On the singles side, following Gotye and Fun. is Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" with 4, 064, 000 sold.

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Jepsen, the Canadian pop singer best known for the inescapable hit "Call Me Maybe, " made the announcement Tuesday on Twitter.

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" At the moment, all of my co-workers are making fun of me for just now learning about "Call Me Maybe.

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At Public School 169 in Queens, third-graders performed "Test Me Maybe" to the tune of "Call Me Maybe" for Walcott on Friday.

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Is it an earworm such as Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe"?

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The year's top three songs were Gotye's Somebody That I Used to Know, Carly Rae Jepsen's Call Me Maybe and Fun's We Are Young. respectively.

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Carly Rae Jepsen's Call Me Maybe was second with 6.5 million.

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Unlike the video response parodies for Gangnam Style, Call Me Maybe or Somebody That I Used To Know, making a Harlem Shake requires very little preparation.

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It was closely followed by Carly Rae Jepsen's Call Me Maybe - with more than 3.7 billion tracks streamed in the UK in 2012, or 140 per household.

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