Top 100 Songs of 2013: The Year-End Chart

“Thrift Shop” by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis feat. Wanz was the biggest hit of 2013, finishing at No. 1 on the year-end Top 100 ahead of “Blurred Lines” by Robin Thicke and “Radioactive” by Imagine Dragons. The year-end chart ranks the songs that performed best across the whole year, not just in a single week.

18 acts placed more than one song on the list, led by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis (3), Imagine Dragons (3), Bruno Mars (3), Rihanna (3), Maroon 5 (3). 11 of the 100 were holdovers from the 2012 list, so 89 songs were new to the year-end chart.

The 2010s: the sound of the era

Streaming changed the charts in the 2010s. On-demand streams began counting toward the pop chart in 2012, and the year-end lists filled with EDM-flavored pop, trap-influenced hip-hop and long-running smashes that stayed on the chart for most of a year.

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The full 2013 year-end Top 100

Source: Billboard’s year-end singles chart, as compiled on Wikipedia. Hey DJ 4U is an independent site, not affiliated with Billboard. ▶ plays the song in Hey DJ 4U; ♪ searches for it on Apple Music. Spotted an error? Tell us.