The Official Top 40 Biggest Selling Singles of 2014

Songs by Pharrell Williams, Ella Henderson and Idina Menzel are among the most sold in 2014.

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Pharrell’s Happy is the best-selling single of 2014, Official Charts can reveal.

The song, which earlier this year was announced as the most downloaded song of all time, holds its title as the biggest selling of the year with download and physical sales of 1.5 million.

Happy also claims the title of the year’s Biggest Song on the Official Singles Chart 2014, which combines both downloads and streams since the latter was introduced into the singles chart in July. Check out the Top 100 in full here.

Meanwhile, Clean Bandit’s Rather Be takes second place with sales of 1.13 million. The track, which hit Number 1 the Official Singles Chart in January and spent four weeks in pole position, tops the list most-streamed tracks of the year.

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John Legend’s love ballad All Of Me is at Number 3, and Mr Probz’s Waves finish fourth on the year-end best sellers list.

The Top 5 is completed by Ella Henderson’s Ghost. The track, which topped the chart in June this year, has sold 757,000 copies this year.

Other notable mentions in the Top 10 include Pitbull and Kesha’s Timber at Number 6 with sales of 744,000, Meghan Trainor’s All About That Bass at 9 (sales of 651,000).

Closing out the Top 10 is Idina Menzel’s Let It Go at Number 10 on 636,000. The Frozen theme song is the only track in entire Top 40 best sellers list not to reach the Top 10 in the singles chart, peaking at Number 11 for three non-consecutive weeks in April and May.

The Official Top 40 Biggest Selling Singles Of 2014

1	HAPPY	PHARRELL WILLIAMS
2	RATHER BE	CLEAN BANDIT FT JESS GLYNNE
3	ALL OF ME	JOHN LEGEND
4	WAVES	MR PROBZ
5	GHOST	ELLA HENDERSON
6	TIMBER	PITBULL FT KESHA
7	THINKING OUT LOUD	ED SHEERAN
8	STAY WITH ME	SAM SMITH
9	ALL ABOUT THAT BASS	MEGHAN TRAINOR
10	LET IT GO	IDINA MENZEL
11	SHAKE IT OFF	TAYLOR SWIFT
12	SING	ED SHEERAN
13	BUDAPEST	GEORGE EZRA
14	MY LOVE	ROUTE 94 FT JESS GLYNNE
15	NOBODY TO LOVE	SIGMA
16	RUDE	MAGIC
17	HIDEAWAY	KIESZA
18	DARK HORSE	KATY PERRY FT JUICY J
19	MONEY ON MY MIND	SAM SMITH
20	DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS	BAND AID 30
21	I GOT U	DUKE DUMONT FT JAX JONES
22	SUMMER	CALVIN HARRIS
23	UPTOWN FUNK	MARK RONSON FT BRUNO MARS
24	HEY BROTHER	AVICII
25	BANG BANG	JESSIE J/GRANDE/MINAJ
26	PRAYER IN C	LILLY WOOD & ROBIN SCHULZ
27	PROBLEM	ARIANA GRANDE FT IGGY AZALEA
28	I WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN	RITA ORA
29	AM I WRONG	NICO & VINZ
30	I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE	SAM SMITH
31	SAY SOMETHING	A GREAT BIG WORLD/AGUILERA
32	ONLY LOVE CAN HURT LIKE THIS	PALOMA FAITH
33	FANCY	IGGY AZALEA FT CHARLI XCX
34	CHANGING	SIGMA FT PALOMA FAITH
35	HOW LONG WILL I LOVE YOU	ELLIE GOULDING
36	FEELIN' MYSELF	WILL I AM/CYRUS/KHALIFA
37	BLAME	CALVIN HARRIS FT JOHN NEWMAN
38	LOYAL	CHRIS BROWN/LIL WAYNE/TYGA
39	TRUMPETS	JASON DERULO
40	GECKO (OVERDRIVE)	OLIVER HELDENS & BECKY HILL