List of best-selling music artists in the United Kingdom in singles sales

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Published by The Official Charts Company in June 2012 to coincide with both the 60th anniversary of the UK Official Singles Chart and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. At the time of publication, there were twelve artists with more than ten million UK singles sales with Paul McCartney the only artist to achieve this both as part of a group and as a solo artist. [1]

Many of the artists in the list below have both streaming and sales included in their totals.

  1. Eminem (30,000,000) [2]
  2. Madonna (29,345,000)
  3. Coldplay (28,200,000) [3]
  4. Rihanna (27,100,000)
  5. Michael Jackson (26,995,000) [4]
  6. Little Mix (23,000,000) [5]
  7. The Beatles (22,100,000) [6]
  8. Elton John (21,635,000)
  9. Cliff Richard (21,500,000)
  10. Beyoncé (14,500,000) [4]
  11. Ariana Grande (13,200,000) [7]
  12. Westlife (12,854,000) [8]
  13. Justin Bieber (12,800,000) [6]
  14. Elvis Presley (12,600,000)
  15. David Bowie (12,000,000) [9]
  16. ABBA (11,300,000) [6]
  17. Paul McCartney (10,200,000)
  18. Bee Gees (10,165,000) [10]
  19. Kylie Minogue (10,100,000)
  20. The Rolling Stones (10,100,000) [6]
  21. Rita Ora (9,800,000)
  22. Taylor Swift (9,600,000) [11]
  23. Rod Stewart
  24. Take That
  25. Stevie Wonder
  26. Whitney Houston (9,400,000) [6]
  27. Imagine Dragons (9,400,000) [12]
  28. Oasis (9,079,000) [6]
  29. Spice Girls (8,500,000) [6]
  30. George Michael
  31. Robbie Williams
  32. Britney Spears (7,635,000)
  33. U2 (7,500,000) [6]
  34. Shakin' Stevens
  35. Lady Gaga (7,357,000) [13]
  36. Status Quo (7,200,000) [6]
  37. Boyzone (7,100,000) [6]
  38. Blondie (7,037,000) [6]
  39. The Black Eyed Peas (7,034,000) [13]
  40. Boney M (6,859,000) [13]
  41. Slade (6,856,000) [13]
  42. Celine Dion
  43. UB40 (6,600,000) [13]
  44. Olivia Newton-John
  45. Mariah Carey
  46. Tom Jones
  47. Madness (6,150,00) [13]
  48. Police (6,100,000) [13]
  49. Wham!
  50. Phil Collins
  51. Diana Ross
  52. The Jam
  53. Bryan Adams
  54. Pet Shop Boys
  55. David Guetta
  56. Adam Ant
  57. Duran Duran
  58. Frank Sinatra
  59. Frankie Goes To Hollywood
  60. Prince
  61. Katy Perry
  62. Wet Wet Wet
  63. The Everly Brothers
  64. The Shadows (not including any with Cliff Richard)
  65. Pink

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The UK Singles Chart was first compiled in 1969. However the records and statistics listed here date back to 1952 because the Official Charts Company counts a selected period of the New Musical Express chart and the Record Retailer chart from 1960 to 1969 as predecessors for the period prior to 11 February 1969, where multiples of competing charts coexisted side by side. For example, the BBC compiled its own chart based on an average of the music papers of the time; many songs announced as having reached number one on BBC Radio and Top of the Pops prior to 1969 may not be listed here as chart-toppers since they do not meet the legacy criteria of the Charts Company.

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Irish boy band Westlife have released twelve studio albums, sixteen video albums, one live album, three karaoke albums, thirty-eight singles, twenty-one promotional singles, nine compilation albums and fifty-four music videos. Formed on 3 July 1998, the group was made up of singers Nicky Byrne, Kian Egan, Mark Feehily, Shane Filan, and Brian McFadden. The band was signed under Simon Cowell, Clive Davis, and Jordan Jay and under record labels' BMG, S Records, Arista Records, Sony BMG, Syco Music, Sony Music Entertainment and RCA Records from 1998 to 2012 and currently on Universal Music Group and Virgin EMI Records from 2018. The last four members remained active until their last live concert performance in the Europe's third largest stadium Croke Park on 23 June 2012 and have reunited on 3 October 2018 for new music and tour. Based on the British Phonographic Industry certifications, the group have sold more than 26 million records and videos in the United Kingdom alone across their 20-year career–12.8 million singles, 13.5 million albums and 1.3 million videos. Their biggest selling album is their first Greatest Hits compilation, followed by Coast to Coast, with seven of their albums selling one million copies or more. Their biggest selling video is "Where Dreams Come True", which has sold 240,000 copies to date.

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"What Makes a Man" is a song by Irish boy band Westlife. It was released on 18 December 2000 in the UK and Ireland as the third single from their second studio album, Coast to Coast. The song peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart and was their first single not to peak at number one, being beaten to the Christmas number-one spot by "Can We Fix It?", the theme to the cartoon series Bob the Builder. It also debuted and peaked at number two in Ireland, held off the top spot by Eminem's song "Stan".

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References

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  2. ↑ "Charts analysis: Eminem holds off Modfather from albums summit | Analysis | Music Week". Music Week . Retrieved September 21, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Certified Awards Search". BPI. 31 March 2023. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
  4. 1 2 "Certified Awards Search". British Phonographic Industry. Archived from the original on June 27, 2019. Retrieved March 13, 2013.
  5. ↑ "Little Mix's Official Top 20 songs revealed". Official Charts .
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "The Official Top 20 biggest selling groups of all time revealed!". Official Charts Company.
  7. ↑ https://mobile.twitter.com/chartariana/status/1195418764591935489.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. ↑ Jones, Alan (22 November 2019). "Charts analysis: Westlife reach summit with first album in nine years" . Music Week . Intent Media. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
  9. ↑ "Official Charts Analysis: David Bowie's UK chart life". Music Week. Retrieved 2016-04-16.
  10. ↑ "BRIT Certified".
  11. ↑ "BRIT Certified".
  12. ↑ Imagine Dragons Charts [@dragonsonchart] (December 18, 2021). ".@Imaginedragons crossed the mark of 10.4 million sales based in certifications in the United Kingdom. – They're one of the best-selling international groups of all time in the country. 🇬🇧 https://t.co/IIacNJkE20" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 20 December 2021. Retrieved 20 March 2022– via Twitter.
  13. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Lady Gaga's biggest songs on the Official UK Chart (Updated 2020)". Official Charts Company.
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