Eminem and No Doubt score UK's latest million-selling singles
The UK's million-selling singles list now has two new additions, Official Charts can reveal.
No Doubt's 1997 Number 1 Don't Speak and Eminem's 2002 chart-topper Lose Yourself have both passed the million sales mark.
Only 163 singles have previously hit this massive milestone in the UK, making No Doubt and Eminem part of a very prestigious club.
MORE: The complete list of million-selling singles in the UK
And it's even better news for Eminem, as Lose Yourself gives him his second million-seller. He scored his first one back in 2011 when his Rihanna collaboration Love The Way You Lie scored seven digits despite never reaching Number 1.
MORE: Eminem and Rihanna clock up a million sales
Sung by the band's frontwoman Gwen Stefani, Don't Speak was No Doubt's first ever hit in the UK, going straight in at Number 1 in February 1997, knocking U2's Discotheque off the top spot.
It remained at the summit for three weeks, holding off challenges from '90s stars like Sash! and Kula Shaker, before the pop juggernaut that was the Spice Girls came along with Who Do You Think You Are/Mama and deposed them.
It was No Doubt's only chart-topper and the first of three Top 10s for the band. See all No Doubt's Official UK hit singles and albums in our archive.
Eminem's rousing Lose Yourself featured in 8 Mile, Slim Shady's acting debut loosely based on his own life. The song won an Oscar for Best Original Song and was his fourth Number 1 in the UK.
It went straight in at Number 1 in December 2002, nudging off Daniel Bedingfield's If You're Not The One. Eminem's main rival for Number 1 that week was none other than the Cheeky Girls – Lose Yourself managed to beat the seminal Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum) by 5,000 copies that first week.
Altogether, Eminem's landed eight Number 1s from an impressive 27 Top 10s. Take a look at all Eminem's hit singles and albums in his complete Official Charts archive.
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Surely Hozier, OMI & probably Ellie Goulding should be in the million sellers list before these two
Pop Pickers Heavendotcom
So it's taken them till now to sell a million singles? Hardly a claim to fame!
david matthew
not really it sold 6 million in the u.s they are just talking about UK sales here.
I Am A Stegosaurus
Sales weren't as big on average when those two songs were released.
Pop Pickers Heavendotcom
So in total there were 7 million idiots wasted their money?!?! Right, that's it, I'm gonna sing :)
david matthew
it went platinum 25 times... and i dont really understand your comment... him selling 7 million copies means your "gonna sing ", what are you trying to say...? :/