Shakira is the years third best selling single! This is her second time on a year end chart after 2002's Whenever Wherever.

and its also back up to #33 in the uk this week

thats great :D unfortunately illegal has dropped out the top 75 this week though :(

amazing climb this week!! i think cause the media are doing music reviews of the year shakira is getting some exposure, HDL was played for 10 seconds on totp on xmas day so maybe that exposure generated sales and she jumped

 

overall an amazing year for shakira here, the fact HDL is the #3 biggest song of the year! and she managed this with zero promo, she didn't set foot here cause of tour commitments, leona over took her cause she was a reality tv act, had a built in tv audience over a period of months, massive tv exposure, magazine exposure plus hype

 

Top40 UK Selling singles of the Year

 

01. Gnarls Barkley Crazy

02. Leona A Moment Like This

03. Shakira feat. Wyclef Jean Hips Don’t Lie :cheer:

04. Scissor Sisters - I Don't Feel Like Dancin'

05. Sandi Thom - I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker (With Flowers In My Hair)

06. Infernal - From Paris To Berlin

07. Nelly Furtado Maneater

08. Take That - Patience

09. Rihanna - SOS

10. Justin Timberlake - SexyBack

 

all the other artists in the top10 came to the UK and did interviews and promo work to support the track plus the majority had huge radio airplay and suppport too, especially the scissor sisters who did a tv promo tour that lasted 3 weeks!! non stop interviews and performances on our screens and still they couldn't take shakira on :lol: she outsold them by a huge margin, if shakira had been play listed on radio 1 and came to the UK she could have easily added 100k to the final total but i'm happy with selling just under half a million

I never expected that she'd have one of the biggest singles of the year in the UK, the biggest single by an international female :yahoo:

She did so great! :D I've seen HDL on TV loads the last few days because of all the year end reviews etc...