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Stats: Best-Selling Songs: Catalog Sales (US)
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Best-Selling Songs: Catalog Sales (US)
In this thread, I'll list the top 10 best-selling songs in each year (2007-2013) and their catalog sales. You can see how the big hits of each year have held up and if they had longevity, compared to the other big hits of their year
Catalog sales in this thread are calculated as: total sales - year-end sales.
I only did the top 10 year-end of each year as I couldn't find year-end sales data that went beyond the top 10.
Credit to oldbloke @ UKMIX for the receipts (click the link for top 10 best-selling songs in each year listed in order).
2007| Rank | Artist | Title | Sales (Year-End) | Total Sales | Catalog Sales | | 1 | Timbaland feat. OneRepublic | Apologize | 2,370,921 | 5,819,000 | 3,448,079 | | 2 | Kanye West | Stronger | 2,327,981 | 5,108,000 | 2,780,019 | | 3 | Soulja Boy | Crank That | 2,909,263 | 5,080,000 | 2,170,737 | | 4 | Plain White T's | Hey There Delilah | 2,565,954 | 4,585,000 | 2,019,046 | | 5 | Rihanna feat. Jay-Z | Umbrella | 2,358,721 | 4,260,000 | 1,901,279 | | 6 | Fergie | Big Girls Don't Cry | 2,524,542 | 3,934,000 | 1,409,458 | | 7 | Avril Lavigne | Girlfriend | 2,415,159 | 3,621,000 | 1,205,841 | | 8 | Timbaland feat. Keri Hilson & Doe | The Way I Are | 1,943,354 | 3,103,000 | 1,159,646 | | 9 | Fergie feat. Ludacris | Glamorous | 2,168,978 | 3,072,895 | 903,917 | | 10 | Gwen Stefani feat. Akon | Sweet Escape | 2,251,527 | 3,072,443 | 820,916 |
2008| Rank | Artist | Title | Sales (Year-End) | Total Sales | Catalog Sales | | 1 | Jason Mraz | I'm Yours | 2,655,325 | 6,743,000 | 4,087,675 | | 2 | Flo Rida feat. T-Pain | Low | 2,978,556 | 6,959,000 | 3,980,444 | | 3 | Coldplay | Viva La Vida | 2,914,004 | 6,131,000 | 3,216,996 | | 4 | P!nk | So What | 2,590,147 | 4,617,000 | 2,026,853 | | 5 | Rihanna | Disturbia | 2,766,329 | 4,612,000 | 1,845,671 | | 6 | T.I. | Whatever You Like | 2,682,075 | 4,401,000 | 1,718,925 | | 7 | Lil Wayne feat. Static Major | Lollipop | 3,161,234 | 4,699,000 | 1,537,766 | | 8 | Katy Perry | I Kissed A Girl | 2,977,230 | 4,444,000 | 1,466,770 | | 9 | Leona Lewis | Bleeding Love | 3,419,836 | 4,605,000 | 1,185,164 | | 10 | Jordin Sparks & Chris Brown | No Air | 2,611,821 | 3,596,000 | 984,179 |
2009| Rank | Artist | Title | Sales (Year-End) | Total Sales | Catalog Sales | | 1 | Black Eyed Peas | I Gotta Feeling | 4,425,940 | 8,438,000 | 4,012,060 | | 2 | Lady Gaga feat. Colby O'Donis | Just Dance | 3,200,376 | 6,891,000 | 3,690,624 | | 3 | Lady Gaga | Poker Face | 4,381,310 | 7,200,000 | 2,818,690 | | 4 | Miley Cyrus | Party In The U.S.A. | 3,157,419 | 5,416,000 | 2,258,581 | | 5 | Owl City | Fireflies | 2,748,086 | 4,808,000 | 2,059,914 | | 6 | Black Eyed Peas | Boom Boom Pow | 4,762,382 | 6,662,000 | 1,899,618 | | 7 | Flo Rida feat. Ke$ha | Right Round | 4,134,569 | 5,572,000 | 1,437,431 | | 8 | All American Rejects | Gives You Hell | 2,880,000 | 4,316,000 | 1,436,000 | | 9 | Jay Sean feat. Lil Wayne | Down | 3,052,355 | 4,438,000 | 1,385,645 | | 10 | Jason Derulo | Whatcha Say | 2,712,258 | 3,908,000 | 1,195,742 |
2010| Rank | Artist | Title | Sales (Year-End) | Total Sales | Catalog Sales | | 1 | Lady Antebellum | Need You Now | 3,181,553 | 6,227,000 | 3,045,447 | | 2 | Bruno Mars | Just The Way You Are | 3,275,854 | 6,283,000 | 3,007,146 | | 3 | Taio Cruz | Dynamite | 4,082,995 | 6,524,000 | 2,441,005 | | 4 | Train | Hey, Soul Sister | 4,314,449 | 6,417,000 | 2,102,551 | | 5 | Eminem feat. Rihanna | Love The Way You Lie | 4,245,354 | 5,945,000 | 1,699,646 | | 6 | Eminem | Not Afraid | 3,413,584 | 5,011,000 | 1,597,416 | | 7 | Katy Perry feat. Snoop Dogg | California Gurls | 4,398,212 | 5,604,000 | 1,205,788 | | 8 | Usher feat. will.i.am | OMG | 3,762,654 | 4,750,000 | 987,346 | | 9 | B.o.B feat. Hayley Williams | Airplanes | 4,004,148 | 4,733,000 | 728,852 | | 10 | Taio Cruz feat. Ludacris | Break Your Heart | 3,244,533 | 3,807,000 | 562,467 |
2011| Rank | Artist | Title | Sales (Year-End) | Total Sales | Catalog Sales | | 1 | LMFAO feat. Lauren Bennett & GoonRock | Party Rock Anthem | 5,468,305 | 8,000,000 | 2,531,695 | | 2 | Maroon 5 feat. Christina Aguilera | Moves Like Jagger | 4,111,003 | 6,451,000 | 2,339,997 | | 3 | Cee Lo Green | F**K You (Forget You) | 3,723,787 | 6,055,000 | 2,331,213 | | 4 | Adele | Rolling In The Deep | 5,813,215 | 8,060,000 | 2,246,785 | | 5 | Adele | Someone Like You | 3,750,259 | 5,621,000 | 1,870,741 | | 6 | Foster The People | Pumped Up Kicks | 3,843,271 | 5,328,000 | 1,484,729 | | 7 | Nicki Minaj | Super Bass | 3,607,970 | 4,718,000 | 1,110,030 | | 8 | Pitbull feat. Ne-Yo, Afrojack & Naya | Give Me Everything | 3,874,909 | 4,749,000 | 874,091 | | 9 | Katy Perry feat. Kanye West | E.T. | 4,828,749 | 5,700,000 | 871,251 | | 10 | Lady Gaga | Born This Way | 3,475,613 | 4,000,000 | 524,387 |
2012| Rank | Artist | Title | Sales (Year-End) | Total Sales | Catalog Sales | | 1 | Psy | Gangnam Style | 3,591,863 | 4,762,000 | 1,170,137 | | 2 | fun. | Some Nights | 3,839,397 | 5,000,000 | 1,160,603 | | 3 | Maroon 5 | One More Night | 3,460,950 | 4,359,000 | 898,050 | | 4 | fun. feat. Janelle Monae | We Are Young | 5,947,590 | 6,830,000 | 882,410 | | 5 | Gotye feat. Kimbra | Somebody That I Used To Know | 6,801,412 | 7,640,000 | 838,588 | | 6 | Carly Rae Jepsen | Call Me Maybe | 6,472,329 | 7,304,000 | 831,671 | | 7 | Kelly Clarkson | What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger) | 3,823,050 | 4,533,000 | 709,950 | | 8 | One Direction | What Makes You Beautiful | 3,880,958 | 4,525,000 | 644,042 | | 9 | Maroon 5 feat. Wiz Khalifa | Payphone | 4,757,278 | 5,277,000 | 519,722 | | 10 | Nicki Minaj | Starships | 3,978,500 | 4,305,000 | 326,500 |
2013| Rank | Artist | Title | Sales (Year-End) | Total Sales | Catalog Sales | | 1 | Florida Georgia Line | Cruise | 4,691,000 | 7,078,936 | 2,387,936 | | 2 | Imagine Dragons | Radioactive | 5,496,000 | 7,396,876 | 1,900,876 | | 3 | Lorde | Royals | 4,415,000 | 5,822,674 | 1,407,674 | | 4 | Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Wanz | Thrift Shop | 6,148,000 | 7,488,000 | 1,340,000 | | 5 | Katy Perry | Roar | 4,410,000 | 5,677,716 | 1,267,716 | | 6 | Robin Thicke feat. T.I. & Pharrell | Blurred Lines | 6,498,000 | 7,049,000 | 551,000 | | 7 | Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Ray Dalton | Can't Hold Us | 4,260,000 | 4,735,000 | 475,000 | | 8 | Rihanna feat. Mikky Ekko | Stay | 3,854,000 | 4,311,095 | 457,095 | | 9 | Bruno Mars | When I Was Your Man | 3,928,000 | 4,372,000 | 444,000 | | 10 | P!nk feat. Nate Ruess | Just Give Me A Reason | 4,321,000 | 4,716,000 | 395,000 |
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Usher feat. will.i.am OMG 3,762,654 4,750,000 987,346
+ it's now featured in a Sprint commercial, so it's rising back up this week.
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Great thread idea  This really shows a songs longevity.
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wheres firework and hot n cold
were they close to yearly top 10
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Shouldn't Thrift Shop be lower since it also sold a biT in 2012?
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Originally posted by Ash12345
wheres firework and hot n cold
were they close to yearly top 10
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Those songs were released late in the year.
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1 Psy Gangnam Style
3 Maroon 5 One More Night
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Originally posted by Slayley
Shouldn't Thrift Shop be lower since it also sold a biT in 2012? |
A lot of songs should be a lot lower.
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2 Lady Gaga feat. Colby O'Donis Just Dance 3,200,376 6,891,000 3,690,624
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Just Dance had already sold 1,7 million in 2008 for example.
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Quote:
Originally posted by Slayley
Shouldn't Thrift Shop be lower since it also sold a biT in 2012?
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Hm true, ideally you'd take the first 52 weeks of sales per song the moment it starts selling or something and then measure the sales afterwards, but that can't be done 
Besides it wouldn't be fair to count two years of sales for Thift Shop and only count one year for the others, some of the 2013 sales would have to shift to the 'catalog sales' then, so it evens out
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why did you cut SINGLE LADIES
edit: sorry;
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Sales after "year-end" total does not automatically make them "catalogue sales". A song could have sold 3m before the end of the year to land on the year end chart, and then sell another 2 million while it was still hot and charting in the next few months of the new year.
Catalogue sales are ones after the song exited the charts.
The stats are misleading.
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Quote:
Originally posted by Brando
Sales after "year-end" total does not automatically make them "catalogue sales". A song could have sold 3m before the end of the year to land on the year end chart, and then sell another 2 million while it was still hot and charting in the next few months of the new year.
Catalogue sales are ones after the song exited the charts.
The stats are misleading.
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this
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Great compilation
Poor the ones with no catalog sales
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Crank That has abysmal catalogue sales. It was the first song to hit 5M, right? The fact that it's like half a decade later and it hasn't sold 100k more 
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Originally posted by Brando
Sales after "year-end" total does not automatically make them "catalogue sales". A song could have sold 3m before the end of the year to land on the year end chart, and then sell another 2 million while it was still hot and charting in the next few months of the new year.
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Well, the top 10 year-end cut off helps to eliminate a lot of those Q4 songs, as songs like that chart well for two years but usually don't make the year-end top 10 in a single year (but yes they're exceptions like Apologize, Roar, So What, LTWYL)
It's not perfect, but it's a quick way to see how the biggest hits are selling after their peak
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Originally posted by Eternium
Crank That has abysmal catalogue sales. It was the first song to hit 5M, right? The fact that it's like half a decade later and it hasn't sold 100k more |
Who exactly would be listening to Crank That Soulja Boy in 2014?
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