![]() The list of 123 singles includes million-selling singles from artists such as Queen, The Beatles, Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Adele. The records are ranked by sales in the first-ever authoritative chart of the UK's million-selling singles. Lennon and McCartney's 1964 hit is in turn just ahead of I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston, followed by Baddiel and Skinner and the Lightning Seed's Three Lions and then Ken Dodd's Tears. It is a chart in which Don't You Want Me? by the Human League sits just outside the Top 20 but immediately above the Beatles' Can't Buy Me Love. The Official Charts Company has ranked the top UK million-selling singles to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the singles chart, with some interesting results. Do They Know It's Christmas? by Band Aid released in 1984 is in second place with 3.69m singles bought in the UK. Released after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997, the song is at the top of the UK million-sellers chart with 4.9m copies sold. The most authoritative chart ever of the UK's million-selling singles, released on Monday, shows Elton John ranked highest for sales for his double A-side Something About The Way You Look Tonight/ Candle in the Wind. International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Digital Music Sales Around The World".^ a b c d e f "Top 10 Global Digital Singles 2007". ![]() ![]() ^ a b c d e f g h "Top 10 Digital Single Tracks 2008"."Lady Gaga's 'Alejandro' Video: Who Are The Most Famous Fernandos And Robertos?". The Book of Golden Discs (2, illustrated ed.). ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw Murrells, Joseph (1978).Guinness World Records 2007 (Mass Market Paperback ed.). List of best-selling singles in the United States.List of best-selling singles in the United Kingdom.List of best-selling singles in Australia." San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" " Candle in the Wind 1997"/" Something About the Way You Look Tonight" " Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" " The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)" You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries. This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. The song recognized as "the best-selling single of all time" was released before the pop/ rock singles-chart era and "was listed as the world's best-selling single in the first-ever Guinness Book of Records (published in 1955) and- remarkably - still retains the title more than 50 years later." Guinness World Records states that double A-side charity single " Candle in the Wind 1997"/" Something About the Way You Look Tonight" (1997) by Elton John, a tribute to the late Diana, Princess of Wales, is "the biggest-selling single since UK and US singles charts began in the 1950s, having accumulated worldwide sales of 33 million copies," making it the second best-selling single of all time. The List of best-selling singles worldwide includes songs that have sold more than five million copies as a single, as published by reliable sources.Īccording to Guinness World Records, the holiday perennial " White Christmas" (1942) by Bing Crosby is the best-selling single worldwide, with estimated sales of over 50 million copies.
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