'Ghost' is SUCH a tune, I still love it when it comes on the radio! 'One Last Time' is obviously one of Ari's best.

Diamonds and Ghost are the best from the last batch, especially Diamonds, one of the best songs Sia has written

One Last Time and Hold my Hand are also ok, didn't know One Last Time was a Guetta song

Sweet but Psycho is also ok but so unoriginal, too much of a Gaga copycat

and Let it Go is just an abomination :D

Ghost, now that has to be one of the best songs on this list, such a good pop tune. So glad that Ella's hiatus came to an end last year and she's now doing dance tunes too even if sadly most of those aren't hits.

12. A THOUSAND YEARS- Christina Perri (1,669,000)

 

 

PEAK POSITION: 11

YEAR: 2011

 

Here it is then, the biggest selling song not to make the top 10 by a female artist EVER!, she may only have 3 UK chart hits but two of them are million sellers so she’s made her money. Written for the film “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1” it had three distinct chart runs, the first off the back of the movie (#32) the second when “Breaking Dawn Part 2” was released (#13) and the third when the song was covered on “X Factor” when it finally made #11 in 2013.

 

 

11. SHAKE IT OFF- Taylor Swift (1,692,000)

 

 

PEAK POSITION: 2

YEAR: 2014

 

Leading single from the “1989” campaign and the era that made her one of the biggest solo female popstars on the planet, another Max Martin co-written number Swift said “I've had every part of my life dissected—my choices, my actions, my words, my body, my style, my music. When you live your life under that kind of scrutiny, you can either let it break you, or you can get really good at dodging punches. And when one lands, you know how to deal with it. And I guess the way that I deal with it is to shake it off. I really wanted to kind of take back the narrative, and have more of a sense of humour about people who kind of get under my skin – and not let them get under my skin”.

 

An immediate US #1, this became her third No 2 hit in the UK when it was blocked by Meghan Trainor though it won the long game and is Swift’s biggest selling single in the UK to date.

 

 

 

How do you know how Much a Song has sold.. which website did you find this information from

 

if you don't mind send me a link to a website where you can find out how much a song has sold

 

I swear even nowadays there is not a single week without 'A Thousand Years' re-entering iTunes top 100. Even this week it was at like #76 or something few days ago. And it's at #121 as I'm writing this post. This song is like iTunes 'Mr. Brightside' :lol:

Diamonds :wub: :wub: my favourite solo Rihanna track!

 

Also love Ghost, One Last Time and Shake It Off.

 

Amazing sales for Let It Go and A Thousand Years too despite their peaks.

 

My minds really gone blank trying to predict the top 10! I can think of like 5 songs what I think are there but the rest I just can’t work out :lol:

10. ROLLING IN THE DEEP- Adele (1,701,000)

 

 

PEAK POSITION: 2

YEAR: 2011

 

Three songs in the top 10 of the decade then for Adele, and appropriately we start right back with the lead single from “21”. A 7 week chart topper in the US it missed the top here thanks to Bruno Mars and was premiered in the UK at the Royal Variety show in December 2010, it was famously used in Trumph’s campaign in 2016 which was opposed by Adele but to no avail.

 

On its genesis she commented “I wrote the first verse in a basement of a Chinese restaurant in San Francisco where I was doing a radio gig, the first few lines are about a guy I met in a club who was like “I’m gonna sell a story on you” and I was like “Yeah, you don’t even know me” and then I didn’t touch the song for 2 years and when I wrote the rest it was about my last relationship”.

 

 

09. ROAR- Katy Perry (1,821,000)

 

 

PEAK POSITION: 1

YEAR: 2013

 

More Max Martin and Dr Luke co-writing here on Perry’s lead single to her “Prism” album and her biggest seller of the decade (And indeed of all time) and a transatlantic chart topper. Some minor controversy around the supposed similarity to the song “Brave” by Sara Bareilles but was dismissed by both singers and Dr Luke who claimed the song was written before “Brave”.

 

Mostly about the aftermath of her divorce from Russell Brand she said the song was a “kind of a ‘pick yourself up and dust yourself off and keep going’, female empowerment song”

 

 

Katy Perry's 'Roar' does sound like 'Brave', just listen to the chorus. However both songs are great & 'Brave' should have smashed as-well.

Rolling in the Deep is the highest placed Adele song that I like.

 

Roar is good but I don’t think it’s as special as Firework; I suspect the latter will be remembered more in 10 years’ time.

The higher up this list has got the less I have felt I have to comment on here - I guess all of these biggest hits mostly speak for themselves ~ and/or have just become boring from overplay.

 

Will show some appreciation for 'Rolling In The Deep' though, a perfectly played comeback single to build on the delayed success of 'Make You Feel My Love', and a travesty it was denied #1 by one of Bruno Mars' worst songs.

Rolling in the Deep should have been a 10 week#1

 

A Thousands Years I like it but don't love it like Jar of Hearts or even Human. But it's a decent song.

 

Shake it Off I really like, a 11/10 for me, and one of Taylor's best even if under-appreciated.

 

Roar is just average to me but not the biggest Katy Perry fan.

08. LUSH LIFE- Zara Larsson (1,829,000)

 

 

PEAK POSITION: 3

YEAR: 2016

 

After winning the Swedish equivalent “Britain’s got talent” at just 10 and ultimately led to her first EP in 2012 which was a hit in a few Scandinavian countries and by 15 she had signed her first international deal with Epic and launched her debut album in 2014. By 17 she was onto album No 2 and that was the one that really made her a star, “Lush Life” was her first charting solo track in the UK.

 

It comes with three promo’s (for the Swedish release, the international release, and the US version) and was the result of a song writing camp “By the end of the week, we all play the songs for each other. 'Lush Life' was really the only song that stood out that I was like, 'Whoa. What is this?' It just had a really nice vibe to it, and I love it so much. We were approaching summer, and it's a very good summer song."

 

 

07. LOVE ME LIKE YOU DO- Ellie Goulding (1,831,000)

 

 

PEAK POSITION: 1

YEAR: 2015

 

"I wasn't going to get involved in that soundtrack because I've done a lot of soundtracks and we kind of thought we've done a bit too much film stuff. So we should probably just chill and write that third album, which is what I should be focusing on. And then I met the director and everyone involved and I was like, 'This is a pretty cool thing to be involved in.' Then I heard the song and I was like, 'Woah, this is a pretty awesome song.' I didn't know that it was going to be this big, genuinely. I thought maybe it would do well”.

 

It certainly did well for Golding becoming her second UK No 1 topping the charts for a full month in support of the film “50 Shades Of Grey”, it was initially considered for Demi Lovato before being offered to Goulding by co-writers Max Martin and Tove Lo (among others).

 

 

This is a really great countdown, quite a few surprises too 😊

Rolling In The Deep is the only song so far in the top 10 that feels good enough to be there.

Lush Life was such a smash but it definitely doesn’t feel as culturally huge as what the other three songs in the top ten did.

 

Rolling In The Deep feels like the biggest hit in the top ten so far.

 

 

Love Me Like You Do is a cute song. Not her best though.