• The one billionth download of a digital single in the UK took place last night
  • The most downloaded track ever in the UK is Adele's Someone Like You
  • Second is Maroon 5 featuring Christina Aguilera with Moves Like Jagger

By Emma Innes

PUBLISHED: 10:01 EST, 9 April 2013 | UPDATED: 10:12 EST, 9 April 2013

The one billionth download of a digital single in the UK took place last night.

According to the Official Charts Company, the UK reached the milestone thanks to artists such as Adele and Maroon 5.

The company's figures show that Adele's Someone Like You is the most downloaded track ever in the UK - it has been downloaded 1.46 million times.

Adele's Someone Like You is the most downloaded song ever in the UK - it has been downloaded 1.46 million times

Adele's Someone Like You is the most downloaded song ever in the UK - it has been downloaded 1.46 million times

Official Charts Company managing director, Martin Talbot, says that 16 tracks have now been downloaded more than a million times

Official Charts Company managing director, Martin Talbot, says that 16 tracks have now been downloaded more than a million times

TOP TEN MOST DOWNLOADED TRACKS

1. Someone Like You - Adele

2. Moves Like Jagger - Maroon 5 feat. Christina Aguilera

3. Somebody That I Used To Know - Gotye feat. Kimbra

4. I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas

5. We Found Love - Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris

6. Sex On Fire - Kings of Leon

7. Call Me Maybe - Carly Rae Jepsen

8. Party Rock Anthem - LMFAO feat. Lauren Bennett and GoonRock

9. Just The Way You Are (Amazing) - Bruno Mars

10. Price Tag - Jessie J

Maroon 5 featuring Christina Aguilera with Moves Like Jagger is the second most downloaded song ever in the UK - it has been downloaded 1.4 million times.

Gotye featuring Kimbra with Somebody That I used To Know is the third most downloaded track in the UK - 1.38 million downloads - and the Black Eyed Peas’ I Gotta Feeling is fourth with 1.34 million downloads.

We Found Love by Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris, Sex on Fire by Kings of Leon, Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen, and Price Tag by Jessie J also made the top ten.

As did Just The Way You Are (Amazing) by Bruno Mars and Party Rock Anthem by LMFAO featuring Lauren Bennett and GoonRock.

Downloading took off in a big way in 2004, the same year that a separate sales chart was launched, and figures went on to be included in the main singles chart the following year.

More than three million singles are now downloaded each week in the UK.

Chief executive of the British Phonographic Industry, Geoff Taylor, said: ‘The digital music revolution has made it easy to buy any song you like, instantly, for half the price of a coffee.

Downloading took off in a big way in 2004 and now more than three million singles are downloaded each week in the UK

Downloading took off in a big way in 2004 and now more than three million singles are downloaded each week in the UK

‘As fans increasingly download music on the move, tablets, smartphones and connected cars will drive another phase in digital music's expansion.’

Official Charts Company managing director, Martin Talbot, added: ‘The explosion in download sales over the past nine years means we are genuinely now living in the digital music age - with Adele as our queen.

‘Over the nine years of legitimate digital music, more than 16 new tracks have sold one million copies, which emphasises just how popular digital music is in the modern age.’

Official Charts Company managing director, Martin Talbot, says that 16 tracks have now been downloaded more than a million times

Official Charts Company managing director, Martin Talbot, says that 16 tracks have now been downloaded more than a million times

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Mr B, not in the UK she didn't. Worldwide, yes, but not just in the UK. These other artists sales are just from the UK.

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nice to see people still buying instead of pirating

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Hasn't she just been sacked as youth crime commissioner for Kent

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Where's Leona? She's sold 1 million copies of bleeding love and run

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Can't say I download any of the listed songs even ILLEGALLY, wouldn't want to waste my hard drive space filled with media I do not like.

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WOW....legal downloads, how Retro!

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Michael Jackson is the best

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