June 27, 201312 yr Oh well... I was expecting OneD were going to announce a split :lol: that would have been bigger news When One Direction do split, it'll more likely be Perez Hilton or someone announcing it rather than the OCC. :lol: I didn't read this until now, but it wasn't going to be streaming anyway, since the official chart is a sales chart, that's how it'll always be.
June 27, 201312 yr The OCC seem to have gotten into the habit of hyping up announcements that really aren't worth hyping, so this is not surprising. It is pleasing to see Whole Again and Mysterious Girl pass a million however.
June 27, 201312 yr Didn't 'Titanium' pass 1 million quite a while back now? It's barely left the top 100 since then so not sure its sales figure is accurate, still says '1.00m'. Unless I'm overstating how long ago it passed 1m. EDIT: Indeed in the 'confirmed million sellers' topic it says 1.04m so that must be wrong. Good to have an updated list but the sales and order aren't trustworthy. Edited June 27, 201312 yr by LoveBréAgain
June 27, 201312 yr Someone buy 10,000 copies if Especially For You please so it finally makes it! :( Or 5K of "Bad Romance"!
June 27, 201312 yr Bad Romance, Rolling in the Deep and Diamonds are the ones I'm interested in next. All three are the peak of their singers' careers, in my opinion. Plus Starships - it's going to happen. You cannot stop it.
June 27, 201312 yr Actually, to be fair to the OCC, they didn't hype anything up. They said they had a 'BIG announcement' as in (Notorious) B.I.G announcement. :kink:
June 27, 201312 yr The UK’s Official biggest selling singles of all-time 01 4,910,000 SOMETHING ABOUT THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT/CANDLE IN THE WIND '97 ELTON JOHN 1997 02 3,730,000 DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS? BAND AID 1984 03 2,400,000 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY QUEEN 1975 04 2,070,000 MULL OF KINTYRE/GIRLS' SCHOOL WINGS 1977 05 2,040,000 YOU'RE THE ONE THAT I WANT JOHN TRAVOLTA & OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN 1978 06 2,030,000 RELAX FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD 1983 07 2,020,000 RIVERS OF BABYLON/BROWN GIRL IN THE RING BONEY M 1978 08 1,910,000 SHE LOVES YOU THE BEATLES 1963 09 1,860,000 UNCHAINED MELODY/(THERE'LL BE BLUEBIRDS OVER) THE WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER ROBSON GREEN & JEROME FLYNN 1995 10 1,860,000 LOVE IS ALL AROUND WET WET WET 1994 11 1,860,000 MARY'S BOY CHILD/OH MY LORD BONEY M 1978 12 1,840,000 I JUST CALLED TO SAY I LOVE YOU STEVIE WONDER 1984 13 1,800,000 BARBIE GIRL AQUA 1997 14 1,790,000 ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE/EVERGREEN WILL YOUNG 2002 15 1,770,000 I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND THE BEATLES 1963 16 1,770,000 BELIEVE CHER 1998 17 1,750,000 (EVERYTHING I DO) I DO IT FOR YOU BRYAN ADAMS 1991 18 1,700,000 LAST CHRISTMAS/EVERYTHING SHE WANTS WHAM! 1984 19 1,640,000 IMAGINE JOHN LENNON 1975 20 1,600,000 SUMMER NIGHTS JOHN TRAVOLTA & OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN 1978 21 1,590,000 TWO TRIBES FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD 1984 22 1,580,000 I'LL BE MISSING YOU PUFF DADDY & FAITH EVANS 1997 23 1,560,000 DON'T YOU WANT ME? HUMAN LEAGUE 1981 24 1,550,000 I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU WHITNEY HOUSTON 1992 25 1,550,000 PERFECT DAY VARIOUS ARTISTS 1997 26 1,540,000 THREE LIONS BADDIEL & SKINNER & LIGHTNING SEEDS 1996 27 1,540,000 CAN'T BUY ME LOVE THE BEATLES 1964 28 1,520,000 ...BABY ONE MORE TIME BRITNEY SPEARS 1999 29 1,520,000 TEARS KEN DODD 1965 30 1,500,000 MY HEART WILL GO ON CELINE DION 1998 31 1,490,000 KARMA CHAMELEON CULTURE CLUB 1983 32 1,470,000 YMCA VILLAGE PEOPLE 1978 33 1,460,000 EYE OF THE TIGER SURVIVOR 1982 34 1,460,000 CARELESS WHISPER GEORGE MICHAEL 1984 35 1,450,000 GANGSTA'S PARADISE COOLIO FT LV 1995 36 1,450,000 SOMEONE LIKE YOU ADELE 2011 37 1,430,000 (WE'RE GONNA) ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK BILL HALEY & HIS COMETS 1955 38 1,420,000 I FEEL FINE THE BEATLES 1964 39 1,420,000 THE CARNIVAL IS OVER THE SEEKERS 1965 40 1,400,000 THE POWER OF LOVE JENNIFER RUSH 1985 41 1,390,000 WE CAN WORK IT OUT/DAY TRIPPER THE BEATLES 1964 42 1,390,000 MOVES LIKE JAGGER MAROON 5 FT CHRISTINA AGUILERA 2011 43 1,380,000 RELEASE ME ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK 1967 44 1,380,000 KILLING ME SOFTLY FUGEES 1996 45 1,350,000 SOMEBODY THAT I USED TO KNOW GOTYE FT KIMBRA 2011 46 1,350,000 I GOTTA FEELING BLACK EYED PEAS 2009 47 1,340,000 UNCHAINED MELODY GARETH GATES 2002 48 1,340,000 WANNABE SPICE GIRLS 1996 49 1,330,000 COME ON EILEEN DEXY'S MIDNIGHT RUNNERS 1982 50 1,320,000 (IS THIS THE WAY TO) AMARILLO TONY CHRISTIE FT PETER KAY 2005 51 1,320,000 IT WASN'T ME SHAGGY FT RIKROK 2001 52 1,320,000 WONDERWALL OASIS 1995 53 1,320,000 NEVER EVER ALL SAINTS 1997 54 1,320,000 THINK TWICE CELINE DION 1994 55 1,290,000 TAINTED LOVE SOFT CELL 1981 56 1,280,000 HEART OF GLASS BLONDIE 1979 57 1,260,000 IT'S NOW OR NEVER ELVIS PRESLEY 1960 58 1,260,000 IT'S LIKE THAT RUN-DMC VS JASON NEVINS 1997 59 1,260,000 WE FOUND LOVE RIHANNA FT CALVIN HARRIS 2011 60 1,250,000 SEX ON FIRE KINGS OF LEON 2008 61 1,250,000 HALLELUJAH ALEXANDRA BURKE 2008 62 1,250,000 DIANA PAUL ANKA 1957 63 1,240,000 GREEN, GREEN GRASS OF HOME TOM JONES 1966 64 1,230,000 MERRY XMAS EVERYBODY SLADE 1973 65 1,200,000 BRIGHT EYES ART GARFUNKEL 1979 66 1,190,000 HEARTBEAT/TRAGEDY STEPS 1998 67 1,190,000 PARTY ROCK ANTHEM LMFAO FT LAUREN BENNETT AND GOONROCK 2011 68 1,190,000 MARY'S BOY CHILD HARRY BELAFONTE 1957 69 1,180,000 CALL ME MAYBE CARLY RAE JEPSEN 2012 70 1,180,000 BLUE MONDAY NEW ORDER 1983 71 1,170,000 THE LAST WALTZ ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK 1967 72 1,170,000 EARTH SONG MICHAEL JACKSON 1995 73 1,170,000 DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS? BAND AID 20 2004 74 1,170,000 JUST THE WAY YOU ARE (AMAZING) BRUNO MARS 2010 75 1,160,000 CAN'T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD KYLIE MINOGUE 2001 76 1,160,000 STRANGER ON THE SHORE MR ACKER BILK AND HIS PARAMOUNT JAZZ BAND 1961 77 1,160,000 DON'T GIVE UP ON US DAVID SOUL 1976 78 1,150,000 SATURDAY NIGHT WHIGFIELD 1994 79 1,150,000 SPACEMAN BABYLON ZOO 1996 80 1,140,000 I LOVE YOU LOVE ME LOVE GARY GLITTER 1973 81 1,140,000 ANGELS ROBBIE WILLIAMS 1997 82 1,130,000 NO MATTER WHAT BOYZONE 1998 83 1,130,000 PRICE TAG JESSIE J FT B.O.B 2011 84 1,120,000 POKER FACE LADY GAGA 2009 85 1,120,000 TORN NATALIE IMBRUGLIA 1997 86 1,120,000 IMPOSSIBLE JAMES ARTHUR 2012 87 1,120,000 I BELIEVE/UP ON THE ROOF ROBSON & JEROME 1995 88 1,110,000 2 BECOME 1 SPICE GIRLS 1996 89 1,110,000 LOVE THE WAY YOU LIE EMINEM FT RIHANNA 2010 90 1,110,000 HIT ME WITH YOUR RHYTHM STICK IAN DURY AND THE BLOCKHEADS 1978 91 1,110,000 GHOSTBUSTERS RAY PARKER JR. 1984 92 1,110,000 TELETUBBIES SAY "EH-OH!" TELETUBBIES 1997 93 1,100,000 THAT'S MY GOAL SHAYNE WARD 2005 94 1,100,000 I REMEMBER YOU FRANK IFIELD 1962 95 1,100,000 ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL (PART 2) PINK FLOYD 1979 96 1,090,000 PURE AND SIMPLE HEAR'SAY 2001 97 1,080,000 BACK FOR GOOD TAKE THAT 1995 98 1,080,000 HEY JUDE THE BEATLES 1968 99 1,080,000 ONLY GIRL (IN THE WORLD) RIHANNA 2010 100 1,080,000 BLUE (DA BA DEE) EIFFEL 65 1999 101 1,070,000 DANCING QUEEN ABBA 1976 102 1,070,000 I DON'T WANT TO MISS A THING AEROSMITH 1998 103 1,070,000 I FEEL LOVE DONNA SUMMER 1977 104 1,060,000 THE YOUNG ONES CLIFF RICHARD & THE SHADOWS 1962 105 1,060,000 BLEEDING LOVE LEONA LEWIS 2007 106 1,060,000 RIDE ON TIME BLACK BOX 1989 107 1,060,000 CRAZY GNARLS BARKLEY 2006 108 1,050,000 FAME IRENE CARA 1982 109 1,050,000 UNCHAINED MELODY THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS 1965 110 1,040,000 STAND & DELIVER ADAM AND THE ANTS 1981 111 1,030,000 I WILL SURVIVE GLORIA GAYNOR 1979 112 1,030,000 UPTOWN GIRL BILLY JOEL 1983 113 1,030,000 SAILING ROD STEWART 1975 114 1,020,000 CAN WE FIX IT? BOB THE BUILDER 2000 115 1,020,000 SUGAR SUGAR THE ARCHIES 1969 116 1,020,000 WHITE CHRISTMAS BING CROSBY WITH THE KEN DARBY SINGERS AND JOHN SCOTT TROTTER ORCHESTRA 1942 117 1,020,000 GANGNAM STYLE PSY 2012 118 1,020,000 SAVE YOUR KISSES FOR ME BROTHERHOOD OF MAN 1976 119 1,020,000 FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK POGUES FT KIRSTY MACCOLL 1987 120 1,010,000 THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT TIGHT FIT 1982 121 1,010,000 WE ARE YOUNG FUN FT JANELLE MONAE 2011 122 1,010,000 I'D LIKE TO TEACH THE WORLD TO SING THE NEW SEEKERS 1971 123 1,010,000 DON'T CRY FOR ME ARGENTINA JULIE COVINGTON 1976 124 1,010,000 WHEN WE COLLIDE MATT CARDLE 2010 125 1,010,000 EYE LEVEL THE SIMON PARK ORCHESTRA 1972 126 1,000,000 UNDER THE MOON OF LOVE SHOWADDYWADDY 1976 127 1,000,000 LONG HAIRED LOVER FROM LIVERPOOL LITTLE JIMMY OSMOND 1972 128 1,000,000 FIGHT FOR THIS LOVE CHERYL COLE 2009 129 1,000,000 TIE A YELLOW RIBBON ROUND THE OLE OAK TREE DAWN FT TONY ORLANDO 1973 130 1,000,000 TITANIUM DAVID GUETTA FT SIA 2011 131 1,000,000 DON'T GO BREAKING MY HEART ELTON JOHN & KIKI DEE 1976 132 1,000,000 MYSTERIOUS GIRL PETER ANDRE FT BUBBLER RANX 1995 133 1,000,000 WHOLE AGAIN ATOMIC KITTEN 2001 134 1,000,000 THE A TEAM ED SHEERAN 2011 135 1,000,000 USE SOMEBODY KINGS OF LEON 2008 136 1,000,000 GET LUCKY DAFT PUNK FT PHARRELL WILLIAMS & NILE RODGERS 2013
June 27, 201312 yr I think Ed Sheeran will be higher on the list, probably around 126 and a few others, sales wise.
June 27, 201312 yr Bad Romance, Rolling in the Deep and Diamonds are the ones I'm interested in next. All three are the peak of their singers' careers, in my opinion. Plus Starships - it's going to happen. You cannot stop it. Completely agreed. LOL. As if Heart Attack is anywhere near a million already :D Much more overrated songs than this in 2013!
June 28, 201312 yr Didn't 'Titanium' pass 1 million quite a while back now? It's barely left the top 100 since then so not sure its sales figure is accurate, still says '1.00m'. Unless I'm overstating how long ago it passed 1m. EDIT: Indeed in the 'confirmed million sellers' topic it says 1.04m so that must be wrong. Good to have an updated list but the sales and order aren't trustworthy. I have Titanium on 1070k, as of this week.
June 28, 201312 yr What a big anti climax :manson: Good to know that Get Lucky is officially a million seller though!
June 28, 201312 yr I find the new additions to the million club quite reassuring, 4 of them pre-date the download era and are fairly spread-out chronologically, and one would expect given the pace of pre-download additions that download era keep up with them as million-sellers at the least. Not that I'm advocating any more go out and download Mysterious Girl or Whole Again when there are about 5,000 better oldies to pick from. At least....
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