April 21, 201114 yr The numerous million sellers that didn't get to #1 beg to differ :P (Last Christmas + many others #2, Blue Monday #3, Angels #4...) There have only been a tiny handful of million sellers that didn't reach no.1. 'Torn' by Natalie Imbruglia is the only other one I can readily think of. Last Christmas sold 1.5m but only got to no.2 due to the exceptional circumstances of Band Aid being no.1. Blue Monday accmulated it's sales over a 12 year period. Thinking about it, even 'Torn' only reached a million in the download era. In the future of course there will be quite a few no.2s (and lower) peaking singles that will stagger over the finishing line to a million sales, perhaps several years (or longer) after intial release. 'Love the way You Lie' for example should make it by the end of this year.
April 21, 201114 yr There have only been a tiny handful of million sellers that didn't reach no.1. 'Torn' by Natalie Imbruglia is the only other one I can readily think of. Last Christmas sold 1.5m but only got to no.2 due to the exceptional circumstances of Band Aid being no.1. Blue Monday accmulated it's sales over a 12 year period. Thinking about it, even 'Torn' only reached a million in the download era. In the future of course there will be quite a few no.2s (and lower) peaking singles that will stagger over the finishing line to a million sales, perhaps several years (or longer) after intial release. 'Love the way You Lie' for example should make it by the end of this year. I know there aren't many but my point was there have been a few. The reason Torn is the only other one you can think of is because I named all of them except Torn and Mr. Acker Bilk - Stranger On The Shore. I was exaggerating when I said 'many others'.
April 21, 201114 yr I know there aren't many but my point was there have been a few. The reason Torn is the only other one you can think of is because I named all of them except Torn and Mr. Acker Bilk - Stranger On The Shore. I was exaggerating when I said 'many others'. There is actually one (possibly two) others. Oasis with 'Wonderwall'. Bing Crosby's White Christmas may well have sold a million. Apart from as a re-release in 1977 when it made no.5 and as minor entries in the download era it's sales were well before the time the charts existed. We will never know for sure of course but I'd like to think it did, not bad for the 1940s :) Edited April 21, 201114 yr by Col1967
April 21, 201114 yr There is actually one (possibly two) others. Oasis with 'Wonderwall'. Bing Crosby's White Christmas may well have sold a million. Apart from as a re-release in 1977 when it made no.5 and as minor entries in the download era it's sales were well before the time the charts existed. We will never know for sure of course but I'd like to think it did, not bad for the 1940s :) Oh yes, Wonderwall as well - everyhit.com just hasn't updated for ages. I decided to leave out White Christmas as it's debatable. Also it would have been #1 if the charts existed when it was first released.
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