in the united states, the song got onto the "billboard" hot 100 on september 15, 2012. it dropped out the next week but entered again six weeks later on october 20, 2012. the song then rose the chart until it entered the top ten on january 5, 2013. it replaced bruno mars' "locked out of heaven" at number one in its 16th week. it remained at the top for six weeks in total. it has also topped the rap songs chart for fifteen weeks. it's the first song in the history of the digital songs chart to jump in sales in each of its first five weeks at the top of the chart. "thrift shop" sold 6,148,000 copies in 2013. this made it the second best-selling single of 2013 in the us after robin thicke's "blurred lines". as of november 2015, the song has sold 7,740,000 downloads in the united states. this makes it the fifth all-time best-selling digital single in the country.