Elton John is the author of best selling singles in the UK
Singer Elton John is in first place among the best-selling singles in the UK, with two songs that have sold 4.9 million copies each.
Since the establishment in 1952 of the top British music, which is a ranking of the best-selling singles, 32,000 songs have appeared on this list, but only 123 of them passed the one million units sold.
Ranking first in the aggregate over the last six decades are tied song "Something About The Way You Look Tonight" (1997) and single version of "Candle in the Wind" adapted for the funeral of Princess Diana in 1997, both songs are composed and performed by Elton John.
The third band is Queen "Bohemian Rhapsody" sold 2.36 million copies.
In fifth place was John Travolta and Olivia Newton-Jones with "You're The One That I Want" (2 million units).
The first Beatles song appears in eighth place ranking - She Loves You ", sold 1.9 million copies. This single is preceded by the song" Rivers of Babylon "group Boney M (2-sixth million copies sold) and the song "Relax" group Frankie Goes to Hollywood (seventh place with 2,000,000 copies sold). Yet the legendary group The Beatles include not less than six singles in the "closed club" of British songs that have sold over a million copies, writes AFP .
The song "Love Is All Around" the band Wet Wet Wet ranks 10th in the top, with 1.85 million units sold.
"Image" by John Lennon, ranked 19th, with 1.6 million copies sold, while the famous song "Another Brick In The Wall" Pink Floyd has ranked 91st, with 1.08 million copies sold.