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Decade in the Sun by Sterephonics please 😊

Will George overtake Ed by the end of the year?

I'm assuming that's the mashup "Perfect (Exceeder)" by the way? Rather than the original "Exceeder"?

1,365,879 as of last September. 561,532 paid-for and 804,348 streaming sales.

I'm disappointed at the Arctic Monkeys' sales. I honestly thought they'd have the biggest album of the year, particularly after being away for so long, but they can't even outsell Rag'n'Bone Man or Post Malone.

Kylie, Camila and Drake will all go Gold next week.

Nope. Sales for Lights and Halcyon are the wrong way around.

You're right. "These Days" by Rudimental is the biggest seller.

God's Plan has 1.2m combined sales, including 111m streams. That means the biggest song of the year has only been purchased 90,000 times...

Big disappointment for Justin Timberlake! In fact, big disappointment for most albums released this year!

Adjusted to 1.2 million now.

His last album was one of the 20 biggest records of the year. He outsold Rihanna, Emeli Sandé, Kings of Leon, James Arthur and Radiohead.

Correction: "Grenade" sold its millionth copy months ago. I meant to put "Sexy & I Know It".

23 now that Oasis have two (unless John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John's duets don't count). UPDATE: LMFAO also have two. So it should be 23, regardless.

175 ordinary ones. Probably 200 more with streaming.

I honestly thought the OCC were done with making articles like these, given that back in September they announced that sales millionaires and streaming millionaires would be counted as one and the same.

Iconic songs from Rick Astley and Oasis are the latest singles to pass one million sales in the UK, that's according to Official Charts Company data. Rick's 1987 Number 1 smash Never Gonna Give You Up and Oasis' 1996 chart-topper Don't Look Back in Anger are two of four songs that have now passed the one million sales mark, based on physical CD sales and digital downloads. Never Gonna Give You Up, currently at 1.002 million copies sold, was Rick's first single back in the late 1980s, his first of eight Top 10s in a row. While hugely popular in Rick's Stock, Aitken and Waterman era, the song is also famous for the second wind it received thanks to the 'Rick Rolling' viral video craze still popular on the internet today. "It’s the song that keeps giving!" Rick told OfficialCharts.com. "Never Gonna Give You Up changed my life, it opened so many doors around the world and it all started in the UK. One million is a crazy number, I’m very proud of that record, but not just that, it’s part of my DNA and hopefully always will be." In 2016, 50, Rick scored his first Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart in 29 years, a comeback that also heightened interest in his classic debut hit. Firmly back in the spotlight, Rick's new album Beautiful Life is released on July 20. Oasis' Don't Look Back In Anger is another song that returned to prominence in recent years, and is Oasis' second million-seller after Wonderwall. The track has remained popular over the years with the British public, and last year it was used in tribute to victims of the Manchester terror attack. When Ariana performed the track with Coldplay's Chris Martin at the One Love Manchester benefit concert two weeks later, the song returned to the Official Singles Chart Top 40 at Number 25. Speaking of Coldplay, the quartet's second Number 1 Paradise becomes their first song to pass one million sales, while LMFAO's Sexy & I Know It, a Number 5 hit back in 2011, joins Party Rock Anthem as a million-selling single for the uncle-nephew duo. These four songs increase the list of the UK's million-selling singles to 175 songs.

Paloma Faith, Only Love Can Hurt Like This (2014) UK chart peak: No.6 OCC sales: 870,079 Paloma Faith may have taken a lot of convincing to record this smouldering retro soul anthem, but it paid off big time, delivering her hugest hit to date. Aerosmith, I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing (1989) UK chart peak: No.4 OCC Sales: 1,424,519 Brilliantly ludicrous blockbuster movie Armageddon needed a ludicrously brilliant soundtrack to match, and Warren came up trumps with this power ballad that gave the Toxic Twins their first US No.1, after more than 20 years of trying. Respect. LeAnn Rimes, How Do I Live? (1997) UK chart peak: No.7 OCC sales: 828,899 Warren proves she can do country music just as well as pop with a slowburn anthem that stayed on the US charts for over a year. It’s also impossible to go to karaoke without hearing someone slaughtering it. Toni Braxton, Un-break My Heart (1996) UK chart peak: No.2 OCC sales: 989,814 Braxton wasn’t initially a fan of this ballad-to-end-all-ballads, but it went on to be one of the biggest US hits ever. Weezer’s version is also pretty cool, if you fancy checking it out. Starship, Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now (1987) UK chart peak: No.1 OCC sales: 410,369 Another classic Warren movie song, albeit it from a less-than-classic movie (slightly weird US teen rom-com Mannequin), this song did the seemingly impossible and gave hoary old hippies Starship a worldwide No.1. * All sales figures post-1994

Divide, Legend and Bowie Legacy should all get certified tomorrow.

Songs? There were 311 by September last year. Probably another 40 since then.

I hear Ain't No Other Man on the radio more than Candyman TBH.

Hats off to The Streets for outselling all those other albums!

The UK's Official Top 40 biggest rap albums of the Millennium revealed With rapper Post Malone atop the Official Albums Chart, we look back at other big rap albums to grace the UK Top 40. Since its founding in America in the 1970s, rap and hip-hop music has rarely strayed from the charts. With rap reigning supreme once again on this week's Official Albums Chart thanks to Post Malone's beerbongs & bentleys, we look back at the UK's biggest rap albums of the Millennium. Unsurprisingly, Eminem dominates the list, with a mighty ten albums in the Top 40, including his work on the 8 Mile Original Soundtrack, and D12's album Devils Night. Slim Shady is responsible for the biggest album in the Top 40, his third record The Marshall Mathers LP featuring the UK Number 1 singles The Real Slim Shady and Stan. With a combined total of 2.52m (2.46m sales and 58,000 streaming units), it is one of only two rap albums to shift over 2 million copies since the turn of the century. The other? Eminem's Curtain Call: The Hits (2.07m). Check out Eminem's biggest songs on the Official Chart. In fact, the top seven albums on the chart have also sold over one million copies in pure sales, including Dr Dre's iconic 2001 in fifth place (1.2m) and 50 Cent's Get Rich Or Die Tryin' from 2003 (1.17m). Elsewhere, Jay-Z, who has more Number 1 albums than any other soloist on the US charts, features four times in the rap Top 40. His best-selling work since 2000 is 2004's Collision Course, his collaborative album with Linkin Park, at Number 31. Rap's origins are in America, but homegrown UK talent also appears in the all-time rap best-sellers. The Streets chart highest at Number 7 with their second album A Grand Don't Come for Free (1.18m), with their debut record Original Pirate Material in 17th place. Elsewhere, Tinie Tempah's first record Disc-Overy is the 11th biggest rap album since 2000 (873,000), while duo Rizzle Kicks appear at Number 35 with Stereo Typical. Kanye West makes three appearances in the chart, lead by 2005's Late Registration at Number 12 (846,000), and Nicki Minaj's debut album Pink Friday from 2010 sneaks in at Number 36. The UK's Official Top 40 biggest rap albums of the Millennium: POS TITLE ARTIST CHART PEAK YEAR 1 THE MARSHALL MATHERS LP EMINEM 1 2000 2 CURTAIN CALL - THE HITS EMINEM 1 2005 3 THE EMINEM SHOW EMINEM 1 2002 4 2001 DR DRE 4 1999 5 ENCORE EMINEM 1 2004 6 GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN' 50 CENT 2 2003 7 A GRAND DON'T COME FOR FREE STREETS 1 2004 8 THE SLIM SHADY LP EMINEM 10 1999 9 RECOVERY EMINEM 1 2010 10 SPEAKERBOXXX/THE LOVE BELOW OUTKAST 8 2003 11 DISC-OVERY TINIE TEMPAH 1 2010 12 LATE REGISTRATION KANYE WEST 2 2005 13 SHOCK VALUE TIMBALAND 2 2007 14 THE COLLEGE DROPOUT KANYE WEST 12 2004 15 THE MASSACRE 50 CENT 1 2005 16 8 MILE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK 1 2002 17 ORIGINAL PIRATE MATERIAL STREETS 10 2002 18 THE MARSHALL MATHERS LP 2 EMINEM 1 2013 19 GREATEST HITS 2PAC 17 1998 20 RELAPSE EMINEM 1 2009 21 TROUBLE AKON 1 2004 22 PAIN IS LOVE JA RULE 3 2001 23 VIEWS DRAKE 1 2016 24 FREEDOM AKON 6 2008 25 GRADUATION KANYE WEST 1 2007 26 TAKE CARE DRAKE 5 2011 27 THE SCORE FUGEES 2 1996 28 COLLISION COURSE JAY-Z & LINKIN PARK 15 2004 29 TONGUE N'CHEEK DIZZEE RASCAL 3 2009 30 DEVILS NIGHT D12 2 2001 31 THE DOCUMENTARY GAME 7 2005 32 R & G - THE MASTERPIECE SNOOP DOGG 12 2004 33 WATCH THE THRONE JAY-Z & KANYE WEST 3 2011 34 THE BLUEPRINT 3 JAY-Z 4 2009 35 STEREO TYPICAL RIZZLE KICKS 5 2011 36 PINK FRIDAY NICKI MINAJ 16 2010 37 THE BLACK ALBUM JAY-Z 34 2003 38 STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON NWA 35 1993 39 MORE LIFE DRAKE 2 2017 40 NOTHING WAS THE SAME DRAKE 2 2013 ©2018 Official Charts Company. All rights reserved.

And even though Ed Sheeran is the biggest artist on Spotify by a mile, I'd have still put money on We Found Love being higher up than The A Team.

Amazed by some of the songs on this list. Hey, Soul Sister is the biggest shock for me. If you'd asked me what 2009's most streamed song was last year, I'd have said I Gotta Feeling with no hesitation. Last Nite is another surprise for me too, actually. It Wasn't Me would've been my guess.