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The Official Top 40 biggest songs of 2019
Songs by Lewis Capaldi, Lil Nas X and Billie Eilish were among the biggest of 2019.
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The UK’s Top 40 biggest songs of 2019 have been unveiled, and Lewis Capaldi takes the Number 1 spot with Someone You Loved.
The Scottish singer-songwriter’s big breakout track, which spent seven weeks at Number 1 across March/April, notched up a massive 2.33 million chart sales in 2019, according to Official Charts Company data. Someone You Loved is also the year’s most-streamed song, with 228 million audio streams across the likes of Spotify, Apple Music and Deezer.
The news comes as music trade body the BPI revealed that music consumption in the UK was up for fifth year in a row, with 114 billion music streams logged in 2019 – up 3,000% on 2012.
Three more Lewis Capaldi songs finish inside the year-end Top 40: Top 5 hit Hold Me While You Wait at 14, Bruises at 25 and Grace at 27. View Lewis Capaldi's Official UK Chart history in full.
Another 2019 breakthrough star, US rapper and singer Lil Nas X, takes second place with Old Town Road on 1.75 million chart sales. The hip-hop-meets-country track, which first gained success as a viral hit on Tik Tok, spent two weeks at Number 1 across April/May.
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Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber’s I Don’t Care – the lead single from Ed’s No.6 Collaborations Project album – finishes third on 1.43 million chart sales, Billie Eilish’s Bad Guy is fourth (1.34m), and Calvin Harris & Rag’n’Bone Man’s Giant – which spent five weeks at Number 2 in March – is fifth (1.29m).
Eight more Number 1 songs in 2019 feature in the UK’s Official Top 40 songs of the year, four of which place inside the Top 10. Ava Max’s January chart-topper Sweet But Psycho is at 6 (1.25m); Stormzy’s Vossi Bop finishes at 7 (1.14m); Tones & I’s 11-week chart-topper Dance Monkey – the longest-running Number 1 by a female artist ever – is at 8 (1.12m); and Senorita by Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello rounds the Top 10 out at 10 (1.07m).
Tones & I with her Official Number 1 Single Award for Dance Monkey.
Other big breakthroughs this year came for Mabel, who ranks ninth with Don’t Call Me Up, and production trio Meduza, who land at 11 with Piece Of Your Heart ft. Goodboys. AJ Tracey’s Ladbroke Grove (18), Dominic Fike’s 3 Nights (24), NSG’s Options ft. Tion Wayne (32), Russ & Tion Wayne’s Keisha & Becky (35), Regard’s Ride It (38) and Young T & Bugsey’s Strike A Pose (39) also rank inside the year-end Top 40.
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Elsewhere, other acts with multiple entries in the Top 40 are Ariana Grande, with 7 Rings (16), Thank U Next (30) and Break Up With You’re Girlfriend I’m Bored (33); Ed Sheeran with I Don’t Care (3), Beautiful People ft. Khalid (21), and Take Me Back To London ft. Stormzy (23); while Billie Eilish gains a second Top 40 entry with Bury A Friend at 36.
The Official Top 40 Biggest Songs of 2019
| POS | TITLE | ARTIST | PEAK |
| 1 | SOMEONE YOU LOVED | LEWIS CAPALDI | 1 |
| 2 | OLD TOWN ROAD | LIL NAS X | 1 |
| 3 | I DON'T CARE | ED SHEERAN & JUSTIN BIEBER | 1 |
| 4 | BAD GUY | BILLIE EILISH | 2 |
| 5 | GIANT | CALVIN HARRIS & RAG'N'BONE MAN | 2 |
| 6 | SWEET BUT PSYCHO | AVA MAX | 1 |
| 7 | VOSSI BOP | STORMZY | 1 |
| 8 | DANCE MONKEY | TONES & I | 1 |
| 9 | DON'T CALL ME UP | MABEL | 3 |
| 10 | SENORITA | SHAWN MENDES/CAMILA CABELLO | 1 |
| 11 | PIECE OF YOUR HEART | MEDUZA FT GOODBOYS | 2 |
| 12 | SHOTGUN | GEORGE EZRA | 1 |
| 13 | LOCATION | DAVE FT BURNA BOY | 6 |
| 14 | HOLD ME WHILE YOU WAIT | LEWIS CAPALDI | 4 |
| 15 | SUNFLOWER | POST MALONE FT SWAE LEE | 3 |
| 16 | 7 RINGS | ARIANA GRANDE | 1 |
| 17 | WOW. | POST MALONE | 3 |
| 18 | LADBROKE GROVE | AJ TRACEY | 3 |
| 19 | JUST YOU AND I | TOM WALKER | 3 |
| 20 | SHALLOW | LADY GAGA & BRADLEY COOPER | 1 |
| 21 | BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE | ED SHEERAN FT KHALID | 1 |
| 22 | DANCING WITH A STRANGER | SAM SMITH & NORMANI | 3 |
| 23 | TAKE ME BACK TO LONDON | ED SHEERAN FT STORMZY | 1 |
| 24 | 3 NIGHTS | DOMINIC FIKE | 3 |
| 25 | BRUISES | LEWIS CAPALDI | 6 |
| 26 | HIGHER LOVE | KYGO & WHITNEY HOUSTON | 2 |
| 27 | GRACE | LEWIS CAPALDI | 9 |
| 28 | NOTHING BREAKS LIKE A HEART | MARK RONSON FT MILEY CYRUS | 2 |
| 29 | SUCKER | JONAS BROTHERS | 4 |
| 30 | THANK U NEXT | ARIANA GRANDE | 1 |
| 31 | HIGH HOPES | PANIC AT THE DISCO | 12 |
| 32 | OPTIONS | NSG FT TION WAYNE | 7 |
| 33 | BREAK UP WITH YOUR GIRLFRIEND I'M BORED | ARIANA GRANDE | 1 |
| 34 | SOS | AVICII FT ALOE BLACC | 6 |
| 35 | KEISHA & BECKY | RUSS & TION WAYNE | 7 |
| 36 | BURY A FRIEND | BILLIE EILISH | 6 |
| 37 | HAPPIER | MARSHMELLO FT BASTILLE | 2 |
| 38 | RIDE IT | REGARD | 2 |
| 39 | STRIKE A POSE | YOUNG T & BUGSEY FT AITCH | 9 |
| 40 | WITHOUT ME | HALSEY | 3 |
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Chart compiled based on sales and streaming equivalent sales from Week 1 - Week 52, 2019.
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Isabelle Duran
i like it
Andii
What were the sales (i.e. without streams) figures for this best seller? The year before, the Calvin Harris best seller only managed a meagre 244,000 ( https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/the-official-top-40-biggest-songs-of-2018__22432/ ), which must be one of the lowest "best sellers" of all time. It would be interesting to know if the decline in sales continues.
Albert Agnes Tumpalan
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Rob Parkinson
Poor Mabel, not getting much attention on here yet the only British Female to get in the top 40 of the year and should 'call me up' have been released a different time of year it would have easily been a no.1. Charts can be so cruel sometimes as it was for Billie Eilish too, guess timing can be everything.
Jason Lindley
The chart sales are so overhyped and the way streams are counted in the charts needs to change. The big streaming players have so much control of the charts and more older artists struggle to hit the top 40. Something needs to change.
DL
David Laing
If you don't make the sales you don't chart. That's what a chart means
Andii
The point is that these aren't sales figures, but combined sales & streaming figures. The year before, the biggest seller managed only 244,000 sales. It's interesting that they don't even include the 2019 figure.
Piran
Apparently, 2019 was the first year that saw more than 100 billion music streams across the UK.
‘Someone You Loved’, which was the most streamed song of the past 12 months, got 228 million plays! :O
JF
James Foster
Wow
Piran
Yeah, I knew streaming accounted for almost all singles consumption units, but I never expected it to be on this level!
JF
James Foster
I expected Someone You Loved to be #1 this year, but I really wanted Old Town Road to be it. I’m surprised Dance Monkey and Senorita to be that low and I expected Take Me Back To London to be in the top 20 as well. Do you know when they’re releasing the full top 100?
DL
David Laing
I think if Tones and I had released at beginning of year she would be no 1. I draft my case George Ezra as my case in point no 12 despite being released in mid 2018. I suspect tones and I will feature in 2020 top 40
JF
James Foster
That’s probably true. I wish Shotgun wasn’t so high because it was real eased mid last year 😔.
Piran
I’ll hopefully do a full review of the Chart Of The Year later today, but from what I’ve seen so far, it’s looking good! :)
‘Someone You Loved’ is one of those ballads that never got old despite insane airplay numbers & reminding me a lot of a deeper cut that Ed Sheeran or James Arthur would do, so it’s amazing to see it #1 here (probably would’ve been in the Top 20 almost every week of last year if it weren’t for ACR).
‘Sweet But Psycho’, ‘Dance Monkey’, ‘Old Town Road’ & especially ‘Senorita’ placing elsewhere in the Top 10 here is really awesome, especially the latter got a 10/10 from me when I reviewed it!
I don’t mind ‘Giant’ being the highest charting EDM hit here, but I love that ‘Piece Of Your Heart’ follows it & ‘SOS’ ranks at #34, with Avicii & Aloe Blacc having my personal favourite song of the year.
More to follow either later or when OCC publish the full list...
T
Tony
Hi piran
Turns out 'river' grew on me a lot more than I thought it would although no Christmas song beats mariah carey or wham. Own it will defiantly be number one by Friday, which is cool because that's grown on me a lot more as well. I also expected someone you loved to be the uk's biggest song of 2019 and I love seeing so much good music in the top 40 alone! Love it that halsey, ariana grande, billie eilish and camila cabello made appearances but no taylor swift?? Also surprised that Regard and Young T & Bugsey fit into the top 40. Do u know when the full top 100 will be revealed. Most likely it will be revealed on Friday along with the updated chart.
Hope you've had a really good start to 2020, happy new year!!
Brandon Mwinga
Amazing chart of #2019 year end glad to see almost whole chart in fact 18 songs also made it in my end year chart
My Biggest Hits of 2019
50.Ariana Grande 7 Rings
49.Panic At the Disco High Hopes
48.Lizzo Truth Hurts
47.Marshmello One Thing Right
46.Yk Osris Worth it
45.Post Malone Better Now
44.BTS Boy With Luv
43.Sam Smith How Do You Sleep
42.Lil Nas X Panini
41.Khalid Better
40.Shawn Mendes Senorita ft Camila
39.Ed Sheeran Ft Justin Bieber I Don't Care
38.Ciara Thinkin Bout You
37.Lauv I'm So Tired
36.Tones And I Dance Monkey
35.Meduza Piece of Your Heart
34.Lewis Calpadi Hold Me While You Wait
33.Dermot Kennedy Power Over Me
32.Mabel Don't Call Me Up
31.Dave Location
30.Sigala Ft Becky Hill Wish you Well
29.Ariana Grande Thank U Next
28.Dean Lewis Be Alright
27.Ally Brooke Lips Don't lie Ft a boogie wit da Hoodie
26.Katy Perry Never Really Over
25.Someone You Loved Lewis Capaldi
24.Kygo Carry On
23.Sigrid Don't Feel Like Crying
22.Ella Mai Trip
21.Halsey Without Me
20.Jessica Mauboy Little Things
19.P!nk Walk Me Home
18.Shawn Mendes If I Can't Have You
17.Black Coffee Drive ft David Guetta
16.Alesssia Cara Rooting For You
15.Benny Blanco Eastside
14.Blanco Brown The Git Up
13.Dermot Kennedy Outnumbered
12.Ellie Goulding Ft Diplo & Swae Lee Close to Me
11.Avicii SOS Ft Aloe Blacc
10.Jonas Brothers Sucker
9.Selena Gomez Lose You To Love Me
8.Ed Sheeran Ft Khalid Beautiful People
7.Calvin Harris Giant
6.Mark Ronson Ft Miley Cyrus Nothing Breaks Like A Heart
5.Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper Shallow
4.Ariana & Social House Boyfriend
3. Sam Smith &Normani Dancing With a Stranger
2.Normani Motivation
1.Khalid Ft Disclosure Talk
JF
James Foster
A song I’ve listened to this year is Marshmello, Youngblud and Blackbear on ‘Tongue Tied’. I’m surprised it hasn’t made it to top 50 yet. Maybe give it a listen?
Brandon Mwinga
ok thanks will do so how are you James?
JF
James Foster
Good. Thanks, how are you?
thierry henon
Billie Eilish should be at number 1!! I am surprised TONES & I is only at number 8!! Not complaining about it but i was expecting her to be easily in the Top 3...And Whitney only at number 26!!?? Congrats to AVA MAX....