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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.
Phillip Phillips's "Home" became the first song to enter the top ten in separate chart runs in a single calendar year when it re-entered on the weeks ending August 18, 2012 and December 8, 2012 . [2] The song debuted at number ten on the week ending June 9, 2012 and spent a sole week in the top ten before falling off the chart three weeks later.
The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing songs of the United States. Its data, published by Billboard magazine and compiled by Nielsen SoundScan, is based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as airplay. Throughout 2012, a total of 12 singles claimed the number-one
Throughout 2012, only one act achieved multiple number-one albums on the chart: One Direction with Up All Night and Take Me Home. Swift's album Red sold 1.21 million copies in its first week, making it the album with the highest weekly sales in 2012. [3] 21 was the biggest-selling album of 2012, with 4,410,000 copies sold. [4]
Rank Title Studio(s) Actor(s) Director(s) Gross 1. The Avengers: Walt Disney Studios: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston, Clark Gregg, Cobie Smulders, Stellan Skarsgård and Samuel L. Jackson
The following list ranks the number-one best selling nonfiction books, in the combined print and e-books category. [2] The most frequent weekly best seller of the year was Killing Kennedy by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard with 9 weeks at the top of the list.
2012 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, critics' lists of the best films of 2012, festivals, a list of country-specific lists of films released, and notable deaths.
Highest-grossing films of 2012 Rank Title Distributor Domestic gross 1 The Avengers: Disney / Paramount: $623,357,910 2 The Dark Knight Rises: Warner Bros. $448,139,099 3 The Hunger Games: Lionsgate: $408,010,692 4 Skyfall: Sony: $304,360,277 5 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey: Warner Bros. $303,003,568 6 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn ...