The Top 10 Selling Singles In The U.K.

This list is as at November 2000, and shows The Beatles at Number 4 AND 7

Pos. Title Artist Year Total Sales
1 Candle In The Wind Elton John 1997 4,800,000+
2 Do They Know It's Christmas Band Aid 1984 3,510,000+
3 Bohemian Rhapsody Queen 1975 2,130,000+
4 Mull Of Kintyre Wings 1977 2,050,000+
5 Brown Girl In The Ring/Rivers Of Babylon Boney M 1978 1,995,000+
6 Relax Frankie Goes To Hollywood 1984 1,910,000+
7 She Loves You The Beatles 1963 1,890,000+
8 You're The One That I Want John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John 1978 1,870,000+
9 Unchained Melody Robson Green & Jerome Flynn 1995 1,820,000+
10 Mary's Boy Child Boney M 1978 1,790,000+

Chart Information by The Top Ten Of Everything - 2001    by    Russell Ash (ISBN 0-7513-0468-9)

 

The Next 90

With sales figures from The Official Chart Company

11 Love Is All Around - Wet Wet Wet (1,783,82712)
12 Anything Is Possible / Evergreen - Will Young (1,779,938)
13 I Just Called To Say I Love You - Stevie Wonder (1,775,000)
14 I Want To Hold Your Hand - The Beatles (1,750,000)
15 Barbie Girl - Aqua (1,722,418)
16 Believe - Cher (1,672,108)
17 Perfect Day - Various Artists (1,548,538)
18 (Everything I Do) I Do It For You - Bryan Adams (1,527,824)v 19 Tears - Ken Dodd (1,521,000)
20 Can't Buy Me Love - The Beatles (1,520,000)
21 Summer Nights - John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John (1,515,000)
22 Two Tribes - Frankie Goes To Hollywood (1,510,000)v 23 Imagine - John Lennon (1,486,581)
24 Baby One More Time - Britney Spears (1,450,154)
25 Don't You Want Me - Human League (1,430,000)
26 Last Christmas - Wham (1,420,000)
27 I Feel Fine - The Beatles (1,410,000)
28 I'll Be Missing You - Puff Daddy & Faith Evans (1,409,688)
29 Karma Chameleon - Culture Club (1,405,000)
30 The Carnival is Over - Seekers (1,400,000)
31 Rock Around The Clock - Bill Haley and his Comets (1,392,000)
32 We Can Work It Out / Day Tripper - The Beatles (1,385,000)
33 Y.M.C.A. - Village People (1,380,000)
34 Careless Whisper - George Michael (1,365,995)
35 Release Me - Engelbert Humperdinck (1,365,000)
36 I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston (1,355,055)
37 The Power Of Love - Jennifer Rush (1,321,530)
38 Unchained Melody - Gareth Gates (1,318,714)
39 My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion (1,312,551)
40 Wannabe - Spice Girls (1,269,841)
41 Killing Me Softly - Fugees (1,268,157)
42 Never Ever - All Saints (1,254,604)
43 Gangsta's Paradise - Coolio ft LV (1,246,306)
44 Diana - Paul Anka (1,240,000)
45 Think Twice - Celine Dion (1,234,982)
46 It's Now Or Never - Elvis Presley (1,210,000)
47 Green Green Grass Of Home - Tom Jones (1,205,000)
48 Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners & the Emerald Express (1,201,000)
49 It Wasn't Me - Shaggy featuring RikRok (1,180,708)
50 Heart Of Glass - Blondie (1,180,000)
51 Mary's Boy Child - Harry Belafonte (1,175,000)
52 The Last Waltz - Engelbert Humperdinck (1,160,000)
53 Bright Eyes - Art Garfunkel (1,155,000)
54 Tragedy / Heartbeat - Steps (1,149,000)
55 Don't Give Up On Us - David Soul (1,145,000)
56 I Love You Love Me Love - Gary Glitter (1,140,000)
57 Tainted Love - Soft Cell (1,135,000)
58 Stranger On the Shore - Mr. Acker Bilk (1,130,000)
59 It's Like That (remix) - Run DMC vs Jason Nevins (1,119,905)
60 Teletubbies Say Eh-Oh! - Teletubbies (1,107,235)
61 Spaceman - Babylon Zoo (1,098,860)
62 I Remember You - Frank Ifield (1,096,000)
63 I Believe / Up On The Roof - Robson & Jerome (1,093,972)
64 Saturday Night - Whigfield (1,092,250)
65 Pure and Simple - Hear'Say (1,078,434)
66 No Matter What - Boyzone (1,074,192)
67 2 Become 1 - Spice Girls (1,072,073)
68 The Young Ones - Cliff Richard & the Shadows (1,052,000)
69 Earth Song - Michael Jackson (1,038,821)
70 Can't Get You Out Of My Head - Kylie Minogue (1,037,235)
71 Blue (Da Ba Dee) - Eiffel 65 (1,023,526)
72 Can We Fix It? - Bob the Builder (1,008,777)
73 Merry Christmas Everybody - Slade (1,006,500)
74 Save Your Kisses For Me - Brotherhood Of Man (1,006,200)
75 Eye Level (TV Theme From "Van Der Valk") - Simon Park Orchestra (1,005,500)
76 Blue Monday - New Order (1,001,400)
77 Long Haired Lover From Liverpool - Little Jimmy Osmond (998,000)
78 Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2 - Pink Floyd (995,000)
79 Don't Cry For Me Argentina - Julie Covington (993,000)
80 Eye Of The Tiger - Survivor (990,000)
81 I'd Like To Teach the World To Sing - New Seekers (990,000)
82 Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree - Dawn featuring Tony Orlando (988,000)
83 Stand And Deliver - Adam and the Ants (985,000)
84 Under The Moon Of Love - Showaddywaddy (985,000)
85 Torn - Natalie Imbruglia (982,324)
86 Especially For You - Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan (982,000)
87 Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Ian and the Blockheads (979,100)
88 Sugar Sugar - The Archies (979,000)
89 The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh) - Tight Fit (978,000)
90 The Next Time / Bachelor Boy - Cliff Richard & the Shadows (976,000)
91 Fame - Irene Cara (975,000)
92 Theme From Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr (974,001)
93 Uptown Girl - Billy Joel (974,000)
94 Ride On Time - Black Box (973,000)
95 Telstar - Tornados (967,000)
96 Wonderwall - Oasis (966,940)
97 Amazing Grace - The Pipes and Drums and Military Band of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (962,000)
98 Back For Good - Take That (959,000)
99 Sailing - Rod Stewart (955,000)
100 Mississippi - Pussycat (947,000)

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