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Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley The "Virgin Book of Hit Singles Vol 2" using OCC figures has Jailhouse Rock at 870,000 (page 373) as of chart date 10th April 2010. I estimate the sales as: Year - Sales (Cumulative Sales) 1958 - 700,000 1971 - 35,000 (735,000) 1972 - 5,000 (740,000 1977 - 25,000 (765,000) 1983 - 25,000 (790,000) 2004 - (810,000) 2005 - 45,000 (855,000) 2010 - (870,000) For the 30 Biggest Selling Songs From The Movies list, the OCC appear to have excluded the download and 2005 reissue sales.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010hb83 Tony Blackburn returns to BBC Radio 2 for another special bank holiday chart [25th April] and this time counts down the 30 biggest selling songs from the movies, of all time (in the UK). Using sales data provided by The Official Charts Company, a track is only eligible for this chart if it was recorded specifically for a film. Previously released songs later included on film soundtracks have not been included. (I don't know why OCC has included Rock Around The Clock - this was a previously released single added to Blackboard Jungle. Also Strangers In The Night was recorded as an instrumental score for A Man Could Get Killed and the Sinatra version was released subsequently). The chart is based on physical and download sales, up to and including 27th February 2011. I have estimated likely total sales and would be interested if anyone has any suggestions, particularly for those still selling in quantity like Ghostbusters and Eye Of The Tiger. Title / Artist / [Movie (Movie Year)] / Year Single Released / Est. Sales 1. You’re The One That I Want - John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John [Grease (1978)] 1978 2,015,000 2. Love Is All Around - Wet Wet Wet [Four Weddings And A Funeral (1994)] 1994 1,825,000 3. I Just Called To Say I Love You - Stevie Wonder [The Woman In Red (1984)] 1984 1,815,000 4. (Everything I Do) I Do It For You - Bryan Adams [Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves (1991)] 1991 1,670,000 5. Summer Nights - John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John [Grease (1978)] 1978 1,570,000 6. I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston [The Bodyguard (1992)] 1992 1,460,000 7. My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion [Titanic (1997)] 1998 1,420,000 8. (We’re Gonna) Rock Around The Clock - Bill Haley and his Comets [blackboard Jungle (1955)] 1955 1,410,000 9. Gangsta’s Paradise - Coolio feat. L.V. [Dangerous Minds (1995)] 1995 1,370,000 10. Eye Of The Tiger - Survivor [Rocky III (1982)] 1982 1,310,000 11. Bright Eyes - Art Garfunkel [Watership Down (1978)] 1979 1,185,000 12. Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Junior [Ghostbusters (1984)] 1984 1,085,000 13. The Young Ones - Cliff Richard and the Shadows [The Young Ones (1961)] 1962 1,060,000 14. Fame - Irene Cara [Fame (1980)] 1982 1,035,000 15. The Next Time / Bachelor Boy - Cliff Richard and the Shadows [summer Holiday (1963)] 1963 980,000 16. I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing - Aerosmith [Armageddon (1998)] 1998 910,000 17. Help! - The Beatles [Help! (1965)] 1965 910,000 18. Men In Black - Will Smith [Men In Black (1997)] 1997 890,000 19. How Deep Is Your Love - Bee Gees [saturday Night Fever (1977)] 1977 880,000 20. Into The Groove - Madonna [Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)] 1985 860,000 21. White Christmas - Bing Crosby [Holiday Inn (1942)] 1942 850,000 22. Living Doll - Cliff Richard and the Drifters [serious Charge (1959)] 1959 840,000 23. Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now - Starship [Mannequin (1987)] 1987 830,000 24. Take My Breath Away (Love Theme From ‘Top Gun’) - Berlin [Top Gun (1986)] 1986 830,000 25. Rule The World - Take That [stardust (2007)] 2007 805,000 26. Night Fever - Bee Gees [saturday Night Fever (1977)] 1978 800,000 27. Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley [Jailhouse Rock (1957)] 1958 790,000 28. Strangers In The Night - Frank Sinatra [A Man Could Get Killed (1966)] 1966 775,000 29. Don’t Stop Movin’ - S Club 7 [The Parole Officer (2001)] 2001 750,000 30. Wooden Heart - Elvis Presley [G.I. Blues (1960)] 1961 740,000

According to Biggest Selling X-Factor Hits Top 30 broadcast on 4Music TV, "Bleeding Love" sold 995,000 copies to chart week ending 18th September.

Here is a link to the MTV website page with its Official Countdowns: http://www.mtv.co.uk/music/charts/official-uk-countdowns Plenty of interesting information and sales figures. Particularly fascinating to see pre-2000 songs from ABBA and Bon Jovi, and the totals from Simon Cowell's Top 50.

Dave, your postings of old sales lists are invaluable. I look forward to the 1950s post when you have the time.

Artist / Singles Sales in 2009 1 Lady Gaga 2,952,097 2 The Black Eyed Peas 2,232,024 3 Beyoncé 1,819,291 4 Michael Jackson 1,685,029 5 Tinchy Stryder 1,272,193 6 Kings Of Leon 1,270,106 7 La Roux 1,178,955 8 Lily Allen 1,166,363 9 Dizzee Rascal 1,155,949 10 David Guetta 1,076,469 11 Cheryl Cole 1,009,333 12 Eminem 986,665 13 The Saturdays 967,417 14 Alexandra Burke 949,080 15 Jay-Z 906,356 16 JLS 903,708 17 Flo Rida 849,072 18 Take That 833,675 19 Calvin Harris 773,992 20 Britney Spears 752,407 21 Pink 739,593 22 Prodigy 739,203 23 Joe McElderry 716,358 24 Taylor Swift 692,864 25 Pixie Lott 683,624 26 Miley Cyrus 681,715 27 Chipmunk 679,998 28 Leona Lewis 673,396 29 Akon 663,390 30 The Killers 661,351 31 Rihanna 657,057 32 Rage Against The Machine 642,839 33 Girls Aloud 632,218 34 Alesha Dixon 613,604 35 N-Dubz 572,082 36 Robbie Williams 567,525 37 Pussycat Dolls 551,742 38 Katy Perry 546,841 39 Michael Buble 546,762 40 Florence & The Machine 541,811 41 TI 507,014 42 Kelly Clarkson 502,356 43 Cascada 492,886 44 Noisettes 489,746 45 Daniel Merriweather 476,524 46 Taio Cruz 471,313 47 Sugababes 467,183 48 Pitbull 466,664 49 Jordin Sparks 464,495 50 Kanye West 460,857 Music Week 2010

Years with 53 chart weeks in the 1990s and 2000s: 1992, 1998, 2004, 2009 The chart year for 2009 mirrors that of 2004, the last time that there were 53 chart weeks. Week 1 in 2004 was coincidentally also week-ending 10th January. As 2004 was a leap year, week 53 was of course a day earlier than 2009 (week-ending 8th January).

The article at http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ca3d0620-9cd7-11...144feabdc0.html is written by a reporter called Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in New York. It seems that 5m remastered CDs and 50,000 mono boxsets were shipped throughout the world prior to release.

A really good programme on Radio 2 was "Record Producers: The Extended Cut - Sir George Martin": http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00mk..._George_Martin/ It's available until Sat 12th Sep on BBC iplayer. "The next extended edition of The Record Producers profiles a man often labelled "The Fifth Beatle" - Sir George Martin. Richard Allinson and Steve Levine examine his work as a producer, arranger and, through his experiments with sound, technical innovator.Highlights include the first chance to hear the newly restored version of the original master tapes for Please Please Me, a close up look at both Martin's orchestration for She's Leaving Home and the recording of A Day In The Life. Steve Levine also recreates the mellotron part from the opening of Strawberry Fields forever.The programme also contains examples of a recent technological development that gives 6 Music listeners the opportunity to hear some of the Beatles most famous songs in a new way. Because of the limitations of tape machines during the 1960s, it was necessary to either record or mix various instruments and voices onto the same track. Once they'd been committed to tape there was no way of separating them. But now, through the use of revolutionary software, there's the chance to hear some of these parts in isolation for the very first time.But the undoubted highlight of the programme is the in-depth look at the eight track recording of Come Together.In his exclusive interview, Sir George talks about various aspects of the studio and recording process, the albums Sgt. Pepper and Abbey Road, along with a number of songs, including Strawberry Fields Forever, Tomorrow Never Knows and Rain".

Back For Good - Take That (1995) It sold 725,000 in the 1990s. It is not included in a top twenty list of biggest selling downloads of singles from the 1990s published in Music Week on 11th July 2009. The top twenty I estimate all sold over 40,000 downloads since 2004. Basing an estimate on other 1990s singles (like Spice Girls sales since 1999) I guess that it is likely to have sold between 750,000 and 760,000 to date.

Very interesting figures that you discovered. I agree with you that to date it is higher but the chart above is to 2002, not subsequent sales. So in 2002 it had sold around 935,000 copies. A few weeks ago (w/e 11-07-2009) Music Week had an article about downloads since iTunes began in June 2004. Dancing Queen from its position in the 1970s chart appears to have sold over 120,000 on download. Therefore its total to date is over 1,060,000 I would guess.

Thanks for your input. The Ultimate Chart of 7th September 2002 gave a figure of 1,234,982. We have taken the new figure of 930,000 by estimating the sales in relation to its position from the Top 40 of the 1990s recently broadcast on VH1 and TMF music TV channels. The estimate is around 225,000 in 1994 and and over 700,000 in 1995, making about 930,000 by 1999.

Ultimate Chart 2002 [amended] by Simon W and Fiesta: The Ultimate Chart was first broadcast on 7th September 2002 and celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Singles Chart by setting out the top 100 selling singles in UK from 1952 to 2002. Since then, there have been some reappraisals of 1990s singles sales as the chart compiler The Official Charts Company has: 1) gathered together details of over the counter record sales direct from companies (shipments less returns) and 2) built better computer models of the marketplace through experience. The new estimates (mainly covering 1994 to 1996) are apparent from sales mentioned in Music Week and in charts broadcast on music channels over the last couple of years, such as “Boybands of the 90s”, “Top 100 90s debuts”, “90s R ‘n’ B hits”, and “Top 40 of the 90s”. Fiesta, like me, has spent many years gathering together facts and figures, and recently we pooled our resources to put together an updated Ultimate Chart. We have used the same cut-off date. The corrected estimates of 1994 to 1996 produce quite a few changes. There were 71 million sellers between 1952 and 2002. We don’t believe that there are any other singles that sold over 930,000 copies; the closest are probably What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For - Emil Ford and the Checkmates (1959), and Help! - The Beatles (1965), both having sold around 920,000. The advent of downloads has meant that many of the top 100 have sold quite a few thousand since 2002 without being officially re-released or making the published singles charts. This makes it impossible to produce an accurate up-to-date top 100 in 2009 without breaking into the OCC computer. We may have to wait until the 60th anniversary in 2012 for a new list. It should be quite accurate but no doubt there are some mistakes! Any comments are very welcome: The Ultimate Chart (amended) The UK’s Best-Selling Singles, 14th November 1952 to W/E 7th September 2002 Title Artist Year Sales 1 Something About The Way You Look Tonight / Candle In The Wind 1997 Elton John 1997 4,864,611 2 Do They Know It’s Christmas? Band Aid 1984 3,550,000 3 Bohemian Rhapsody Queen 1975 2,130,000 4 Mull Of Kintyre / Girls School Wings 1977 2,050,000 5 Rivers Of Babylon / Brown Girl In The Ring Boney M 1978 1,985,000 6 You’re The One That I Want John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John 1978 1,975,000 7 Relax Frankie Goes To Hollywood 1983 1,910,000 8 She Loves You The Beatles 1963 1,890,000 9 Mary’s Boy Child-Oh My Lord Boney M 1978 1,790,000 10 Evergreen / Anything Is Possible Will Young 2002 1,779,938 11 I Just Called To Say I Love You Stevie Wonder 1984 1,775,000 12 I Want To Hold Your Han The Beatles 1963 1,750,000 13 Barbie Girl Aqua 1997 1,722,418 14 Believe Cher 1998 1,672,108 15 Perfect Day Various 1997 1,548,538 16 (Everything I Do) I Do It For You Bryan Adams 1991 1,527,824 17 Tears Ken Dodd 1965 1,521,000 18 Can’t Buy Me Love The Beatles 1964 1,520,000 19 Summer Nights John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John 1978 1,515,000 20 Two Tribes Frankie Goes To Hollywood 1984 1,510,000 21 Imagine John Lennon 1975 1,486,581 22 Baby One More Time Britney Spears 1999 1,450,154 23 Don’t You Want Me Human League 1981 1,430,000 24 Last Christmas Wham! 1984 1,420,000 25 I Feel Fine The Beatles 1964 1,410,000 26 I’ll Be Missing You Puff Daddy, Faith Evans feat. 112 1997 1,409,688 27 Karma Chameleon Culture Club 1983 1,405,000 28 The Carnival Is Over The Seekers 1965 1,400,000 29 (We’re Gonna) Rock Around The Clock Bill Haley and his Comets 1955 1,392,000 30 Unchained Melody / White Cliffs Of Dover Robson Green and Jerome Flynn 1995 1,390,000 31 Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out The Beatles 1965 1,385,000 32 YMCA Village People 1978 1,380,000 33 Careless Whisper George Michael 1984 1,365,995 34 Release Me Engelbert Humperdinck 1967 1,365,000 35 I Will Always Love You Whitney Houston 1992 1,355,055 36 The Power Of Love Jennifer Rush 1985 1,321,530 37 Unchained Melody Gareth Gates 2002 1,318,714 38 My Heart Will Go On Celine Dion 1998 1,312,551 39 Love Is All Around Wet Wet Wet 1994 1,300,000 40 Never Ever All Saints 1997 1,254,604 41 Diana Paul Anka 1957 1,240,000 42 It’s Now Or Never Elvis Presley with the Jordanaires 1960 1,210,000 43 The Green Green Grass Of Home Tom Jones 1966 1,205,000 44 Come On Eileen Dexy’s Midnight Runners and Emerald Express 1982 1,201,000 45 It Wasn’t Me Shaggy 2001 1,180,708 46 Heart Of Glass Blondie 1979 1,180,000 47 Wannabe Spice Girls 1996 1,180,000 48 Mary’s Boy Child Harry Belafonte 1957 1,175,000 49 Killing Me Softly Fugees 1996 1,170,000 50 The Last Waltz Engelbert Humperdinck 1967 1,160,000 51 Bright Eyes Art Garfunkel 1979 1,155,000 52 Heartbeat / Tragedy Steps 1998 1,150,285 53 Don’t Give Up On Us David Soul 1976 1,145,000 54 I Love You Love Me Love Gary Glitter 1973 1,140,000 55 Tainted Love Soft Cell 1981 1,135,000 56 Stranger On The Shore Acker Bilk 1961 1,130,000 57 It’s Like That Run DMC with Jason Nevins 1983 1,119,905 58 Teletubbies Say Eh-Oh! Teletubbies 1997 1,107,235 59 I Remember You Frank Ifield 1962 1,096,000 60 Pure And Simple Hear’Say 2001 1,078,434 61 No Matter What Boyzone 1998 1,074,192 62 2 Become 1 Spice Girls 1996 1,072,073 63 The Young Ones Cliff Richard 1962 1,052,000 64 Can’t Get You Out Of My Head Kylie Minogue 2001 1,037,235 65 Blue (Da Ba Dee) Eiffel 65 1999 1,023,536 66 Gangsta’s Paradise Coolio feat. L.V. 1995 1,020,000 67 Can We Fix It? Bob The Builder 2000 1,008,777 68 Merry Xmas Everybody Slade 1973 1,006,500 69 Save Your Kisses For Me Brotherhood Of Man 1976 1,006,200 70 Eye Level Simon Park Orchestra 1972 1,005,500 71 Blue Monday New Order 1983 1,001,400 72 Long Haired Lover From Liverpool Little Jimmy Osmond 1972 998,000 73 Another Brick In The Wall (Part II) Pink Floyd 1979 995,000 74 Don’t Cry For Me Argentina Julie Covington 1976 993,000 75 Eye Of The Tiger Survivor 1982 990,000 76 I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing The New Seekers 1971 990,000 77 Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree Dawn featuring Tony Orlando 1973 988,000 78 Stand And Deliver Adam and the Ants 1981 985,000 79 Under The Moon Of Love Showaddywaddy 1976 985,000 80 Torn Natalie Imbruglia 1997 982,324 81 Especially For You Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan 1988 982,000 82 Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick Ian and The Blockheads 1978 979,100 83 Sugar Sugar Archies 1969 979,000 84 The Lion Sleeps Tonight Tight Fit 1982 978,000 85 The Next Time / Bachelor Boy Cliff Richard 1962 976,000 86 Fame Irene Cara 1982 975,000 87 Ghostbusters Ray Parker Junior 1984 974,001 88 Uptown Girl Billy Joel 1983 974,000 89 Ride On Time Black Box 1989 973,850 90 Telstar Tornados 1962 967,000 91 Amazing Grace Royal Scots Dragoon Guards 1972 962,000 92 Sailing Rod Stewart 1975 955,000 93 Mississippi Pussycat 1976 947,000 94 Spaceman Babylon Zoo 1996 945,000 95 My Sweet Lord George Harrison 1971 940,000 96 Whole Again Atomic Kitten 2001 935,000 97 Dancing Queen ABBA 1976 935,000 98 Think Twice Celine Dion 1994 930,000 99 Say You’ll Be There Spice Girls 1996 930,000 100 I Will Survive Gloria Gaynor 1979 930,000

Here is a chart of solo women of the 1980s with estimated sales. I've collated the information from Record Mirror and Music Week over the years, plus recent charts broadcast by the Official Charts Company. Sales are restricted to between 1980 and 1989. UK Singles Sales 1980 to 1989 - Solo Women Title Artist Year Est. Sale 1 The Power Of Love - Jennifer Rush 1985 1,320,000 2 Fame - Irene Cara 1982 975,000 3 Into The Groove - Madonna 1985 820,000 4 Woman In Love - Barbra Streisand 1980 780,000 5 Feels Like I’m In Love - Kelly Marie 1980 750,000 6 Like A Virgin - Madonna 1984 725,000 7 Total Eclipse Of The Heart - Bonnie Tyler 1983 675,000 8 Chain Reaction - Diana Ross 1986 675,000 9 I Should Be So Lucky - Kylie Minogue 1988 650,000 10 Together We Are Beautiful - Fern Kinney 1980 650,000 11 I Feel For You - Chaka Khan 1984 645,000 12 I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) - Whitney Houston 1987 640,000 13 Move Closer - Phyllis Nelson 1985 635,000 14 9 To 5 - Sheena Easton 1980 615,000 Women as a named featured artist, sales from 1980 to 1989: a Especially For You - Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan 1988 950,000 b I Know Him So Well - Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson 1985 870,000 c The Only Way Is Up - Yazz and the Plastic Population 1988 720,000 Female groups, sales 1980 to 1989: i Frankie - Sister Sledge 1985 680,000 There have been some reappraisals of sales since the 1980s as the chart compilers have: 1) gathered together over the counter record sales direct from companies (shipments less returns) and 2) built better computer models of the marketplace through experience. So some of the above figures are likely to have altered. I believe that the top 3 and a to c are pretty accurate.

Between 29-12-2008 and 01-01-2009, Radio 2 broadcast a series called "30 at 50", celebrating the 50th birthdays of Michael Jackson, Madonna, Motown and Prince. Each programme was based around the Top 30 selling singles of the artist(s), based on the Official Charts Company database. These are reproduced on the Radio 2 website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/30at50

My subsequent post #18, which amalgamates two separate OCC charts, includes One Day In Your Life (1981), I Just Can’t Stop Loving You (Michael Jackson and Siedah Garrett) (1987) and Farewell My Summer Love (1984).

Here is an amalgamation of the Top 40 and Top 30. The positions were calculated by the Official Charts Company. I have added in some sales estimates (rounded to nearest 5,000). I have taken figures where available from year end charts, Record Mirror, Music Week and the Guardian, with some guestimates. Top 47 UK Selling Singles by Michael Jackson/The Jackson 5/The Jacksons (to December 2008): 1 Earth Song 1995 1,075,000 2 One Day In Your Life 1981 795,000 3 Billie Jean 1983 750,000 4 You Are Not Alone 1995 585,000 5 Black Or White 1991 530,000 6 Heal The World 1992 480,000 7 I Want You Back The Jackson 5 1970 475,000 8 Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough 1979 470,000 9 Say Say Say - Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson 1983 435,000 10 Show You The Way To Go - The Jacksons 1977 380,000 11 Beat It 1983 360,000 12 She’s Out Of My Life 1980 320,000 13 I Just Can’t Stop Loving You - Michael Jackson and Siedah Garrett 1987 300,000 14 Blame It On The Boogie - The Jacksons 1978 280,000 15 The Way You Make Me Feel 1987 275,000 16 Leave Me Alone 1989 250,000 17 Bad 1987 240,000 18 Remember The Time / Come Together 1992 235,000 19 Can You Feel It - The Jacksons 1980 235,000 20 Rockin’ Robin 1972 230,000 21 They Don’t Care About Us 1996 230,000 22 ABC The Jackson 5 1970 220,000 23 Smooth Criminal 1988 210,000 24 Off The Wall 1979 200,000 25 You Rock My World 2001 195,000 26 Scream - Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson 1995 190,000 27 Thriller 1983 190,000 28 Rock With You 1980 190,000 29 Give In To Me 1993 190,000 30 The Girl Is Mine - Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney 1982 185,000 31 Blood On The Dance Floor 1997 185,000 32 Stranger In Moscow 1996 175,000 33 Why - 3T feat. Michael Jackson 1996 175,000 34 Farewell My Summer Love 1984 175,000 35 Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’ 1983 170,000 36 Dirty Diana 1988 170,000 37 History / Ghosts 1997 160,000 38 In The Closet 1992 150,000 39 Will You Be There 1993 145,000 40 Ben 1972 135,000 41 Who Is It? 1992 125,000 42 Jam 1992 115,000 43 Another Part Of Me 1988 105,000 44 Liberian Girl 1989 100,000 45 Man In The Mirror 1988 90,000 46 One More Chance 2003 85,000 47 Cry 2001 85,000 The Guardian reported on 26th June 2009 that MJ's top 5 UK singles, according to the Official Charts Company, were: 1. EARTH SONG 1,000,000. 2. ONE DAY IN YOUR LIFE 800,000. 3. BILLIE JEAN 760,000. 4. YOU ARE NOT ALONE 590,000. 5. BLACK OR WHITE 530,000. The link is: guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/jun/26/michaeljackson One can download an Excel file, which includes all chart positions for singles and albums, and top 5 sales for the latter as well: 1. THRILLER 3,900,000. [this total includes Thriller 25]. 2. BAD 3,600,000. 3. DANGEROUS 2,200,000. 4. NUMBER ONES 1,600,000. 5. HISTORY - PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE BOOK 1 1,500,000.

On BBC Radio 2 on 29th December 2008, a programme was broadcast to celebrate Michael Jackson's 50th year, called Michael Jackson: 30 at 50 The Top 30 best selling MJ UK solo singles, using information provided by the Official Charts Company, was: 1 Earth Song 1995 2 One Day In Your Life 1981 3 Billie Jean 1983 4 You Are Not Alone 1995 5 Black Or White 1991 6 Heal The World 1992 7 Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough 1979 8 Say Say Say - Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson 1983 9 Beat It 1983 10 She’s Out Of My Life 1980 11 I Just Can’t Stop Loving You - Michael Jackson and Siedah Garrett 1987 12 The Way You Make Me Feel 1987 13 Leave Me Alone 1989 14 Bad 1987 15 Remember The Time / Come Together 1992 16 Rockin’ Robin 1972 17 They Don’t Care About Us 1996 18 Smooth Criminal 1988 19 Off The Wall 1979 20 You Rock My World 2001 21 Scream - Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson 1995 22 Thriller 1983 23 Rock With You 1980 24 Give In To Me 1993 25 The Girl Is Mine - Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney 1982 26 Blood On The Dance Floor 1997 27 Stranger In Moscow 1996 28 Farewell My Summer Love 1984 29 Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’ 1983 30 Dirty Diana 1988

I believe that this chart has sales from a date between weeks 49 and 50, that is, 6th to 13th December [between chart dates w/e 13th December and 20th December]. So it is missing two to three weeks sales from 2008. Official Top 40 Bestsellers of 2008 Friday 26th December 2008, VH1 TV Channel 15:30 to 19:00 OCC Sales 1 Hero X Factor Finalists 2 Mercy Duffy 3 Rockstar Nickelback 4 I Kissed A Girl Kate Perry 5 American Boy Estelle feat. Kanye West 6 Now You’re Gone Basshunter 7 4 Minutes Madonna & Justin 8 Black & Gold Sam Sparro 9 Sex On Fire Kings Of Leon 10 Low Flo-Rida feat. T-Pain 11 Dance Wiv Me Dizzee Rascal feat. Calvin Harris and Chrome 12 Closer Ne-Yo 13 All Summer Long Kid Rock 14 Take A Bow Rihanna 15 Disturbia Rihanna 16 So What Pink 17 No Air Jordan Sparks feat. Chris Brown 18 Superstar Lupe Fiasco feat. Matthew Santos 19 The Promise Girls Aloud 20 Don’t Stop The Music Rihanna 21 That’s Not My Name The Ting Tings 22 Viva La Vida Coldplay 23 Chasing Pavements Adele 24 Sweet About Me Gabriella Cilmi 25 The Man Who Can’t Be Moved The Script 26 What’s It Gonna Be H Two O feat. Platnum 27 Heartbreaker Will.i.am feat. Cheryl Cole 28 Love In This Club Usher feat. Young Jeezy 29 If I Were A Boy Beyoncé 30 Warwick Avenue Duffy 31 Cry For You September 32 Wearing My Rolex Wiley 33 Hot ‘N’ Cold Kate Perry 34 Better In Time / Footprints In The Sand Leona Lewis 35 Stop And Stare OneRepublic 36 With You Chris Brown 37 Fascination Alphabeat 38 Piece Of Me Britney Spears 39 Forever Chris Brown 40 Work Kelly Rowland

** See new information lower down this thread ** Yesterday, The Music Factory TV channel broadcast a top 40 of the best selling UK singles released by The Jackson 5/The Jacksons/Michael Jackson to celebrate Michael Jackson’s 50th birthday. The positions were calculated by The Official Charts Company. The Jackson 5/The Jacksons/Michael Jackson OCC All Time UK Top 40 The Music Factory TV 30th August 2008 [The Official Chart Company positions based on sales to celebrate 50th birthday] (Position/Title/Year) 1 Earth Song 1995 2 Billie Jean 1983 3 You Are Not Alone 1995 4 Black Or White 1991 5 Heal The World 1992 6 I Want You Back (The Jackson 5) 1969 7 Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough 1979 8 Say Say Say (Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson) 1983 9 Show You The Way To Go (The Jacksons) 1977 10 Beat It 1983 11 She’s Out Of My Life 1980 12 Blame It On The Boogie (The Jacksons) 1978 13 The Way You Make Me Feel 1987 14 Leave Me Alone 1989 15 Bad 1987 16 Remember The Time / Come Together 1992 17 Can You Feel It (The Jacksons) 1980 18 They Don’t Care About Us 1996 19 ABC (The Jackson 5) 1970 20 Smooth Criminal 1988 21 You Rock My World 2001 22 Scream (Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson) 1995 23 Rock With You 1980 24 Give In To Me 1993 25 Blood On The Dance Floor 1997 26 Stranger In Moscow 1996 27 Why (3T feat. Michael Jackson) 1996 28 Dirty Diana 1988 29 History / Ghosts 1997 30 Thriller 1983 31 In The Closet 1992 32 Will You Be There 1993 33 Ben 1972 34 Who Is It? 1992 35 Jam 1992 36 Another Part Of Me 1988 37 Liberian Girl 1989 38 Man In The Mirror 1988 39 One More Chance 2003 40 Cry 2001 There are two very noticeable omissions, namely: One Day In Your Life (1981) was for many years Jackson’s biggest seller in UK. By the end of the 1980s it had sold over 730,000 copies. It should be at number 2 in the above chart. I Just Can’t Stop Loving You (Michael Jackson and Siedah Garrett) (1987) was the 30th best seller of 1988, with 299,000 copies as reported at the time. This places it in the top 15 above.