Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 2012
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Gotye's single, "Somebody That I Used to Know", came in at number one, spending a total of 8 weeks at number one throughout the year.
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Singer Carly Rae Jepsen, whose single "Call Me Maybe" appeared at number 2, is the highest-ranking female artist on the list.
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Singer Ellie Goulding, whose single "Lights" appeared at number 5, is the highest-ranking British artist on the list.
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Barbadian singer Rihanna's "We Found Love" came in at number 69 in 2011 and rose to position 8 this year. She had a total of six songs included on the list, with her as a lead artist on 5 songs. Four of which were from her sixth album Talk That Talk, and one was from her seventh album Unapologetic.
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All of rapper Flo Rida's singles off of Wild Ones are within the top 20, except "I Cry", which was not on the Year-End chart but peaked at #6, and would then proceed to be on 2013's Year-End chart, and "Let It Roll", which did not chart on the Hot 100 at all.
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American rapper and singer Wiz Khalifa's feature on Maroon 5's single, "Payphone" came in at number 4. His singles, Young, Wild & Free with Snoop Dogg and Bruno Mars and Work Hard, Play Hard made it at 32 and 73 respectively. His feature on T-Pain's single, 5 O'Clock at 86.
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Chris Brown has four singles on the Hot 100 with two coming from his album, "Fortune" and they include being featured on "International Love" by Pitbull at 47, "Don't Wake Me Up" at 56, "Birthday Cake (remix)" with Rihanna at 79 and, "Turn Up the Music" at 84.
Billboard publishes annual lists of songs based on chart performance over the course of a year based on Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems and SoundScan information. For 2012, the list for the top 100 Billboard Hot 100 Year-End songs was published on December 14, calculated with data from December 3, 2011 to November 24, 2012.[1] At the number-one position was Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know" featuring Kimbra, which stayed atop the Hot 100 for eight consecutive weeks.
See also
- 2012 in American music
- List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 2012
- List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2012
References
- ^ "The Best of 2012: The Year In Music". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2012. Retrieved December 8, 2012.
- ^ "Hot 100 Songs Music Chart". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2012. Retrieved December 8, 2012.