Information about List Of Best Selling Singles By Year (uk)

UK Singles Chart is currently compiled by The Official UK Charts Company (OCC) on behalf of the British record industry. The chart week runs from Sunday to Saturday, with the chart being printed in Music Week magazine, and published online at Yahoo! Music UK (formerly Dotmusic)
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"Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart" is a popular song.

The English language lyrics were written by John Turner and Geoffrey Claremont Parsons. The best-known version of the song was recorded by English singer Vera Lynn.
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Dame Vera Lynn DBE (born 20 March 1917) is a popular British vocalist whose career flourished during World War II, when she was nicknamed "The Forces' Sweetheart". Among her numerous popular songs are: "We'll Meet Again"; and "The White Cliffs of Dover".
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"I Believe" is the name of a song written by Ervin Drake, Irvin Graham, Jimmy Shirl and Al Stillman in 1953.

Songstress Jane Froman, troubled by the uprising of the Korean conflict in 1952 so soon after World War II, asked Drake, Graham, Shirl and Stillman to compose a song
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Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio (March 30, 1913 – February 6, 2007), was one of the most successful American singers of the twentieth century. Often billed as America's Number One Song Stylist, his other nicknames include Mr.
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Released 1953
Format 7" (45rpm), 10" (78rpm)
Recorded 1953
Genre Traditional pop
Length 3:38
Label Columbia 40108
Writer(s) Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster
Peak chart positions

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Doris Mary Ann von Kappelhoff (born April 3, 1924)^[1] is an American singer, actress, and animal welfare advocate known as Doris Day. A vivacious blonde with a wholesome image, Day was one of the most prolific actresses of the 1950s and 1960s.
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"Rose Marie" is a popular song from the musical or operetta of the same name.

It was written by Rudolf Friml, Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II, and became a hit in 1955 for country music singer Slim Whitman.
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Slim Whitman (born January 20, 1924 in Tampa, Florida) is an American country music singer and songwriter. Whitman lives in Middleburg, Florida.

Born Ottis Dewey Whitman, Jr.
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Charles Eugene Patrick "Pat" Boone (born June 1 1934) is a singer whose smooth style made him a popular performer of the 1950s. His cover versions of African-American rhythm and blues hits had a noticeable impact on the development of the broad popularity of rock and roll.
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Diana" is a song written and made famous by Paul Anka in 1957. It was inspired by a high school friend named Diana Ayoub.^[1] The Paul Anka recording reached #1 and has reportedly sold over 9 million copies.
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Paul Albert Anka, OC (born 30 July 1941, in Ottawa Ontario) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and actor of Syrian origin. He became a naturalised US citizen in 1990.^[]
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A-side(s) Jailhouse Rock
B-side(s) Treat Me Nice
Released September 24, 1957
Format 45 RPM Single,
Genre Rock
Writer(s) Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
Producer(s) Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
Peak chart positions

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Elvis Aaron Presley^[1][2] (January 8, 1935–August 16, 1977), was an American singer, musician, actor, writer, and producer. He is a cultural icon, often known as "The King of Rock 'n' Roll", or simply "The King".
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B-side(s) "Apron Strings" (George David Weiss; Aaron Schroeder)
Released July 1959
Format 7" single
Recorded April 28 1959, Abbey Road, London
Genre Pop
Length 2:35; 3:57 (1986 version)
Label Columbia 45-DB4306

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Sir Cliff Richard OBE (born Harry Rodger Webb on 14 October 1940) is an English singer, actor and businessman.

With his backing band The Shadows, Richard dominated the British popular music scene in the late 1950s and early 1960s, before and during the The Beatles'
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It's Now Or Never was a UK Gameshow shown on ITV. Originally planned for a run of two episodes, only the first was aired before cancellation, it receiving just 1.7 million viewers in its Saturday night Primetime slot.
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Elvis Aaron Presley^[1][2] (January 8, 1935–August 16, 1977), was an American singer, musician, actor, writer, and producer. He is a cultural icon, often known as "The King of Rock 'n' Roll", or simply "The King".
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"Are You Lonesome Tonight?" is a popular song with music by Lou Handman and lyrics by Roy Turk. It was published in 1926.

1920s

A number of artists recorded "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" in 1927.
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Elvis Aaron Presley^[1][2] (January 8, 1935–August 16, 1977), was an American singer, musician, actor, writer, and producer. He is a cultural icon, often known as "The King of Rock 'n' Roll", or simply "The King".
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"I Remember You" is a popular song.

The music was written by Victor Schertzinger, the lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The song was published in 1941.

The song was introduced in the movie The Fleet's In
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Frank Ifield (born Francis Edward Ifield, 30 November 1937, Coundon, Coventry, Warwickshire, England) is an Australian-English easy listening and country music singer. He achieved considerable success in the early 1960s, especially in the UK Singles Chart, where he had four #1 hits
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B-side(s) "I'll Get You"
Released 23 August, 1963 (UK)
16 September, 1963 (USA)
Format 7"
Recorded Abbey Road Studios, 1 July 1963
Genre Rock
Length 2:17
Label Parlophone R5055 (UK)
Swan 4152 (US)
Writer(s)
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The Beatles were an English musical group from Liverpool whose members were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. They are one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands in the history of popular music.
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B-side(s) "You Can't Do That"
Released 20 March 1964 (UK)
16 March 1964 (US)
Format 7"
Recorded Pathé Marconi Studios
29 January 1964
Genre Rock
Length 2:11
Label Parlophone R5114 (UK)
Capitol 5150 (US)

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The Beatles were an English musical group from Liverpool whose members were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. They are one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands in the history of popular music.
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Kenneth Arthur Dodd OBE (born 8 November 1927, in Knotty Ash, Liverpool), better known as Ken Dodd, is a veteran English comedian and singer, famous for selling over 100 million records, his buck teeth, frizzy hair, feather duster (or "tickling stick"), and his catchphrases,
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"Green Green Grass of Home" (Claude "Curly" Putman Jr.) is a country song originally made popular by Tom Jones in 1966 when it reached number one in the UK Singles Chart on 1st December 1966 staying there for a total of seven weeks.
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Sir Thomas Jones Woodward, OBE, (born 7 June 1940), known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Grammy Award-winning Welsh popular music singer particularly noted for his powerful voice. He was born in Treforest, Pontypridd, near Cardiff in South Wales.
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Engelbert Humperdinck (b. Arnold George Dorsey, May 2 1936, Madras, India) is a well-known British-American pop singer who rose to international fame during the 1960s, after adopting the name of the famous German opera composer as his own stage name.
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