs were announced on September 1 (however, Bristol Palin

Bristol Palin

Bristol Sheeran Marie Palin is the second child and oldest daughter of former Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin and her husband, Todd....

and Mark Ballas

Mark Ballas

Mark Alexander Ballas Jr. is an American dancer.Ballas is a professional ballroom dancer on the ABC program Dancing with the Stars. He began competing on the show in the fall of 2007. He was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Choreography in 2011...

were announced as being a couple the day before by way of a Good Morning America
Good Morning America
Good Morning America is an American morning news and talk show that is broadcast on the ABC television network; it debuted on November 3, 1975. The weekday program airs for two hours; a third hour aired between 2007 and 2008 exclusively on ABC News Now...

interview).

Corky Ballas

Corky Ballas

Mark Alexander "Corky" Ballas, Sr. is a retired competitive ballroom dancer who holds several Latin dance championship titles.He has one son, Mark Ballas, with former wife and partner Shirley Ballas...

returned to the show for the first time since Season 7

Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 7)

The seventh season of Dancing with the Stars premiered on September 22, 2008 as a part of ABC's fall line-up. Instead of 12 couples like previous seasons, this was the first season to showcase a lineup of 13 couples...

. This is the first season to feature no new professional dancers, as each of the 12 pros has appeared on at least one previous season. Edyta Śliwińska

Edyta Sliwinska

Edyta Śliwińska is a professional ballroom dancer. She is best known for her appearances on the American version of the reality television series Dancing with the Stars. Śliwińska appeared on all of the first ten seasons of the American series, but did not return for the eleventh.- Early life...

, the only pro to have appeared throughout the entire run of the series, did not return this season.

Len Goodman

Len Goodman

Leonard Gordon 'Len' Goodman is a British professional ballroom dancer, dance judge, and coach. He is a leading personality on television dance programmes such as Strictly Come Dancing and Dancing with the Stars and runs a ballroom dance school in Dartford, Kent.-Early life and career:Goodman was...

, Bruno Tonioli

Bruno Tonioli

Bruno Tonioli is an Italian choreographer and TV personality who appears as a judge on the television dance competition Strictly Come Dancing for BBC TV in the UK, and its American adaptation Dancing with the Stars on ABC TV in the US, Tonioli co-created and appeared on the BBC talent show DanceX...

, and Carrie Ann Inaba

Carrie Ann Inaba

Carrie Ann Inaba is an American dancer, choreographer, actress, game show host, and singer.She started her career as a singer in Japan, but became best known for her dancing, first introducing herself to American audiences as one of the original Fly Girls on the sketch comedy series In Living Color...

continue as the judges this season.

Several changes were introduced this season including an "Acoustic Week," in which couples performed either the Rumba

Rumba (dance)

Rumba is a dance term with two quite different meanings.In some contexts, "rumba" is used as shorthand for Afro-Cuban rumba, a group of dances related to the rumba genre of Afro-Cuban music. The most common Afro-Cuban rumba is the guaguancó...

or the Argentine Tango

Argentine tango

Argentine tango is a musical genre of simple quadruple metre and binary musical form, and the social dance that accompanies it. Its lyrics and music are marked by nostalgia, expressed through melodic instruments including the bandoneon. Originated at the ending of the 19th century in the suburbs of...

, while the audience was brought closer to the dance floor, which was elevated and made circular, a "TV Theme Week" and a "Rock n' Roll Week", in which couples performed the Paso Doble or the Tango

Tango (dance)

Tango dance originated in the area of the Rio de la Plata , and spread to the rest of the world soon after....

and danced in a Rock n' Roll

Rock and Roll (dance)

Acrobatic Rock'n'Roll is a very athletic, competitive form of dance that originated from lindy hop. Unlike lindy hop, however, it is a choreographed dance designed for performance. It is danced by both couples and groups, either all-female or 4-8 couples together...

marathon. Fan favorites from previous seasons also came back to judge the couples, who re-created their most memorable routines on the 200th episode; these guest judges were Hélio Castroneves

Hélio Castroneves

Hélio Castroneves is a Brazilian auto racing driver currently competing in the North American IndyCar Series. In IndyCar competition, Castroneves has 14 wins and 28 poles, and has never placed lower than sixth in the standings in a complete season of racing...

, Kelly Osbourne

Kelly Osbourne

Kelly Michelle Lee Osbourne is an English media personality, television personality, host, judge, fashion designer, singer, and actress, best known for being the daughter of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne...

, Emmitt Smith

Emmitt Smith

Emmitt James Smith, III is a retired American football player who was a running back in the National Football League for fifteen seasons during the 1990s and 2000s. Smith played college football for the University of Florida, where he was an All-American; thereafter, he played professionally for...

, Drew Lachey

Drew Lachey

Andrew John "Drew" Lachey is an American singer and actor, known as a member of 98 Degrees, the winner of the second season of Dancing with the Stars, and the younger brother of Nick Lachey.-Early years:...

, Gilles Marini

Gilles Marini

Gilles Marini is a French actor. He is known for having appeared in Sex and the City: The Movie and in the American TV show Brothers & Sisters as Luc Laurent.-Life and career:...

, and Mel B

Melanie Brown

Melanie Janine "Scary Spice" Brown , often better known as Mel B, is an English pop singer-songwriter, actress, author and television presenter...

. Kristi Yamaguchi

Kristi Yamaguchi

Kristine Tsuya "Kristi" Yamaguchi-Hedican is an American figure skater. She is the 1992 Olympic Champion in ladies' singles. Yamaguchi also won two World Figure Skating Championships in 1991 and 1992 and a U.S. Figure Skating Championships in 1992. She won one junior world title in 1988 and two...

and Apolo Ohno also served as team captains for the team dances. Yamaguchi's team consisted of Rick & Cheryl, Kyle & Lacey and Bristol & Mark, while Brandy & Maksim, Jennifer & Derek and Kurt & Anna were on Ohno's team. Also scheduled was a week dubbed "Instant Choreography" in which the couples practiced their routines for a week and received the music for their Latin dances only 45 minutes before their live routines.

Actress Jennifer Grey

Jennifer Grey

Jennifer Elise Grey is an American actress. Her first major roles came in the 1984 war film Red Dawn and the 1986 comedy Ferris Bueller's Day Off. In 1987 she starred as Frances "Baby" Houseman in the hit film Dirty Dancing for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe. In the early 1990s, Grey...

won the competition over actor Kyle Massey

Kyle Massey

Kyle Massey , is an American actor, dancer, singer, comedian and rapper from Atlanta, Georgia. He is perhaps best known for starring in the Disney Channel sitcom That's So Raven, in which he played Cory Baxter, and in the Disney show Cory in the House, a spin-off of That's So Raven...

and Bristol Palin

Bristol Palin

Bristol Sheeran Marie Palin is the second child and oldest daughter of former Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin and her husband, Todd....

, making her partner Derek Hough

Derek Hough

Derek Hough is an American dancer, choreographer, musician and actor. A world champion in Latin American Dance, Hough has appeared since September 2007 on the hit U.S...

the first professional to win the competition three times.

Couples

Celebrity	Occupation	Status
	Actor Actor An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity... & Singer	Eliminated 1st on September 21, 2010
	Music Music Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture... Legend Icon An icon is a religious work of art, most commonly a painting, from Eastern Christianity and in certain Eastern Catholic churches...	Eliminated 2nd on September 28, 2010
	Comedienne & Actress	Eliminated 3rd on October 5, 2010
(The Situation)	Jersey Shore Jersey Shore The Jersey Shore is a term used to refer to both the Atlantic coast of the U.S. state of New Jersey and the adjacent resort and residential communities. . The New Jersey State Department of Tourism considers the Shore Region, Greater Atlantic City, and the Southern Shore to be distinct, each having... Star	Eliminated 4th on October 12, 2010
	Actress & Singer	Eliminated 5th on October 19, 2010
	The Hills The Hills The Hills is a reality television series which originally aired on MTV from May 31, 2006 until July 13, 2010. The show uses a reality television format, following the personal lives of several young adults living in Los Angeles, California, but tends towards a narrative format more commonly found... Star	Eliminated 6th on October 26, 2010
	Retired NBA National Basketball Association The National Basketball Association is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America. It consists of thirty franchised member clubs, of which twenty-nine are located in the United States and one in Canada... Small Forward Small forward The small forward, or colloquially known as three, is one of the five positions in a regulation basketball game. Small forwards are typically somewhat shorter, quicker, and leaner than power forwards and centers, but on occasion are just as tall...	Eliminated 7th on November 2, 2010
	Former NFL National Football League The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing... Quarterback Quarterback Quarterback is a position in American and Canadian football. Quarterbacks are members of the offensive team and line up directly behind the offensive line...	Eliminated 8th on November 9, 2010
	Grammy Award Grammy Award A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry... Winning Singer	Eliminated 9th on November 16, 2010
	Activist	Third Place on November 23, 2010
	Disney Channel Disney Channel Disney Channel is an American basic cable and satellite television network, owned by the Disney-ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company. It is under the direction of Disney-ABC Television Group President Anne Sweeney. The channel's headquarters is located on West Alameda Ave. in... Star	Runner-Ups on November 23, 2010
	Movie Star Movie star A movie star is a celebrity who is well-known, or famous, for his or her starring, or leading, roles in motion pictures. The term may also apply to an actor or actress who is recognized as a marketable commodity and whose name is used to promote a movie in trailers and posters...	Winners on November 23, 2010

Scores

Couple	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4			Week 5	Week 6			Week 7			Week 8			Week 9			Week 10 /
Couple	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Tech.	Perf.	Tot.	Week 5	1	2	Tot.	1	2	Tot.	1	2	Tot.	1	2	Tot.	1	2	3	4	Tot.
Jennifer & Derek	24	24	24	27	29	56	25	20	9	29	27	37	64	27	30	57	30	30	60	30	30	30	28	118
Kyle & Lacey	23	22	23	18	22	40	20	23	7	30	24	35	59	27	29	56	29	29	58	27	29	26	28	110
Bristol & Mark	18	22	19	18	14	32	18	23	5	28	24	33	57	24	23	47	27	26	53	27	25	25	27	104
Brandy & Maksim	23	21	24	22	26	48	27	26	10	36	27	37	64	29	28	57	27	30	57
Kurt & Anna	19	21	23	15	19	34	24	18	4	22	27	34	61	24	24	48
Rick & Cheryl	22	21	24	19	20	39	24	24	6	30	24	37	61
Audrina & Tony	19	23	26	24	22	46	23	24	8	32
Florence & Corky	18	19	20	17	18	35	21
The Situation & Karina	15	18	20	12	16	28
Margaret & Louis	15	18	18
Michael & Chelsie	16	12
David & Kym	15

Judges' highest scoring dance

Judges' lowest scoring dance

Week Four: The judges provided two scores: one for technique, the other for performance.
Week Six: After each couples' individual dance, all seven couples competed in a group dance marathon. The judges eliminated teams one-by-one. The first team eliminated received four points, the next team eliminated received five points, and so on, with ten points awarded to the winner of the group dance.
Week Seven: The remaining couples were split into two teams. The first team consisted of Rick & Cheryl, Bristol & Mark, and Kyle & Lacey, who were lead by season six champion Kristi Yamaguchi
Kristi Yamaguchi
Kristine Tsuya "Kristi" Yamaguchi-Hedican is an American figure skater. She is the 1992 Olympic Champion in ladies' singles. Yamaguchi also won two World Figure Skating Championships in 1991 and 1992 and a U.S. Figure Skating Championships in 1992. She won one junior world title in 1988 and two...

. The second team, lead by season four champion Apolo Anton Ohno
Apolo Anton Ohno
Apolo Anton Ohno is an American short track speed skating competitor and an eight-time medalist in the Winter Olympics. He is the most decorated American Winter Olympic athlete of all time....

consisted of Kurt & Anna, Brandy & Maks, and Jennifer & Derek. Both groups performed a team cha-cha-cha for their first dance. Each couple then individually performed a dance for which they received a second score. Also, guest judge Emmitt Smith
Emmitt Smith
Emmitt James Smith, III is a retired American football player who was a running back in the National Football League for fifteen seasons during the 1990s and 2000s. Smith played college football for the University of Florida, where he was an All-American; thereafter, he played professionally for...

, Gilles Marini
Gilles Marini
Gilles Marini is a French actor. He is known for having appeared in Sex and the City: The Movie and in the American TV show Brothers & Sisters as Luc Laurent.-Life and career:...

, Kelly Osbourne
Kelly Osbourne
Kelly Michelle Lee Osbourne is an English media personality, television personality, host, judge, fashion designer, singer, and actress, best known for being the daughter of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne...

, Drew Lachey
Drew Lachey
Andrew John "Drew" Lachey is an American singer and actor, known as a member of 98 Degrees, the winner of the second season of Dancing with the Stars, and the younger brother of Nick Lachey.-Early years:...

, Helio Castroneves
Hélio Castroneves
Hélio Castroneves is a Brazilian auto racing driver currently competing in the North American IndyCar Series. In IndyCar competition, Castroneves has 14 wins and 28 poles, and has never placed lower than sixth in the standings in a complete season of racing...

and Mel B all provided a fourth score for the individual dances.
Week Eight: Having already known which specific dance they were assigned, each couple was only provided the musical selection for their second dance after performing their first dance, reducing the rehearsal time available to choreograph to only 30 minutes.
Week Nine: Each team performed two dances, one Latin and one Ballroom. In their Latin dance, the celebrity was required to perform a solo.
Week Ten: In the final week, the three remaining couples performed four dances each over two nights.

Dance chart

Week	Jennifer & Derek	Kyle & Lacey	Bristol & Mark	Brandy & Maks	Kurt & Anna	Rick & Cheryl	Audrina & Tony	Florence & Corky	The Situation & Karina	Margaret & Louis	Michael & Chelsie	David & Kym
1	Viennese Waltz	Cha-Cha-Cha	Cha-Cha-Cha	Viennese Waltz	Viennese Waltz	Viennese Waltz	Cha-Cha-Cha	Cha-Cha-Cha	Cha-Cha-Cha	Viennese Waltz	Viennese Waltz	Cha-Cha-Cha
2	Jive	Quickstep	Quickstep	Jive	Jive	Jive	Quickstep	Quickstep	Quickstep	Jive	Jive
3	Samba	Waltz	Foxtrot	Samba	Foxtrot	Samba	Waltz	Waltz	Foxtrot	Samba
4	Argentine Tango	Rumba	Rumba	Rumba	Rumba	Argentine Tango	Argentine Tango	Rumba	Argentine Tango
5	Foxtrot	Foxtrot	Jive	Quickstep	Quickstep	Rumba	Rumba	Tango
6	Paso Doble	Tango	Tango	Tango	Paso Doble	Tango	Paso Doble
6	Rock n' Roll	Rock n' Roll	Rock n' Roll	Rock n' Roll	Rock n' Roll	Rock n' Roll	Rock n' Roll
7	Team Cha-Cha-Cha	Team Cha-Cha-Cha	Team Cha-Cha-Cha	Team Cha-Cha-Cha	Team Cha-Cha-Cha	Team Cha-Cha-Cha
7	Tango	Paso Doble	Viennese Waltz	Foxtrot	Tango	Quickstep
8	Quickstep	Viennese Waltz	Argentine Tango	Waltz	Waltz
8	Rumba	Jive	Samba	Cha-Cha-Cha	Cha-Cha-Cha
9	Cha-Cha-Cha	Samba	Paso Doble	Paso Doble
9	Waltz	Argentine Tango	Waltz	Argentine Tango
10	Paso Doble	Foxtrot	Jive
	Freestyle	Freestyle	Freestyle
	Viennese Waltz	Tango	Tango
	Cha-Cha-Cha	Cha-Cha-Cha	Cha-Cha-Cha	Quickstep	Paso Doble	Paso Doble		Samba	Cha-Cha-Cha	Samba		Cha-Cha-Cha

Judges' highest scoring dance

Judges' lowest scoring dance

Dance was not scored

Guest performances on results episodes

In addition to recapping the week's earlier performances by the competitors, each results show features one or more guest musical performers/acts who perform at least one song. During each song, guest dancers perform a choreographed dance.

September 21, 2010
Santana

Santana (band)

Santana is a rock band based around guitarist Carlos Santana and founded in the late 1960s. It first came to public attention after their performing the song "Soul Sacrifice" at the Woodstock Festival in 1969, when their Latin rock provided a contrast to other acts on the bill...

performed "Oye Como Va

Oye Como Va

"Oye Como Va" is a song written by Latin jazz and mambo musician Tito Puente in 1963 and popularized by Santana's rendition of the song in 1970 on their album Abraxas, helping to catapult Santana into stardom with the song reaching #13 on the Billboard Top 100. The song also reached #11 on...

", while Corky Ballas, Cheryl Burke, Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Tony Dovolani, Kym Johnson, and Anna Trebunskaya danced. Daughtry performed "September

September (Daughtry song)

"September" is the third and final single from Daughtry's second album Leave This Town. This song was co-written by Chris Daughtry and Josh Steely. The mid-tempo ballad is inspired by Chris's childhood memories growing up with his brother in a small town in North Carolina."Every time I hear that...

", featuring guest professional dancers. Santana

Santana (band)

performed two duets: one with India.Arie

India.Arie

India.Arie is a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and record producer . She has sold over 3.3 million records in the U.S. and 10 million worldwide. She has won four Grammy Awards from her 21 nominations, including Best R&B Album.-Background:Simpson was born in Denver, Colorado...

("While My Guitar Gently Weeps

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is a song by George Harrison, first recorded by The Beatles in 1968 for their eponymous double album...

") while Karina Smirnoff and Louis Van Amstel danced, and another with Chris Daughtry

Chris Daughtry

Christopher Adam "Chris" Daughtry is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the rock band Daughtry and as the fourth-place finalist on the fifth season of American Idol, from which he was eliminated on May 10, 2006...

("Photograph

Photograph (Def Leppard song)

"Photograph" is a 1983 single by British hard rock band Def Leppard from their album Pyromania. It was written as a tribute to the late actress Marilyn Monroe, as singer Joe Elliott often stated before playing the song live onstage. When released as a single it reached No. 1 on the Billboard Top...

"), featuring Mark Ballas, Chelsie Hightower, Derek Hough, and Lacey Schwimmer dancing.

September 28, 2010
Janelle Monáe

Janelle Monáe

Janelle Monáe is an American R&B/soul musician signed to Bad Boy Records and Atlantic Records.Monáe debuted with a conceptual EP, Metropolis: Suite I ...

performed "Tightrope

Tightrope (Janelle Monáe song)

"Tightrope" is a 2010 song by American singer Janelle Monáe.It is the first official single from The ArchAndroid . The single premiered on February 11 on Pitchfork Media website, earning an immediate 9/10 rating and their coveted "Best New Music" tag with the companion song entitled "Cold War"...

", which featured her own dancers. Seal

Seal (musician)

Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel , known simply as Seal, is a British soul and R&B singer-songwriter, of Nigerian and Brazilian background. Seal has won numerous music awards throughout his career, including three Brit Awards—winning Best British Male in 1992, four Grammy Awards, and an...

performed "Weight of My Mistakes", with Cheryl Burke, Chelsie Hightower, Kym Johnson, and Lacey Schwimmer dancing.

This episode also featured a Macy's Stars of Dance performance choreographed by Rich and Tone.

October 5, 2010
Michael Bolton

Michael Bolton

Michael Bolton is an American singer and songwriter. Bolton originally performed in the hard rock and heavy metal genres from the mid 1970s to the mid 1980s, both on his early solo albums and those recorded as the frontman of the band Blackjack...

performed "Hallelujah" and dancing was performed by Anna Trebunskaya and Jonathan Roberts

Jonathan Roberts (dancer)

Jonathan Roberts is an American professional ballroom dancer. He decided to take up dancing after he received a free trial at a local dance studio and enjoyed it...

. Ne-Yo

Ne-Yo

Shaffer Chimere Smith, Jr. , better known by his stage name Ne-Yo, is an American pop and R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer and actor. Beginning his career as a songwriter, Ne-Yo penned the hit "Let Me Love You" for singer Mario...

performed "One in a Million

One in a Million (Ne-Yo song)

"One in a Million" is third single from singer/song-writer Ne-Yo's fourth studio album Libra Scale. In the UK, the song was released as the second single from the album. "One in a Million" was written by Ne-Yo and Chuck Harmony and produced by Harmony...

" featuring his own dancers, and Mark Ballas and Valentin Chmerkovskiy

Valentin Chmerkovskiy

Valentin Aleksandrovich Chmerkovskiy is a professional dancer, best known for his appearances in the American version of Dancing with the Stars...

both sang and danced to "Toxic", and were accompanied by Lacey Schwimmer as a dancer.

October 12, 2010
The Goo Goo Dolls

Goo Goo Dolls

The Goo Goo Dolls are a Grammy-nominated American rock band formed in 1986 in Buffalo, New York, by vocalist and guitarist John Rzeznik and vocalist and bass guitarist Robby Takac. Since the end of 1994, Mike Malinin has been the band's drummer, a position previously held by George Tutuska...

sang two songs: "Iris" and "Not Broken

Something for the Rest of Us

Something for the Rest of Us has received mixed to favourable reviews. Collating 8 reviews, the review aggregator website Metacritic gave the album an average score of 59%, which indicated a "mixed or average" response....

", while Chantel Aguirre, Dmitry Chaplin

Dmitry Chaplin

Dmitry Chaplin is an Russian dancer and an Emmy Nominated choreographer, best known for being a Top 10 finalist on the TV show So You Think You Can Dance . He was famous for constantly performing shirtless, with one solo routine having him rip off his shirt.-Biography:Chaplin was born in...

, Jason Glover, and Chelsie Hightower danced.

Florence and the Machine

Florence and the Machine

Florence and the Machine is the recording name of English musician Florence Welch and a collaboration of other artists who provide music for her voice. Florence and the Machine's sound has been described as a combination of various genres, including rock and soul...

performed "Dog Days Are Over

Dog Days Are Over

"Dog Days Are Over" is the second single released by Florence and the Machine from their debut album Lungs. It was originally scheduled for release on November 24, 2008 through Moshi Moshi Records in the UK but was later pushed back for release on December 1, 2008...

" and featured their own dancers in a choreographed number.

This episode also featured the Macy's Stars of Dance performing a number from Forever Tango, the longest running tango show in Broadway history.

October 19, 2010
Jason Derülo

Jason Derulo

Jason Joel Desrouleaux , better known by his stage name Jason Derülo, is an American singer-songwriter, actor and dancer. After producing records for several artists and writing songs for Cash Money Records, co-founder of the label Birdman, Young Money Entertainment owner Lil Wayne and rapper...

sang "In My Head

In My Head (Jason Derülo song)

"In My Head" is a song performed by American R&B singer Jason Derülo as the second single released from his self-titled debut album, Jason Derülo. It was first released via digital download on December 9, 2009. It topped the charts in Australia and the United Kingdom, and reached the top ten in...

" and "Georgia on My Mind

Georgia on My Mind

"Georgia on My Mind" is a song written in 1930 by Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell . It is the official state song of the U.S. state of Georgia. Gorrell wrote the lyrics for Hoagy's sister, Georgia Carmichael. However, the lyrics of the song are ambiguous enough to refer either to the state or...

".
The Mwano family performed "Beggin'

Beggin'

"Beggin" is the title of a song composed by Bob Gaudio and Peggy Farina and popularized by The Four Seasons in 1967. In 2007, the song received new popularity when it was remixed by the French DJ Pilooski and then covered by the Norwegian hip-hop band Madcon...

", featuring the Mwano brothers, Chelsie Hightower, Kym Johnson, Lacey Schwimmer, Karina Smirnoff, and Anna Trebunskaya dancing.

Shakira

Shakira

Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll , known professionally as Shakira , is a Colombian singer who emerged in the music scene of Colombia and Latin America in the early 1990s...

featured her own dancers while she sang her hit song "Loca

Loca (Shakira song)

"Loca" is a song by Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira. It was released as the lead single from her third bilingual and seventh studio album Sale el Sol. Two versions of the song were recorded, one in English, that features vocals from British rapper Dizzee Rascal, and one in Spanish that...

".

October 26, 2010
Heart

Heart (band)

Heart is an American rock band who first found success in Canada. Throughout several lineup changes, the only two members remaining constant are sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson. The group rose to fame in the 1970s with their music being influenced by hard rock as well as folk music...

sang "Barracuda

Barracuda (song)

"Barracuda" is a song written and recorded by the rock band Heart. It was released as the first single from the band's second album Little Queen .-Reception:...

". Chelsie Hightower, Derek Hough, Peta Murgatroyd, Karina Smirnoff, Louis Van Amstel, and Damian Whitewood

Damian Whitewood

Damian Whitewood is an Australian dancer and former dancesport competitor.-Biography:Damian Whitewood grew up in Perth, Australia. He started dancing at the age of ten and has been Australian Champion, WA State Champion and Australasian Champion in Ballroom and Latin American styles...

danced to the number.

Kylie Minogue

Kylie Minogue

Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE - often known simply as Kylie - is an Australian singer, recording artist, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing...

sang "Get Outta My Way

Get Outta My Way

"Get Outta My Way" is a song by Australian recording artist Kylie Minogue from her eleventh studio album, Aphrodite. It was released as the second single internationally on 27 September 2010. The song has received generally favorable reviews from music critics, many praising it as the second single...

" and featured her own dancers.

Macy's Stars of Dance presented a performance from the School of Rock band choreographed by Travis Wall

Travis Wall

Travis Michael Wall , an American dancer and dance instructor specializing in contemporary dance and jazz dance. He is best known for his 2006 appearance as a competitor on the second season of the television show So You Think You Can Dance, which airs on the Fox Network. As of 2009, he is...

.

November 2, 2010
Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift

Taylor Alison Swift is an American country pop singer-songwriter, musician and actress.In 2006, she released her debut single "Tim McGraw", then her self-titled debut album, which was subsequently certified multi-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America...

sang |"Mine

Mine (song)

"Mine" is a country pop song performed by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. The song was written by Swift alone and produced by Swift along with Nathan Chapman. It was released as the lead single from Swift's third studio album, Speak Now by Big Machine Records...

" and "White Horse

White Horse (song)

"White Horse" is a country music song performed by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. The song was written by Swift and Liz Rose and produced by Nathan Chapman, with Swift's aid. The song was released on December 8, 2008 by Big Machine Records, as the second single from Swift's second studio...

". |Dmitry Chaplin

Dmitry Chaplin

, Tony Dovolani, Chelsie Hightower, and Lacey Schwimmer danced during Swift's first number.

Rod Stewart

Rod Stewart

Roderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE is a British singer-songwriter and musician, born and raised in North London, England and currently residing in Epping. He is of Scottish and English ancestry....

sang "I Get a Kick out of You

I Get a Kick Out of You

"I Get a Kick Out of You" is a song by Cole Porter, originally featured in the Broadway musical Anything Goes and the movie of the same name....

" while Peta Murgatroyd and Damian Whitewood

Damian Whitewood

danced.

Macy's Stars of Dance presented the cast of Mary Poppins
Mary Poppins (musical)
Mary Poppins is a Walt Disney Theatrical musical based on the similarly titled series of children's books by P. L. Travers and the Disney 1964 film. The West End production opened in December 2004 and received two Olivier Awards, one for Best Actress in a Musical and the other for Best Theatre...

, who performed "Step In Time".

November 9, 2010
Taio Cruz

Taio Cruz

Taio Cruz is a British singer-songwriter, record producer, occasional rapper, and entrepreneur. In 2008, he released his debut album Departure, which Cruz wrote, arranged and produced himself. It achieved initial success in the UK and earned him a MOBO Award nomination...

sang |"Dynamite

Dynamite (Taio Cruz song)

"Dynamite" is the fourth single from English recording artist Taio Cruz's second album Rokstarr. It was written by Cruz, Max Martin, Bonnie McKee, and Dr. Luke, and produced by Dr. Luke and Benny Blanco for the international version of Rokstarr. In the UK, the song was released as the first single...

" while Dmitry Chaplin

Dmitry Chaplin

, Tony Dovolani, Chelsie Hightower, Kym Johnson, Peta Murgatroyd and Louis Van Amstel danced. John Legend

John Legend

John Roger Stephens , better known by his stage name John Legend, is an American singer, musician, and actor. He is the recipient of nine Grammy Awards, and in 2007, he received the special Starlight award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame.Prior to the release of his debut album, Stephens' career...

and the Roots

The Roots

The Roots is an American hip hop/neo soul band formed in 1987 by Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter and Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are famed for beginning with a jazzy, eclectic approach to hip hop which still includes live instrumentals...

performed two numbers: |"Wake Up Everybody

Wake Up Everybody

-Personnel:*Harold Melvin, Teddy Pendergrass, Bernard Wilson, Lawrence Brown, Jerry Cummings – vocals*Sharon Paige – female vocalist on "You Know How to Make Me Feel So Good" and "I'm Searching for a Love"*MFSB – music-Charts:Album...

" and "Ordinary People

Ordinary People (song)

"Ordinary People" is the second single from John Legend's album Get Lifted. The single has been certified gold by the RIAA. Critics were positive towards the song, praising it for its raw emotion and simplicity. The track also ended up being featured on the compilation album Now That's What I...

". The first featured |Cheryl Burke, Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Tony Dovolani, and Chelsie Hightower dancing, and the second showcased Mark Ballas and Jeanine Mason

Jeanine Mason

Jeanine Marie Mason is an American dancer specializing in contemporary dance. She is best known for her 2009 appearance as the winner of the fifth season of the television show So You Think You Can Dance - which airs on the Fox Network - becoming the youngest person to win the competition...

.

Emily Bear

Emily Bear

Emily Bear is a pianist and composer from Rockford, Illinois.When Bear was 2 years old, her grandmother recognized her talent at the piano. She began to study with Emilio del Rosario at the Music Institute of Chicago. Within 4 years she was enrolled for study of classical music at the Winnetka...

sang "Tutti Frutti

Tutti Frutti (song)

"Tutti Frutti" is a 1955 song by Little Richard, which became his first hit record. With its opening cry of "A-wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-lop-bop-bop!" and its hard-driving sound and wild lyrics, it became not only a model for many future Little Richard songs, but also one of the...

" and was accompanied by Tyler Goldman, Sophia Latessa, Eric Linder, and Rickie Taylor.

November 16, 2010
Annie Lennox

Annie Lennox

Annie Lennox, OBE , born Ann Lennox, is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving minor success in the late 1970s with The Tourists, with fellow musician David A...

performed "Universal Child" with Brandon Bryant and Britt Stewart dancing, and also sang "Little Bird

Little Bird (Annie Lennox song)

"Little Bird" is a song by the Scottish singer Annie Lennox, and was released as a single in 1993. Taken from her debut solo album, Diva , it was released as a double A-side with "Love Song for a Vampire"...

", showcasing Jaimie Goodwin, Jillian Meyers, Taja Riley and Ellenore Scott in a dance performance.

Enrique Iglesias

Enrique Iglesias

Enrique Iglesias is a Spanish pop music singer, a son of singer Julio Iglesias.Enrique started his musical career on Mexican label Fonovisa...

performed "I Like It

I Like It (Enrique Iglesias song)

"I Like It" is a song performed by Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias taken from his first bilingual studio album, Euphoria. It was produced by RedOne and interpolates Lionel Richie's 1983 "All Night Long " as well as featuring American rapper Pitbull and was released on May 3, 2010. The song was also...

", which featured Cheryl Burke, Dmitry Chaplin

Dmitry Chaplin

, Kym Johnson, Peta Murgatroyd, Louis Van Amstel, and Damian Whitewood

Damian Whitewood

dancing.

Cheryl Burke and Derek Hough designed a dance for this episode in which viewers submitted votes in the weeks beforehand. Viewers submitted requests for the style of dance (Cha-Cha-Cha

Cha-cha-cha (dance)

The Cha-cha-cha is the name of a dance of Cuban origin.It is danced to the music of the same name introduced by Cuban composer and violinist Enrique Jorrín in 1953...

), song (Billy Joel

Billy Joel

William Martin "Billy" Joel is an American musician and pianist, singer-songwriter, and classical composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man", in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling solo artist in the United States, according to...

's "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me

It's Still Rock and Roll to Me

"It's Still Rock & Roll to Me" is a hit 1980 song performed by Billy Joel, from the hit album Glass Houses. The song was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts for two weeks, from July 19 through August 1, 1980...

"), and professionals to perform the dance (Cheryl Burke and Derek Hough). Also, Dancing with the Stars held an online contest in which viewers could submit concepts (costumes, story, etc.) for the dance and were eligible to win a free trip to the show. The viewers then voted on the finalists. Abby Stonewall Kapp from Charlotte, North Carolina, won with her idea of a '50s themed dance.

November 23, 2010
Christina Aguilera

Christina Aguilera

Christina María Aguilera is an American recording artist and actress. Aguilera first appeared on national television in 1990 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel's television series The Mickey Mouse Club from 1993–1994...

performed two songs: "Show Me How You Burlesque" (featuring the Burlesque
Burlesque (film)
Burlesque is a 2010 musical film directed and written by Steven Antin and starring Christina Aguilera and Cher. The film was released on November 24, 2010 in North America....

dancers), and "Beautiful

Beautiful (Christina Aguilera song)

"Beautiful" is a song written by Linda Perry and recorded by American singer Christina Aguilera for Aguilera's fourth studio album, Stripped...

" (featuring her own dancers).

Ratings

Week 1 Performance Show: 21 million viewers
Week 1 Results Show: 19 million viewers
Week 2 Performance Show: 22 million viewers
Week 2 Results Show: 17 million viewers
Week 3 Performance Show: 19.51 million viewers
Week 3 Results Show: 16.41 million viewers
Week 4 Performance Show: 19.8 million viewers
Week 4 Results show 15.7 million viewers
Week 5 performance show 20.4 million viewers
Week 5 results show 17.2 million viewers
Week 6 performance show 19.7 million viewers
Week 6 results show 14.6 million viewers
Week 7 performance show 19.9 million viewers
Week 7 results show 16.9 million viewers
Week 8 performance show 20 million viewers
Week 8 results show 17 million viewers
Week 9 performance show 20.67 million viewers
Week 9 results show 17.43 million viewers
Week 10 finals day 1 23.7 million viewers
Week 10 finals day 2 24.19 million viewers

External links

Official website of U.S Dancing with the Stars

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