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42. Adele â âSomeone Like Youâ. ***
Check back here in 60 years to see how high this can fly.
Adeleâs probably pulling in about 10K sales a week for her heartsick ballad/weirdo stalker anthem.
Year: 2011
Sold: 1.36m
Chart Sales: #1
[video=youtube;hLQl3WQQoQ0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLQl3WQQoQ0[/video]
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i havent looked down the list, i keep the songs as a surprise each and everyday,
it will be interesting to see just how many songs Adele actually has in this list...my guess is 3!
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Another interesting thread Crazy mate! I hope at least one Beatle single is on the list!
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41. Engelbert Humperdinck â âRelease Meâ. ***
This kept The Beatlesâ âStrawberry Fields Foreverâ/âPenny Laneâ off No.1, donât you know, using the underhand tactic of selling hundreds of thousands more copies.
Year: 1967
Sold: 1.38m
Chart High. #1
[video=youtube;kOcW9gZv68A]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOcW9gZv68A[/video]
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40. The Beatles â âWe Can Work It Outâ/âDay Tripperâ. ***/**
The first of five entries for The Beatles, who made the most of the market by rarely putting their singles on albums.
Pop stars were generous back then.
Year: 1964.
Sold: 1.39m
Chart High. #1
[video=youtube;a_UMZ_9RBmk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_UMZ_9RBmk[/video]
"day tripper"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhdPDI9OeY8 tv performance
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Ah the good old days when every song on the Top 40 singles chart was worth buying!!!!! CRAZY-HORSE Wrote:41. Engelbert Humperdinck â âRelease Meâ. ***
This kept The Beatlesâ âStrawberry Fields Foreverâ/âPenny Laneâ off No.1, donât you know, using the underhand tactic of selling hundreds of thousands more copies.
Year: 1967
Sold: 1.38m
Chart High. #1
[video=youtube;kOcW9gZv68A]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOcW9gZv68A[/video]
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39. Jennifer Rush â âThe Power Of Loveâ. ***
One of those vast power ballads that you know you love despite it representing everything you hate about music â unearned melodrama, strangled vowels and everyoneâs mum buying one record a decade.
Year: 1985
Sold: 1.39m
Chart High: #1
[video=youtube;Lr0xJBsVbZY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr0xJBsVbZY[/video]
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38. Survivor â âEye Of The Tigerâ. ***
The theme from Rocky III with the left-hook, right-hook, uppercut riff was outsold by âCome On Eileenâ and Irene Caraâs âFameâ in 1982 but eventually won on points.
Year: 1982
Sold: 1.41m
Chart High: #1
[video=youtube;btPJPFnesV4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btPJPFnesV4[/video]
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37. Coolio feat. L.V. â âGangstaâs Paradiseâ. ***
Coolioâs remodeling of Stevie Wonderâs âPastime Paradiseâ was an inspired flip, taking a raging diatribe against flabby nostalgia and turning it inwards on himself.
Year: 1995
Sold: 1.41m
Chart High: #1
[video=youtube;N6voHeEa3ig]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6voHeEa3ig[/video]
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36. The Seekers â âThe Carnival Is Overâ.
Aussie folkers The Seekers made it to No.1 at the end of 1966, sandwiched between The Beatles and The âStones. This adaptation of a Russian folk song is the biggest selling single youâve never heard.
Year: 1965
Sold: 1.41m
Chart High: #1
[video=youtube;R1MC9t8vijs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1MC9t8vijs[/video]
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