hart Watch Extra: Top 20 Songs In Digital History
Posted Fri Aug 6, 2010 7:09am PDT by Paul Grein in Chart Watch nice punye cerite, very2 nice.

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Lady Antebellum's country/pop smash "Need You Now" this week becomes the 20th song to reach the 4 million mark in paid downloads. The heartfelt, mid-tempo ballad is a sure thing to be in the running for both Record and Song of the Year when the Grammy nominations are announced in December.

I like a nice, round number as much as the next guy, so I decided this would be a good time to run a list of the 20 best-selling songs in digital history.

Lady Gaga is the only artist with three of the top 20. The Black Eyed Peas and Flo Rida each have two. (Ke$ha, whose "TiK ToK" is #7 on the list, sings on Flo Rida's "Right Round," but her "featured" credit on the latter hit was removed midway through the song's six-week run at #1.)

All 20 of these songs were released in the last 40 months, which makes sense. This is the period in which digital song sales have exploded. The oldest song on the list is "Apologize" by Timbaland featuring OneRepublic, which was released in April 2007. The newest is "TiK ToK," which was released in October 2009.

Surprisingly, four of the top 20 digital sellers failed to reach #1 on the weekly Digital Songs sales chart. That simply means there was never a week when the hit was the best-selling download in the country. These songs are Jason Mraz's "I'm Yours," Taylor Swift's "Love Story," Katy Perry's "Hot N Cold" and "Need You Now."

Seven of the top 20 digital sellers failed to reach #1 on Billboard's Hot 100, which combines digital sales and radio airplay points. These smashes are the four songs listed above plus Train's "Hey, Soul Sister," Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" and Miley Cyrus' "Party In The U.S.A."