Top 100 Songs of 2012: The Year-End Chart

“Somebody That I Used To Know” by Gotye feat. Kimbra was the biggest hit of 2012, finishing at No. 1 on the year-end Top 100 ahead of “Call Me Maybe” by Carly Rae Jepsen and “We Are Young” by fun.. The year-end chart ranks the songs that performed best across the whole year, not just in a single week.

22 acts placed more than one song on the list, led by Rihanna (5), Adele (4), Maroon 5 (3), Flo Rida (3), Katy Perry (3). 8 of the 100 were holdovers from the 2011 list, so 92 songs were new to the year-end chart.

The 2010s: the sound of the era

Streaming changed the charts in the 2010s. On-demand streams began counting toward the pop chart in 2012, and the year-end lists filled with EDM-flavored pop, trap-influenced hip-hop and long-running smashes that stayed on the chart for most of a year.

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The full 2012 year-end Top 100

Source: Billboard’s year-end singles chart, as compiled on Wikipedia. Hey DJ 4U is an independent site, not affiliated with Billboard. ▶ plays the song in Hey DJ 4U; ♪ searches for it on Apple Music. Spotted an error? Tell us.