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Billboard publishes annual lists of songs based on chart performance over the course of a year based on Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems and SoundScan information. 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]
Rapper Nicki Minaj garnered five top-ten singles during the year, the most of any artist, while Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know" was the longest-running top-ten single of the year, spending twenty-four weeks in the tier. Following her death on February 11, 2012, singer Whitney Houston placed three re-entries in the top fifty of the Hot ...
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
This is a list of songs which reached number one on the Billboard Mainstream Top 40 (or Pop Songs) chart in 2012. During 2012, a total of 19 singles hit number-one on the charts. Chart history
This page lists the albums that reached number-one on the overall Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and the Rap Albums chart in 2012. The Rap Albums chart partly serves as a distillation for rap-specific titles from the overall R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.
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]
3 – Adele becomes the first female artist to have three singles in the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time, and the first female artist to have two albums in the top five of the Billboard 200 and two singles in the top five of the Billboard Hot 100 simultaneously.