Robin Thicke is the King: Blurred Lines is Billboard's Song Of The Summer

Pop star Carly Rae Jepsen passed the song-of-the-summer crown, which she earned in 2012 for "Call Me Maybe," to crooner Robin Thicke's sexy dance hit "Blurred Lines" this week.

Billboard on Thursday ranked "Blurred Lines" its No. 1 track on its yearly Songs of the Summer chart. This marks the first time a solo male artist has claimed the top spot since 2004, when Usher dominated with a one-two punch ("Confession's II" and "Burn"). Fueled by digital sales, "Blurred Lines" has sold 5.4 million downloads, Nielsen SoundScan reports.

"Blurred Lines" — the song behind Miley Cyrus' viral raunchy MTV Video Awards performance with Thicke — held the No. 1 ranking on the Hot 100 singles chart. The song's performance since Memorial Day helped it fend off Imagine Dragons' "Radioactive (No. 2) and Daft Punk's "Get Lucky" (3). Pharrell is featured on "Blurred Lines" and "Get Lucky."

Rounding out the chart are Miley Cyrus' "We Can't Stop" (4); Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' "Can't Hold Us" (5); Florida Georgia's "Cruise" (6); Justin Timberlake's "Mirrors" (7); Bruno Mars' "Treasure" (8); Anna Kendrick's "Cups" (9); and Selena Gomez's "Come & Get It" (10).

"Blurred Lines" grabbed the world's attention in March when Thicke released two racy videos for it — one of which featured topless women. Some people weren't amused, but Thicke explained the beauty of the nudity in a Google+ Hangout.

"My whole point of the video was to be provocative and show a sense of humor and to not take nudity seriously as we do in America sometimes," he said. "A woman's body is the most beautiful thing on the planet. The Greeks used to sculpt that stuff."

"Blurred Lines" joins an eclectic list of No. 1s since Billboard launched the summer rankings in 1985. Former top songs include Tears For Fears' "Shout," Madonna's "Papa Don't Preach," TLC's "Waterfalls," Matchbox Twenty's "Bent," Beyonce's "Crazy In Love," Rihanna's "Umbrella" and Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" and "California Gurls."