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Leona Lewis, the winner of The X Factor in 2006, has three songs in the top 100: "Bleeding Love" (11), "A Moment Like This" (16) and "Run" (44). Rage Against the Machine's song "Killing in the Name" – originally released in 1993 – was the Christmas number-one in 2009 and also became the 35th best-seller of the decade.
This made it difficult to obtain accurate sales figures for the decade. Two weeks before the end of the decade Music Week published lists of the top twenty best-selling singles and albums of the 1990s in the UK. [3] Both top twenty lists included sales figures, but the subsequent revisions of the data have made the original 1999 figures unreliable.
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.
Elton John scored his first solo number one in 1990. After more than a decade without a hit, Meat Loaf topped the charts for the first time in 1993. Danish pop band Aqua scored three consecutive number ones with one of the UK's biggest selling singles "Barbie Girl" in 1997, and the follow up's "Doctor Jones" and "Turn Back Time" in 1998 making them one of the most successful bands this decade.
These are the biggest selling songs based on combined physical, download and streaming sales. As of September 2017 there were nine over 2 million and 185 over a million combined sales from the 2000s Century. [5] In October 2017, "Shape of You" by Ed Sheeran became the first song from the 2000s Century to achieve 3 million combined sales.
There is a broader genre spectrum of music to listen to now which limits the number of listeners. Bias towards modern artists. Comparatively fewer successful pre-modern artists will have sold more records, as both global spending power and population have increased. In 1950, the world's population was 2.5 billion; by 2000 it had risen to 6 ...
Britpop emerged from the British indie scene of the early 1990s and was characterised by bands influenced by British guitar pop music of the 1960s and 1970s. [1] The movement developed as a reaction against various musical and cultural trends in the late 1980s and early 1990s, particularly the grunge phenomenon from the United States. [1]
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 Music ...