Posted September 12, 201311 yr Elton John’s Official Top 40 Most Downloaded Tracks revealed! 12/09/2013 By Daniel Lane http://c0903002.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/8079-elton_john_brits_icon_award_420x250.jpg To celebrate Sir Elton John’s BRITs Icon Award, we reveal his Top 40 most downloaded tracks! Tomorrow night (Friday 13 September) on ITV and ITV HD, 9pm, Sir Elton John will be honoured with the first ever BRITSs Icon Award. Dermot O'Leary hosts the glittering show at London's Palladium, including a special performance by Sir Elton and Rod Stewart, who presents him with the inaugural award. To whet your appetite, and celebrate Elton’s remarkable career, we’re exclusively counting down Elton’s Official Top 40 Most Downloaded Tracks! Elton has sold more than 250 million records worldwide and is also famously responsible for the UK’s biggest selling single of all time - Something About The Way You Look Tonight / Candle In The Wind 1997. BUT how have the British musical icon’s singles faired in the digital age? With sales totalling nearly 5 million copies, you’d expect Something About The Way You Look Tonight / Candle In The Wind 1997 to be Elton’s most downloaded single too, wouldn’t you? Well, since 2004, when legal digital music services launched in the UK and the Official Charts Company started collecting digital sales data, this double A-side is actually only Elton’s ninth most downloaded single! Elton’s biggest digital seller is the 2009 reworking of Tiny Dancer – retitled Tiny Dancer (Hold Me Closer) - by Ironik and Chipmunk. The original version of the track was featured on Elton’s 1971 album, Madman Across The Water, although now often recognised a bona fide Elton classic, was never actually released as a single in the UK the first time around. However the 2009 version peaked at Number 3 on the Official Singles Chart, and has sold 238,000 copies to date. The 1971 version of the track is also at Number 6 in our countdown, you may remember it prompting a mass tour bus sing-a-long (and rightly so!) in the coming of age rock ‘n’ roll movie Almost Famous (2000) featuring Kate Hudson. #ChartFact: Tiny Dancer can count a number of celebrity fans including legendary Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl and boyband 5ive’s Abz Love. With a digital sales tally of 182,000 copies, at Number 2 on Elton John’s Official Top 40 Most Downloaded Tracks is Ghetto Gospel with Tupac Shakur. Released in the UK in 2005 (where it peaked at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart) the track was the second single to be released from Tupac’s posthumous 2004 album, Loyal To The Game. Ghetto Gospel was produced by Eminem, who added in samples from Elton’s 1971 track Indian Summer. Like Tiny Dancer, Indian Summer is also taken from Madman Across The Water, and was also not previously released as a single in the UK. #ChartFact: Indian Summer is unsurprisingly popular to the people of the UK! There are no less than three different tracks called Indian Summer that have charted on the Official Singles Chart. At Number 3 is Elton’s first ever Official Singles Chart hit – Your Song (180,000 digital sales). Originally released in 1971, Your Song initially peaked at Number 7. It has re-entered the Official Singles Chart Top 75 on two other occasions in 2002 thanks to its starring role in the film Moulin Rouge (where it peaked at Number 4), and again in 2010 (reaching 61). Your Song has also been covered by everyone from Donny Osmond to Andy Williams, Rod Stewart to Cissy Houston (mother of Whitney), Boyzone and perhaps most notably, gave Ellie Goulding her biggest UK hit to date. #ChartFact: With digital sales of 758,000, Ellie Goulding has sold even more downloads of her cover of Your Song than Elton has himself of the original, bringing this classic to a whole new generation of music fans. And finally, completing the Top 5 is Rocket Man (Elton’s second single to chart in the UK) which is at Number 4 with 101,000 digital sales, and Can You Feel The Love Tonight from the 1994 Disney masterpiece The Lion King (Number 5 with 98,000 digital sales). #ChartFact: Rocket Man is the Elton tune of choice for 2013’s hottest producer, Naughty Boy. Fellow Watford talent Naughty Boy, who co-wrote and produced 2012’s biggest selling album – Emeli Sande’s Our Version Of Events and topped the charts in his own right earlier this year with summer anthem, La La La – chatted to OfficialCharts.com about being a fan of the BRITs Icon winner: “I’m from Watford, and the Watford Observer did this thing recently where they talked about musicians from Watford. It was nice to be put on a page next to Elton John. There’s me, Elton John, and Geri Halliwell, ha!” Naughty Boy continued, “He’s amazing, Rocket Man is one of my favourite songs. To be honest I’m getting to work with a lot of people I want to right now, but someone like Elton John, and Adele, would be amazing. Even together, maybe?!” This is a collaboration we DEFINITELY need to see happen! You can see the full Top 40 below: 1 TINY DANCER (HOLD ME CLOSER) IRONIK / CHIPMUNK / ELTON JOHN 2 GHETTO GOSPEL 2PAC FT ELTON JOHN 3 YOUR SONG ELTON JOHN 4 ROCKET MAN ELTON JOHN 5 CAN YOU FEEL THE LOVE TONIGHT ELTON JOHN 6 TINY DANCER ELTON JOHN 7 I GUESS THAT'S WHY THEY CALL IT THE BLUES ELTON JOHN 8 STEP INTO CHRISTMAS ELTON JOHN 9 SOMETHING ABOUT THE WAY YOU LOOK/CANDLE IN THE WIND '97 ELTON JOHN 10 I'M STILL STANDING ELTON JOHN 11 SACRIFICE ELTON JOHN 12 CANDLE IN THE WIND ELTON JOHN 13 DON'T GO BREAKING MY HEART ELTON JOHN 14 ARE YOU READY FOR LOVE ELTON JOHN 15 CROCODILE ROCK ELTON JOHN 16 DON'T LET THE SUN GO DOWN ON ME GEORGE MICHAEL FT ELTON JOHN 17 CIRCLE OF LIFE ELTON JOHN 18 SORRY SEEMS TO BE THE HARDEST WORD BLUE FT ELTON JOHN 19 BENNY AND THE JETS ELTON JOHN 20 GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD ELTON JOHN 21 DANIEL ELTON JOHN 22 SORRY SEEMS TO BE THE HARDEST WORD ELTON JOHN 23 DON'T LET THE SUN GO DOWN ON ME ELTON JOHN 24 ELECTRICITY ELTON JOHN 25 SATURDAY NIGHTS ALRIGHT FOR FIGHTING ELTON JOHN 26 I WANT LOVE ELTON JOHN 27 NIKITA ELTON JOHN 28 SAD ELTON JOHN VS PNAU 29 SONG FOR GUY ELTON JOHN 30 PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM ELTON JOHN 31 SOMEONE SAVED MY LIFE TONIGHT ELTON JOHN 32 SAD SONGS (SAY SO MUCH) ELTON JOHN 33 BLUE EYES ELTON JOHN 34 THE ONE ELTON JOHN 35 THIS TRAIN DON'T STOP THERE ANYMORE ELTON JOHN 36 MONA LISAS AND MAD HATTERS ELTON JOHN 37 KISS THE BRIDE ELTON JOHN 38 HEALING HANDS ELTON JOHN 39 PINBALL WIZARD ELTON JOHN 40 CALLING IT CHRISTMAS JOSS STONE & ELTON JOHN © 2013 Official Charts Company. All rights reserved. Edited September 12, 201311 yr by liamk97
September 12, 201311 yr It seems they're counting sales of 'Something About The Way You Look Tonight' to the double A-Side total then, while sales of 'Candle In The Wind' go to a separate entry for just that song.
September 12, 201311 yr I like the random #ChartFacts they've littered throughout the article :lol: It seems they're counting sales of 'Something About The Way You Look Tonight' to the double A-Side total then, while sales of 'Candle In The Wind' go to a separate entry for just that song. The separate entry is probably for the original 70s version of Candle In The Wind.
September 12, 201311 yr The separate entry is probably for the original 70s version of Candle In The Wind. I would assume digital sales of 'Candle In The Wind '97' are combined with that though.
September 12, 201311 yr I would assume digital sales of 'Candle In The Wind '97' are combined with that though. Really? I'd count them as different songs. They have a different sound and a lyric change. I'm not sure it would be right to combine them.
September 12, 201311 yr Really? I'd count them as different songs. They have a different sound and a lyric change. I'm not sure it would be right to combine them. They combine the various versions of Three Lions and Do They Know It's Christmas so I suspect they combine Candle. Having said that, if that is the case, it would make more sense to list Something... as a separate song.
September 12, 201311 yr They combine the various versions of Three Lions and Do They Know It's Christmas so I suspect they combine Candle. Having said that, if that is the case, it would make more sense to list Something... as a separate song. They don't combine 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' because they're credited to different artists (whereas 'Three Lions '98' and 'Candle In The Wind '97' are just updated versions of songs by the same artist, essentially 'remixes'). I'm fairly certain #9 in this list is only counting sales of 'Something About The Way You Look Tonight', it's just still listed as a double A-Side for 'consistency' with how it originally charted. I might be wrong though.
September 12, 201311 yr I would certainly think that "Candle In The Wind", in whichever version, would be outselling "Something About..." as a trickle seller, so I'm not sure Bre's assumption is correct this time. Oh, and surely "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" should be crediting Kiki Dee? Edited September 12, 201311 yr by fchd
September 12, 201311 yr 'Something About The Way You Look Tonight' has charted in the top 100 in the download era (after a performance on X Factor IIRC) while 'Candle In The Wind' hasn't. I doubt there's a massive difference between 9th and 12th on this list and I also doubt that either have sold that much at all so I think that re-entry alone could easily have put 'SATWYLT' ahead. As I say though, I don't know that for certain and unless the OCC confirm either way (which is unlikely) no one does :P On an unrelated note I'm surprised to see 'Step Into Christmas' so low, although I guess it doesn't help that its trickle sales are close to zero outside the last couple of months of each year. Suspect it'll climb into his top 5 downloads over time even so.
September 12, 201311 yr FAO Naughty Boy - Elton John is from Pinner, not Watford. I think he might have gone to school in Watford.
September 13, 201311 yr FAO Naughty Boy - Elton John is from Pinner, not Watford. I think he might have gone to school in Watford. Yeah he's definitely from Pinner cos that's where I'm from, that's my sad little claim to fame :lol:
September 13, 201311 yr Yeah, I'm a local too so we like to hold on to our small collection of pop stars. Well, except maybe Peter Andre.
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