The Top 40 biggest singles of 2013 on the Official Chart

Big million sellers dominated 2013's year-end chart.
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2013 was a bumper year for million sellers. Four singles crossed the landmark the same year they debuted, creating the biggest annual haul of million-selling singles since 1998.

Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines, feat TI and Pharrell Williams, was the biggest seller, clocking up over 1.47 million since its June debut. With five non-consecutive weeks at the top, it was also the longest running Number 1 of 2013.

Daft Punk’s Get Lucky, the first 2013 single to reach a million sales, reached one million sales in just 69 days and ended the year at Number 2 with a sales tally of 1.3 million.

Avicii claimed the third biggest seller of 2013 and the fastest-selling single, with Wake Me Up, which shifted 267,000 copies in its first week of release. It spent three weeks at Number 1, selling 1.18 million in 2013.

The final million seller released in 2013, and only single by a home-grown artist to hit this sales milestone, belonged to Passenger, AKA Mike Rosenberg. More than 1.03 million copies were sold, despite Let Her Go never actually reaching Number 1; it peaked at Number 2 behind Get Lucky in April.

Naughty Boy’s La La La, featuring Sam Smith, who won the BRITs Critics' Choice prize ahead of 2014's ceremony, was fifth – over 941,000 copies sold since its May release.

Sales of singles hit 182.2 million in 2013, the second highest in British music history, and coming close to matching the all-time record of 186.6 million set in 2012.  

The Official Top 40 biggest selling singles of 2013

1 BLURRED LINES ROBIN THICKE/TI/PHARRELL
2 GET LUCKY DAFT PUNK FEAT PHARRELL WILLIAMS
3 WAKE ME UP AVICII
4 LET HER GO PASSENGER
5 LA LA LA NAUGHTY BOY FEAT SAM SMITH
6 ROAR KATY PERRY
7 THRIFT SHOP MACKLEMORE/RYAN LEWIS/WANZ
8 JUST GIVE ME A REASON PINK FEAT NATE RUESS
9 COUNTING STARS ONEREPUBLIC
10 MIRRORS JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
11 POMPEII BASTILLE
12 WAITING ALL NIGHT RUDIMENTAL FEAT ELLA EYRE
13 CAN'T HOLD US MACKLEMORE/RYAN LEWIS/DALTON
14 LOVE ME AGAIN JOHN NEWMAN
15 BURN ELLIE GOULDING
16 WHEN I WAS YOUR MAN BRUNO MARS
17 I KNEW YOU WERE TROUBLE TAYLOR SWIFT
18 SCREAM & SHOUT WILL I AM FEAT BRITNEY SPEARS
19 I LOVE IT ICONA POP FEAT CHARLI XCX
20 DEAR DARLIN' OLLY MURS
21 HO HEY LUMINEERS
22 STAY RIHANNA FEAT MIKKY EKKO
23 SUMMERTIME SADNESS LANA DEL REY VS CEDRIC GERVAIS
24 ONE WAY OR ANOTHER (TEENAGE KICKS) ONE DIRECTION
25 TALK DIRTY JASON DERULO FEAT 2 CHAINZ
26 THE MONSTER EMINEM FEAT RIHANNA
27 I COULD BE THE ONE AVICII VS NICKY ROMERO
28 WE CAN'T STOP MILEY CYRUS
29 WHITE NOISE DISCLOSURE FEAT ALUNAGEORGE
30 RADIOACTIVE IMAGINE DRAGONS
31 HOLD ON WE'RE GOING HOME DRAKE FEAT MAJID JORDAN
32 I NEED YOUR LOVE CALVIN HARRIS/ELLIE GOULDING
33 BANG BANG WILL I AM
34 SOMEWHERE ONLY WE KNOW LILY ALLEN
35 NEED U (100 PERCENT) DUKE DUMONT FEAT AME
36 PLAY HARD DAVID GUETTA FEAT NE-YO & AKON
37 WHAT ABOUT US SATURDAYS FEAT SEAN PAUL
38 WILD JESSIE J/BIG SEAN/D RASCAL
39 THE OTHER SIDE JASON DERULO
40 DRINKING FROM THE BOTTLE CALVIN HARRIS FEAT TINIE TEMPAH

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