yes the Zara Larsson song is nice and cute but it's not a classic, crazy this is close to 2 million and Madonna for instance has never had a 1 million seller single

 

Love me like you do at least sounds more like. bigger song but not sure if it's a classic either

'Lush Life' did feel pretty huge at the time but I don't think I have heard or even thought about it for quite a while now :lol:

Lush Life never felt as big as it was really - and it was odd how it became big in the winter here when it’s so summery. It’s a great, uplifting record though.

 

Love Me Like You Do is a modern classic. Amazing how it manages that with a chorus that’s almost all on 2 notes. :P

yes the Zara Larsson song is nice and cute but it's not a classic, crazy this is close to 2 million and Madonna for instance has never had a 1 million seller single

 

The OCC hasn't announced it yet but current estimates do have Into The Groove over a million at least.

Lush Life never felt as big as it was really - and it was odd how it became big in the winter here when it’s so summery. It’s a great, uplifting record though.

 

Love Me Like You Do is a modern classic. Amazing how it manages that with a chorus that’s almost all on 2 notes. :P

 

it has 4, which is more than your average song :D so nope...

06. CALL ME MAYBE- Carly Rae Jepsen (1,858,000)

 

 

PEAK POSITION: 1

YEAR: 2012

 

"That song, for me, has always been a little bit about how you wish you would have the confidence to act in real life. It’s the more fantastical side of things, where you go up to a complete stranger and do something wild that makes you feel alive. I think that everyone has a secret part of themselves that wants to have the confidence to do that.”- Jepsen

 

A hit first in Canada in late 2011 this really showed signs of becoming an international hit when it was picked up by Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez who tweeted about it and instantly propelled it worldwide. A spoof video by the two along with Ashley Tinsdale and Big Time Rush garnered over 30 million views before the song was released in the UK and there were no less than 4 cover versions in the top 200 which pushed the official UK release forward by some weeks. It arrived predictably at No 1 selling over 430k in its first month on sale swelling to over 1.1 million before the year end and 1.8 million by decade end.

 

 

No idea Lush Life was that successful !! It’s really an average track.

Call Me Maybe definitely deserved top 5.

Call Me Maybe is bubblegum pop, but one of the finest pieces of bubblegum pop of recent times.

 

It was the first ever streaming #1 - I like the way 'streaming' is in inverted commas in this article, as though it is really a very strange idea indeed.

https://metro.co.uk/2012/05/14/carly-rae-je...g-chart-431607/

Brilliant to see 'Call Me Maybe' so high up! Easily one of the best pop songs of the last ten years. If only Carly could have had a few more hits even half as big as that.

I’m still trying to work out one of the top 5!

 

I think I’ve got the other four worked out but there’s one I just have no idea on and when I see it I’ll probably kick myself :lol:

05. ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU- Mariah Carey (1,937,000)

 

 

PEAK POSITION: 2

YEAR: 1994/ 2017/2018/2019

 

Didn’t this do well? Mariah’s 1994 festive warmer returns to the charts every year to delight us once again, Year by year it peaked at #22, #11, #20, #12, #16, #11, #5, #2, #2, #2 showing how streaming has really benefitted it. Twice it has been denied the top spot by under 5,000 “sales” much less than when it originally peaked at No 2 in 1994, it finally topped the US chart in 2019 as the decade closed though. Total UK “sales” are now 2.6 million putting it in the top 20 best selling tracks EVER!

 

By all accounts Carey wasn’t convinced on releasing the song initially “I didn’t feel, from a strategic point of view, that it was time to do something like that. As much as I love Christmas, I thought that the record company was off. Obviously, I couldn’t have been more wrong.”

 

 

04. CHANDELIER- Sia (1,961,000)

 

 

PEAK POSITION: 6

YEAR: 2014

 

Lead single from her 6th album “1000 Forms Of Fear” until this point Sia’s fame really rested on her feature tracks and writing cracking pop tunes for others. Indeed this was initially written with either Beyonce or Rihanna in mind but Sia kept this one for herself and bagged herself the biggest solo hit of her career. Thematically about the burn out of a hedonistic and alcoholic fused lifestyle, it came with a memorable 11 year old dancer Maddie Ziegler who would reprise her starring role in “Elastic Heart”. At 114 weeks in the top 100 it is the longest running track in the whole of the top 100.

 

 

Mariah to end up being #1 on this list for the 2020s? :lol:

 

Not been a fan of Sia's most recent releases but 'Chandelier' is still a fantastic song <3

Siaaaaaaaaa :wub: the woman can do no wrong for me and 'Chandelier' is pretty much perfection!

 

I completely overlooked AIWFC when I was considering what else might be in the Top 10.

 

Mariah to end up being #1 on this list for the 2020s? :lol:

I think that's pretty much a given!

Not Mariah almost tripling her total sales in the last decade.

1994 was the first year I got into the charts as a wee schoolboy. I remember how huge the East 17 record that held Mariah off #1 felt at the time in comparison to her song. Amazing how AIWFCIY has gone on to overshadow everything from that year since, even Wet Wet Wet’s 15 week chart topper.

 

Chandelier was out during a period when I fell out of love with the charts as the inclusion of streaming felt really jarring to me at first, but there was a time when I would tune in every week pretty much just to see if it had extended its Top 40 run by yet another week. I love everything about the record but also the fact that she has refused to play along with the media’s image expectations of a female popstar.

03. NEW RULES- Dua Lipa (2,210,000)

 

 

PEAK POSITION: 1

YEAR: 2017

 

We cross the 2 million mark with Dua Lipa and the song that elevated her to the next level of pop stardom. It’s one of two tracks on her debut album not to be at least co-written by her (the other is “Be The One”) and you may recall the singer’s reluctance to record and release material that she doesn’t have a hand in but on this one “I still take a lot of pride in being able to write my own songs. My story's coming from me. But 'New Rules' is a song that I felt like I had been in the room and written. I'm so close with Emily [Warren] and Caroline [Ailin] and Ian [Kirkpatrick], who had worked on it, that I feel like it was a song they had written with me in mind.

 

I'm proud of it as if I had been in that room. I just feel so closely to it. I guess I don't have that perspective anymore. But like I said, I still love writing everything. And I'm still going to do it. But it's a song that I feel like I can relate to on a personal level, that I also feel that when I do perform it, it becomes mine and I embody it in a different way”.

 

It’s never been stated exactly who is referred to, but the song was written with “another major female artist” in mind for some time but was rejected as they felt it didn’t have a hook, but it became Lipa’s only solo UK No 1. Wonder if they regret it now?

 

 

'New Rules' blowing up so much so quickly was really quite a spectacle after the previous single did nearly nothing, though it did just raise the question of why it wasn't a single earlier, it was pretty instantly the obvious big hit when I first heard it!

I’ve never been fussed with New Rules or Dua in general. My favourite from her is one of her floppier songs.