Top Songs April 2022

The UKs Top 40 biggest songs of 2019 have been unveiled, and Lewis Capaldi takes the Number 1 spot with Someone You Loved.

The Scottish singer-songwriters 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 years 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, with114 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 Biebers I Dont Care the lead single from Eds No.6 Collaborations Project album finishes third on 1.43 million chart sales, Billie Eilishs Bad Guy is fourth [1.34m], and Calvin Harris & RagnBone Mans Giant which spent five weeks at Number 2 in March is fifth [1.29m].

Eight more Number 1 songs in 2019 feature in the UKs Official Top 40 songs of the year, four of which place inside the Top 10. Ava Maxs January chart-topper Sweet But Psycho is at 6 [1.25m]; Stormzys Vossi Bop finishes at 7 [1.14m]; Tones & Is 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].

Other big breakthroughs this year came for Mabel, who ranks ninth with Dont Call Me Up, and production trio Meduza, who land at 11 with Piece Of Your Heart ft. Goodboys. AJ Traceys Ladbroke Grove [18], Dominic Fikes 3 Nights [24], NSGs Options ft. Tion Wayne [32], Russ & Tion Waynes Keisha & Becky [35], Regards Ride It [38] and Young T & Bugseys 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 Youre Girlfriend Im Bored [33]; Ed Sheeran with I Dont 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

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Chart compiled based on sales and streaming equivalent sales from Week 1 - Week 52, 2019.

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