Big guns of music for 2013
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Robin Thicke’s ‘Blurred Lines’, Daft Punk’s ‘Get Lucky’, Avicii’s ‘Wake Me Up’ and Passenger’s ‘Let Her Go’ dominate the 2013’s year-end singles Top 40
According to the British Official Charts Company’s year-end sales data, published today by British recorded music trade body The BPI, 2013 was the year of the Million Sellers. Four singles released during the last twelve months have crossed over this landmark sales threshold, creating the biggest annual haul of million-selling singles since 1998.
Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines ft. TI and Pharrell Williams was the biggest selling single of 2013, clocking up sales of more than 1.47 million copies since it debuted at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart back in June. It spent five non-consecutive weeks at the top spot, and is also the longest running Number 1 of 2013.
Daft Punk’s Get Lucky, which became the first single released in 2013 to reach a million sales and the French dance duo’s first ever UK chart topper, is at Number 2 in the year-end Top 40. Get Lucky, which also features Pharrell Williams alongside legendary Chic guitarist Nile Rodgers, reached one million sales on its 69th day of release in the UK. It ends the year with a sales tally of more than 1.3 million copies.
Apart from that Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry, Justin Timberlake, Eminem, Bruno Mars, Florida Georgia Line, Drake, Jay-Z, Robin Thicke, Lorde, Lady Gaga, Luke Bryan, Capital Cities, Zedd