List of best-selling singles by year in the United Kingdom
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This is a list of the best-selling singles on the UK Singles Chart for each year. Note that the Number sold section denotes the number sold within the year, not in total, as very often the single continues to sell more in later years (and sometimes other singles released within a particular year will go on to outsell the year-end winner (e.g. Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan's "Especially for You" (from 1988) ultimately outsold "Mistletoe and Wine")).[1]
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The best-selling UK single of all time is "Candle in the Wind 1997/Something About The Way You Look Tonight" by Elton John, which sold 4,770,000 copies.
Best-selling singles by year
editBest-selling singles by decade
editDecade | Single | Artist | Number sold |
---|---|---|---|
1950s | "Rock Around the Clock" | Bill Haley & His Comets | |
1960s | "She Loves You" | The Beatles | |
1970s | "Mull of Kintyre" / "Girls' School" | Paul McCartney and Wings | |
1980s | "Do They Know It's Christmas?" | Band Aid | |
1990s | "Something About the Way You Look Tonight" / "Candle in the Wind 1997" | Elton John | |
2000s | "Anything Is Possible" / "Evergreen" | Will Young | |
2010s | "Shape of You" | Ed Sheeran[34][a] |
See also
editReferences
edit- General (list positions)
- Lane, Dan (18 November 2012). "The biggest song of every year revealed (updated yearly)". London: Official Charts Company. Retrieved 25 January 2013.
- Specific
- ^ Official Charts Company "Especially for You" hits 1 million sales
- ^ The Complete Book of British Charts by Warwick/Kutner/Brown (sales for earlier years)
- ^ Hunter Davies Official Biography
- ^ Billboard Magazine, 7 January 1967, Page 38
- ^ "The Official Top 50 best-selling songs of 1981". Official Charts.
- ^ "Band Aid sales top 3m – proceeds set to reach Ethiopia by summer". Music Week. London, England: Morgan–Grampian Publications: 3. 12 January 1985.
- ^ Myers, Justin (February 12, 2018). "These are the UK's 20 biggest selling love ballads of all time". Official Charts Company. Retrieved December 24, 2020.
- ^ "Can We Fix It? by Bob the Builder Songfacts". songfacts.com.
- ^ "Shaggy's single is UK's best-seller". BBC News. 27 December 2001. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
- ^ a b c d e "Biggest Selling Songs Of The Decade In The UK Charts". MUZU.TV. 11 November 2009. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- ^ "Leona sells most singles in 2007". Newsround. CBBC. 31 December 2007. Retrieved 11 December 2013.
- ^ "Alexandra Burke top selling single of 2008". Billboard. Retrieved 7 February 2009.
- ^ Levine, Nick (3 January 2010). "GaGa's 'Poker Face' is top single of 2009". Digital Spy. Hearst Magazines UK. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
- ^ The Official Charts Company. "The UK's Official Chart 'millionaires' revealed". Official Charts. Retrieved 2017-09-19.
- ^ The Official Charts Company. "The Top 20 biggest selling singles of 2011 revealed!". Official Charts. Retrieved 2012-01-05.
- ^ "The Official Top 40 Biggest Selling Singles of 2012 revealed!". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2013-01-03.
- ^ "The Official Top 40 Biggest Selling Singles of 2013". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2014-01-01.
- ^ Copsey, Rob (1 January 2015). "The Official Top 40 Biggest Selling Singles of 2014". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
- ^ Copsey, Rob (31 December 2014). "The Top 100 biggest songs of 2014 on the Official Chart". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
- ^ Copsey, Rob (4 January 2016). "The Official Top 40 Biggest Songs of 2015 revealed". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
- ^ Myers, Justin (30 December 2016). "The Top 40 biggest songs of 2016 on the Official Chart". Retrieved 2020-05-06.
- ^ Myers, Justin (30 December 2016). "The Top 40 biggest songs of 2016 on the Official Chart". Retrieved 2016-12-30.
- ^ Copsey, Rob (3 January 2018). "The Top 40 biggest singles of 2017 on the Official Chart". Retrieved 2020-05-06.
- ^ Copsey, Rob (3 January 2018). "The Top 40 biggest singles of 2017 on the Official Chart". Retrieved 2018-07-24.
- ^ Copsey, Rob (3 January 2019). "The Official Top 40 biggest songs of 2018 on the Official Chart". Retrieved 2020-05-06.
- ^ Copsey, Rob (3 January 2019). "The Official Top 40 biggest songs of 2018 on the Official Chart". Retrieved 2019-01-03.
- ^ Copsey, Rob (1 January 2020). "The Official Top 40 biggest songs of 2019". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 2020-01-01.
- ^ "The Official Top 40 biggest songs of 2020". www.officialcharts.com. 4 January 2021. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
- ^ "The Official Top 40 biggest songs of 2021". www.officialcharts.com. 4 January 2022. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
- ^ "The Official Top 40 biggest songs of 2021". www.officialcharts.com. 4 January 2022. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
- ^ "The Official Top 40 biggest songs of 2022". www.officialcharts.com. 4 January 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
- ^ "The Official Top 40 biggest songs of 2022". www.officialcharts.com. 4 January 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
- ^ a b "The Official Top 40 Biggest Songs of 2023". www.officialcharts.com. 29 December 2023. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
- ^ "The UK's Official Top 100 biggest songs of the decade 2010 - 2019". OfficialCharts.com. 11 December 2019. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
Notes
edit- ^ Based on combined sales, i.e. including streaming.