I hope so, too. There were more non-2025 songs in the top 100 EOY than 2025 songs.

Some very rough 2020's Decade-to-Date Estimates:

#1 The Weeknd - Blinding Lights (4.96m)

#2 Ed Sheeran - Bad Habits (4.22m)

#3 Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved (4.01m)

#4 The Killers - Mr. Brightside (3.92m)

#5 Wham! - Last Christmas (3.67m)

#6 Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas is You (3.42m)

#7 Harry Styles - As It Was (3.34m)

#8 Glass Animals - Heat Waves (3.31m)

#9 Noah Kahan - Stick Season (3.24m)

#10 Ed Sheeran - Shivers (3.16m)

#11 Tones and I - Dance Monkey (3.14m)

#12 Fleetwood Mac - Dreams (3.08m)

#13 The Weeknd - Save Your Tears (3.06m)

#14 Joel Corry feat. MNEK - Head & Heart (3.05m)

#15 Lewis Capaldi - Before You Go (2.95m)

#16 Benson Boone - Beautiful Things (2.93m)

#17 Vance Joy - Riptide (2.92m)

#18 Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere (2.88m)

#19 Harry Styles - Watermelon Sugar (2.87m)

#20 Tom Odell - Another Love (2.82m)

#21 Teddy Swims - Lose Control (2.81m)

#22 Ed Sheeran - Perfect (2.80m)

#23 Olivia Rodrigo - good 4 u (2.79m)

#24 Elton John & Dua Lipa - Cold Heart [PNAU Remix] (2.78m)

#25 Dua Lipa feat. DaBaby - Levitating (2.72m)

If anyone has better figures please feel free to correct my numbers. Am thinking it is possible Blinding Lights could hang on to #2 ahead of Last Christmas, but Mr. Brightside will definitely be #1

I’ve been working on this list so I thought I’d share in case anyone else might be interested?

It’s the best I can do with info I’ve brought together from the brilliant threads on BJ (thanks to all) plus some sources elsewhere. Obviously the earliest data is either absent, very vague or likely to be potentially inaccurate.

Apologies in advance for (likely) errors, any help with the missing years data or corrections is very welcome.

Happy New Year to you all!

UK’s best-selling singles for every year since 1952, with approximate sales.

1950s

• 1952: Al Martino – "Here in My Heart" (Sales not available)

• 1953: Frankie Laine – "I Believe" (Sales  not available)

• 1954: Doris Day – "Secret Love" (Sales not available)

• 1955: Slim Whitman – "Rose Marie" (Sales not available)

• 1956: Pat Boone – "I'll Be Home" (Sales not available)

• 1957: Paul Anka – "Diana" (Sales not available)

• 1958: Elvis Presley – "Jailhouse Rock" (Sales not available)

• 1959: Cliff Richard – "Living Doll" (~800,000)

1960s

• 1960: Elvis Presley – "It's Now or Never" (~1,000,000+)

• 1961: Elvis Presley – "Wooden Heart" (~800,000)

• 1962: Frank Ifield – "I Remember You" (~1,100,000)

• 1963: The Beatles – "She Loves You" (~1,300,000)

• 1964: The Beatles – "Can't Buy Me Love" (~1,200,000)

• 1965: Ken Dodd – "Tears" (~1,268,000)

• 1966: Tom Jones – "Green, Green Grass of Home" (~850,000)

• 1967: Engelbert Humperdinck – "Release Me" (~1,000,000+)

• 1968: The Beatles – "Hey Jude" (~900,000)

• 1969: The Archies – "Sugar, Sugar" (~950,000)

1970s

• 1970: Mungo Jerry – "In the Summertime" (~800,000)

• 1971: George Harrison – "My Sweet Lord" (~700,000)

• 1972: The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards – "Amazing Grace" (~850,000)

• 1973: Dawn feat. Tony Orlando – "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" (~800,000)

• 1974: Mud – "Tiger Feet" (~730,000)

• 1975: Bay City Rollers – "Bye Bye Baby" (~900,000)

• 1976: Brotherhood of Man – "Save Your Kisses for Me" (~1,006,000)

• 1977: Wings – "Mull of Kintyre" (~2,000,000)

• 1978: Boney M. – "Rivers of Babylon" (~1,995,000)

• 1979: Art Garfunkel – "Bright Eyes" (~1,155,000)

1980s

• 1980: The Police – "Don't Stand So Close to Me" (~808,000)

• 1981: The Human League – "Don't You Want Me" (~1,150,000)

• 1982: Dexys Midnight Runners – "Come On Eileen" (~1,200,000)

• 1983: Culture Club – "Karma Chameleon" (~1,390,000)

• 1984: Band Aid – "Do They Know It's Christmas?" (~3,000,000)

• 1985: Jennifer Rush – "The Power of Love" (~1,280,000)

• 1986: The Communards – "Don't Leave Me This Way" (~745,000)

• 1987: Rick Astley – "Never Gonna Give You Up" (~759,000)

• 1988: Cliff Richard – "Mistletoe and Wine" (~750,000)

• 1989: Black Box – "Ride On Time" (~960,000)

1990s

• 1990: The Righteous Brothers – "Unchained Melody" (~840,000)

• 1991: Bryan Adams – "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" (~1,850,000)

• 1992: Whitney Houston – "I Will Always Love You" (~1,500,000)

• 1993: Meat Loaf – "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" (~720,000)

• 1994: Wet Wet Wet – "Love Is All Around" (~1,783,000)

• 1995: Robson & Jerome – "Unchained Melody" (~1,840,000)

• 1996: Fugees – "Killing Me Softly" (~1,360,000)

• 1997: Elton John – "Candle in the Wind 1997" (~4,770,000)

• 1998: Cher – "Believe" (~1,830,000)

• 1999: Britney Spears – "...Baby One More Time" (~1,445,000)

2000s

• 2000: Bob the Builder – "Can We Fix It?" (~853,000)

• 2001: Shaggy – "It Wasn't Me" (~1,151,000)

• 2002: Will Young – "Anything Is Possible / Evergreen" (~1,783,919)

• 2003: The Black Eyed Peas – "Where Is the Love?" (~625,000)

• 2004: Band Aid 20 – "Do They Know It's Christmas?" (~1,065,000)

• 2005: Tony Christie feat. Peter Kay – "Is This the Way to Amarillo" (~1,100,000)

• 2006: Gnarls Barkley – "Crazy" (~820,000)

• 2007: Leona Lewis – "Bleeding Love" (~788,000)

• 2008: Alexandra Burke – "Hallelujah" (~888,000)

• 2009: Lady Gaga – "Poker Face" (~882,000)

2010s (Streaming data incorporated from 2014)

• 2010: Eminem feat. Rihanna – "Love the Way You Lie" (~854,000)

• 2011: Adele – "Someone Like You" (~1,242,000)

• 2012: Gotye feat. Kimbra – "Somebody That I Used to Know" (~1,318,000)

• 2013: Robin Thicke feat. T.I. & Pharrell – "Blurred Lines" (~1,470,000)

• 2014: Pharrell Williams – "Happy" (~1,620,000 units)

• 2015: Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars – "Uptown Funk" (~1,760,000 units)

• 2016: Drake feat. Wizkid & Kyla – "One Dance" (~1,950,000 units)

• 2017: Ed Sheeran – "Shape of You" (~3,200,000 units)

• 2018: Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa – "One Kiss" (~1,570,000 units)

• 2019: Lewis Capaldi – "Someone You Loved" (~2,300,000 units)

2020s

• 2020: The Weeknd – "Blinding Lights" (~2,200,000 units)

• 2021: Ed Sheeran – "Bad Habits" (~1,700,000 units)

• 2022: Harry Styles – "As It Was" (~1,550,000 units)

• 2023: Miley Cyrus – "Flowers" (~1,700,000 units)

• 2024: Noah Kahan – "Stick Season" (~1,990,000 units)

• 2025: Alex Warren - Ordinary (~2,179,000 units)

Edited 6 hours ago6 hr by Jaz13music

Thanks for this! Haven’t checked everything by any means but a couple of things that jumped out:

“Someone Like You” only did 1,242k in 2011

1.3M for “She Loves You” in 1963 seems too low given it did nearly 2 million in total, but I appreciate it’s terribly hard to work out how its sales were split over 63/64

37 minutes ago, Julian_ said:

Thanks for this! Haven’t checked everything by any means but a couple of things that jumped out:

“Someone Like You” only did 1,242k in 2011

1.3M for “She Loves You” in 1963 seems too low given it did nearly 2 million in total, but I appreciate it’s terribly hard to work out how its sales were split over 63/64

Brill, thanks! I’ve corrected for the total SLY (I should have realised that couldn’t be right). Would you say 1.5m (a figure I’ve seen quoted) is a better estimate for She Loves You? Or even higher??