The UK's most downloaded urban tracks of all time revealed!
As part of the Official Charts' Decade Of Digital celebrations, MTV Base have unveiled the Official All-Time Urban Download Chart Top 20.
Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke has beaten the Black Eyed Peas’ I Gotta Feeling to be crowned the UK’s most downloaded urban track of all time.
The news was revealed this evening on music TV channel MTV Base as part of a countdown of the Official All-Time Urban Download Chart Top 20. The genre chart has been compiled as part of the Decade Of Digital initiative to celebrate 10 years since legitimate digital downloading launched in the UK.
Despite being released less than a year ago Blurred Lines, which also features US rapper TI and man of the moment Pharrell Williams, has sold more than 1.54 million copies to date.
“I’m so honoured, the success of Blurred Lines is a dream come true,” Robin Thicke told OfficialCharts.com.
I Gotta Feeling debuts one place behind it at Number 2. Originally released in 2009, the Black Eyed Peas’ track became the first single to sell over a million copies in the UK on digital downloads alone.
Pharrell Williams’ Happy, which was released last summer, shoots up the all-time download rankings, entering at Number 3 on the Official All-Time Urban Download Chart. Bruno Mars’ 2010 single Just the Way You Are (Amazing) is at Number 4, while Eminem and Rihanna’s Love The Way You Lie (5) completes the Top 5. It is the highest charting track to feature Rihanna of four in the Top 20, which includes Only Girl (In The World) (6), Diamonds (7), and What’s My Name (18).
The Official All-Time Urban Download Chart Top 20 is as follows. You can see the UK's Top 100 most downloaded tracks of all-time, here.
The Official All-Time Urban Download Chart Top 20
1 | BLURRED LINES | ROBIN THICKE/TI/PHARRELL |
2 | I GOTTA FEELING | BLACK EYED PEAS |
3 | HAPPY | PHARRELL WILLIAMS |
4 | JUST THE WAY YOU ARE (AMAZING) | BRUNO MARS |
5 | LOVE THE WAY YOU LIE | EMINEM FT RIHANNA |
6 | ONLY GIRL (IN THE WORLD) | RIHANNA |
7 | DIAMONDS | RIHANNA |
8 | GIVE ME EVERYTHING | PITBULL/NE-YO/AFROJACK/NAYER |
9 | LA LA LA | NAUGHTY BOY FT SAM SMITH |
10 | STARSHIPS | NICKI MINAJ |
11 | FORGET YOU | CEE LO GREEN |
12 | GRENADE | BRUNO MARS |
13 | EARTHQUAKE | LABRINTH FT TINIE TEMPAH |
14 | BENEATH YOUR BEAUTIFUL | LABRINTH FT EMELI SANDE |
15 | ON THE FLOOR | JENNIFER LOPEZ FT PITBULL |
16 | PASS OUT | TINIE TEMPAH |
17 | SCREAM & SHOUT | WILL I AM FT BRITNEY SPEARS |
18 | WHAT'S MY NAME | RIHANNA FT DRAKE |
19 | MEET ME HALFWAY | BLACK EYED PEAS |
20 | THRIFT SHOP | MACKLEMORE/RYAN LEWIS/WANZ |
© 2014 OFFICIAL CHARTS COMPANY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. CHART COMPILED FROM WEEK 1 2004 TO WEEK 15 2014.
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