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These are the ten biggest-selling singles of 2016 in the UK


View Poll Results: Which of these is your favourite?
Drake: One Dance 3 4.84%
Lukas Graham: 7 Years 6 9.68%
Sia: Cheap Thrills 11 17.74%
Mike Posner: I Took A Pill In Ibiza 8 12.90%
Calvin Harris ft. Rihanna: This Is What You Came For 7 11.29%
Zara Larsson: Lush Life 7 11.29%
Justin Bieber: Love Yourself 4 6.45%
Rihanna ft. Drake: Work 4 6.45%
Justin Timberlake: Can't Stop The Feeling 12 19.35%
Shawn Mendes: Stitches 4 6.45%
None of these 19 30.65%
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Old 29-12-2016, 17:06
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1 - 1,927,500 - Drake: One Dance
2 - 1,482,500 - Lukas Graham: 7 Years
3 - 1,448,500 - Sia: Cheap Thrills
4 - 1,375,000 - Mike Posner: I Took A Pill In Ibiza
5 - 1,273,500 - Calvin Harris ft. Rihanna: This Is What You Came For
6 - 1,156,000 - Zara Larsson: Lush Life
7 - 1,133,000 - Justin Bieber: Love Yourself
8 - 1,128,000 - Rihanna ft. Drake: Work
9 - 1,118,000 - Justin Timberlake: Can't Stop The Feeling
10 - 1,111,000 - Shawn Mendes: Stitches

Up til last week but I don't see that list changing this week. These include streaming. Which is your favourite?
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Old 29-12-2016, 17:20
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Can't Stop The Feeling is easily my favourite on that list.
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Old 29-12-2016, 17:22
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That is a terrible list!
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Old 29-12-2016, 17:55
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Mike Posner as there's a lyric I can relate to in I Took A Pill (and no, it's not the drugs reference!!)
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Old 29-12-2016, 17:58
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Wasn't Love Yourself released last year?
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Old 29-12-2016, 17:58
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I only know the Justin T and Drake songs from that list and don't think either would be on my top 1000 list of the year
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Old 29-12-2016, 18:04
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None of them.
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Old 29-12-2016, 18:55
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Never heard tell of any of them! Where's Shakin' Stevens or Bucks Fizz when you need them!!
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Old 29-12-2016, 20:28
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Love the Posner tune. Poignant dance music.
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Old 29-12-2016, 20:36
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most of it is over produced dancey shit, dance music should have bass, soul and dirtiness
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Old 29-12-2016, 20:50
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Shocked at Sia getting no.3
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Old 29-12-2016, 21:12
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Cheap Thrills, Lush Life and This Is What You Came For are the only ones I really like off that list.
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Old 29-12-2016, 21:17
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I know a couple of songs and a few of the artists, but overall I'm glad I'm not growing up in this era. I cant equate One Dance with the figure that is next to it. How? and Why? would be my questions. Is Sia the one who wears the lampshade?

The singles chart has been made tragically uninteresting by streaming imo.
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Old 29-12-2016, 21:50
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Drake is just awful. He cannot sing and his rapping is crap. His voice sounds like he is singing through his noise and its autotuned to hell.

He really gets my goat.
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Old 30-12-2016, 02:32
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Never heard tell of any of them! Where's Shakin' Stevens or Bucks Fizz when you need them!!
The Fizz are back #justsaying
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Old 30-12-2016, 11:54
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But they aren't really the biggest selling as the majority of the sales counted in these are from streaming, and we also know that its questionable due to spotify playlists and the fact most people aren't actually paying for it???
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Old 30-12-2016, 12:04
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'Cheap Thrills' followed by 'Lush Life'. Everything else is just various shades of awful.
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Old 30-12-2016, 12:08
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But they aren't really the biggest selling as the majority of the sales counted in these are from streaming, and we also know that its questionable due to spotify playlists and the fact most people aren't actually paying for it???
a sales only year end list should be available soon but from what I have heard Drake still tops that, I doubt it will be that different tbh
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Old 30-12-2016, 12:14
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Never heard tell of any of them! Where's Shakin' Stevens or Bucks Fizz when you need them!!
I'd take most of these over 'This Ole House' the top 10 year end of 1981 only 5 of these I would still play. My 13 year old wouldn't like any of these but likes nearly every song in 2016 top 10. Its their generation now.

01 Shakin' Stevens This Ole House
02 Adam & The Ants Stand And Deliver
03 The Specials Ghost Town
04 Soft Cell Tainted Love
05 Adam & The Ants Prince Charming
06 John Lennon Imagine
07 Bucks Fizz Making Your Mind Up
08 Ultravox Vienna
09 Michael Jackson One Day In Your Life
10 Dave Stewart With Barbara Gaskin It's My Party
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Old 30-12-2016, 15:50
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I'd take most of these over 'This Ole House' the top 10 year end of 1981 only 5 of these I would still play. My 13 year old wouldn't like any of these but likes nearly every song in 2016 top 10. Its their generation now.

01 Shakin' Stevens This Ole House
02 Adam & The Ants Stand And Deliver
03 The Specials Ghost Town
04 Soft Cell Tainted Love
05 Adam & The Ants Prince Charming
06 John Lennon Imagine
07 Bucks Fizz Making Your Mind Up
08 Ultravox Vienna
09 Michael Jackson One Day In Your Life
10 Dave Stewart With Barbara Gaskin It's My Party

Ghost Town on it's own beats the crap out of all ten from this year
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Old 30-12-2016, 17:10
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I've only ever heard the last three on the list. So I'd pick one of those.
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