Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 2012

Billboard publishes annual lists of songs based on chart performance over the course of a year based on Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems and SoundScan information.

For 2012, the list for the top 100 Billboard Hot 100 Year-End songs was published on December 14, calculated with data from December 3, 2011 to November 24, 2012.

[1] At the number-one position was Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know" featuring Kimbra, which stayed atop the Hot 100 for eight consecutive weeks.

Gotye 's single, " Somebody That I Used to Know ", came in at number one, spending a total of 8 weeks at number one throughout the year.
Singer Carly Rae Jepsen , whose single " Call Me Maybe " appeared at number 2, is the highest-ranking female artist on the list.
Singer Ellie Goulding , whose single " Lights " appeared at number 5, is the highest-ranking British artist on the list.
Barbadian singer Rihanna 's " We Found Love " came in at number 69 in 2011 and rose to position 8 this year. She had a total of six songs included on the list, with her as a lead artist on 5 songs. Four of which were from her sixth album Talk That Talk , and one was from her seventh album Unapologetic .
All of rapper Flo Rida 's singles off of Wild Ones are within the top 20, except " I Cry ", which was not on the Year-End chart but peaked at #6, and would then proceed to be on 2013's Year-End chart, and " Let It Roll ", which did not chart on the Hot 100 at all.
American rapper Wiz Khalifa 's feature on Maroon 5 's single, " Payphone " came in at number 4 on the list. His singles, " Young, Wild & Free " with Snoop Dogg and Bruno Mars , and " Work Hard, Play Hard " charted at number 32 and number 73 respectively, while his feature on T-Pain 's single, " 5 O'Clock " made it at number 86.
Three of Katy Perry 's singles from Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection are in the top 50, with " Wide Awake " at number 15, " Part of Me " at number 31, and " The One That Got Away " at number 41.