Posted March 9, 201312 yr David Bowie’s Official Top 40 Biggest Selling Downloads revealed! 09/03/2013 By Daniel Lane To celebrate the release of David Bowie’s new album, The Next Day, OfficialCharts.com reveal his Top 40 most downloaded tracks of all time. As David Bowie gears up to release his 24th studio album, The Next Day, on Monday, we look back at his incredible chart career by counting down his most downloaded tracks of all-time - The Official David Bowie Digital Top 40! The early years Born David Jones in Brixton, London on January 8, 1947, Bowie released his first single, Liza Jane, in 1964 under the stage name Davie Jones with his then band, The King Bees. He reportedly quit The King Bees a month later to join the Manish Boys, leaving them after the release of their single I Pity The Fool, in 1965. He released two further singles - 1965’s You’ve Got A Habit Of Leaving and 1966’s Can’t Help Thinking About Me with The Lower Third - before changing his name to David Bowie later that year after another Davy Jones made his Official Singles Chart debut at Number 23 with Last Train to Clarksville as part of The Monkees. Bowie went on to release five more singles – 1966’s Do Anything You Say, I Dig Everything and Rubber Band, and 1967’s The Laughing Gnome and Love You Till Tuesday – and four albums, two eponymous releases (1967 and 1969), 1970's The Man Who Sold The World and 1971's Hunky Dory, all of which, like his previous singles, failed to chart at the time. An Official Chart star is born Bowie took a hiatus for two years before returning to music. His next single, Space Oddity, which was released in June, 1969 to coincide with the Apollo 11 moon landing, gave Bowie his first taste of chart success, peaking at Number 5 in the Official Singles Chart after the track was used by the BBC in their coverage. However it would be a further three years and seven more singles before Bowie would grace the charts again. Bowie’s next musical project would be The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars - a concept album about an earthly messenger sent by an extra-terrestrial power to save the youth of planet Earth. Taking the alter ego of Ziggy Stardust, Bowie’s 1972 single, Starman, peaked at Number 10 on the Official Singles Chart in June of that year, kick-starting a career that has now spanned nearly half a century, and has seen Bowie adapt like a chameleon to the ever-changing musical landscape. Scary Numbers (And Super Hits) Official Top 40 singles: 63 Official Number 1 singles: 5 (Space Oddity, Ashes To Ashes, Under Pressure, Let’s Dance, and Dancing In The Street) Official Number 1 albums: 8 All-time biggest selling UK single: Let’s Dance (Estimated sales 839,000) All-time biggest selling UK album: The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (Estimated sale 1.5 million) Diamond Downloads David Bowie is undeniably a chart legend who has evolved throughout chart history, BUT which of Bowie’s classics have delivered the goods in the new-fangled digital era? Let's have a look at David Bowie’s Official Top 40 Biggest Selling Downloads! David Bowie’s Official Top 40 Biggest Selling Downloads 1 LIFE ON MARS 2 UNDER PRESSURE (WITH QUEEN) 3 HEROES 4 LET'S DANCE 5 SPACE ODDITY 6 STARMAN 7 ASHES TO ASHES 8 CHANGES 9 WHERE ARE WE NOW 10 REBEL REBEL 11 PEACE ON EARTH/LITTLE DRUMMER BOY (WITH BING CROSBY) 12 THE JEAN GENIE 13 MODERN LOVE 14 CHINA GIRL 15 ZIGGY STARDUST 16 ALL THE YOUNG DUDES 17 DANCING IN THE STREET (WITH MICK JAGGER) 18 MAGIC DANCE E.P. 19 GOLDEN YEARS 20 SOUND AND VISION REMIX EP 21 THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD 22 YOUNG AMERICANS 23 ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS 24 SUFFRAGETTE CITY 25 OH YOU PRETTY THINGS 26 SORROW 27 QUEEN BITCH 28 LIFE ON MARS/WAKE UP/FIVE YEARS (WITH ARCADE FIRE) 29 THE LAUGHING GNOME 30 CAT PEOPLE (PUTTING OUT FIRE) 31 FASHION 32 FAME '90 E.P. 33 AS THE WORLD FALLS DOWN 34 JOHN I'M ONLY DANCING 35 WILD IS THE WIND 36 FIVE YEARS 37 ROCK N ROLL SUICIDE 38 KOOKS 39 MOONAGE DAYDREAM 40 DRIVE IN SATURDAY © 2013 The Official Charts Company. All rights reserved.
March 9, 201312 yr Nice to see this list, however it would be even nicer if they gave us SALES Here are the songs I like from the list: 1 LIFE ON MARS 2 UNDER PRESSURE (WITH QUEEN) 3 HEROES 4 LET'S DANCE 5 SPACE ODDITY 6 STARMAN 7 ASHES TO ASHES 8 CHANGES 10 REBEL REBEL 11 PEACE ON EARTH/LITTLE DRUMMER BOY (WITH BING CROSBY) 12 THE JEAN GENIE 15 ZIGGY STARDUST 16 ALL THE YOUNG DUDES 17 DANCING IN THE STREET (WITH MICK JAGGER) 19 GOLDEN YEARS 22 YOUNG AMERICANS 24 SUFFRAGETTE CITY 25 OH YOU PRETTY THINGS 31 FASHION 36 FIVE YEARS
March 9, 201312 yr Author That puts download sales of "Let's Dance" on about 120k! If that wasn't good enough, Let's Dance is only #4 on his best selling downloads! :o Didn't expect Bowie to be that good of a trickle seller!
March 9, 201312 yr The Laughing Gnome is one of Bowie's biggest selling downloads? Do the deaf use iTunes regularly? A great top 10 nonetheless.
March 9, 201312 yr I think I would of preferred to see Bowies biggest selling hits of all time rather than just within the download era to be honest.
March 9, 201312 yr Author I think I would of preferred to see Bowies biggest selling hits of all time rather than just within the download era to be honest. Yeah, it would have been better. They did the same with Madonna last year, only difference being they previously supplied data to Music Week in 2008 and MTV in 2010 to compile an all-time best sellers lists.
March 9, 201312 yr To give some context to that chart, #9 'Where Are We Now' has sold 49k. Edited March 9, 201312 yr by vidcapper
March 9, 201312 yr Thought Heroes would have been no1 considering the amount of times it would have been used in commercials for sports events - Life on Mars must have done well with the tv show of the same name - Little Drummer Boy obv selling well each december - must sell 10k a year because of that maybe?
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