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t dominated the dancefloor throughout last year; and today OfficialCharts.com can reveal

that Mark Ronson’s Uptown Funk is the biggest song of 2015.

The track, which features Bruno Mars, notched up a combined sales and streaming total of

1.76 million to finish at the top of the end of year chart. The song’s total combined sales

since its release in November 2014 stand at 2.25 million.

Uptown Funk has proved unstoppable throughout 2015. As well as spending a total of seven

weeks at Number 1, the track logged 39 weeks in the Top 40 before finally exiting in October.

View Uptown Funk and the rest of Mark Ronson’s chart history here.

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Ronson has fended off competition from several hugely successful tracks released this year

to top the year-end chart, which includes 17 Number 1s in the total Top 40.

Finishing at Number 2 is OMI’s Cheerleader (Felix Jaehn Remix). The summer smash first

entered the Official Singles Chart at Number 96 in January and steadily scaled the tally for 14

weeks until its April impact date, eventually reaching the summit in May for four consecutive

weeks. Cheerleader finishes 2015 with a combined sales total of 1.52 million.

Taking third place on 2015 biggest songs list is Hozier’s Take Me To Church with 1.25 million

combined sales. The stirring soul-blues track racked up huge sales over the last 12 months

despite never reaching Number 1, peaking at 2 for four consecutive weeks after a 20-week

climb inside the Top 40.

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At Number 4 is Ellie Goulding’s Love Me Like You Do. The 50 Shades Of Grey movie song

topped the chart for four weeks (holding Hozier off the top spot for three of them!) back in

February. By the end of 2015, the song notched up 1.19 million combined sales.

Rounding off the end of year Top 5 is Wiz Khalifa’s See You Again. The Fast & Furious 7

tribute to actor Paul Walker, which topped the Official Singles Chart for two weeks in April,

finishes close behind Goulding on 1.17 million sales and streams. It’s also the first of two

entries for the song’s guest star and co-writer Charlie Puth, who places at 34 with his

Meghan Trainor collaboration Marvin Gaye.



Despite being released little over two months ago, Adele’s Hello manages to finish sixth

place in the list (1.12 million combined sales). The track smashed Official Chart records upon

its release, being the biggest Number 1 single in three years and setting a new one-week

streaming record. View Hello’s full UK chart run here.

Further down the tally, Justin Bieber makes four entries in the Top 40, two of which are in the

Top 10: What Do You Mean is at 9 (988,000 combined sales) and Sorry finishes at 10

(934,000). His Skillex and Diplo collaboration Where Are U Now is just below at 15 (874,000),

and his most recent chart-topper Love Yourself is at Number 24 (719,000).

It’s been an incredible year for Bieber on the Official Chart. Just some of his achievements

include having scored his first UK Number 1 with What Do You Mean, logging 10 weeks at the

top across his last three tracks, and becoming the first living artist to score eight Top 40

entries following the release of his latest album Purpose. See where all his singles and

albums have charted in the UK here.

Other notable entries include three for Ed Sheeran, the highest of which is Thinking Out Loud

(Number 12, 917,000 combined sales in 2015), three for Jess Glynne, lead by Hold My Hand

(Number 14, 876,000 combined sales) and a trio for The Weeknd, headed up by Can’t Feel My

Face (Number 21, 778,000 combined sales).

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The Official Top 40 Biggest Songs of 2015 appear below. Click here to see the full Top 100

1 UPTOWN FUNK MARK RONSON FT BRUNO MARS

2 CHEERLEADER (FELIX JAEHN REMIX) OMI

3 TAKE ME TO CHURCH HOZIER



4 LOVE ME LIKE YOU DO ELLIE GOULDING

5 SEE YOU AGAIN WIZ KHALIFA FT CHARLIE PUTH

6 HELLO ADELE

7 LEAN ON MAJOR LAZER FT MO & DJ SNAKE

8 HOLD BACK THE RIVER JAMES BAY

9 WHAT DO YOU MEAN JUSTIN BIEBER

10 SORRY JUSTIN BIEBER

11 KING YEARS & YEARS

12 THINKING OUT LOUD ED SHEERAN

13 SUGAR MAROON 5

14 HOLD MY HAND JESS GLYNNE

15 WHERE ARE U NOW SKRILLEX & DIPLO/JUSTIN BIEBER

16 WANT TO WANT ME JASON DERULO

17 ARE YOU WITH ME LOST FREQUENCIES

18 FOURFIVE SECONDS RIHANNA/KANYE WEST/MCCARTNEY

19 SHUT UP & DANCE WALK THE MOON

20 HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE CALVIN HARRIS & DISCIPLES

21 CAN'T FEEL MY FACE WEEKND

22 FIRESTONE KYGO FT CONRAD SEWELL

23 TRAP QUEEN FETTY WAP

24 LOVE YOURSELF JUSTIN BIEBER

25 THE HILLS WEEKND

26 EARNED IT WEEKND

27 BLACK MAGIC LITTLE MIX

28 WISH YOU WERE MINE PHILIP GEORGE

29 PHOTOGRAPH ED SHEERAN

30 THE NIGHTS AVICII

31 RUNAWAY (U & I) GALANTIS

32 ELASTIC HEART SIA

33 BLOODSTREAM ED SHEERAN

34 MARVIN GAYE CHARLIE PUTH FT MEGHAN TRAINOR

35 UP OLLY MURS FT DEMI LOVATO

36 NOT LETTING GO TINIE TEMPAH FT JESS GLYNNE

37 SHINE YEARS & YEARS

38 AYO CHRIS BROWN & TYGA

39 DON'T BE SO HARD ON YOURSELF JESS GLYNNE

40 HOTLINE BLING DRAKE

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