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List of popular songs
Gotye 's single, "
Somebody That I Used to Know ", came in at number one, spending a total of 8 weeks at number one throughout the year.
Singer
Carly Rae Jepsen , whose single "
Call Me Maybe " appeared at number 2, is the highest-ranking female artist on the list.
Singer
Ellie Goulding , whose single "
Lights " appeared at number 5, is the highest-ranking British artist on the list.
Barbadian singer
Rihanna 's "
We Found Love " came in at number 69 in 2011 and rose to position 8 this year. She had a total of six songs included on the list, with her as a lead artist on 5 songs. Four of which were from her sixth album
Talk That Talk , and one was from her seventh album
Unapologetic .
All of rapper
Flo Rida 's singles off of
Wild Ones are within the top 20, except "
I Cry ", which was not on the Year-End chart but peaked at #6, and would then proceed to be on 2013's Year-End chart, and "
Let It Roll ", which did not chart on the Hot 100 at all.
American rapper
Wiz Khalifa 's feature on
Maroon 5 's single, "
Payphone " came in at number 4 on the list. His singles, "
Young, Wild & Free " with
Snoop Dogg and
Bruno Mars , and "
Work Hard, Play Hard " charted at number 32 and number 73 respectively, while his feature on
T-Pain 's single, "
5 O'Clock " made it at number 86.
Three of
Katy Perry 's singles from
Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection are in the top 50, with "
Wide Awake " at number 15, "
Part of Me " at number 31, and "
The One That Got Away " at number 41.
Billboard publishes annual lists of songs based on chart performance over the course of a year based on
Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems and
SoundScan information. For 2012, the list for the top 100
Billboard Hot 100
Year-End songs was published on December 14, calculated with data from December 3, 2011 to November 24, 2012.
[1] At the number-one position was
Gotye 's "
Somebody That I Used to Know " featuring
Kimbra , which stayed atop the Hot 100 for eight consecutive weeks.
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