Uptown Funk Surpasses I Gotta Feeling on Alltime Track Chart
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1 Candle In The Wind 1997 - Elton John
A&M - 1997 - 21.314.000 points
2 I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston
Arista - 1992 - 16.547.000 points
3 (Everything I Do) I Do It For You - Bryan Adams
A&M - 1991 - 15.694.000 points
4 Happy - Pharrell Williams
Back Lot / Columbia - 2014 - 14.844.000 points
5 We Are The World - USA For Africa
CBS / Columbia - 1985 - 14.600.000 points
6 I Want To Hold Your Hand - Beatles
Parlophone / Capitol - 1963 - 14.435.000 points
7 Macarena - Los Del Rio
RCA - 1996 - 14.126.000 points
8 Hey Jude - Beatles
Parlophone / Apple - 1968 - 13.972.000 points
9 Uptown Funk! - Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars
RCA - 2014 - 13.098.000 points
10 I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas
Interscope - 2009 - 13.044.000 points
loved the song when it came out but it got overplayed
congrats to bruno tho he's great
Poker Face - Lady GaGa
Interscope - 2008 - 9.840.000 points
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this number is false
Those aren't sales. It's some weird combination of sales and airplay and 1 downloads is 0.6 points or something in that range. Also only counts the point for as long as it's in the global top 40 for that week. Once it falls out it's not counted anymore.
In case you are wondering why some of the older songs are ranked higher, physical singles count at least twice, if not more, than what digital downloads do. However, with "We Are The World," the organization failed to take into account the song was certified 4X Platinum before 1989 when a single had to sell 2 million copies instead of one million (that was just Gold) to be certified Platinum. So, "We Are The World" sold had to sell 8 million copies, not just 4 million, and would likely be moved up to #2 instead of only being #5.
"I Will Always Love You" sold 4.6 million physical copies in the US, making it the second-biggest selling physical single of the Soundscan Era (the download is now over 2 million too) behind "Candle In The Wind 1997," which has 8.8+ million Soundscan copies sold, but 2+ other million copies were sold through non-Soundscan means, which is why is the only Diamond Physical Single in history, 11 million (all physical singles, CDs and Cassettes [I bought the cassette single], with no downloads or streams to help its total).
Elton John had not even made CITW 97 available for download or On-Demand Streaming the last time I checked. He's been very protective of that single, as he only performed it live that one time at Diana's funeral. He said he would only play it again if her sons asked to hear it. You can find it on You Tube though.