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BuzzJack Music Forum _ UK Charts _ OCC: Missy Elliott's top 20 biggest singles
Posted by: danG 13th August 2019, 01:24 PM
https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/missy-elliotts-top-20-biggest-singles-on-the-official-uk-chart__27064/
1 GET UR FREAK ON MISSY ELLIOTT 2001 4 513k
2 1 2 STEP CIARA FT MISSY ELLIOTT 2005 3 408k (1.75m video streams)
3 WORK IT MISSY ELLIOTT 2002 6
4 4 MY PEOPLE MISSY ELLIOTT 2002 5
5 I WANT YOU BACK MELANIE B FT MISSY ELLIOTT 1998 1
6 LOSE CONTROL MISSY ELLIOTT 2005 7
7 WHATCHA THINK ABOUT THAT PUSSYCAT DOLLS/MISSY ELLIOTT 2009 9
8 CAR WASH CHRISTINA AGUILERA FT MISSY 2004 4
9 HOW YA DOIN' LITTLE MIX FT MISSY ELLIOTT 2013 16
10 ONE MINUTE MAN MISSY ELLIOTT FT LUDACRIS 2001 10
11 GOSSIP FOLKS MISSY ELLIOTT FT LUDACRIS 2003 9
12 BOUNCE TIMBALAND/DR DRE/MISSY ELLIOTT 2007 NA
13 PASS THAT DUTCH MISSY ELLIOTT 2003 10
14 WTF (WHERE THEY FROM) MISSY ELLIOTT FT PHARRELL 2015 66
15 THE RAIN (SUPA DUPA FLY) MISSY ELLIOTT 1997 16
16 LET IT GO KEYSHIA COLE FT MISSY ELLIOTT 2007 NA
17 WORK CIARA FT MISSY ELLIOTT 2009 52
18 BORDERLINE ARIANA GRANDE FT MISSY ELLIOTT 2018 NA
19 NOBODY'S PERFECT J COLE FT MISSY ELLIOTT 2011 NA
20 MAKE IT HOT NICOLE FT MISSY ELLIOTT/MOCHA 1998 22
Additional info:
Total record sales >5m (>30m globally)
Miss E… So Addictive 314.5k
Posted by: davidas 13th August 2019, 02:56 PM
So Happy she's being honored with the Vanguard! 
Posted by: pippa 13th August 2019, 03:02 PM
No platinum single.
I expected her to have some higher selling singles.
Posted by: danG 13th August 2019, 03:05 PM
I think she's more a victim of peaking in the low sales era of the 00s - Get Ur Freak On and Work It are iconic singles but both released in that period.
Posted by: vibe 13th August 2019, 06:30 PM
She is a creative genius !
Posted by: T Boy 13th August 2019, 07:08 PM
4 My People and Gossip Folks are loser than I would have expected.
Posted by: SKOB 13th August 2019, 07:18 PM
Missy is da best! She's always been criminally underrated among the rap audience when tracks and especially videos like The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly), She's a Bitch, Hot Boyz, Sock It 2 Me basically set the bar at the end of 90s let alone masterpieces like Get Ur Freak On and Work It a few years later.
I'm ecstatic that her work is being recognized!!
Posted by: Bré 13th August 2019, 10:36 PM
Her lack of recent big hits makes this list look a little less distorted than these often do - 'Get Ur Freak On' is definitely the right song to be at #1. A shame that she's never had a platinum single though, so many bangers!
Posted by: JCM20 13th August 2019, 11:05 PM
It's unfortunate that she doesn't get credited on Lady Marmalade, even though her voice is on the track
Posted by: Medellíam 13th August 2019, 11:12 PM
I too was surprised to see no Platinum singles. I thought some of her features might have done better and boosted the list a bit, like how Sean Paul's best sellers were mostly features.
Work It and WTF are my favourites out of her own hits, then the two Ciara songs, Car Wash and Whatcha Think About That (the video version, not the dull album version).
Shout out to BURNITUP with Janet Jackson too!
Posted by: Jay ☆ 14th August 2019, 06:42 AM
I’m impressed that Get Ur Freak On is on over 500k and is highly likely to go Platinum in a couple of years! It ended 2001 on sales of 165,000, which made it the 68th best seller of that year. It passed 400k in August 2017.
4 My People was a slightly bigger hit back in the day, selling 173,000 and being the 47th best seller of 2002 (which demonstrates how sales fell in 2002, given that the 47th best seller of 2001 = 224,000 sales).
I was surprised that Oops (Oh My) isn’t on the list, but it seems Missy didn’t get officially credited for some reason.
Posted by: T Boy 14th August 2019, 08:52 AM
4 My People was a slightly bigger hit back in the day, selling 173,000 and being the 47th best seller of 2002 (which demonstrates how sales fell in 2002, given that the 47th best seller of 2001 = 224,000 sales).
I was surprised that Oops (Oh My) isn’t on the list, but it seems Missy didn’t get officially credited for some reason.
She was credited on it on the Hits series and I swear they always mentioned her when playing it on the radio.
Posted by: tommie 15th August 2019, 01:17 PM
Exactly - both Freak and Work It are defintively well-remembered classics, but sales were just ridiculously low. I'm not surprised she hasn't gotten a Platinum single yet, but I assume Freak and maybe Work It (along with 1, 2 Step if we're counting features) will make it eventually.
Posted by: Jay ☆ 15th August 2019, 02:19 PM
Work It wasn't a particularly big hit in the UK in 2002, which seems surprising considering it feels like a well-remembered classic now (Top 40 run of: 06-14-21-27-33-40 | 70,000 sales in 2002). It deserved more success at the time! It passed 200,000/certified Silver in June 2017. I wonder how far away from Gold it is?
It was huge in the US, ten weeks at #2!
Posted by: danG 15th August 2019, 03:16 PM
If streaming was around in that time I suspect it would've been a lot bigger!
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