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The Official Top 40 Biggest Selling Singles And Albums Of 2013 So Far!
03/07/2013
By Daniel Lane
Thanks to Daft Punk’s Get Lucky and Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines, 2013 looks set to be another record year for singles sales, while Now! That’s What I Call Music 84 is the biggest selling album of 2013 so far.
2013 looks set to become the biggest year for singles sales in British history, according to the Official Charts Company’s sales data.
Daft Punk’s Get Lucky FT Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers has overtaken Q1 leaders Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ Thrift Shop to take the title of 2013’s biggest selling single so far. To date it has sold over a million copies since it was released just over 10 weeks ago.
Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines, which also features Pharrell Williams, alongside US rapper TI, is hot on its heels clocking up more than 828,000 sales over the last month. Thrift Shop falls two places to Number 3 on the Official Top 40 Biggest Selling Singles Of 2013 So Far with sales of more than 680,000 copies, while P!nk’s Just Give Me A Reason FT Nate Ruess (Number 4 with 652,000 sales) and Justin Timberlake’s Mirrors (Number 5 with 632,000 sales) complete the Top 5.
The entire Top 10 singles have sold more than half a million copies, each, while nearly three quarters of the Top 40 (27 tracks) have sold over 300,000 copies each.
The latest instalment of the hugely successful Now That’s What I Call Music series of compilations, Now That’s What I Call Music 84, is the biggest selling album of 2013 so far, with sales of more than 658,000 copies. Emeli Sande’s Our Version Of Events is second biggest selling album this year over-all, but is the biggest selling artist album. It has racked up a further 536,000 sales during 2013, and has sold 1.9 million copies since its release in February, 2012).
The Official Top 40 Biggest Seling Singles Of 2013 So Far
1 GET LUCKY DAFT PUNK FT PHARRELL WILLIAMS & NILE RODGERS
2 BLURRED LINES ROBIN THICKE/TI/PHARRELL WILLIAMS
3 THRIFT SHOP MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS FT WANZ
4 JUST GIVE ME A REASON PINK FT NATE RUESS
5 MIRRORS JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
6 LET HER GO PASSENGER
7 LA LA LA NAUGHTY BOY FT SAM SMITH
8 POMPEII BASTILLE
9 WAITING ALL NIGHT RUDIMENTAL FT ELLA EYRE
10 I KNEW YOU WERE TROUBLE TAYLOR SWIFT
11 WHEN I WAS YOUR MAN BRUNO MARS
12 SCREAM & SHOUT WILL.I.AM FT BRITNEY SPEARS
13 CAN'T HOLD US MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS FT RAY DALTON
14 STAY RIHANNA FT MIKKY EKKO
15 ONE WAY OR ANOTHER (TEENAGE KICKS) ONE DIRECTION
16 I COULD BE THE ONE AVICII VS NICKY ROMERO
17 WHITE NOISE DISCLOSURE FT ALUNAGEORGE
18 HO HEY LUMINEERS
19 WHAT ABOUT US SATURDAYS FT SEAN PAUL
20 NEED U (100 PERCENT) DUKE DUMONT FT AME
21 I NEED YOUR LOVE CALVIN HARRIS FT ELLIE GOULDING
22 DRINKING FROM THE BOTTLE CALVIN HARRIS FT TINIE TEMPAH
23 IMPOSSIBLE JAMES ARTHUR
24 HEY PORSCHE NELLY
25 RADIOACTIVE IMAGINE DRAGONS
26 CLOWN EMELI SANDE
27 LOCKED OUT OF HEAVEN BRUNO MARS
28 SUIT & TIE JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE FT JAY Z
29 DEAR DARLIN' OLLY MURS
30 PLAY HARD DAVID GUETTA FT NE-YO & AKON
31 GANGNAM STYLE PSY
32 FEEL THIS MOMENT PITBULL FT CHRISTINA AGUILERA
33 GET UP (RATTLE) BINGO PLAYERS FT FAR EAST MOVEMENT
34 READY OR NOT BRIDGIT MENDLER
35 HARLEM SHAKE BAAUER
36 DIAMONDS RIHANNA
37 THATPOWER WILL.I.AM FT JUSTIN BIEBER
38 SO GOOD TO ME CHRIS MALINCHAK
39 DON'T YOU WORRY CHILD SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA/MARTIN
40 TROUBLEMAKER OLLY MURS FT FLO RIDA
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The Official Top 40 Biggest Seling Artist Albums Of 2013 So Far
1 OUR VERSION OF EVENTS EMELI SANDE
2 LES MISERABLES MOTION PICTURE CAST RECORDING
3 UNORTHODOX JUKEBOX BRUNO MARS
4 RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES DAFT PUNK
5 TO BE LOVED MICHAEL BUBLE
6 THE 20/20 EXPERIENCE JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
7 JAKE BUGG JAKE BUGG
8 18 MONTHS CALVIN HARRIS
9 THE TRUTH ABOUT LOVE PINK
10 BAD BLOOD BASTILLE
11 BABEL MUMFORD & SONS
12 TIME ROD STEWART
13 THE NEXT DAY DAVID BOWIE
14 RIGHT PLACE RIGHT TIME OLLY MURS
15 HOME RUDIMENTAL
16 UNAPOLOGETIC RIHANNA
17 OPPOSITES BIFFY CLYRO
18 GRAFFITI ON THE TRAIN STEREOPHONICS
19 HALCYON ELLIE GOULDING
20 RED TAYLOR SWIFT
21 TAKE ME HOME ONE DIRECTION
22 THE LUMINEERS LUMINEERS
23 EVERY KINGDOM BEN HOWARD
24 ALL THE LITTLE LIGHTS PASSENGER
25 + ED SHEERAN
26 RUMOURS FLEETWOOD MAC
27 FALL TO GRACE PALOMA FAITH
28 NUMBER 3 SCRIPT
29 BEST OF - DECADE IN THE SUN STEREOPHONICS
30 THE SHOCKING MISS EMERALD CARO EMERALD
31 NOTHING BUT THE BEAT DAVID GUETTA
32 SOME NIGHTS FUN.
33 NIGHT VISIONS IMAGINE DRAGONS
34 HOLY FIRE FOALS
35 AN AWESOME WAVE ALT-J
36 UP ALL NIGHT ONE DIRECTION
37 SETTLE DISCLOSURE
38 PARAMORE PARAMORE
39 21 ADELE
40 BORN TO DIE LANA DEL REY