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.

Edited August 18Aug 18 by TheSnake

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

Titanium is my Record of the year, a triumphant slice of brilliance, love it. For all the reasons you mention, and over Gotye. I'm Blue is from the streaming era peak so that's prob why it's ahead, it may not be so popular in another decade or two as it is nowhere near being in the same class as that or bangers like the Nicki Minaj collab Turn Me On. Also rate highly Swedish House Mafia, both of these chart-toppers for me. So my top 3 would be mildly shuffled at 1. Titanium 2. Gotye 3. SHM.

Great rundown!

David and Sia, much like Calvin and Florence, were a great team at the time - I really like both 'Titanium' and 'She Wolf (Falling to Pieces)' from them. I don't rate 'Don't You Worry Child' quite as much as others (although I'm another who looooved 'Greyhound' and still do) but it's still good and takes me back to my secondary school experience coming to an end.

Fantastic countdown, RFC! I thoroughly enjoyed reading your commentary for each song.

My own top 10 would look like this:

01 Gotye - Somebody That I Used to Know (feat. Kimbra)

02 Rudimental - Feel the Love (feat. John Newman)

03 Calvin Harris - Sweet Nothing (feat. Florence Welch)

04 Coldplay - Paradise

05 David Guetta - Titanium (feat. Sia)

06 fun. - We Are Young (feat. Janelle Monae)

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

08 DJ Fresh - Hot Right Now (feat. Rita Ora)

09 Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe

10 Swedish House Mafia - Don't You Worry Child (feat. John Martin)

Excellent top 2, I think I share it, and it's very close at the top so could be either way round but both are absolutely stupendous euphoric dance songs that I am very grateful were out when they were, nothing beat being out when those were on. Incredible vocals and instrumentals on both, I think the context surrounding 'Don't You Worry Child' gives it the edge for me these days but absolutely adore both. Thanks for the rundown RFC, great commentaries throughout and a good reminder of a great year.

my ranking would be roughly like this:

01. Swedish House Mafia feat. John Martin – Don’t You Worry Child

02. David Guetta Feat. Sia - Titanium

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

04. Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe

05. Coldplay - Paradise

06. Psy - Gangnam Style

07. Rihanna - Diamonds

08. Labrinth Featuring Emeli Sande - Beneath Your Beautiful

09. Sam and the Womp – Bom Bom

10. Cover Drive - Twilight

11. fun. feat. Janelle Monae – We Are Young

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

13. Rudimental feat. John Newman – Feel The Love

14. Gabrielle Aplin - The Power Of Love

15. Little Mix - Wings

16. Maroon 5;Wiz Khalifa - Payphone

17. Calvin Harris feat. Florence Welch – Sweet Nothing

18. DJ Fresh feat. Rita Ora – Hot Right Now

19. Flo Rida - Good Feeling

20. Wiley, Djo Feat. Ms. D - Heatwave

21. The Justice Collective – He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother

22. Olly Murs; Flo Rida - Troublemaker

23. Katy Perry - Part Of Me

24. Cheryl Cole - Call My Name

25. Rita Ora;Tinie Tempah - R.I.P.

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

27. Jessie J - Domino

28. Robbie Williams - Candy

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

30. One Direction - Little Things

31. Gary Barlow & The CommonwealthBand - Sing

32. The Script, Will.I.Am - Hall Of Fame

33. Rita Ora - How We Do (Party)

34. James Arthur - Impossible

35. Tulisa - Young

36. Chris Brown - Turn Up the Music

Excellent top 2, both great dance bangers, I too would slightly favour Don’t You Worry Child.

Here’s my full ranking-

1. Feel the Love (feat. John Newman) — Rudimental

2. Call Me Maybe — Carly Rae Jepsen

3. We Are Young (feat. Janelle Monáe) — fun.

4. Beneath Your Beautiful (feat. Emeli Sandé) — Labrinth

5. Somebody That I Used to Know — Gotye

6. Bom Bom  — Sam and the Womp

7. Diamonds — Rihanna

8. Don't You Worry Child (feat. John Martin) — Swedish House Mafia

9. Gangnam Style — PSY

10. Titanium (feat. Sia) — David Guetta

11. Spectrum (Say My Name) [Calvin Harris Remix] — Florence + the Machine

12. The Power of Love — Gabrielle Aplin

13. Paradise — Coldplay

14. Heatwave (feat. Ms D) — Wiley

15. Hot Right Now (feat. Rita Ora) — DJ Fresh

16. Sweet Nothing (feat. Florence Welch) — Calvin Harris

17. Good Feeling — Flo Rida

18. Domino — Jessie J

19. Troublemaker (feat. Flo Rida) — Olly Murs

20. Young — Tulisa

21. Twilight — Cover Drive

22. How We Do (Party) — Rita Ora

23. Hall of Fame (feat. will.i.am) — The Script

24. Wings — Little Mix

25. Little Things — One Direction

26. Call My Name — Cheryl

27. Part of Me — Katy Perry

28. Let Me Love You (Until You Learn to Love Yourself) — Ne-Yo

29. Impossible — James Arthur

30. Candy — Robbie Williams

31. Payphone — Maroon 5

32. This Is Love (feat. Eva Simons) — will.i.am

33. R.I.P. — Rita Ora & Tinie Tempah

34. He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother — Justice Collective

35. Turn Up the Music — Chris Brown

36. Sing (feat. Military Wives) — Gary Barlow & The Commonwealth Band

Fantastic work @RabbitFurCoat, an excellent run down with great commentary, I really enjoyed following along!

Only problem, I’ve now got to try to follow it with 2013! I hope I can be even half as good.

I’m still out of the country atm, so I’ll start when I get settled back home (with decent reliable internet access)

A brilliant top 2, both I hear so much still and sound just as good then.. now. Thanks for running Rabbit, been an enjoyable read throughout.

My ranking would go..

1 Coldplay - Paradise

2 Fun. Ft Janelle Monáe - We Are Young

3 Gotye Ft Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know

4 Swedish House Mafia Ft John Martin - Don't You Worry Child

5 David Guetta Ft Sia - Titanium

6 Little Mix - Wings

7 Labrinth Ft Emeli Sandé - Beneath Your Beautiful

8 Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe

9 Rudimental Ft John Newman - Feel The Love

10 Jessie J - Domino

11 Gabrielle Aplin - The Power of Love

12 Robbie Williams - Candy

13 Olly Murs Ft Flo Rida - Troublemaker

14 Cover Drive - Twilight

15 James Arthur - Impossible

16 Rihanna - Diamonds

17 The Script Ft Wil.i.am - Hall Of Fame

18 Rita Ora - How We Do (Party)

19 Psy - Gangnam Style

20 One Direction - Little Things

21 DJ Fresh Ft Rita Ora - Hot Right Now

22 Cheryl - Call My Name

23 Katy Perry - Part Of Me

24 Calvin Harris Ft Florence Welch - Sweet Nothing

25 Flo Rida - Good Feeling

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

27 Maroon 5 Ft Wiz Khalifa - Payphone

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

29 Rita Ora Ft Tinie Tempah - R.I.P.

30 Tulisa - Young

31 Wil.i.am Ft Eva Simons - Is This Love

32 Gary Barlow & The Commonwealth Band - Sing

33 Florence and The Machine - Spectrum (Calvin Harris Remix)

34 Sam and The Womp - Bom Bom

35 Wiley Ft Ms D - Heatwave

Huge gap

36 Chris Brown - Turn Up The Music

Not really many I don't like but a fair bunch of alright to mid ones bunched up outside the top 20 down to the only truly awful one here in 'Turn Up The Music'.

Titanium is awesome, hit No.1 in my chart in its initial release, and I always hoped it would get a full single push as it felt like it had so much more to give, and that it did. Amazing production, melody, lyrics, vocal from Sia (who I had followed, bought all albums by and loved since loving Destiny in 2001 - wasn't that fussed on Taken For Granted in 2000). Don't You Worry Child is also fantastic - so euphoric, a worthy top two. Thanks for running a great countdown that has been fascinating to read @RabbitFurCoat . Here is my rank:

All-time favourites

1. David Guetta Feat. Sia - Titanium

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

3. Swedish House Mafia Feat. John Martin – Don’t You Worry Child

Great

4. Psy - Gangnam Style

5. Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe

6. Cover Drive - Twilight

7. Sam and the Womp – Bom Bom

8. Labrinth Feat. Emeli Sande - Beneath Your Beautiful

9. Maroon 5 Feat. Wiz Khalifa - Payphone

10. Cheryl - Call My Name

11. fun. Feat. Janelle Monae – We Are Young

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

13. Robbie Williams - Candy

14. Little Mix - Wings

15. Olly Murs Feat. Flo Rida - Troublemaker

16. Coldplay - Paradise

Good

17. The Justice Collective – He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother

18. Rihanna - Diamonds

19. Calvin Harris Feat. Florence Welch – Sweet Nothing

20. Gabrielle Aplin - The Power Of Love

21. One Direction - Little Things

22. The Script, Will.I.Am - Hall Of Fame

23. Jessie J - Domino

24. Rudimental Feat. John Newman - Feel The Love

25. DJ Fresh Feat. Rita Ora – Hot Right Now

Ok

26. Katy Perry - Part Of Me

27. Rita Ora - How We Do (Party)

28. Tulisa - Young

29. Rita Ora Feat. Tinie Tempah - R.I.P.

30. Flo Rida - Good Feeling

31. Wiley & Djo Feat. Ms. D - Heatwave

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

33. Gary Barlow & The Commonwealth Band - Sing

34. James Arthur - Impossible

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

Awful

36. Chris Brown - Turn Up the Music

Solid year for No.1s, I think 20 of these made my top 100 of the year.

Edited August 20Aug 20 by gooddelta