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Subject: Best selling singles ever in the U.K
There was a show on T.V at the weekend about the 100 top selling singles in the U.K.I list below the top 20 there are some unexpected ones in there I must say......
20.Beatles - Can't buy me love.
19.Ken Dodd - Tears.
18.Bryan Adams - Everything I do
17.Various - Perfect day.
16.Cher - Believe
15.Aqua - Barbie girl.
14.Beatles - I wanna hold your hand.
13.Stevie Wonder - I just called to say I love you.
12.Will Young - Evergreen.
11.Wet Wet Wet - Love is all around.
10.Boney M - Mary's boy child.
9.Robson & Jerome - Unchained Melody.
8.Beatles - She loves you.
7.Frankie goes to Hollywood - Relax.
6.O.Newton John/J.Travolta - You're the one that I want.
5.Boney M - Rivers of Babylon.
4.Wings - Mull of Kintyre.
4.Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the U.K.
3.Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody.
2.Band Aid - Do they know it's christmas.
1.Elton John - Candle in the wind.
What do you think ??
Subject: Re: Best selling singles ever in the U.K
Much as I'd like it to have done, I don't think the Pistols' "Anarchy" surpassed the sales of "Mull Of Kintyre" (yuck!)
Not surprising with the rest, some good, some bad...(I'm sure I've seen this programme too), I think most of Ken Dodd's records have ended up at boot fairs/jumble sales, etc. - you're guaranteed to always find a copy of that!
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A journalist whose name escapes me commented that although "Candle in the Wind" was the biggest selling single in the UK (by a long way), it was probably nowhere near in the being-listened-to stakes, for two reasons: a) because a lot of people who bought it have kept it sealed in its original cellophane wrapper as a souvenir rather than a record, possibly because b) it's *DREADFUL* soppy, pathetic anodyne rubbish.
WTF is Will Young in there? Something wrong, surely?
Phil
Subject: Re: Best selling singles ever in the U.K
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Much as I'd like it to have done, I don't think the Pistols' "Anarchy" surpassed the sales of "Mull Of Kintyre" (yuck!)
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It didn't surpass it, they were joint 4th.
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15.Aqua - Barbie girl.
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And people wonder why i'm a misanthropist... :P
Subject: Re: Best selling singles ever in the U.K
Everytime I see a list of the "best-selling" anything, it's always a mix of some good but mostly bad.
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Ugh!!! :P
Subject: Re: Best selling singles ever in the U.K
As someone who was awake early on that fateful August morning of 1997, I'm not surprised that the person cashing in on that tragedy would be the person at the top of the singles list. I saw some of the programme... not all of it. Too much swearing...
Subject: Re: Best selling singles ever in the U.K
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As someone who was awake early on that fateful August morning of 1997, I'm not surprised that the person cashing in on that tragedy would be the person at the top of the singles list.
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I was pacing up and down the living room trying to get a baby back to sleep when the newsflash came through... I don't think I could have realised then the tidal wave of guilt and sentimentality that was going to engulf the country :-(
IMO the main cause of all that post-mortem Dianamania was a feeling of guilt from all the people who bought the Sunday Times, Mirror, Sun etc to read about the PofW in as much intimacy as they could - they realised that it was they who gave the motivation for ever more intrusive reporting.
I've said this before, but the best bit of the whole saga was the parody that came out:
"And it seems to me that you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind
Not giving much illumination
Yes, you were terminally dim" ;-)
Phil
Subject: Re: Best selling singles ever in the U.K
I've got the latest British Hit Singles book and there is a feature called Top 100 Best Selling Singles. It says that there is nothing from ABBA nor Rolling Stones.
Subject: Re: Best selling singles ever in the U.K
I would kill for that book, honestly...
Subject: Re: Best selling singles ever in the U.K
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I've got the latest British Hit Singles book and there is a feature called Top 100 Best Selling Singles. It says that there is nothing from ABBA nor Rolling Stones.
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That's right! Incredible as it may seem, neither Abba or the Stones have had a single that has shifted 7 figures at time of release in this country...they have, of course, had several near misses...
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I'd have thought White Christmas would have been there...everyone has that song surely
Modified cos I found out why it's not there: There is a marginal (but unlikey) possibility that Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" should appear a towards the lower end of the Top 20. It is the second biggest-selling single in the world (over 30 million). But figures for the UK are hard to come by as it was originally released in 1942, well before the introduction of record charts and has continued to trickle-sell ever since.
Subject: Re: Best selling singles ever in the U.K
a lot of 1 hit wonders...I mean here in the US...
Subject: Re: Best selling singles ever in the U.K
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I'd have thought White Christmas would have been there...everyone has that song surely
Modified cos I found out why it's not there: There is a marginal (but unlikey) possibility that Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" should appear a towards the lower end of the Top 20. It is the second biggest-selling single in the world (over 30 million). But figures for the UK are hard to come by as it was originally released in 1942, well before the introduction of record charts and has continued to trickle-sell ever since.
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And right again! It's done most of its unit shifting over a long period of time - all of those in the above list are those which sold a million-plus at their time of release - something that never happened in the UK until 1955/56 with Bill Haley's "Rock Around The Clock"...
...and having said that...
...I still maintain that "Anarchy In The UK" didn't sell a million on release and therefore shouldn't be in that list...but that's just me...
Subject: Re: Best selling singles ever in the U.K
I can't believe I didn't stumble across this site before yesterday
http://www.everyhit.com/record.html
one of you lot could have told me about it!
Subject: Re: Best selling singles ever in the U.K
they're all rubbish, full stop.
even the Sex Pistols. :(