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Clean Bandit’s Rather Be has claimed the title of this year’s most streamed song of 2014, The Official Charts Company can reveal.

The classical-dance track, which features singer Jess Glynne, was streamed 39.7 million times this year on streaming services such as Deezer, Spotify, Napster and Google Play.

The news comes as it revealed that nearly 15 billion songs (14.8 billion) were streamed in 2014, according figures released by music trade body BPI based on Official Charts Company data. The number is almost double of that in 2013, where 7.5 billion tracks were streamed.

The massive growth means that streaming now accounts for 12.6% of all music consumed in the UK, compared to 6.2% in 2013. And with new services including Apple’s Beats and Google’s YouTube Music Key set to launch in 2015, the platform’s growth it set to strengthen even more in the next 12 months as it cements its position at the heart of mainstream music consumption.

Meanwhile, Rather Be – which hit Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart in January this year – fends off competition from Pharrell Williams’ Happy, which takes second place with 35 million streams. Happy was recently topped the Official Singles Chart of 2014, which combined sales and streams since the latter was introduced into the chart in July.

John Legend’s All Of Me is the third most streamed track of the year on 34.9 million streams, and Mr Probz’s Waves is at Number 4 with 32.1 million streams.

Rounding out the Top 5 is Sam Smith’s Stay With Me, which topped the singles chart in May this year and has been streamed 29.1 million times in 2014.

Ed Sheeran lands at Number 6 with Thinking Out Loud, which racks up a streaming total of 27.5 million in 2014. Ed also takes the title of most streamed artist in the UK as well as globally this year, with his overal streaming count across all his music totalling over 1 billion. The Top 10 most streamed artists of 2014 in the UK are:

1 ED SHEERAN 2 SAM SMITH 3 ARCTIC MONKEYS 4 EMINEM 5 CALVIN HARRIS 6 COLDPLAY 7 ONE DIRECTION 8 BEYONCE 9 KATY PERRY 10 BASTILLE

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The Official Top 40 Most Streamed Songs of 2014

1 RATHER BE CLEAN BANDIT FT JESS GLYNNE 2 HAPPY PHARRELL WILLIAMS 3 ALL OF ME JOHN LEGEND 4 WAVES MR PROBZ 5 STAY WITH ME SAM SMITH 6 THINKING OUT LOUD ED SHEERAN 7 BUDAPEST GEORGE EZRA 8 SING ED SHEERAN 9 TIMBER PITBULL FT KESHA 10 RUDE MAGIC 11 GHOST ELLA HENDERSON 12 SUMMER CALVIN HARRIS 13 MONEY ON MY MIND SAM SMITH 14 DON'T ED SHEERAN 15 FANCY IGGY AZALEA FT CHARLI XCX 16 POMPEII BASTILLE 17 DARK HORSE KATY PERRY FT JUICY J 18 RIPTIDE VANCE JOY 19 LET IT GO IDINA MENZEL 20 AM I WRONG NICO & VINZ 21 HIDEAWAY KIESZA 22 COUNTING STARS ONEREPUBLIC 23 CHANDELIER SIA 24 DO I WANNA KNOW ARCTIC MONKEYS 25 I SEE FIRE ED SHEERAN 26 MY LOVE ROUTE 94 FT JESS GLYNNE 27 ALL ABOUT THAT BASS MEGHAN TRAINOR 28 I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE SAM SMITH 29 PRAYER IN C LILLY WOOD & ROBIN SCHULZ 30 PROBLEM ARIANA GRANDE FT IGGY AZALEA 31 BLAME CALVIN HARRIS FT JOHN NEWMAN 32 HEY BROTHER AVICII 33 DRUNK IN LOVE BEYONCE FT JAY-Z 34 A SKY FULL OF STARS COLDPLAY 35 MAGIC COLDPLAY 36 WAKE ME UP AVICII 37 I GOT U DUKE DUMONT FT JAX JONES 38 LET HER GO PASSENGER 39 DEMONS IMAGINE DRAGONS 40 ROYALS LORDE

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