I suppose if you're looking at it from this point last year, the concept of Robin Thicke, T.I & Pharrell having the biggest hit of the year seems a bit hard to believe considering none of them were exactly massive artists at the time (though it obvs wasn't surprising at all at the time of release etc.)

 

I think of it this way, on 31st Deceomber 2012, I would have never imagined Robin Thicke, Pharrell, T.I., Daft Punk, Naughty Boy, Sam Smith, OneRepublic or Justin Timberlake to be in the year-end top 10 of 2013! Also I would have never expected Aloe Blacc and Timbaland to be involved with such songs either. Avicii was kind of surprising as well, but not as much as the rest, since his music is a lot more chart-friendly, although he probably wouldn't have been able to manage it without changing up his sound a little bit.

Get Up (Rattle).

I can look no further than 'Blurred Lines' - I didn't expect it to even go T10, let alone be the highest selling song of the year! :(

What aboutus isn't surprising, it got a lot of airplay before hand as well as the buss of them taking over America attempt

Any answer to this thread that isn't 'Let's Get Ready To Rhumble' is just wrong.

 

Take a look at that list and pretend you've been in a coma for all of 2013 - which looks least likely to have been #1? Ant & Dec.

I can look no further than 'Blurred Lines' - I didn't expect it to even go T10, let alone be the highest selling song of the year! :(

How?

One Republic Counting stars - given they haven't had anything big for quite a few years and the song seemed to climb the chart for ages!! I thought it would stall at 2...

Im suprised just give me a reason by p!nk ft nate ruess didnt get to number 1 as it was held off by........Pj and duncan

PJ & Duncan considering it seemed like just another lame Facebook campaign. I laughed when I saw a group saying something like "lets get the boys to #1!!!!" like, oh come on now you have NO idea how the charts work. And then I was proved wrong. Shame, I despise the song, but love Pink's 'Just Give Me A Reason'.

 

Other surprises this year for me, although I LOVE all of these except Calvin:

 

Eminem & Rihanna - The Monster

Naughty Boy & Sam Smith - La La La

Ellie Goulding - Burn

Calvin Harris - Under Control

Avicii - I Could Be The One

If we're basing this on relatively shortly before they hit #1 then these would be my picks:

 

Bingo Player featuring Far East Movement - "Get Up"

The Saturdays featuring Sean Paul - "What About Us"

PJ & Duncan - "Let's Get Ready To Rhumble"

Daft Punk featuring Pharrell - "Get Lucky"

Ellie Goulding - "Burn"

OneRepublic - "Counting Stars"

Pharrell Williams - "Happy"

 

Some were lucky with their release week, some just got a lot of sudden exposure and some of those I just had no idea were that popular. But nontheless these number ones surprised me the most.

 

If we're basing this on what would've surprised us to hear at the very start of 2013 then I guess the artists that WOULDN'T have surprised me would be Will.i.am, Macklemore (as the song had already started gaining ground elsewhere at this point), One Direction, Rudimental, Icona Pop, Jason Derulo, Katy Perry, Eminem/Rihanna and Calvin Harris. (Also if someone had simply said 'X Factor Winner' I would not have gasped)

PJ & Duncan considering it seemed like just another lame Facebook campaign. I laughed when I saw a group saying something like "lets get the boys to #1!!!!" like, oh come on now you have NO idea how the charts work. And then I was proved wrong. Shame, I despise the song, but love Pink's 'Just Give Me A Reason'.

 

Other surprises this year for me, although I LOVE all of these except Calvin:

 

Eminem & Rihanna - The Monster

Naughty Boy & Sam Smith - La La La

Ellie Goulding - Burn

Calvin Harris - Under Control

Avicii - I Could Be The One

 

PJ & Duncan weren't #1 because of a Facebook campaign, it was because they performed the track on Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway. The campaigns were just jumping on the bandwagon after it was already shooting up the chart.

This is the 2012 Round, What song from 2012 is your choice.

 

 

A Refresher of the list.

 

Coldplay - "Paradise"

Flo Rida - "Good Feeling"

Jessie J - "Domino"

Cover Drive - "Twilight"

David Guetta featuringSia - "Titanium"

Gotye featuring Kimbra - "Somebody That I Used to Know" dagger

DJ Fresh featuring Rita Ora - "Hot Right Now"

Katy Perry - "Part of Me"

Chris Brown - "Turn Up the Music"

Carly Rae Jepsen - "Call Me Maybe"

Tulisa - "Young"

Rita Ora featuring Tinie Tempah - "R.I.P."

Fun featuring Janelle Monáe - "We Are Young"

Rudimental featuringJohn Newman - "Feel the Love"

Gary Barlow and the Commonwealth Band featuring Military Wives[15] - "Sing"

Cheryl - "Call My Name"

Maroon 5 featuring Wiz Khalifa - "Payphone"

will.i.am featuring Eva Simons - "This Is Love"

Florence and the Machine - "Spectrum (Say My Name)"

Wiley featuring Ms D - "Heatwave"

Rita Ora - "How We Do (Party)"

Sam and the Womp - "Bom Bom"

Little Mix - "Wings"

Ne-Yo - "Let Me Love You (Until You Learn to Love Yourself)"

The Script featuringwill.i.am - "Hall of Fame"

Psy - "Gangnam Style"

Rihanna - "Diamonds"

Swedish House Mafiafeaturing John Martin - "Don't You Worry Child"

Calvin Harris featuringFlorence Welch - "Sweet Nothing"

Labrinth featuring Emeli Sandé - "Beneath Your Beautiful"

Robbie Williams - "Candy"

One Direction - "Little Things"

Olly Murs featuring Flo Rida - "Troublemaker"

Gabrielle Aplin - "The Power of Love"

James Arthur - "Impossible"

The Justice Collective - "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"

 

Edited January 4, 201411 yr by smiffj

Twilight, Spectrum, Beneath Your Beautiful.

Spectrum really is the hands down winner of this.

I didn't think 'Spectrum' would make top 10 let alone go straight to #1.

 

'Feel the Love' was another one that massively outdid my expectations, I thought it would enter around the #7 position but no, it made #1!

 

'Twilight', 'Beneath Your Beautiful', 'Little Things' and 'The Power Of Love' were quite surprising too - and 'Gangnam Style' was surprising in the sense that I'd never have predicted a K-pop song to go to #1, of course it became obvious it would go to #1 when it started to go massively viral.

Chris Brown - Turn Up The Music

Wiley - Heatwave

I thought Spectrum would have been a surprise Top 10 entry due to the Calvin Harris influence behind it.

Spectrum and Beneath Your Beautiful are the main two, and Little Things also. I remember everyone thinking it'd be between Bruno Mars (LOOH) and Little Mix (DNA) for #1 that week, with 1D low top 10, and then they manage to grab the #1 :lol:

I didn't think 'Spectrum' would make top 10 let alone go straight to #1.

 

'Feel the Love' was another one that massively outdid my expectations, I thought it would enter around the #7 position but no, it made #1!

 

'Twilight', 'Beneath Your Beautiful', 'Little Things' and 'The Power Of Love' were quite surprising too - and 'Gangnam Style' was surprising in the sense that I'd never have predicted a K-pop song to go to #1, of course it became obvious it would go to #1 when it started to go massively viral.

 

 

Yep, pretty much sums it up.