Top selling singles of 2012 revealed

Gotye’s ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’ has topped the 2012 top selling singles chart.

The Official Charts company said that the song which reached number one in February sold a total of 1,318,000 copies. The other million seller from last year was the infectious hit ‘Call Me Maybe’ by Carly Rae Jepson which sold 1,143,000.

X Factor winner James Arthur was 5th on the list with his cover of ‘Impossible’ shifting 897,000 copies in the past few weeks.

Total singles sales increased by 6% from 177.9 million in 2011 to 188.6 million in 2012, with each of the Top 20 biggest selling tracks of the year selling over 500,000 copies each.

The first chart of 2013 will be revealed this Sunday.