diff --git a/framework/CHANGELOG.md b/framework/CHANGELOG.md
index 3af92e6f0e..4d176fe753 100644
--- a/framework/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/framework/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Yii Framework 2 Change Log
 - Bug #9305: Fixed MSSQL `Schema::TYPE_TIMESTAMP` to be 'datetime' instead of 'timestamp', which is just an incremental number (nkovacs)
 - Bug #9616: Fixed mysql\Schema::loadColumnSchema to set enumValues attribute correctly if enum definition contains commas (fphammerle)
 - Bug #9796: Initialization of not existing `yii\grid\ActionColumn` default buttons (arogachev)
+- Bug #11122: Fixed can not use `orderBy` with aggregate functions like `count` (Ni-san)
 - Bug #11771: Fixed semantics of `yii\di\ServiceLocator::__isset()` to match the behavior of `__get()` which fixes inconsistent behavior on newer PHP versions (cebe)
 - Bug #12213: Fixed `yii\db\ActiveRecord::unlinkAll()` to respect `onCondition()` of the relational query (silverfire)
 - Bug #12681: Changed `data` column type from `text` to `blob` to handle null-byte (`\0`) in serialized RBAC rule properly (silverfire)
diff --git a/framework/db/Query.php b/framework/db/Query.php
index 5b4e249972..2b1fa47cc7 100644
--- a/framework/db/Query.php
+++ b/framework/db/Query.php
@@ -421,7 +421,13 @@ class Query extends Component implements QueryInterface
         $this->limit = $limit;
         $this->offset = $offset;
 
-        if (empty($this->groupBy) && empty($this->having) && empty($this->union) && !$this->distinct) {
+        if (
+            !$this->distinct
+            && empty($this->groupBy)
+            && empty($this->having)
+            && empty($this->union)
+            && empty($this->orderBy)
+        ) {
             return $command->queryScalar();
         } else {
             return (new Query)->select([$selectExpression])
diff --git a/tests/framework/db/QueryTest.php b/tests/framework/db/QueryTest.php
index 95ce860506..84538a5201 100644
--- a/tests/framework/db/QueryTest.php
+++ b/tests/framework/db/QueryTest.php
@@ -319,6 +319,10 @@ abstract class QueryTest extends DatabaseTestCase
 
         $count = (new Query)->select('[[status]], COUNT([[id]])')->from('customer')->groupBy('status')->count('*', $db);
         $this->assertEquals(2, $count);
+
+        // testing that orderBy() should be ignored here as it does not affect the count anyway.
+        $count = (new Query)->from('customer')->orderBy('status')->count('*', $db);
+        $this->assertEquals(3, $count);
     }
 
     /**