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"Blue Monday" is the best-selling 12-inch single of all time. [5] [6] In the United Kingdom, it has sold 1.16 million copies in all formats, including the 1988 and 1995 re-releases. Sales of the original 1983 12-inch release account for the bulk of the total, at over 700,000 copies. [7] It was remixed by the band twice, in 1988 and 1995.
"Every time we sold a copy of ‘Blue Monday,’ we were losing 10p," says Hook of the new wave classic that came out 40 years ago. ... how the best-selling 12-inch single in music history managed ...
In total, there were 20 non-number one singles in the Top 100 (eight of these in the bottom ten), including the biggest selling number three single "Blue Monday" by New Order. Jennifer Rush at number nine with "The Power of Love" became the first female artist ever to have a million-selling single in the UK. Wham!
Their 1983 hit "Blue Monday" became the best-selling 12-inch single of all time and a popular club track. [4] In the 1980s, they released successful albums such as Power, Corruption & Lies (1983), Technique (1989), and the singles compilation Substance (1987). They disbanded in 1993 to work on individual projects before reuniting in 1998.
Despite peaking at number two with "Blue Monday", 1983's highest-selling single, New Order would attain the top spot with "Blue Monday 1988" five years later. Michael Jackson achieved his only New Zealand number-one single during the 1980s with "Beat It", which was number one for five weeks.
The group's following two singles and their debut album met with similar moderate success. It would not be until the release of their fourth single, "Blue Monday", that New Order would break into the top 10, with the song peaking at number 9. [1] "Blue Monday" became a defining single for the group and caused a sensation, becoming the biggest ...
[2] [3] This list shows singles that peaked in the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart during 1988, as well as singles which peaked in 1987 and 1989 but were in the top 10 in 1988. The entry date is when the single appeared in the top 10 for the first time (week ending, as published by the Official Charts Company, which is six days after the chart ...
The song, recognized as "the best-selling single of all time", was released before the pop/rock singles-chart era and "was listed as the world's best-selling single in the first-ever Guinness Book of Records (published in 1955) and—remarkably—still retains the title more than 50 years later".