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The UK Singles Chart is a music chart compiled by the Official Charts Company that calculates the best-selling singles of the week in the United Kingdom. [1] Since 2005, the chart has been based on the sales of both physical and digital singles, originally on the condition that the single was available in both formats.
2000 48 The Platinum Collection (Greatest Hits I, II, III) Queen: 2 2000 49 Whitney: The Greatest Hits: Whitney Houston: 1 2000 50 In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988–2003: R.E.M. 1 2003 51 Eye to the Telescope: KT Tunstall: 3 2004 52 I Dreamed a Dream: Susan Boyle: 1 2009 1,632,732 [11] 53 Gotta Get Thru This: Daniel Bedingfield: 2 2002 54 ...
Kings of Leon's "Sex on Fire" sold over 840,000 copies in 2008, making it one of the biggest songs of 2008 and the biggest hit by any American act during the 2000s. It spent a total of 68 weeks in the UK chart. Rapper Eminem scored 7 number-one hits in 2000s, putting him second behind Westlife for the most number-ones during the decade.
Eminem (pictured in 2014) secured four UK top 10 hits this year, including two number-ones: "The Real Slim Shady" and "Stan". The UK Singles Chart is one of many music charts compiled by the Official Charts Company that calculates the best-selling singles of the week in the United Kingdom. [1]
Franz Ferdinand in concert in 2004. Like many American alternative rock bands, during the late 1990s and early 2000s, several British indie bands emerged, including Franz Ferdinand, the Libertines and Bloc Party, that drew primary inspiration from new wave and post-punk groups such as Joy Division, Wire, and Gang of Four, establishing the post-punk revival movement. [5]
List of best-selling singles of the 2000s in the United Kingdom may refer to: List of best-selling singles of the 21st century in the United Kingdom;
The UK Albums Chart is a weekly record chart based on album sales from Sunday to Saturday in the United Kingdom; during the 2000s, a total of 274 different albums by 170 artists reached number one. The chart was compiled weekly by the Official Charts Company (OCC) on behalf of the British music industry—it listed only physical album sales ...
This is a list of the 50 best-selling albums in the UK from 1 January 2000 onwards, as compiled by the OCC (sales that occurred before 2000 are not included). Of these, only two were originally released before the year 2000: White Ladder (1998) by David Gray and Gold: Greatest Hits (1992) by ABBA. [4]