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Daft Punk’s Get Lucky becomes one of the UK’s biggest selling singles of all-time!
27/06/2013
By Daniel Lane
Daft Punk score the UK’s 136th million selling single. Plus: Sir Elton John, Ed Sheeran and Peter Andre also break through the million copies sales barrier!
Daft Punk’s Get Lucky has become the first 2013-released single to break through the million copies sales barrier, the Official Charts Company can reveal.
Get Lucky, which also features N.E.R.D’s Pharrell Williams and Chic’s Nile Rodgers, is only the 136th single in the 60 year history of the UK’s Official Singles Chart to join the Million Sellers Roll Of Honour. The track has reached this landmark in double-quick time, hitting one million sales in its 69th day on sale in the UK, further reinforcing its position as the biggest selling single of 2013 so far.
The success also gives Daft Punk’s main collaborators on Get Lucky their first UK million sellers, too. Despite a career of 40 years making hits, Nile Rodgers has never previously had a million seller in the UK.
“The fact that Get Lucky has sold a million copies in the UK is one thing, but to do it in 69 days?! I’m awestruck,” Nile Rodgers told OfficialCharts.com. “When I think how it happened, too, with people who I like a lot, that we just decided to go into the studio and do something… And then it turns out like this? It’s absolutely remarkable, because no-one was prepared for this!
“I’ve had big records and Number 1s; I have had records that were Number 1 in the United States but nowhere else… I’ve had records which have done well [in the UK], but not in the States. But to have this ubiquitous record, that is a hit everywhere… It’s amazing to me! I’m out on the road and I can hear it wherever I go. I’m flabbergasted!”
“This is another impressive achievement by Daft Punk, who have reached this landmark in super-quick time,” comments Martin Talbot, Chief Executive of the Official Charts Company. “The last time a single took less than three months to hit a million was James Arthur’s Impossible (which did it in its fifth week on sale), who had the profile and impact of the X Factor behind him.”
Until now, Pharrell Williams had also previously not passed this golden landmark. However, he may shortly follow up his first million seller with his second. Get Lucky is on course to be joined by another of this year’s mega-selling singles: Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines (FT Williams and US rapper TI), which is currently close to 800,000 sales in the UK in its fifth week of release.
Sir Elton John, Ed Sheeran and Peter Andre also join the Million Sellers Club!
According to the latest Official Charts Company sales data, a range of classic and recent hits have also passed the one million sales mark in the last month: Don't Go Breaking My Heart by Elton John & Kiki Dee (1976), Mysterious Girl by Peter Andre FT Bubbler Ranx (1995), Whole Again by Atomic Kitten (2001), Use Somebody by Kings Of Leon (2008), and The A Team by Ed Sheeran (2011).
This brings the total of tracks to cross the million sales threshold during 2013 to ten: Impossible by James Arthur (2012) and We Are Young by Fun. FT Janelle Monae (2011) hit a million sales in January of this year, while Gangnam Style by PSY (2102) and Titanium by David Guetta FT Sia (2011) tipped over a million sales in February.
Elton John’s double A-side, Something About The Way You Look Tonight / Candle In The Wind '97, remains the UK’s biggest selling single of all-time, racking up over 4.91 million sales since its release in 1997. Band Aid’s 1984 charity single Do They Know It’s Christmas? is in second place with 3.73 million sales, while Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody (2.4 million sales), Wings’ Mull Of Kintyre / Girls’ School (2.07 million) and John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John’s You’re The One That I Want (2.04 million) complete the Top 5.
You can see the full list of all the UK’s 136 million selling singles below:
The UK’s Official biggest selling singles of all-time
01 4,910,000 SOMETHING ABOUT THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT/CANDLE IN THE WIND '97 ELTON JOHN 1997
02 3,730,000 DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS? BAND AID 1984
03 2,400,000 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY QUEEN 1975
04 2,070,000 MULL OF KINTYRE/GIRLS' SCHOOL WINGS 1977
05 2,040,000 YOU'RE THE ONE THAT I WANT JOHN TRAVOLTA & OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN 1978
06 2,030,000 RELAX FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD 1983
07 2,020,000 RIVERS OF BABYLON/BROWN GIRL IN THE RING BONEY M 1978
08 1,910,000 SHE LOVES YOU THE BEATLES 1963
09 1,860,000 UNCHAINED MELODY/(THERE'LL BE BLUEBIRDS OVER) THE WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER ROBSON GREEN & JEROME FLYNN 1995
10 1,860,000 LOVE IS ALL AROUND WET WET WET 1994
11 1,860,000 MARY'S BOY CHILD/OH MY LORD BONEY M 1978
12 1,840,000 I JUST CALLED TO SAY I LOVE YOU STEVIE WONDER 1984
13 1,800,000 BARBIE GIRL AQUA 1997
14 1,790,000 ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE/EVERGREEN WILL YOUNG 2002
15 1,770,000 I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND THE BEATLES 1963
16 1,770,000 BELIEVE CHER 1998
17 1,750,000 (EVERYTHING I DO) I DO IT FOR YOU BRYAN ADAMS 1991
18 1,700,000 LAST CHRISTMAS/EVERYTHING SHE WANTS WHAM! 1984
19 1,640,000 IMAGINE JOHN LENNON 1975
20 1,600,000 SUMMER NIGHTS JOHN TRAVOLTA & OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN 1978
21 1,590,000 TWO TRIBES FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD 1984
22 1,580,000 I'LL BE MISSING YOU PUFF DADDY & FAITH EVANS 1997
23 1,560,000 DON'T YOU WANT ME? HUMAN LEAGUE 1981
24 1,550,000 I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU WHITNEY HOUSTON 1992
25 1,550,000 PERFECT DAY VARIOUS ARTISTS 1997
26 1,540,000 THREE LIONS BADDIEL & SKINNER & LIGHTNING SEEDS 1996
27 1,540,000 CAN'T BUY ME LOVE THE BEATLES 1964
28 1,520,000 ...BABY ONE MORE TIME BRITNEY SPEARS 1999
29 1,520,000 TEARS KEN DODD 1965
30 1,500,000 MY HEART WILL GO ON CELINE DION 1998
31 1,490,000 KARMA CHAMELEON CULTURE CLUB 1983
32 1,470,000 YMCA VILLAGE PEOPLE 1978
33 1,460,000 EYE OF THE TIGER SURVIVOR 1982
34 1,460,000 CARELESS WHISPER GEORGE MICHAEL 1984
35 1,450,000 GANGSTA'S PARADISE COOLIO FT LV 1995
36 1,450,000 SOMEONE LIKE YOU ADELE 2011
37 1,430,000 (WE'RE GONNA) ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK BILL HALEY & HIS COMETS 1955
38 1,420,000 I FEEL FINE THE BEATLES 1964
39 1,420,000 THE CARNIVAL IS OVER THE SEEKERS 1965
40 1,400,000 THE POWER OF LOVE JENNIFER RUSH 1985
41 1,390,000 WE CAN WORK IT OUT/DAY TRIPPER THE BEATLES 1964
42 1,390,000 MOVES LIKE JAGGER MAROON 5 FT CHRISTINA AGUILERA 2011
43 1,380,000 RELEASE ME ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK 1967
44 1,380,000 KILLING ME SOFTLY FUGEES 1996
45 1,350,000 SOMEBODY THAT I USED TO KNOW GOTYE FT KIMBRA 2011
46 1,350,000 I GOTTA FEELING BLACK EYED PEAS 2009
47 1,340,000 UNCHAINED MELODY GARETH GATES 2002
48 1,340,000 WANNABE SPICE GIRLS 1996
49 1,330,000 COME ON EILEEN DEXY'S MIDNIGHT RUNNERS 1982
50 1,320,000 (IS THIS THE WAY TO) AMARILLO TONY CHRISTIE FT PETER KAY 2005
51 1,320,000 IT WASN'T ME SHAGGY FT RIKROK 2001
52 1,320,000 WONDERWALL OASIS 1995
53 1,320,000 NEVER EVER ALL SAINTS 1997
54 1,320,000 THINK TWICE CELINE DION 1994
55 1,290,000 TAINTED LOVE SOFT CELL 1981
56 1,280,000 HEART OF GLASS BLONDIE 1979
57 1,260,000 IT'S NOW OR NEVER ELVIS PRESLEY 1960
58 1,260,000 IT'S LIKE THAT RUN-DMC VS JASON NEVINS 1997
59 1,260,000 WE FOUND LOVE RIHANNA FT CALVIN HARRIS 2011
60 1,250,000 SEX ON FIRE KINGS OF LEON 2008
61 1,250,000 HALLELUJAH ALEXANDRA BURKE 2008
62 1,250,000 DIANA PAUL ANKA 1957
63 1,240,000 GREEN, GREEN GRASS OF HOME TOM JONES 1966
64 1,230,000 MERRY XMAS EVERYBODY SLADE 1973
65 1,200,000 BRIGHT EYES ART GARFUNKEL 1979
66 1,190,000 HEARTBEAT/TRAGEDY STEPS 1998
67 1,190,000 PARTY ROCK ANTHEM LMFAO FT LAUREN BENNETT AND GOONROCK 2011
68 1,190,000 MARY'S BOY CHILD HARRY BELAFONTE 1957
69 1,180,000 CALL ME MAYBE CARLY RAE JEPSEN 2012
70 1,180,000 BLUE MONDAY NEW ORDER 1983
71 1,170,000 THE LAST WALTZ ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK 1967
72 1,170,000 EARTH SONG MICHAEL JACKSON 1995
73 1,170,000 DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS? BAND AID 20 2004
74 1,170,000 JUST THE WAY YOU ARE (AMAZING) BRUNO MARS 2010
75 1,160,000 CAN'T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD KYLIE MINOGUE 2001
76 1,160,000 STRANGER ON THE SHORE MR ACKER BILK AND HIS PARAMOUNT JAZZ BAND 1961
77 1,160,000 DON'T GIVE UP ON US DAVID SOUL 1976
78 1,150,000 SATURDAY NIGHT WHIGFIELD 1994
79 1,150,000 SPACEMAN BABYLON ZOO 1996
80 1,140,000 I LOVE YOU LOVE ME LOVE GARY GLITTER 1973
81 1,140,000 ANGELS ROBBIE WILLIAMS 1997
82 1,130,000 NO MATTER WHAT BOYZONE 1998
83 1,130,000 PRICE TAG JESSIE J FT B.O.B 2011
84 1,120,000 POKER FACE LADY GAGA 2009
85 1,120,000 TORN NATALIE IMBRUGLIA 1997
86 1,120,000 IMPOSSIBLE JAMES ARTHUR 2012
87 1,120,000 I BELIEVE/UP ON THE ROOF ROBSON & JEROME 1995
88 1,110,000 2 BECOME 1 SPICE GIRLS 1996
89 1,110,000 LOVE THE WAY YOU LIE EMINEM FT RIHANNA 2010
90 1,110,000 HIT ME WITH YOUR RHYTHM STICK IAN DURY AND THE BLOCKHEADS 1978
91 1,110,000 GHOSTBUSTERS RAY PARKER JR. 1984
92 1,110,000 TELETUBBIES SAY "EH-OH!" TELETUBBIES 1997
93 1,100,000 THAT'S MY GOAL SHAYNE WARD 2005
94 1,100,000 I REMEMBER YOU FRANK IFIELD 1962
95 1,100,000 ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL (PART 2) PINK FLOYD 1979
96 1,090,000 PURE AND SIMPLE HEAR'SAY 2001
97 1,080,000 BACK FOR GOOD TAKE THAT 1995
98 1,080,000 HEY JUDE THE BEATLES 1968
99 1,080,000 ONLY GIRL (IN THE WORLD) RIHANNA 2010
100 1,080,000 BLUE (DA BA DEE) EIFFEL 65 1999
101 1,070,000 DANCING QUEEN ABBA 1976
102 1,070,000 I DON'T WANT TO MISS A THING AEROSMITH 1998
103 1,070,000 I FEEL LOVE DONNA SUMMER 1977
104 1,060,000 THE YOUNG ONES CLIFF RICHARD & THE SHADOWS 1962
105 1,060,000 BLEEDING LOVE LEONA LEWIS 2007
106 1,060,000 RIDE ON TIME BLACK BOX 1989
107 1,060,000 CRAZY GNARLS BARKLEY 2006
108 1,050,000 FAME IRENE CARA 1982
109 1,050,000 UNCHAINED MELODY THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS 1965
110 1,040,000 STAND & DELIVER ADAM AND THE ANTS 1981
111 1,030,000 I WILL SURVIVE GLORIA GAYNOR 1979
112 1,030,000 UPTOWN GIRL BILLY JOEL 1983
113 1,030,000 SAILING ROD STEWART 1975
114 1,020,000 CAN WE FIX IT? BOB THE BUILDER 2000
115 1,020,000 SUGAR SUGAR THE ARCHIES 1969
116 1,020,000 WHITE CHRISTMAS BING CROSBY WITH THE KEN DARBY SINGERS AND JOHN SCOTT TROTTER ORCHESTRA 1942
117 1,020,000 GANGNAM STYLE PSY 2012
118 1,020,000 SAVE YOUR KISSES FOR ME BROTHERHOOD OF MAN 1976
119 1,020,000 FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK POGUES FT KIRSTY MACCOLL 1987
120 1,010,000 THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT TIGHT FIT 1982
121 1,010,000 WE ARE YOUNG FUN FT JANELLE MONAE 2011
122 1,010,000 I'D LIKE TO TEACH THE WORLD TO SING THE NEW SEEKERS 1971
123 1,010,000 DON'T CRY FOR ME ARGENTINA JULIE COVINGTON 1976
124 1,010,000 WHEN WE COLLIDE MATT CARDLE 2010
125 1,010,000 EYE LEVEL THE SIMON PARK ORCHESTRA 1972
126 1,000,000 UNDER THE MOON OF LOVE SHOWADDYWADDY 1976
127 1,000,000 LONG HAIRED LOVER FROM LIVERPOOL LITTLE JIMMY OSMOND 1972
128 1,000,000 FIGHT FOR THIS LOVE CHERYL COLE 2009
129 1,000,000 TIE A YELLOW RIBBON ROUND THE OLE OAK TREE DAWN FT TONY ORLANDO 1973
130 1,000,000 TITANIUM DAVID GUETTA FT SIA 2011
131 1,000,000 DON'T GO BREAKING MY HEART ELTON JOHN & KIKI DEE 1976
132 1,000,000 MYSTERIOUS GIRL PETER ANDRE FT BUBBLER RANX 1995
133 1,000,000 WHOLE AGAIN ATOMIC KITTEN 2001
134 1,000,000 THE A TEAM ED SHEERAN 2011
135 1,000,000 USE SOMEBODY KINGS OF LEON 2008
136 1,000,000 GET LUCKY DAFT PUNK FT PHARRELL WILLIAMS & NILE RODGERS 2013
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