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Billboard Hot 100 Singles (June 19-26, 2013)
Over on the Digital Songs chart, Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines," featuring T.I. and Pharrell, nets the best sales week for any song in nearly four months. "Blurred Lines," which holds at No. 1, sold 371,000 downloads last week (up 18%). It’s the largest sales week for a song since the March 2 chart, when Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' "Thrift Shop," featuring Wanz, moved 412,000.
Imagine Dragons' "Radioactive" flies 5-2 with 208,000 (up 8%), Florida Georgia Line's "Cruise" slips 2-3 with 205,000 (down 9%), and Daft Punk's "Get Lucky," featuring Pharrell Williams, holds at No. 4 with 195,000 (up 1%).
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' "Can't Hold Us," featuring Ray Dalton, rises 6-5 with 158,000 (down 9%), and Blake Shelton's "Boys 'Round Here," featuring Pistol Annies and Friends, jumps 11-6 with 136,000 (up 10%).
Avril Lavigne's "Here's to Never Growing Up" sees a massive 72% sales increase as it climbs 23-7 with 131,000 sold, its best sales week yet. The sales surge follows sale pricing in the iTunes Store for the cut, where its price dropped from $1.29 to 69 cents. As of Tuesday night (June 18), it was the only song among iTunes' 40 best-selling songs priced for less than $1.29. Also helping the cause for “Never”: Lavigne tweeted a link to purchase the discounted song on June 14, and she performed on TV twice during the tracking week, on "Live With Kelly & Michael" (June 14) and the MuchMusic Video Awards (June 16).
Closing out the top 10 on the Digital Songs chart are Selena Gomez's "Come and Get It" (7-8 with 129,000; down 16%); P!nk's "Just Give Me a Reason," featuring Nate Ruess (8-9 with 118,000; down 11%); and Fall Out Boy's "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark" (18-10 with nearly 118,000; up 26%). The band performed the latter track on NBC's "The Voice" last week (June 11).
Digital track sales this past week totaled 25.6 million downloads, up 3% compared with last week (24.9 million) and up 1% stacked next to the comparable week of 2012 (25.4 million). Year-to-date track sales are at 630.5 million, down 3% compared with the same total at this point last year (647.6 million).
http://www.billboard.com/biz/article...-billboard-200
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