10 Worst Songs To Ever Reach Number 1 In The UK

5. Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines (2013)

It might be hard to remember past all the controversy that it stirred in its wake, but the R&B-hip-hop crossover smash was the biggest song of the year on British shores early last decade.

Yet, even away from the particularly egregious lyrical content, the musical plagiarisation and the subsequent lawsuits, it's aged like a particularly good loaf of bread - which is to say, not very.

Its particularly beige, quasi-sexed-up video and an infamous performance featuring Miley Cyrus and a giant foam finger at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards further enshrined its steady decline.

Produced by and featuring Pharrell Williams, it was part of a string of huge hits for the latter around the time, with the N*E*R*D star enjoying greater critical success with Daft Punk's Get Lucky and even bigger commercial heights with his own Happy.

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