Many people like myself now use streaming services to listen to music, so I think this is relevant to the chart forum. The OCC actually revealed this last week but it's passed me by until now.

 

The most listened to tracks of 2012:

 

1 SOMEBODY THAT I USED TO KNOW GOTYE FT KIMBRA 1

2 CALL ME MAYBE CARLY RAE JEPSEN 2

3 TITANIUM DAVID GUETTA FT SIA 4

4 WE ARE YOUNG FUN. FT JANELLE MONAE 3

5 STARSHIPS NICKI MINAJ 7

6 WE FOUND LOVE RIHANNA FT CALVIN HARRIS 56

7 TOO CLOSE ALEX CLARE 18

8 WILD ONES FLO RIDA FT SIA 10

9 DRIVE BY TRAIN 23

10 DOMINO JESSIE J 8

11 DRUNK ED SHEERAN 71

12 PAYPHONE MAROON 5 FT WIZ KHALIFA 9

13 LEGO HOUSE ED SHEERAN 82

14 THE A TEAM ED SHEERAN 118

15 LEVELS AVICII 59

16 VIDEO GAMES LANA DEL REY 87

17 N****S IN PARIS JAY-Z & KANYE WEST 31

18 WHISTLE FLO RIDA 15

19 FEEL THE LOVE RUDIMENTAL FT JOHN NEWMAN 16

20 PARADISE COLDPLAY 45

21 EARTHQUAKE LABRINTH FT TINIE TEMPAH 52

22 PRINCESS OF CHINA COLDPLAY & RIHANNA 25

23 TAKE CARE DRAKE FT RIHANNA 67

24 GANGNAM STYLE PSY 6

25 BORN TO DIE LANA DEL REY 95

26 SPECTRUM FLORENCE & THE MACHINE 19

27 WE ARE NEVER EVER GETTING BACK TOGETHER TAYLOR SWIFT 26

28 TURN ME ON DAVID GUETTA FT NICKI MINAJ 35

29 BANGARANG SKRILLEX FT SIRAH 73

30 HALL OF FAME THE SCRIPT FT WILL I AM 21

31 WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN RIHANNA 32

32 NEXT TO ME EMELI SANDE 14

33 MAMA DO THE HUMP RIZZLE KICKS 17

34 GOOD FEELING FLO RIDA 47

35 DIAMONDS RIHANNA 11

36 DON'T YOU WORRY CHILD SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA/MARTIN 13

37 MOVES LIKE JAGGER MAROON 5 FT CHRISTINA AGUILERA 58

38 MIDNIGHT CITY M83 163

39 212 AZEALIA BANKS FT LAZY JAY 44

40 SHAKE IT OUT FLORENCE & THE MACHINE 141

 

Any surprises here? For me, it's great to see Midnight City, Bangarang and Levels a lot higher than they were in the sales chart :wub:

Top 5 is actually similar to what the YTDs in the singles has looked like in 2012! :P

Tracks from the towards the end of 2012 won't have benefitted well here because the number of plays would've had to have been extraordinary to catch up with tracks that everyone was listening to back in March/April 2012.

 

So I wouldn't be surprised to see tracks like 'Diamonds', 'Beneath Your Beautiful', 'Troublemaker' and 'Impossible' feature inside the Top 40 streamed tracks of 2013. Even 'Gangnam Style' might even be higher in the 2013 chart.