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Olly Murs' Official Top 10 biggest songs revealed
By Justin Myers

Pop's premier cheeky chappy and all-round diamond geezer Olly Murs is finally back with us, releasing his new album 24HRS this week.

While we wait to see if it can score him a fourth Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart, let's look back at the songs that made him a success, and count down his all-time Top 10 songs based on sales and streams.

"I know this!" Olly told Official Charts when we quizzed him on his biggest sellers. "I think it's 1. Troublemaker, 2. Dance with Me Tonight and 3..."

Let us stop you there Olly, because you're wrong.

Top of the heap is Olly's second Number 1 single, Dance with Me Tonght, which hit the top in December 2011, after a very memorable performance with the Muppets on The X Factor – the show that started it all for Mr Murs. It's his top-seller with just under 797,000 copies shifted, and while it was released before streaming contributed toward the chart, its 6.5 million plays makes it Olly's biggest song.

2012 Number 1 Troublemaker settles for silver – 765,000 of you bought this one, and it's been streamed 8.8 million times. It's Olly's only chart-topper to last longer than a week at Number 1.

Up in third is Olly's collaboration with Demi Lovato, Up, which spent 19 weeks in the Top 40, peaking at 4. It's sold 502,000 copies, but as it was released after streaming began to be counted, its 27.6 million plays means it's Olly's most streamed track of all-time – so far!

Another chart-topper, Olly's first ever, is fourth. Heart Skips A Beat, which features Rizzle Kicks, spent a week at the top in 2011, and has 706,000 sales under its belt, along with 3.3 million streams.

Dear Darlin' was a Number 5 hit in 2012 and it also finishes fifth in Olly's all-time Top 10 – 701,000 bought this one, and it's notched up 9.77 million streams.

Olly's most recent Top 40 hit You Don't Know Love just makes his Top 10, thanks to 144,000 sales and 17.9 million streams.

But which is Olly's personal favourite? "Honestly, it changes," he told us. "When you do a new album you hear all these new songs and you fall in love with them.

"The Top 3 singles you've mentioned are probably my best. There's no better feeling when you come on stage to perform those songs and the audience reacts in a big way and sings them back to you."

That all said, he added: "Kiss Me is a song I love so much. Dear Darlin' as well is big a favourite of mine. I've been lucky enough to have hits over the years. Hopefully I can continue this with this new album."

Are there any singles he's gone off or regrets over the years? "Probably Army Of Two," he told us, "but I liked it because it was for the fans and I wrote it for them. It set up the next single Dear Darlin' nicely though. Sometimes it's just about finding the right moment to put something out."

Olly Murs' Official Top 10 biggest songs of all time are:

TITLE PEAK YEAR
1 DANCE WITH ME TONIGHT 1 2011
2 TROUBLEMAKER 1 2012
3 UP 4 2014
4 HEART SKIPS A BEAT 1 2011
5 DEAR DARLIN' 5 2012
6 WRAPPED UP 3 2014
7 PLEASE DON'T LET ME GO 1 2010
8 KISS ME 11 2015
9 THINKING OF ME 4 2010
10 YOU DON'T KNOW LOVE 15 2016
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While we're here, let's have a look at his albums, shall we?

Olly's biggest album is his third, Right Place Right Time, which spent 16 weeks in the Top 10 and two of those at Number 1 in 2012. Its combined sales tally – comprising physical sales, downloads and streams – stands at a whopping 1.34 million.

Olly has another million-selling album to his name, too; sophomore album In Case You Didn't Know, from 2011, is on 1.1 million.

Fewer than 20,000 combined sales separate Olly's first album and his fourth, Never Been Better, but his self-titled debut edges it to make third place.