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We wanted to see how the old world would look, refracted through the new. So we asked Spotify to do some number crunching for us. First, we asked them to look at the all-time top 20 selling singles (as listed on Wikipedia) and rerank them according to the numbers of streams (the figures were correct as of the end of February). We also asked for Spotify’s all time top 20 most streamed tracks.
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The all-time bestselling list, when reranked by streaming numbers, shows a massive boost for those songs that have become hardy perennials – power ballads and Christmas hits. Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas Is You moves from No 14 on the sales list to No 1 on the streaming list, with nearly twice as many streams as anything else. Nos 2, 3, 4 and 5 are taken up by a run of big ballads from between 20 and 30 years ago.
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The top 20 selling singles, reranked by streaming numbers
1. (14 on all-time singles chart) Mariah Carey – All I Want for Christmas Is You (113,898,731 streams)
2. (7) Whitney Houston – I Will Always Love You (67,756,710)
3. (13) Celine Dion – My Heart Will Go On (50,443,976)
4. (16) Scorpions – Wind of Change (42,975,143)
5. (12) Bryan Adams – (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (39,287,271)
6. (1) Bing Crosby – White Christmas (35,548,184)
7. (11) John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John – You’re the One That I Want (26,673,010)
8. (2) Elton John – Candle in the Wind 1997 (18,838,214)
9. (4) Mungo Jerry – In the Summertime (14,378,863)
10. (20) The Beatles – I Want to Hold Your Hand (10,455,054)
11. (15) Gloria Gaynor – I Will Survive (7,234,495)
12. (5) Bill Haley & His Comets – Rock Around the Clock (7,229,298)
13. (8) Elvis Presley – It’s Now or Never (5,932,313)
14. (19) Gene Autry - Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (5,096,989)
15. (3) Bing Crosby - Silent Night (2,792,135)
16. (6) Domenico Modugno – Nel blu dipinto di blu (Volare) (2,298,468)
17. (17) Kyu Sakamoto – Sukiyaki (1,635,302)
18. (18) Trio – Da Da Da (1,077,628)
19. (10) The Ink Spots - If I Didn’t Care (943,828)
20. (9) USA for Africa – We Are the World (521,026 )
http://www.theguardian.com/music/201...tats?CMP=fb_gu
Mariah winning as always.