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Carly Rae Jepsen had the year's second best selling single with "Call Me Maybe", which spent four weeks at number-one and lasted 12 weeks in the top 10. Nate Ruess and his band Fun had two singles in the UK top 10 in 2012, including chart-topper "We Are Young", a collaboration with Janelle Monáe, which became the third best seller of the year.
The year opened to British singer Adele resuming her reign atop the independent releases chart with the number-one single, "Someone Like You" (2011). The song previously topped the chart for eleven non-consecutive weeks in 2011, including a nine-week run from February to April.
[2] [3] The final number-one single of the year was "The World Is Ugly", the third release from My Chemical Romance's compilation Conventional Weapons. [4] The most successful song on the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart in 2012 was "Iris" by Goo Goo Dolls, which spent 23 weeks at number one across ten different spells.
The 2012 Classic BRIT Awards were held on 2 October 2012 at the Royal Albert Hall, London and were hosted by Myleene Klass. [10] Female Artist: Nicola Benedetti (Italia) MasterCard Breakthrough Artist of the Year Award: Miloš Karadaglić (Latino) Composer: John Williams (War Horse, The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn)
List of UK Dance Albums Chart number ones of 2012; List of UK Independent Albums Chart number ones of 2012; List of UK R&B Albums Chart number ones of 2012; List of UK R&B Singles Chart number ones of 2012; List of UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart number ones of 2012; List of UK top-ten albums in 2012; List of Billboard Adult Contemporary number ...
The UK singles chart is a weekly record chart which for most of its history was based on single sales from Sunday to Saturday in the United Kingdom. [1] The chart was founded in 1952 by Percy Dickins of New Musical Express (NME), who telephoned 20 record stores to ask what their top 10 highest-selling singles were.
Subsequent singles, "Gotta Be You" and "One Thing", became top ten hits in the UK. The band's second studio album Take Me Home was released 9 November 2012. [4] The record sold 540,000 copies in its first week in the US and went to number-one in thirty-five countries.
Elvis Presley holds the record for most number one singles. The Beatles have the most number one singles of any group or British act. Madonna has the most number one singles of any female artist. This is a list of artists who have reached number one on the UK Singles Chart as recorded by the Official Charts Company since November 1952.