Jas
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Biggest selling album?
Biggest selling single?
Album at no1 for longest?
single at no1 for longest?
or top 3 of all would be nice
thanks
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Conway563
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Biggest selling single?
Don't know if it still is but it was that elton john thing when diana died
single at no1 for longest?
Bryan Adams - Everything I do
2nd was Wet Wet Wet - Love is all around
AFAIK
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Brett
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I was guilty of buying that Wet wet wet tune 
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Dean_W
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quote:
Originally posted by Jas
Biggest selling album? UK - Queen, Greatest Hits 5.4m 1981
Biggest selling single? UK - Elton John, Candle in the wind 4.86m 1997
Album at no1 for longest? UK - 70 weeks, The soundtrack to "South Pacific
single at no1 for longest? UK - 16 weeks, Bryan Adams, I Do It For You 1991
There ya go.
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Dean_W
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http://www.everyhit.com/record.html#ralb
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jacko198
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quote:
Originally posted by Jas
Biggest selling album?
Biggest selling single?
Album at no1 for longest?
single at no1 for longest?
or top 3 of all would be nice
thanks
Biggest selling albums:-
42,537,000 Thriller Michael Jackson (1982)
31,934,000 Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 Eagles (1976)
31,698,000 The Bodyguard Soundtrack (1992)
Biggest selling single (uk):-
"Candle In The Wind '97" - Elton John. (4.86 million)
"Do They Know It's Christmas?" - Band Aid. (3.55m)
"Bohemian Rhapsody" - Queen. (2.13m)
Album at number 1 for longest:-
Most Weeks at Number 1 by a Record
18 - by Frankie Laine's "I Believe". It topped the chart on three separate occasions (all in 1953).
Most Consecutive Weeks at Number 1 by a Record
16 - by Bryan Adams' "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You" (1991).
Something like that.
Just google it
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