Chart Listings: Top 40 Best Selling Singles in UK of 2013
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With less than a month to go before the Official Charts Company compile the end of year charts, and the biggest shopping period of 2013 already underway, we reveal the Official Top 40 Biggest Selling Singles of 2013 as they stand right now!
Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines remains the biggest selling single of 2013 to date, with sales of over 1.44 million copies. The track, which also features US rapper TI and producer Pharrell Williams, spent five non-consecutive weeks at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart following its release in May.
Pharrell, who co-wrote and produced the track, also collaborated with Daft Punk on Get Lucky (alongside Chic guitarist Nile Rodgers) which is Number 2 with sales of 1.28 million copies in the UK. Avicii’s Wake Me Up, which is currently the fastest selling single of 2013, holds firm at Number 3 with sales of over 1.12 million copies, while Passenger, AKA Mike Rosenberg, is at Number 4 with Let Her Go. The track, which is the only single in the Top 5 not to have reached Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart, became the fourth million-seller of2013 earlier this week. The Top 5 is completed by Naughty Boy’s La La La featuring the 2014 BRIT Awards Critics’ Choice nominee Sam Smith. To date, it has sold over 926,000 copies.
The Top 10 remains largely unchained since Quarter 3’s chart was published at the start of October, however Katy Perry’s Number 1 hit Roar is a new entry at Number 8 (with 719,000 sales to date). Roar pushes Justin Timberlake’s Mirrors (705,000 sales) down one place to Number 9 and Rudimental’s Waiting All Night, which features another of the BRIT Awards Critics’ Choice nominees, Ella Eyre, is subsequently down two places to 11 (654,000 sales).
The Official Top 40 Biggest Selling Singles Of 2013 So Far are listed below. However, with the busiest sales period for music already underway – which includes the Official Christmas Number 1 race – this Top 40 could change significantly before we ring in 2013.
1 BLURRED LINES ROBIN THICKE/TI/PHARRELL POLYDOR
2 GET LUCKY DAFT PUNK FT PHARRELL WILLIAMS COLUMBIA LABEL GROUP
3 WAKE ME UP AVICII VIRGIN EMI
4 LET HER GO PASSENGER NETTWERK
5 LA LA LA NAUGHTY BOY FT SAM SMITH VIRGIN EMI
6 THRIFT SHOP MACKLEMORE/RYAN LEWIS/WANZ MACKLEMORE
7 JUST GIVE ME A REASON PINK FT NATE RUESS RCA LABEL GROUP
8 ROAR KATY PERRY VIRGIN EMI
9 MIRRORS JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE RCA LABEL GROUP
10 POMPEII BASTILLE VIRGIN EMI
11 WAITING ALL NIGHT RUDIMENTAL FT ELLA EYRE ATLANTIC RECORDS UK
12 COUNTING STARS ONEREPUBLIC POLYDOR
13 CAN’T HOLD US MACKLEMORE/RYAN LEWIS/DALTON MACKLEMORE
14 LOVE ME AGAIN JOHN NEWMAN ISLAND
15 WHEN I WAS YOUR MAN BRUNO MARS ATLANTIC RECORDS UK
16 I KNEW YOU WERE TROUBLE TAYLOR SWIFT VIRGIN EMI
17 SCREAM & SHOUT WILL I AM FT BRITNEY SPEARS POLYDOR
18 BURN ELLIE GOULDING POLYDOR
19 I LOVE IT ICONA POP FT CHARLI XCX ATLANTIC RECORDS UK
20 DEAR DARLIN’ OLLY MURS EPIC LABEL GROUP
21 HO HEY LUMINEERS DECCA
22 STAY RIHANNA FT MIKKY EKKO VIRGIN EMI
23 ONE WAY OR ANOTHER (TEENAGE KICKS) ONE DIRECTION RCA LABEL GROUP
24 SUMMERTIME SADNESS LANA DEL REY VS CEDRIC GERVAIS POLYDOR
25 I COULD BE THE ONE AVICII VS NICKY ROMERO VIRGIN EMI
26 WE CAN’T STOP MILEY CYRUS RCA LABEL GROUP
27 WHITE NOISE DISCLOSURE FT ALUNAGEORGE ISLAND
28 TALK DIRTY JASON DERULO FT 2 CHAINZ WARNER BROS
29 RADIOACTIVE IMAGINE DRAGONS POLYDOR
30 I NEED YOUR LOVE CALVIN HARRIS/ELLIE GOULDING COLUMBIA LABEL GROUP
31 BANG BANG WILL I AM POLYDOR
32 HOLD ON WE’RE GOING HOME DRAKE FT MAJID JORDAN ISLAND
33 NEED U (100 PERCENT) DUKE DUMONT FT AME MINISTRY OF SOUND
34 PLAY HARD DAVID GUETTA FT NE-YO & AKON PARLOPHONE
35 WHAT ABOUT US SATURDAYS FT SEAN PAUL POLYDOR
36 WILD JESSIE J/BIG SEAN/D RASCAL ISLAND
37 THE OTHER SIDE JASON DERULO WARNER BROS
38 DRINKING FROM THE BOTTLE CALVIN HARRIS FT TINIE TEMPAH COLUMBIA LABEL GROUP
39 IMPOSSIBLE JAMES ARTHUR RCA LABEL GROUP
40 HEY PORSCHE NELLY
