Both songs ace - I like Titanium a bit more, so that this is our common Top 3 hit, while Don't You Worry Child is my #9. 2012 was a very strong year for #1's - so the Top 9 is very close.

My final ranking:

01. Rihanna - Diamonds (18)

02. Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe (7)

03. David Guetta Feat. Sia - Titanium (2)

04. Jessie J - Domino (28)

05. Gotye Feat Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know (6)

06. fun. feat. Janelle Monae – We Are Young (3)

07. Florence + The Machine – Spectrum (Say My Name) (Calvin Harris Remix) (9)

08. Psy - Gangnam Style (12)

09. Swedish House Mafia feat. John Martin – Don’t You Worry Child (1)

10. Sam and the Womp – Bom Bom (13)

11. DJ Fresh feat. Rita Ora – Hot Right Now (11)

12. Flo Rida - Good Feeling (16)

13. Katy Perry - Part Of Me (14)

14. will.i.am; Eva Simons - This Is Love (31)

15. Cheryl Cole - Call My Name (15)

16. Little Mix - Wings (20)

17. Tulisa - Young (29)

18. The Script, Will.I.Am - Hall Of Fame (19)

19. Calvin Harris feat. Florence Welch – Sweet Nothing (8)

20. Cover Drive - Twilight (24)

21. Maroon 5;Wiz Khalifa - Payphone (32)

22. Rita Ora;Tinie Tempah - R.I.P. (30)

23. Rudimental feat. John Newman – Feel The Love (4)

24. The Justice Collective – He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother (23)

25. Rita Ora - How We Do (Party) (26)

26. Labrinth Featuring Emeli Sande - Beneath Your Beautiful (10)

27. Ne-Yo - Let Me Love You (Until You Learn To Love Yourself) (27)

28. Olly Murs; Flo Rida - Troublemaker (17)

29. Gabrielle Aplin - The Power Of Love (21)

30. Wiley, Djo Feat. Ms. D - Heatwave (22)

31. One Direction - Little Things (25)

32. Coldplay - Paradise (5)

33. Chris Brown - Turn Up the Music (34)

34. James Arthur - Impossible (33)

35. Robbie Williams - Candy (36)

36. Gary Barlow & The CommonwealthBand - Sing (35)

Thank you for the great hosting @RabbitFurCoat

Yeah I liked Titanium from its first charting period at #16. Don't You Worry Child is very good too.

I go back to other dance songs like She Wolf (Falling To Pieces) and Reload by them respectively as they weren't so overplayed.

However Titanium and Don't You Worry Child are icons of the EDM boom, thankfully I was into this second euphoric dance phase again at the time after I didn't properly appreciate the first wave in Europe, trance/eurotrance in 1997-2004, because I was just a pop fan back then.

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Don't You Worry Child was a massive favourite for me back in my uni days and I indeed ranked it as my favourite song of the year at the time, the production is typically excellent from them and John Martin's vocals are perfectly suited to the epic and poignant tone (that opened the floodgates to him being used a lot on these type of songs at the time!), especially as at the time it was genuinely their last song, it didn't quite last as an all time favourite, it's a little of it's time and maybe the fact they got back together dampens it's impact, but listening to it now, it still sounds really good and will always take me right back to that time in my life and I'll always be very fond of it.

Titanium also still sounds fantastic, I was really shocked Guetta had something like this in him given the other songs on the album, Sia's a bit cursed these days, but I agree no one could deliver that chorus as well as she does, an all time classic dance song.

We Are Young was the other song I was referring to earlier along with Gotye and Carly with huge hits coming pretty much out of nowhere, it's one I liked more at the time, but it's still a great, anthemic song.

Feel the Love still sounds great, it has that same warm and rousing energy that Don't You Worry Child and has some gorgeous drum'n'bass production. This is definitely their peak for me, I've found them quite hit and miss otherwise.

So yes, very much approve of that top 4! In fact, my top 10 would be near enough unchanged from yours.

1. Coldplay - Paradise

2. Swedish House Mafia feat. John Martin - Don't You Worry Child

3. David Guetta feat. Sia - Titanium

4. Rudimental feat. John Newman - Feel the Love

5. Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe

6. Florence & The Machine - Spectrum (Say My Name)

7. fun. feat. Janelle Monae - We Are Young

8. Gotye feat. Kimbra - Somebody That I Used to Know (bit of a drop off after this!)

9. PSY - Gangnam Style

10. Gabrielle Aplin - The Power of Love

Thanks for this RFC, been a great read and was wonderful to revisit this year, looking forward to 2013 x

Extraordinary how Sia's career took off in 2012 after having a Top 10 hit 12 years earlier and little else since, but she nails the vocals on 'Titanium' with one of Guetta's best productions (my favourites are the two "Chick" songs mentioned). Good choice of topper in SHM though - 'Greyhound' is my favourite by them (I remember hearing it a lot around the Olympics), but their "swansong" here was much about the story and lyrical message as the drops it builds up to.

My own top 10 might be:

1. fun. feat. Janelle Monae - We Are Young

2. Gotye Feat Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know

3. Florence + The Machine - Spectrum (Say My Name) (Calvin Harris Remix)

4. Coldplay - Paradise

5. Rihanna - Diamonds

6. David Guetta feat. Sia - Titanium

7. Swedish House Mafia feat. John Martin - Don’t You Worry Child

8. Rudimental feat. John Newman - Feel The Love

9. PSY - Gangnam Style

10. will.i.am; Eva Simons - This Is Love

Thanks RFC for the countdown, really enjoyed reading your commentaries and detail in the stats!

I think 'Titanium' has to be his career-best, I was obsessed with it when it was first released and over the moon when it got its mammoth success as a proper single - that instrumental drop knocks me for six every time. Overplay across the years has somewhat dimmed the shine of it a bit for me though.

'Don't You Worry Child' took a few months to really hit me, although I was obsessed with 'Greyhound' that year but what a classic it is. For some years I thought the lyric was "Heather's got a plan for you" though and for some reason I didn't even question it