If we look at this year's year end charts closely we can notice that this year slow and sad songs dominated the charts all over the world.
Umbrella (it's basically not an uptempo song), Say It Right, Big Girls Don't Cry, What Goes Around...Comes Around, Hey There Delilah - Plain White T's, Apologize, Irreplaceable, Don't Matter, No One, All Good Things (Come To An End), How To Save A Life, When You're Gone, Bubbly, Chasing Cars, Snow, Bleeding Love
just to name a few
when you're gone is 400.000 points below All Good Things, so All Good Things isn't a hit either
When You're Gone is a Hit, not an Smash Hit Like Big Girls Don't Cry, Umbrella, Girlfriend, SIR, Sweet Escape & The Way I Are