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Kate Bush reaped the rewards of an intelligently placed sync of her 1985 single Running Up That Hill (6) in the fourth season of Netflix's landmark series Stranger Things. Rounding out the Top 5 we have Ed once again, this time teaming up with Afrobeats superstar Fireboy DML on Peru (3), breakout BRITs Rising Star nominee Cat Burns with her Number 2-peaking single Go (4), and Ed's third entry, the scintillating former Number 1 single Shivers (5).Ģ022 also saw the year of an extraordinary renaissance for one of Britain's greatest pop stars. This year also saw Ed break a major Official Charts record - becoming the first artist ever to have four albums chart inside the Official Albums Chart Top 10 for a year or more. In second place is Ed Sheeran with 2021's biggest song, Bad Habits, which gobbled up 1.18 million chart units throughout 2022, proving Ed's reach is just as dynamic and powerful as ever. It now takes, on average, 1.3 million audio streams to break into the Official Singles Chart Top 40 and a combined 7 million audio and video streams to land a UK Number 1 single. The UK’s audio streaming market has grown to meet this demand - more doubling from 68.1 billion to 159.3 billion audio streams and was last year over 40 times bigger than in 2012 (3.7bn audio streams). The BPI calculates that more than 3 billion audio streams were generated on average every week in 2022, compared to around 1.3 billion each week five years earlier. See where Harry Styles' songs and albums charted.Ģ022 also continued the growth of streaming as the dominant way UK music fans consume their favourite songs and artists. It's the first time such a clean sweep for British music has happened since the music industry began publishing year-end sales charts more than 50 years ago. Harry leads an all-British takeover of the Top 10 biggest tracks of the year in the UK, marking the first time ever that all ten of the year's most successful singles were released by, or featured, British artists - including Harry, Cat Burns, Scottish DJs LF SYSTEM, Sam Fender, Glass Animals and Kate Bush.

MORE: The Official Top 40 biggest albums of 2022 It also means Harry Styles lands the end-of-year chart double too, as Harry's House is crowned the UK biggest album of 2022. The synth-pop track became Harry's second UK chart-topper, following 2017's debut single Sign Of The Times.Īs It Was also leads the pack as the most-streamed song of the year, totalling over 180.9 million audio and video streams, and best-selling song physically and digitally with 65,000 copies sold. As It Was also holds the distinction of being the UK's longest-running Number 1 of 2022, managing an epic 10 weeks at the top of the Official Singles Chart. The lead single from Harry's third solo album Harry's House shifted 1.57 million chart units since its release in April 2022 to the year-end. It’s finally begun to actually feel like 2022, and it is, as they say, about damn time.Harry Styles claimed the UK's Official biggest song of 2022 with As It Was, the Official Charts Company can confirm today. Here are our 50 favorites from the year so far - songs that either were released or have peaked on the Billboard charts since January 1. And truthfully, even when those top tiers were still occupied entirely by songs from 20, there were still plenty of fascinating things happening at pop’s lower levels - not to mention a decent number of winning ’21 holdovers that didn’t really make their proper impressions on us until the calendar turned. As massive hits from the second half of 2021 continued to linger near the top of top 40 radio and streaming playlists, seemingly refusing to cede room to newer songs - and few major star artists or undeniable smashes came around to claim the space by force - the original music of 2022 struggled to find its footing, at least on the Billboard charts.īut great pop never stays down for long, and in the last month or two, a whole spate of widely anticipated releases by big-name artists have arrived as reinforcements to make inroads for 2022 at the highest levels of popular music. That was true in the near-literal sense: As late as April, you could browse the Hot 100’s top 20 and still only pick out one or two songs that were actually released in 2022. For a few months there, 2022 was sounding a whole lot like 2021.
