By entering your email address you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and consent to receive emails from Time Out about news, events, offers and partner promotions. Thanks for subscribing! Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon! Scroll through our picks — ranked from right down to Number One — or listen to the whole playlist below. Number One across the world, million views, one unstoppable chorus: in late October, Ms Adkins casually dropped the biggest song of the year. Have patience: the slow build on this minute post-punk workout pays off spectacularly. As heard at festivals everywhere: fruity Berlin house head Claptone gives the dapper giant of jazz a summery makeover. Straight out of Kinshasa, this riveting five-piece cook up a dreamy and affecting mix of chiming guitars and hazy basslines. Sizzling, upbeat Afrofunk fuelled by bounding, bouncy pop hooks — all from a former backing singer who was always going to steal the limelight. Norse disco giant Todd Terje flexes his cosmic muscles on this total voyage of a remix.


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The track, which features Bruno Mars, notched up a combined sales and streaming total of 1. Uptown Funk proved unstoppable throughout the year. 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. Ronson fended off competition from several hugely successful tracks to top the year-end chart, which included 17 Number 1s in the total Top 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 and staying for four consecutive weeks. Cheerleader finished with a total of 1. The stirring soul-blues track racked up huge sales over the year despite never reaching Number 1, peaking at 2 for four consecutive weeks after a week climb inside the Top By the end of , the song notched up 1. 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.