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With sales of singles rising to record levels in 2010, artists had to work that bit harder for their final-year positions. Not that any of it worried Rihanna who carried all before her in a blockbuster year in which she sold almost 2.5m singles
Debuting at number seven in June, it ultimately spent five weeks at its peak position of number two, and remained in the Top 40 until the year’s end. Love The Way You Lie never had a really massive sales week – its top tally of 68,354 was beaten 64 times in the year – but it accumulated sales of 854,144 in total, all of them digital. 
Counting only the songs on which she was credited as the primary artist, Rihanna was the year’s top artist, reclaiming the position she held two years ago. The largest contributions to her tally of 2,496,982 sales came from Only Girl (In The World), number four for the year with 711,819 sales, and Rude Boy, number 14 with 551,735 sales. Rihanna’s tally increases to a sensational 3,580,005 if the hits on which she featured (primarily Love The Way You Lie and David Guetta’s Who’s That Chick) are added. Last year’s top act, Lady GaGa, remained strong, with sales of 1,832,358 in the year, enough for fourth place.
Although it missed out on the big prize, When We Collide was easily the biggest CD single of 2010, with 407,809 sales in that medium –
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