Statistics for UK Best Selling Singles by Year (1952-present)

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Year	Song	Artist(s)	% Correct
1997	Candle In The Wind 1997/Something About the Way You Look Tonight	Sir Elton John	83%
1987	Never Gonna Give You Up	Rick Astley	74%
1992	I Will Always Love You	Whitney Houston	71%
2014	Happy	Pharrell Williams	69%
2015	Uptown Funk	Mark Ronson/Bruno Mars	69%
1984	Do They Know It's Christmas?	Band Aid	67%
2004	Do They Know It's Christmas?	Band Aid 20	67%
2009	Poker Face	Lady Gaga	67%
2013	Blurred Lines	Robin Thicke/T.I./Pharrell Williams	64%
2006	Crazy	Gnarles Barkley	64%
1998	Believe	Cher	62%
1982	Come On Eileen	Dexys Midnight Runners	60%
1981	Don't You Want Me	The Human League	60%
2017	Shape Of You	Ed Sheeran	60%
1983	Karma Chameleon	The Culture Club	57%
2012	Somebody That I Used To Know	Gotye/Kimbra	57%
1968	What A Wonderful World	Louis Armstrong	52%
1999	... Baby One More Time	Britney Spears	50%
2007	Bleeding Love	Leona Lewis	50%
2008	Hallelujah	Alexandra Burke	50%
2000	Can We Fix It?	Bob The Builder	45%
1991	(Everything I Do) I Do It For You	Bryan Adams	45%
1958	Jailhouse Rock	Elvis Presley	45%
2011	Someone Like You	Adele	45%
2003	Where Is The Love?	The Black Eyed Peas	45%
1977	Mull Of Kintyre/Girls' School	Wings	43%
1990	Unchained Melody	The Righteous Brothers	43%
1995	Unchained Melody	Robson And Jerome	43%
2020	Blinding Lights	The Weeknd	40%
1986	Don't Leave Me This Way	The Communards	40%
1978	Rivers Of Babylon/Brown Girl In The Ring	Boney M.	40%
1985	The Power Of Love	Jennifer Rush	40%
2010	Love The Way You Lie	Rihanna/Eminem	38%
1988	Mistletoe And Wine	Sir Cliff Richard	38%
1971	My Sweet Lord	George Harrison	38%
2001	It Wasn't Me	Shaggy/Rikrok	36%
1996	Killing Me Softly	Fugees	36%
1994	Love Is All Around	Wet Wet Wet	36%
1989	Ride On Time	Black Box	36%
1969	Sugar, Sugar	The Archies	36%
1966	Green,Green Grass Of Home	Sir Tom Jones	33%
2016	One Dance	Drake/Wizkid/Kyla	33%
2018	One Kiss	Calvin Harris/Dua Lipa	33%
2002	Anything Is Possible/Evergreen	Will Young	31%
1979	Bright Eyes	Art Garfunkel	31%
1980	Don't Stand So Close To Me	The Police	31%
1976	Save Your Kisses For Me	Brotherhood Of Man	31%
1974	Tiger Feet	Mud	31%
2005	Is This The Way To Amarillo?	Tony Christie/Peter Kay	29%
2019	Someone You Loved	Lewis Capaldi	26%
1975	Bye Bye Baby	Bay City Rollers	24%
1964	Can't Buy Me Love	The Beatles	24%
1967	Release Me	Engelbert Humperdinck	24%
1963	She Loves You	The Beatles	24%
1972	Amazing Grace	The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Band	19%
1993	I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)	Meatloaf	17%
1959	Living Doll	Sir Cliff Richard	17%
1965	Tears	Sir Ken Dodd	17%
1953	I Believe	Frankie Laine	12%
1962	I Remember You	Frank Ifield	12%
1973	Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree	Tony Orlando/Dawn	12%
1957	Diana	Paul Anka	10%
1961	Wooden Heart	Elvis Presley	10%
1960	It's Now Or Never	Elvis Presley	7%
1955	Rose Marie	Slim Whitman	7%
1954	Secret Love	Doris Day	7%
1952	Auf Wiedersehen, Sweetheart	Dame Vera Lynn	2%
1956	I'll Be Home	Pat Boone	2%
1970	The Wonder Of You	Elvis Presley	2%