Posted January 30, 201411 yr Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Official Top 20 Biggest Selling Singles revealed! 30/01/2014 By Justin Myers http://c0903002.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/9209-420_sophie-ellis-bextor-top-20.jpg To celebrate her new album, Wanderlust, debuting in the Top 5, we count down Sophie Ellis-Bextor's Official Top 20 Biggest Selling Singles in the UK. She’s already been on the pop scene an incredible 16 years, and now Sophie Ellis-Bextor is set to celebrate her 11th solo Top 40 hit this Sunday with Youngblood. Last week Sophie enjoyed her highest charting album since her solo debut Read My Lips in 2001, when Wanderlust entered the Official Albums Chart at Number 4. Most people remember Sophie’s first big hit as her uncredited collaboration with dance DJ Spiller on huge Number 1 single Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love) in 2000. Hardcore Sophie fans, however, would be quick to tell you that the Bextor’s first dalliance with chart success was actually as part of indie pop band Theaudience (no we haven’t missed a space between the words). They had two Top 40 hits in 1998, A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed peaking at Number 27 and the biggest, I Know Enough (I Don’t Get Enough), reaching Number 25 on the Official Singles Chart and coming up 12th in Sophie’s sales countdown. The big one, of course, was that first solo outing as lyricist and vocalist on Spiller’s Groovejet. It’s sold 620,000 copies and was the 7th best selling single of 2000. The track was involved in an infamous chart battle with former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham, who was also having her first shot at solo success, featuring on True Steppers’ Out Of Your Mind with Dane Bowers. It was Spiller and Sophie who won out, leaving Victoria to settle for second place. Sophie’s very first single with a solo artist credit was Take Me Home, a cover of a 1970s Cher track. It reached Number 2 on the Official Singles Chart, but it comes in third on Sophie’s sales countdown, shifting 240,000 copies. Take Me Home’s follow-up, Murder On The Dancefloor, also made it to Number 2, selling 355,000 copies and taking its place as Sophie’s second biggest seller. Sophie’s collaboration with Freemasons from 2010, Heartbreak Make Me A Dancer, sold 130,000 copies to land 4th in Sophie’s hit list. Making a surprise appearance in 19th place is Sophie’s cover of disco classic Yes Sir I Can Boogie, originally a Number 1 hit for Baccara in 1977. Sophie recorded the track as a B-side to 2004’s I Won’t Change You. Including Groovejet, Sophie has scored seven Top 10s on the Official Singles Chart. All five of her albums went Top 40, with 2001’s Read My Lips, 2007’s Trip The Light Fantastic and this year’s Wanderlust all going Top 10. Youngblood will be Sophie’s 14th Top 40 hit altogether. Here’s the full Top 20 of Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s biggest selling tracks: Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Official Top 20 Biggest Selling Singles TRACK ARTIST PEAK POSITION YEAR 1 GROOVEJET (IF THIS AIN'T LOVE) SPILLER 1 2000 2 MURDER ON THE DANCEFLOOR SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR 2 2001 3 TAKE ME HOME SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR 2 2001 4 HEARTBREAK (MAKE ME A DANCER) FREEMASONS/SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR 13 2009 5 GET OVER YOU/MOVE THIS MOUNTAIN SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR 3 2002 6 CATCH YOU SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR 8 2007 7 MUSIC GETS THE BEST OF ME SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR 14 2002 8 MIXED UP WORLD SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR 7 2003 9 I WON'T CHANGE YOU SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR 9 2004 10 BITTERSWEET SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR 25 2010 11 ME AND MY IMAGINATION SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR 23 2007 12 I KNOW ENOUGH (I DON'T GET ENOUGH) THEAUDIENCE 25 1998 13 A PESSIMIST IS NEVER DISAPPOINTED THEAUDIENCE 27 1998 14 NOT GIVING UP ON LOVE ARMIN VAN BUUREN/SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR 165 2010 15 YOUNG BLOOD SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR 55 2014 16 IF I CANT DANCE SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR N/A 2007 17 IF YOU CAN'T DO IT WHEN YOU'RE YOUNG THEAUDIENCE 48 1998 18 TODAY THE SUN'S ON US SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR 64 2007 19 YES SIR I CAN BOOGIE SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR N/A 2003 20 LEAVE ME OUT OF IT THE FEELING FT SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR N/A 2011 © 2014 Official Charts Company. All rights reserved.
January 30, 201411 yr Armin van Buuren's presence in this countdown :heart: Great to see 'Groovejet' at #1, now that is a proper dance classic.
January 30, 201411 yr Totally didn't see this thread. :lol: Whoops! It's really surprising how an album track from Trip The Light Fantastic outsold a single from that album, but now I think about it was performed somewhere and used at a key moment in the St. Trinian's film. I have some last known sales for the following: Get Over You (122,000) Catch You (65,000) Me And My Imagination (20,000) Today The Sun's On Us (6,000) If that helps you work out where the rest must be at on that list.
January 30, 201411 yr 'Trip the Light Fantastic' had a potential to spray two proper hits: If I Can't Dance (proved by this statistics) and If You Go. I *could* get why they released a ballady third single but still there was so much wasted opportunity.
January 30, 201411 yr Don't get me started on the whole 'If You Go' fiasco. In hindsight, should have really been the second single instead of 'Me And My Imagination'. That single did her career real damage...
January 30, 201411 yr I liked 'Me and My Imagination' in both ways - as an album song as well as the single. It was a good single choice with quite catchy video - but sometimes things just don't click with the public, which was the case with Sophie from that single till the release of 'Wonderlust' / 'Young Blood' (and Strictly).
January 30, 201411 yr 'Young Blood' is on 12.1k by the way. ^_^ Surprised that 'Not Giving Up On Love' has sold more than that with its #165 peak (deserved so much more :( ).
January 30, 201411 yr I always thought "Murder On The Dancefloor" sold more than that. :o Not much of a download trickle seller then?
January 30, 201411 yr Author I always thought "Murder On The Dancefloor" sold more than that. :o Not much of a download trickle seller then? It sold 296k as of the end of 2003, so that's 59k in 10 years, ~5.9k per year. It feels like it should have sold more; it's a childhood classic for me!
January 31, 201411 yr I remember that i listened many times her song "Today the sun's on us" seven years ago..I had this song to a personal compilation and we used to play it at my work. Shame that it was so low.."Heartbreak (Make Me A Dancer)" and "Mixed Up World" are my favourite song of hers..I like also her latest songs "Not give up on love" and Bittersweet". She improved a lot her music but not so much her sales.. Edited January 31, 201411 yr by Insomnio
January 31, 201411 yr I think "New York City Lights" was made choice track from TTLF. Very Blondie-esque, guess she was a fan after her "One Way or Another" cover. Very interesting list, highlights different sales periods perfectly! Might listen to theaudience now...
January 31, 201411 yr 'Young Blood' is on 12.1k by the way. ^_^ Surprised that 'Not Giving Up On Love' has sold more than that with its #165 peak (deserved so much more :( ). I think 'Not Giving Up On Love' is that high because she re-released it again a few months later and performed it somewhere. It missed the top 200 the second time but I remember it hovering around on iTunes so that may go to explain it.
January 31, 201411 yr Surely a Top 10 would have been relevant enough? The fact that an album track and b-side are in this... :lol:
January 31, 201411 yr Author Surely a Top 10 would have been relevant enough? The fact that an album track and b-side are in this... :lol: I agree - I could only name no more than five Sophie Ellis Bextor songs! :P
January 31, 201411 yr I thought 'Catch You' would be higher. Very impressed at the Freemasons track selling more than it and 'Get Over You' . Edited January 31, 201411 yr by FM11
January 31, 201411 yr Such a bizarre list given out little most of these have sold. It's great to see Sophie doing well again, I just hope she goes back to dance/pop with her new album as I can't get into the easy-listening snoozefest that is her new material.
January 31, 201411 yr It's funny that they give her a Top 20 countdown when they have given other artists with more hits a Top 10 :lol:
January 31, 201411 yr Or they thought all thse great songs deserved a mention and some recognition. :wub:
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