List of number-one On-Demand Songs of 2012 (U.S.)

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This is a list of the U.S. Billboard magazine On-Demand Songs number-ones of 2012.

Chart history

Key
Dagger-14-plain.pngIndicates best-performing single of 2012 [1]
Issue dateSongArtist(s)Reference(s)Weekly On-Demand streams
March 24"We Are Young" Fun featuring Janelle Monáe [2] 1.1 million [3]
March 31 [4] 1.1 million [5]
April 7 [6] 1.18 million [7]
April 14 [8] 1.18 million [9]
April 21 [10] 1.1 million [11]
April 28"Somebody That I Used to Know" Dagger-14-plain.png Gotye featuring Kimbra [12] 1.28 million [13]
May 5 [14] 1.41 million [15]
May 12 [16] 1.4 million [17]
May 19 [18] 1.4 million [19]
May 26 [20] 1.3 million [21]
June 2 [22] 1.2 million [23]
June 9 [24] 1.1 million [25]
June 16 [26] 1.1 million [27]
June 23"Call Me Maybe" Carly Rae Jepsen [28] 1.1 million [29]
June 30 [30] 967,000 [31]
July 7 [32] 1.1 million [33]
July 14"Payphone" Maroon 5 featuring Wiz Khalifa [34] 933,000 [35]
July 21"Call Me Maybe"Carly Rae Jepsen [36] 987,000 [37]
July 28 [38] 857,000 [39]
August 4"Lights" Ellie Goulding [40] 867,000 [41]
August 11"Call Me Maybe"Carly Rae Jepsen [42] 915,000 [43]
August 18"Lights"Ellie Goulding [44]
August 25 [45] 829,000 [46]
September 1 [47]
September 8 [48]
September 15 [49]
September 22 [50]
September 29"Some Nights"Fun [51] 774,000 [52]
October 6"One More Night"Maroon 5 [53] 775,000 [54]
October 13 [55] 807,000 [56]
October 20"Gangnam Style" PSY [57] 1 million [58]
October 27 [59] 981,000 [60]
November 3 [61] 949,000 [61]
November 10 [62] 947,000 [62]
November 17 [63] 867,000 [63]
November 24"Diamonds" Rihanna [64] 959,000 [64]
December 1 [65] 1.05 million [65]
December 8 [66] 1.08 million [66]
December 15 [67] 1.06 million [67]
December 22 [68] 1.2 million [68]
December 29"Locked Out of Heaven" Bruno Mars [69] 1.2 million [69]

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