Top 60: Artists with most singles sold in the UK (2006)

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Richard - 11.04.2007, 20:20
Top 60: Artists with most singles sold in the UK (2006)
Hi, everyone. Here's the list of the singers whom have sold the most singles in the UK. ABBA has the position number 8. Here's the whole list:

1 Cliff Richard 21032201
2 Beatles 20799632
3 Elvis Presley 19975200
4 Madonna 15171000
5 Elton John 13832000
6 Michael Jackson 11522500
7 Queen 10364000
8 Abba 10021000
9 Paul McCartney 9800500
10 David Bowie 9395120

11 Rod Stewart 9047152
12 Kylie Minogue 8375000
13 Rolling Stones 8374300
14 Stevie Wonder 7706000
15 Spice Girls 7507213
16 Shakin Stevens 7121900
17 George Michael 7008000
18 Whitney Houston 6993105
19 Bee Gees 6943851
20 Status Quo 6779500

21 Oasis 6594000
22 Boney M 6587018
23 Slade 6530000
24 Olivia Newton John 6493006
25 Blondie 6459200
26 Boyzone 6435711
27 UB40 6027000
28 Tom Jones 5892720
29 Celine Dion 5684000
30 Police 5617175

31 Madness 5567600
32 Robbie Williams 5470000
33 Diana Ross 5423480
34 Westlife 5403000
35 U2 5322000
36 Wham! 5300000
37 Adam Ant 5296965
38 Jam 5105000
39 Frankie Goes To Hollywood 5010000
40 Pet Shop Boys 4979000

41 Duran Duran 4894200
42 Phil Collins 4889059
43 Wet Wet Wet 4888868
44 Everly Brothers 4827957
45 Shadows 4793537
46 Mariah Carey 4775000
47 Gary Glitter 4717834
48 Engelbert Humperdinck 4712407
49 Take That 4666000
50 Bryan Adams 4639000

51 Frank Sinatra 4597630
52 Hollies 4597450
53 Britney Spears 4500000
54 Hot Chocolate 4441955
55 Prince 4429500
56 Janet Jackson 4415000
57 Steps 4408500
58 Donna Summer 4389529
59 Electric Light Orchestra 4241169
60 Erasure 4114500

What do you think about this new?

(Source: http:foro.kylie.es)[/b]

Carribean - 11.04.2007, 23:26

Interesting!

It of course will be harder and harder to beat these numbers in the days of music downloads.
Impressive that your idol Kylie is at place 12 by the way!

:wink:

Joe_Bear - 12.04.2007, 05:28

It is still impressive because most of top ten are individuals who have (or had) a longer time to accumulate their numbers, since most bands break up.

so one way of looking at ABBA is third after The Beatles and Queen.

Maxi-saxi - 12.04.2007, 06:36

Joe_Bear wrote: It is still impressive because most of top ten are individuals who have (or had) a longer time to accumulate their numbers, since most bands break up.

so one way of looking at ABBA is third after The Beatles and Queen.

I agree Joe_ Bear very impressive

Maxi-saxi

welshabbalover - 13.04.2007, 09:53

WOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

As a teenager, I hear so much rubbish that people my age listen too... Like the chipmonks on speed ... Manufacted rap ... Some 'beats' made on someones home computer which is on all the music channels. I get stick from some people and have disagreements with people who say ABBA are rubbish ..... BUT ..... Is the music they listen too in the top 10?? Infact, is their music in the whole list?? I THINK NOT and I therefore rest my case :D :D :D :lol: :lol: :lol:

Samy
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onlyabba4me - 13.04.2007, 14:09

It shows how well ABBA did, to be only 343,000 UK Singles Sales behind Queen - an Act who had a much longer Career.

ABBA would actually be ahead of Queen had the UK got 'Eagle' as a 1978 Single, as many Countries did. Everything by ABBA was a Top 5 UK Hit, in those days. Also, if 'Lay All Your Love On Me', had been on 7 Inch Vinyl, in 1981, & not a 7 Inch sized Song, on expensive 12 Inch Vinyl - it was widely seen as a rip off ABBA release in the UK - hence why it peaked at Number 7. (It cost them a Top 5 Hit, & many UK Sales, that they never released it as a normal 7 inch).

Also, ABBA's Sales were further held back by them only releasing 2 UK Singles in 1977, 1978, 1980 & 1981. Had everything been taken advantage of by ABBA, they would have sold at least 11 Million to 12 Million UK Singles - not 10,021,000.....

abbagav - 13.04.2007, 23:58

Yeah and Elton wouldn't be ahead of them had he not done that song when Princess Diana died...

abbagav

WATERL00 - 14.04.2007, 11:16

And if Benny and Björn would allow to release Just Like That as a single and if Universal would promote it properly things would look different, too.

Toni - 14.04.2007, 12:24

DonŽt blame me! IŽve never bought a single of Cliff, the Beatles, Elvis, Madonna, Elton, Michael or Queen in the UK.

Toni 8)

spong - 14.04.2007, 18:36

hello

i have a Queen single...one.
no one else though.
can i be forgiven , please?
actually , when i bought it i didn't have a clue 33 years later i'd be asking for forgiveness...

the Sheer heart attack single is my fave song of theirs so i'm not begging.

gary :D

Carribean - 14.04.2007, 20:26

abbagav wrote: Yeah and Elton wouldn't be ahead of them had he not done that song when Princess Diana died...

abbagav

Of course he would!
He has scored hits in the UK in 5 decades. He started in 1969 with Your Song and sold masses of records in the Seventies and he is still doing well... still standing if you will... lol!

:wink:

abbagav - 15.04.2007, 00:19

Well I beg to differ Caribbean - I can't remember the exact figure but his Diana song sold literally (5?) millions (I'm sure 'onlyabba4me' could give us a precise figure!) which if you ignore would put him below ABBA.

abbagav

Carribean - 15.04.2007, 02:28

I found the exact number and you are right. Unbelievable... when you realise that the original was so much better!
Worldwide this single sold 37 Million times... that is just crazy! :wink:

http://www.everyhit.com/record4.html

Here is the Top 10 of best sold singles in the UK:

01. "Candle In The Wind '97" - Elton John. (4.86 million)
The lyrics to Elton's 1974 classic were re-written in memory of Diana, Princess of Wales. The song was only ever performed once publicly; at Diana's funeral. It has sold 37 million around the world.

02. "Do They Know It's Christmas?" - Band Aid. (3.55m)
The first ever multi-artist charity single (*), this track was recorded in Christmas 1984 by a host of celebrity vocalists to raise money for the famine in Ethiopia.

03. "Bohemian Rhapsody" - Queen. (2.13m)
Arguably the first track to benefit from having a video, this epic spent 9 weeks at number 1 across Christmas 1975 (1.19m). It returned to the top for a further 5 weeks at number 1 at Christmas 1991, a few weeks after the death of lead singer, Freddie Mercury (0.94m).

04. "Mull Of Kintyre" - Wings (2.05m)

05. "Rivers Of Babylon" / "Brown Girl In The Ring" - Boney M (1.985m)

06. "You're The One That I Want" - John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John (1.975m)

07. "Relax" - Frankie Goes To Hollywood (1.91m)

08. "She Loves You" - The Beatles (1.89m)

09. "Unchained Melody" - Robson & Jerome (1.84m)

10. "Mary's Boychild - Oh My Lord" - Boney M (1.79m)

:D

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