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.
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.