33. THE A TEAM ED SHEERAN 1,234,000

 

 

Right back to the beginning for Sheeran here with his debut track about drugs and prostitution. Written after he did a performance for a Homeless charity the title is a reference to class A drugs which Sheeran wanted to put a more “subtle” angle on, it was for a while his biggest seller…..

 

Fun just seemed to vanish away after 'Some Nights'.

Unfortunately their lead singer went on to be a significant part of one of the worst songs to ever have existed the following year. If anything, fun. or Nate not having another hit since is still not enough karma to make up for that atrocity.

Ghost and The A Team are both masterpieces, and Price Tag is great aswell.

32. ROAR KATY PERRY 1,239,000

 

 

After helping to pen “Price Tag” Dr Luke also had a hand in Perry’s 4th UK chart topper “Roar”. “Teenage Dream” had been such an overwhelming success for her that much was expected from the next campaign and sure enough this track got her off to an excellent start, shame that it under performed by producing just 2 top 20 singles. This single was previewed by three trailers on youtube which included her ceremoniously burning emblems of her previous album campaign.

 

31. HELLO ADELE 1,252,000

 

 

Launched with a 30 second trailer in a commercial break during “X Factor” this sent social media into a whirl and the song was delivered just 5 days later taking 332k sales in its first week and taking 8 weeks to sell a million. As a first new single in over 4 years it was bound to make a splash but few predicted the scale.

 

30. PARTY ROCK ANTHEM LMFAO FT GOONROCK & LAUREN BENNETT 1,273,000

 

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Welcome to the top 30, now get shuffling. With a video parodying the film “28 Days Later” and using an interpolation of the Rick Ross single “Hustlin”, it topped the charts for a month on its way to a million sales. It was the second chart topper for them after David Guetta used a sample and gave them credit on “Getting Over You”.

 

Thread will resume on Sunday folks!

29. BUDAPEST GEORGE EZRA 1,276,000

 

 

Essentially Ezra was supposed to be travelling to Budapest to perform but never made it due to a hangover so wrote this love song and titled it after the city. Appearing as a free track on his EP “Did You Hear The Rain” before it took off in Europe causing his UK label to push it as a single which eventually broke him in the UK peaking at No 3 with parent album “Wanted On Voyage” similarly becoming a million seller.

 

28. LOVE THE WAY YOU LIE EMINEM FT RIHANNA 1,277,000

 

 

A collaboration between Alex Da Kid and Skylar Gray, she penned the chorus about her relationship with the music industry before getting the track pitched to Eminem who wrote the chorus changing it thematically into a tale of domestic abuse. He wanted Rihanna to sing the chorus which naturally led critics to say that it was really about their high profile previous relationships. Either way it was the best seller of 2010 despite never reaching No 1, a feat never before achieved, helped with a promo featuring Hollywood stars Dominic Monaghan and Megan Fox.

 

27. POMPEII BASTILLE 1,278,000

 

 

Not many songs have been penned about the fall of Pompeii so i’m pleased that it gives some variety to the countdown. Their first top 20 hit it entered the charts at No 2 behind Justin Timberlake’s “Mirrors” but that has yet to cross the 900k mark illustrating just who won the war.

 

Bizarre to see Pompeii above Love the Way You Lie.

 

 

26. GANGNAM STYLE PSY 1,284,000

 

 

If someone needed a physical demonstration of what “going viral” or “internet sensation” meant then you could do worse than point them to this track. Singlehandedly opening the UK market to K-Pop and creating a phenomenon of its own PSY created one of the big hits of 2012 stealing a week at the top. It became the first promo to log 1 billion views on youtube, yet subsequent releases have yielded lesser rewards.

 

25. HALLELUJAH ALEXANDER BURKE 1,293,000

 

 

The only X Factor coronation single to become the best seller of a year, Burke’s version of “Hallelujah” sold an impressive 576,000 in its first week, and well over 900,000 by the time 2008 came to an end. In protest at the cover a campaign was launched to get another cover of the Leonard Cohen track to No 1 by Jeff Buckley, that ended as the festive No 2 spot behind Burke with the Cohen original at a lowly No 36.

 

24.IMPOSSIBLE JAMES ARTHUR 1,297,000

 

 

And whilst we’re on the subject of coronation singles from X Factor winners here’s the daddy of them all (just), James Arthur’s victory in 2012 saw him move 489k in week one and in just 5 weeks he crossed the million mark. Naturally it’s a cover, this time of a 2010 Shontelle No 9 single which was once earmarked by Cowell as a possible Cher Lloyd single, imagine that!

 

23. JUST THE WAY YOU ARE BRUNO MARS 1,335,000

 

 

The first song in chart history to make number one, drop out of the top 3, then return to the top in one continuous chart run, this was also Mars’ first solo single though he had reached the top earlier in 2010 on B.o.B’s “Nothin On You”. Its return to the top was facilitated by Matt Cardle’s cover on the X Factor that week which spurred 116k purchases the week after.

 

22. TITANIUM DAVID GUETTA FT SIA 1,381,000

 

 

The 54th (approx.) release from Getta’s “Nothing But The Beat” album, this is by far the biggest of them! Guetta’s 5th No 1 in 3 years, he was churning out top 10 singles effortlessly. Sia recorded the demo before Guetta offered it to Katy Perry, Mary J Blige, and Alicia Keys who either turned it down or did demo’s but, in the end, he went back to Sia’s original vocal which he used on the finished product without Sia’s knowledge who was less than impressed apparently.

 

21. COUNTING STARS ONEREPUBLIC 1,386,000

 

 

After their initial two singles went top 5 it’s fair to say that OneRepublic’s UK chart career waned badly though naturally Tedder’s writing skills were still sending acts scurrying up the charts. “Counting Stars” changed all that, never a stellar seller on a weekly basis it managed to overturn a midweek lead by The Vamps to make No 1 outpacing them by a mere 1,150 copies before dropping to No 3 the following week then back to No 1 by a much healthier margin.

 

Recap No's 21-50

 

21. COUNTING STARS ONEREPUBLIC 1,386,000

22. TITANIUM DAVID GUETTA FT SIA 1,381,000

23. JUST THE WAY YOU ARE BRUNO MARS 1,335,000

24. IMPOSSIBLE JAMES ARTHUR 1,297,000

25. HALLELUJAH ALEXANDER BURKE 1,293,000

26. GANGNAM STYLE PSY 1,284,000

27. POMPEII BASTILLE 1,278,000

28. LOVE THE WAY YOU LIE EMINEM FT RIHANNA 1,277,000

29. BUDAPEST GEORGE EZRA 1,276,000

30. PARTY ROCK ANTHEM LMFAO FT GOONROCK & LAUREN BENNETT 1,273,000

 

31. HELLO ADELE 1,252,000

32. ROAR KATY PERRY 1,239,000

33. THE A TEAM ED SHEERAN 1,234,000

34. PRICE TAG JESSIE J FT B.O.B 1,233,000

35. GHOST ELLA HENDERSON 1,221,000

36. LOVE ME LIKE YOU DO ELLIE GOULDING 1,214,000

37. WE ARE YOUNG FUN FT JANELLE MONAE 1,214,000

38. ALL ABOUT THAT BASS MEGHAN TRAINOR 1,212,000

39. LA LA LA NAUGHTY BOY FT SAM SMITH 1,211,000

40. POKER FACE LADY GAGA 1,208,000

 

41. CHASING CARS SNOW PATROL 1,205,000

42. ONLY GIRL IN THE WORLD RIHANNA 1,202,000

43. SEE YOU AGAIN WIZ KHALIFA FT CHARLIE PUTH 1,191,000

44. LEAN ON MAJOR LAZER 1,166,203

45. ROLLING IN THE DEEP ADELE 1,163,000

46. DIAMONDS RIHANNA 1,157,000

47. SORRY JUSTIN BEIBER 1,152,594

48. WHAT DO YOU MEAN JUSTIN BEIBER 1,136,429

49. DON'T YOU WORRY CHILD SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA FT MARTIN 1,126,000

50. USE SOMEBODY KINGS OF LEON 1,114,000

 

:angry: No at James arthur becoming the biggest selling x factor single :cry:

I still adore Alex's version Hallelujah, as reviled as it may be :lol: