Top 10 selling singles in the UK meme

[wellinghall]

Bold if you have bought it on a single
Italicise if you have bought it on an album

1. Something About the Way You Look Tonight/ Candle in the Wind 97 - Elton John (1997) 4.9m sales
2. Do They Know It's Christmas? - Band Aid (1984) 3.69m sales
3. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen (1975) 2.36m sales
4. Mull of Kintyre/ Girls' School - Wings (1977) 2m sales
5. You're The One That I Want - John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John (1978) 2m sales
6. Rivers of Babylon/ Brown Girl in the Ring - Boney M (1978) 2m sales
7. Relax - Frankie Goes To Hollywood (1983) 2m sales
8. She Loves You - The Beatles (1963) 1.9m sales
9. Unchained Melody/ (There'll Be Bluebells Over) The White Cliffs of Dover - Robson Green & Jerome Flynn (1995) 1.86m sales
10. Love Is All Around - Wet Wet Wet (1994) 1.85m sales

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20203370

Comments

[gramarye1971]

My roommate and I were discussing 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' a while back, and couldn't decide whether it or Sting's 'Russians' was the more unintentionally offensive song of the mid-1980s. It's a tough call.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

5th November - I expect to hear my first "Do they know it's Christmas" any day now.

[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

I wonder what the correct response for "borrowed the album from a friend and copied it onto a mix tape using a tape-to-tape machine" would be? I have two of the above acquired in that way... (and six on albums, none as the single).

[apademek.livejournal.com]

8 bought as a single when it was first issued. That makes me feel very old!