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Published by The Official Charts Company in June 2012 to coincide with both the 60th anniversary of the UK Official Singles Chart and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.At the time of publication, there were twelve artists with more than ten million UK singles sales with Paul McCartney the only artist to achieve this both as part of a group and as a solo artist.
"Candle in the Wind 1997" / "Something About the Way You Look Tonight" by Elton John is the best-selling single in the UK.. For the purposes of calculating sales, a single is currently defined by the Official Charts Company (OCC) as either a 'single bundle' having no more than four tracks and not lasting longer than 25 minutes or one digital audio track not longer than 15 minutes with a ...
The single sold just under 1.8 million copies and saw Young finish ahead of fellow Pop Idol finalist Gareth Gates, whose debut single "Unchained Melody" sold 1.34 million copies. [5] Young's single included sales of 1,108,269 copies in its first week, at the time a first-week total that had been bettered only by Elton John 's " Candle in the ...
Pop: 150 million [19] Genesis: Invisible Touch: 1967–present: Progressive rock / Pop rock: 150 million [20] Phil Collins: No Jacket Required: 1980–present: Adult contemporary: 150 million [21] Shirley Bassey: The Shirley Bassey Singles Album: 1957–present: Pop: 135 million [22] Status Quo: 12 Gold Bars: 1967–present: Rock: 130 million ...
German singer Nena (pictured in 2008) and her group of the same name achieved their one and only UK top 10 hit this year with "99 Red Balloons", which spent three weeks at number-one. American musician Ray Parker Jr. (pictured in 2013) had one of the most successful singles of 1984 with " Ghostbusters ", the theme from the movie of the same name .
The most combined sales (and only song with over 2 million streaming equivalent sales) without a million traditional sales, is "Shape of You" by Ed Sheeran. In the full list of 312 songs with combined sales of over a million, Rihanna features as a named artist on 10 and Sheeran features on 9.
The UK singles chart was first compiled in 1969. However, the records and statistics listed here date back to 1952 because the Official Charts Company counts a selected period of the New Musical Express chart (only from 1952 to 1960) and the Record Retailer chart from 1960 to 1969 as predecessors for the period prior to 11 February 1969, where multiples of competing charts coexisted side by side.
The 19 September 2009 issue of the UK music trade magazine Music Week included a special supplement to celebrate its 50th anniversary. It contained updated charts of the top twenty best-selling singles of each decade of the magazine's existence, based on the most recent information available from the Official Charts Company (OCC).