Posted March 8, 20178 yr Official Top 20 Biggest Selling Singles Of All Time By Female Artists 08 March 2017 | By Rob Copsey To celebrate International Women’s Day, we reveal the UK’s Official Top 40 biggest singles by female artists of all time. Today (March 8) marks International Women’s Day – the annual celebration of the economic, political, and social achievements of women across the globe. If there’s one thing the Official Singles Chart would be pretty dull without, it’s female singers, and to honour the musical achievements of women, we are counting down the UK’s Official Top 20 biggest selling singles of all time by female artists. Leading the way is a woman who's pop career spans over 50 years: Cher. Her Number 1 hit Believe, which spent seven weeks at the summit in 1998, has sold 1.82 million copies in the UK (excluding streams). It's somewhat fitting that Cher tops this list; her latest reinvention as a prolific social media/anti-Trump activist has seen her become one of the leading voices in the music world for social and political change. Behind Cher is another celebrated voice – the late, great Whitney Houston. Whitney, who passed away in February 2012, spent a whopping ten weeks at Number 1 with I Will Always Love You, taken from the soundtrack of hit movie The Bodyguard. The track, which was written and originally recorded by country star Dolly Parton, has sold 1.63 million copies in the UK alone. A more recent entry on the biggest selling singles by female acts comes from Adele, who places third with Someone Like You. The track, which has sold 1.62 million, took over the world in February 2011 and logged a total of five weeks at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart. Coming in fourth is another one of the world's most recognisable voices - Celine Dion with her global smash My Heart Will Go On. Released in 1998 as the theme to Titanic, the song spent two non-consecutive weeks at Number 1 in the UK and has sold 1.57 million to date. Celine makes a second entry on the list, at Number 9 with her 1994 single Think Twice (1.37m). Oh baby, baby, you knew Britney had to be in here somewhere, right? And here she is completing the Top 5. Her debut single …Baby One More Time spent just two weeks at Number 1 in 1999, but it sure shifted plenty of copies while it was there. Its sales tally stands at over 1.55 million – it sold over 460,000 copies in its first week on sale. Elsewhere in the Top 20, the Spice Girls feature twice with their 1996 chart-toppers Wannabe (1.38m) and 2 Become 1 (1.13m), as does Rihanna with We Found Love (1.41m) and Only Girl (In The World) (1.16m). The oldest song on the list is Jennifer Rush's 1985 hit The Power Of Love (1.45m), while the most recent goes to Carly Rae Jepsen's Call Me Maybe, released in 2012 (1.35m). The Official Top 20 Biggest Selling Singles By Female Artists In The UK Are... POS TITLE ARTIST YEAR 1 BELIEVE CHER 1998 1,820,000 2 I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU WHITNEY HOUSTON 1992 1,630,000 3 SOMEONE LIKE YOU ADELE 2011 1,620,000 4 MY HEART WILL GO ON CELINE DION 1998 1,570,000 5 ...BABY ONE MORE TIME BRITNEY SPEARS 1999 1,550,000 6 THE POWER OF LOVE JENNIFER RUSH 1985 1,450,000 7 WE FOUND LOVE RIHANNA FEATURING CALVIN HARRIS 2011 1,410,000 8 WANNABE SPICE GIRLS 1996 1,380,000 9 THINK TWICE CELINE DION 1994 1,370,000 10 NEVER EVER ALL SAINTS 1997 11 CALL ME MAYBE CARLY RAE JEPSEN 2012 1,350,000 12 HALLELUJAH ALEXANDRA BURKE 2008 13 PRICE TAG JESSIE J FEATURING B.O.B 2011 14 CAN'T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD KYLIE MINOGUE 2001 15 TORN NATALIE IMBRUGLIA 1997 16 SATURDAY NIGHT WHIGFIELD 1994 17 POKER FACE LADY GAGA 2009 18 ONLY GIRL (IN THE WORLD) RIHANNA 2010 1,160,000 19 ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU MARIAH CAREY 1994 20 2 BECOME 1 SPICE GIRLS 1996 1,130,000 ©2017 Official Charts Company. All rights reserved.
March 8, 20178 yr No Madonna :unsure: Into The Groove is her biggest seller but hasn't even sold a million yet.
March 8, 20178 yr Into The Groove is her biggest seller but hasn't even sold a million yet. Yeah I've always found it so odd that she hasn't had any million sellers.
March 8, 20178 yr Author There was a list similar to this published a couple of years ago and 'Into the Groove' would have appeared in the Top 50. Sales for it vary slightly but it's just about at the 900k mark now.
March 8, 20178 yr I can't believe this list has Alexandra Burke of all people. I'm also surprised that Burke has outsold Leona Lewis - of the two I would've expected to see Leona there. Are they all #1 hits apart from All I Want for Christmas?
March 8, 20178 yr I can't believe this list has Alexandra Burke of all people. I'm also surprised that Burke has outsold Leona Lewis - of the two I would've expected to see Leona there. Are they all #1 hits apart from All I Want for Christmas? Bleeding Love can't be that far off the list. I think it's total sales are around 1.1m now. Hallelujah was released off the back of a hugely popular series with an underdog winner (plus Woolworths was going into administration which helped shift a lot of copies :lol:) Off topic but I miss Woolworths. :(
March 8, 20178 yr Also the year Alexandra won was a year where digital sales really started to reach some impressive heights.
March 8, 20178 yr Slayine Dion appearing twice in the top 10 *.* http://static.thefrisky.com/uploads/2013/03/28/Celine-Dion-Tricks.gif
March 8, 20178 yr How many copies is "Someone Like You" selling a year? I'm guessing it'll eventually overtake "Believe" someday.
March 8, 20178 yr Author In the comments, OCC posted this: Lush Life has sold 1.244m across digital and streaming equivalent sales (it's sales-only figure is 355,000).
March 9, 20178 yr Author Viva: The Top 40 Best Selling Singles By Female Artists (August 2015) 01 Cher 'Believe' 1,800,000 02 Whitney Houston 'I Will Always Love You' 1,610,000 03 Adele 'Someone Like You' 1,560,000 04 Celine Dion 'My Heart Will Go On' 1,550,000 05 Britney Spears 'Baby One More Time' 1,540,000 06 Jennifer Rush 'The Power of Love' 1,430,000 07 Rihanna 'We Found Love' 1,370,000 08 Spice Girls 'Wannabe' 1,360,000 09 Celine Dion 'Think Twice' 1,350,000 10 All Saints 'Never Ever' 1,350,000 11 Carly Rae Jepsen 'Call Me Maybe' 1,320,000 12 Alexandra Burke 'Hallelujah' 1,280,000 13 Jessie J 'Price Tag' 1,210,000 14 Kylie Minogue 'Can't Get You Out of My Head' 1,180,000 15 Whigfield 'Saturday Night' 1,180,000 16 Natalie Imbruglia 'Torn' 1,170,000 17 Lady Gaga 'Poker Face' 1,160,000 18 Rihanna 'Only Girl (In the World)' 1,140,000 19 Spice Girls '2 Become 1' 1,130,000 20 Donna Summer 'I Feel Love' 1,100,000 21 Leona Lewis 'Bleeding Love' 1,090,000 22 Mariah Carey 'All I Want for Christmas is You' 1,090,000 23 Irene Cara 'Fame' 1,070,000 24 Gloria Gaynor 'I Will Survive' 1,060,000 25 Rihanna 'Diamonds' 1,060,000 26 Katy Perry 'Firework' 1,040,000 27 Katy Perry 'Roar' 1,030,000 28 Cheryl Cole 'Fight for This Love' 1,030,000 29 Adele 'Rolling in the Deep' 1,030,000 30 Lady Gaga 'Bad Romance' 1,020,000 31 Atomic Kitten 'Whole Again' 1,010,000 32 Julie Covington 'Don't Cry For Me Argentina' 1,000,000 33 Christina Perri 'Jar of Hearts' 980,000 34 Nicki Minaj 'Starships' 980,000 35 Spice Girls 'Say You'll Be There' 960,000 36 Lady Gaga 'Just Dance' 950,000 37 Adele 'Make You Feel My Love' 940,000 38 Elaine Paige & Barbara Dickson 'I Know Him So Well' 930,000 39 Leona Lewis 'A Moment Like This' 910,000 40 B*Witched 'C'est La Vie' 910,000
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