'Blurred Lines' was the biggest selling single record of 2013, who recorded it?
Blurred Lines cover of the song. Blurred Lines "Blurred Lines" is a single written and performed by American recording artists Robin Thicke, T.I., and Pharrell Williams. Produced by Pharrell, it serves as the lead single from Thicke's album of the same name. It was released on March 26, 2013 through Pharrell's label Star Trak Recordings. Recorded in 2012, the song's percussion ideas were primarily inspired by the Marvin Gaye song "Got to Give It Up", and apart from T.I.'s rap, was entirely the work of Williams. However, Thicke clearly laid claim to writing credits on the track according to a Reuters article.
Blurred Lines US, with 219.8 million impressions (which it later extended to 228.9 million impressions the week after), surpassing the eight-year-old record of 212.2 million impressions, set by Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together", and is the first song to have four or more weeks of downloads of over 400,000 in the US. On week ending September 14, 2013 it was knocked off number one by Katy Perry with her single "Roar". Blurred Lines was also the No. 1 song of the year on iHeart Radio's Top 100 Countdown for 2013. It became the best-selling song of 2013 in the US, selling 6,498,000