Talk:List of best-selling singles

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Bruno Mars - Grenade is listed twice

Petition to remove In The Summertime - Mungo Jerry

please refer to prior section

I contacted songfacts.com https://www.songfacts.com/facts/mungo-jerry/in-the-summertime "This sold over 16 million copies worldwide and was Britain's biggest-selling single in 1970." What is source and what convinced you to put on your website?

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Hi Dave.

That info came from a book called 1000 UK Number Ones, which we've found to be very well researched.

Be Well, Carl Songfacts

Meanwhile, I checked UK and US certifications

https://www.bpi.co.uk/brit-certified/

ARTIST TITLE LABEL AWARD FORMAT CERTIFIED RELEASED

Mungo Jerry In The Summertime Sanctuary Silver Single 06.03.2020 27.11.2005

Mungo Jerry Alright, Alright, Alright Dawn Silver Single 01.08.1973 22.06.1973

US

MUNGO JERRY IN THE SUMMERTIME JANUS SINGLE 0.5

We need some compelling evidence or this has to be removed Tillywilly17 (talk) 05:48, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

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They decided on the name Mungo Jerry only two weeks before

the disc was released on 12 May. Their recording debut also

launched the new series of Dawn 'Maxi-Singles'. lt proved to be

a colossal runaway success, due to the new craze for the group's

jug-blues-rock-folk-country music, as opposed to the so-called

progressive pop music. The disc features Paul King who actually

blows over the jug - an empty cider jar - the Mungo Jerry style

being rather more contemporary than that used by the jug bands

which originated in Chicago in the 1'920s.

The disc was No 1 for seven weeks in Britain and stayed in

their bestsellers for 20 weeks. In the U.S.A. it was No 1 for a

week and sold over a million there, with Gold Disc award from

R.I.A.A. by August, just two months after release. British sales

were around 800,000. The disc was No 1 in 26 countries includ­

ing Canada, Denmark, New Zealand, Holland, Norway, Finland,

West Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Singapore, Italy, Malay­

sia and France, selling 400,000 in France in the first month, just

about the fastest seller ever known there, and subsequently a

million. The group were presented with a Gold Disc on 23

November 1971 at the Olympia, Paris, by Vogue International

label for the French million sale. Global sales totalled over six

million by the end of the year.

Mungomania was possibly the most startling and unexpected

pop phenomenon to hit Britain since the Beatles. Mungo Jerry

made their first trip to the U.S.A. in September 1970. Tillywilly17 (talk) 08:24, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

So "six million in the first year" became "16 million total" (the ten-million bump being an unlikely fate for a near-novelty single) became "30 million total." This seems to be completely unsubstantiated and so it seems wise to remove this; plenty of songs are the biggest of their year in the UK without being one of the all-time biggest worldwide. Calbaer (talk) 21:31, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

Sales for the Weeknd's "Blinding Lights" and "Save Your Tears" are incorrect

The sales are listed in the billions, which should immediately make it obvious that it is incorrect as that would make easily make them the two best selling songs of all time. The article linked as a source for the information actually gives those figures as streams not sales.

I'm not sure of the actual sales figures, but the one's listed are incorrect. ' 67.51.183.252 (talk) 01:26, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

Rock Around the Clock

I recently obtained a copy of the 1999 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records, one of the final editions to carry a "best selling singles" category. It actually had Rock Around the Clock listed at 43 million, but as always noted it was unaudited. I added it as a footnote rather than mess with the chart. There is some debate over whether the number is cumulative and includes versions by others, or adds up all recordings of the song made by Haley over his career. Anecdotally verbal claims of 50 or even 100 million have been made but obviously there's no source to back that up. 23skidoo (talk) 13:40, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

Remove Mundiya Tu Bachke

Mundiya Tu Bachke by Punjabi MC has no way sold 10 million units. Just this one inclusion is enough to not take this entire list seriously. Tintin1407 (talk) 22:11, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

The citation for that number only says:

"Because so much of bhangra music sales is a bootleg business, it's impossible to estimate how many copies of "Mundian To Bach Ke" have been sold in the past five years, but it's very likely that the number after the number would be "million," and a conservative estimate would be 10 million."

So that appears to be not much more than a guess from the journalist writing the article rather than a legitimate source. Secondly if you broaden the definition of sales to include bootleg copies I suspect many other songs in the list would get vastly higher numbers as they are popular tunes. Mivens (talk) 08:52, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

All I Want For Christmas - Sales Innacuracy

There is a clear discrepancy between the sales figures being reported in recent sources - the 16 million figure - and the total number of certified copies sold - which exceed 22 million copies and can be evinced by adding up the total number of certifications on the song's Wikipedia page. I suspect that this is a case of journalists reporting on the inaccurate '16m' figure listed on the song's Wikipedia page without duly checking the song's *verified* sales figures. Therefore, I propose that the figure listed here be edited to reflect the total number of certified copies sold. Of course, *some* of this amount is derived from digital and/or streaming sales, but the vast majority of the song's sales are from physical sales, hence why the relevant disclaimer has been added to the 22 million figure. Cucas1234 (talk) 06:04, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

Certified sales are not the same with actual sales. --Apoxyomenus (talk) 13:03, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

Hence why the 22 million figure has been subject to a disclaimer but kept to its current place, seeing as though the vast majority of the song's sales are from actual sales. Cucas1234 (talk) 10:47, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

You're simply doing original research, and trying to make it a circular reporting from both this list and song's article, based on your "conclusion". What you're doing is a big violation of Wikipedia's guidelines without providing a source. In a counter-conclusion, it can also be proved that this song has strong streaming certified figures. See two of the top three markets. USA: All Platinum certs came from post-streaming era, from 2019 to 2022... 3.7 million of the song have been sold up to 2021, compared to a 12x Platinum (digi) status. In the UK, the song hasn't sold half of its certified units (4 million) and we can continue. If you keep feeling this is not a fan POV, please prove it (source), and then, you could opt for reach a consensus. Otherwise, your edits are becoming disruptive. --Apoxyomenus (talk) 19:08, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

Tino Rossi

It's impossible that this French song sold 30 million: it charted only in France, where it sold 5 million. Moreover, the source is affirmative for the 5 million in France, but not for the 30 million. ​