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Lady Gaga scores another million-selling single!
Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance becomes one of the UK’s biggest selling singles of all-time.
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Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance becomes one of the UK’s biggest selling singles of all-time.
Congratulations to Lady Gaga who today claims the second million selling single of her career!
The US star is currently battling it out with Ellie Goulding in the race to this week’s Official Number 1 single with her comeback track Applause, but regardless of what happens on Sunday’s final chart, the champagne corks will be popping in the Haus Of Gaga this weekend, as sales of her 2009 hit Bad Romance have crossed over the million copies sales barrier in the last 24 hours.
Walk, walk, fashion baby…
Clad in a pair of Alexander McQueen’s death-defying ‘lobster claw’ uber heels, Gaga strutted all the way to the top of the Official Singles Chart with Bad Romance in December 2009, before being bizarrely knocked off a week later by Rage Against The Machine’s Killing In The Name - the result of perhaps the greatest Christmas Number 1 races of all time! However, two weeks later Gaga pawed her way back to pop’s throne, reclaiming the top spot once again and the first Number 1 of 2010.
Bad Romance now joins Gaga’s previous million seller, Poker Face, as one of the UK’s biggest selling singles of all-time. Taken from The Fame Monster, Bad Romance is only the 138th track to sell over a million copies in British history, and the twelfth single to reach this milestone this year. It follows Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines FT TI and Pharrell Williams which crossed over the million mark last month.
Sir Elton John’s double A-side, Something About The Way You Look Tonight / Candle In The Wind '97, remains the UK’s biggest selling single of all-time. It has clocked up nearly 5 million sales since its release sixteen years ago this month.
The Sweet Sixteen
Lady Gaga is only the sixteenth artist ever to achieve more than one million selling single in the UK.
Sir Paul McCartney has nine to his name, spread across his work with The Beatles (six), Band Aid (two) and Wings (one).
You can see the full list of all the UK’s 138 million selling singles below:
The UK’s Official biggest selling singles of all-time
| TRACK | ARTIST | YEAR OF RELEASE | |
| 1 | SOMETHING ABOUT THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT/CANDLE IN THE WIND '97 | ELTON JOHN | 1997 |
| 2 | DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS? | BAND AID | 1984 |
| 3 | BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY | QUEEN | 1975 |
| 4 | MULL OF KINTYRE/GIRLS' SCHOOL | WINGS | 1977 |
| 5 | YOU'RE THE ONE THAT I WANT | JOHN TRAVOLTA & OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN | 1978 |
| 6 | RELAX | FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD | 1983 |
| 7 | RIVERS OF BABYLON/BROWN GIRL IN THE RING | BONEY M | 1978 |
| 8 | SHE LOVES YOU | THE BEATLES | 1963 |
| 9 | UNCHAINED MELODY/(THERE'LL BE BLUEBIRDS OVER) THE WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER | ROBSON GREEN & JEROME FLYNN | 1995 |
| 10 | LOVE IS ALL AROUND | WET WET WET | 1994 |
| 11 | MARY'S BOY CHILD/OH MY LORD | BONEY M | 1978 |
| 12 | I JUST CALLED TO SAY I LOVE YOU | STEVIE WONDER | 1984 |
| 13 | BARBIE GIRL | AQUA | 1997 |
| 14 | ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE/EVERGREEN | WILL YOUNG | 2002 |
| 15 | I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND | THE BEATLES | 1963 |
| 16 | BELIEVE | CHER | 1998 |
| 17 | (EVERYTHING I DO) I DO IT FOR YOU | BRYAN ADAMS | 1991 |
| 18 | LAST CHRISTMAS/EVERYTHING SHE WANTS | WHAM! | 1984 |
| 19 | IMAGINE | JOHN LENNON | 1975 |
| 20 | SUMMER NIGHTS | JOHN TRAVOLTA & OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN | 1978 |
| 21 | TWO TRIBES | FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD | 1984 |
| 22 | I'LL BE MISSING YOU | PUFF DADDY & FAITH EVANS | 1997 |
| 23 | DON'T YOU WANT ME? | HUMAN LEAGUE | 1981 |
| 24 | I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU | WHITNEY HOUSTON | 1992 |
| 25 | PERFECT DAY | VARIOUS ARTISTS | 1997 |
| 26 | THREE LIONS | BADDIEL & SKINNER & LIGHTNING SEEDS | 1996 |
| 27 | CAN'T BUY ME LOVE | THE BEATLES | 1964 |
| 28 | ...BABY ONE MORE TIME | BRITNEY SPEARS | 1999 |
| 29 | TEARS | KEN DODD | 1965 |
| 30 | MY HEART WILL GO ON | CELINE DION | 1998 |
| 31 | KARMA CHAMELEON | CULTURE CLUB | 1983 |
| 32 | YMCA | VILLAGE PEOPLE | 1978 |
| 33 | EYE OF THE TIGER | SURVIVOR | 1982 |
| 34 | CARELESS WHISPER | GEORGE MICHAEL | 1984 |
| 35 | GANGSTA'S PARADISE | COOLIO FT LV | 1995 |
| 36 | SOMEONE LIKE YOU | ADELE | 2011 |
| 37 | (WE'RE GONNA) ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK | BILL HALEY & HIS COMETS | 1955 |
| 38 | I FEEL FINE | THE BEATLES | 1964 |
| 39 | THE CARNIVAL IS OVER | THE SEEKERS | 1965 |
| 40 | THE POWER OF LOVE | JENNIFER RUSH | 1985 |
| 41 | WE CAN WORK IT OUT/DAY TRIPPER | THE BEATLES | 1964 |
| 42 | MOVES LIKE JAGGER | MAROON 5 FT CHRISTINA AGUILERA | 2011 |
| 43 | RELEASE ME | ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK | 1967 |
| 44 | KILLING ME SOFTLY | FUGEES | 1996 |
| 45 | SOMEBODY THAT I USED TO KNOW | GOTYE FT KIMBRA | 2011 |
| 46 | I GOTTA FEELING | BLACK EYED PEAS | 2009 |
| 47 | UNCHAINED MELODY | GARETH GATES | 2002 |
| 48 | WANNABE | SPICE GIRLS | 1996 |
| 49 | COME ON EILEEN | DEXY'S MIDNIGHT RUNNERS | 1982 |
| 50 | (IS THIS THE WAY TO) AMARILLO | TONY CHRISTIE FT PETER KAY | 2005 |
| 51 | IT WASN'T ME | SHAGGY FT RIKROK | 2001 |
| 52 | WONDERWALL | OASIS | 1995 |
| 53 | NEVER EVER | ALL SAINTS | 1997 |
| 54 | THINK TWICE | CELINE DION | 1994 |
| 55 | TAINTED LOVE | SOFT CELL | 1981 |
| 56 | HEART OF GLASS | BLONDIE | 1979 |
| 57 | IT'S NOW OR NEVER | ELVIS PRESLEY | 1960 |
| 58 | IT'S LIKE THAT | RUN-DMC VS JASON NEVINS | 1997 |
| 59 | WE FOUND LOVE | RIHANNA FT CALVIN HARRIS | 2011 |
| 60 | SEX ON FIRE | KINGS OF LEON | 2008 |
| 61 | HALLELUJAH | ALEXANDRA BURKE | 2008 |
| 62 | DIANA | PAUL ANKA | 1957 |
| 63 | GREEN, GREEN GRASS OF HOME | TOM JONES | 1966 |
| 64 | MERRY XMAS EVERYBODY | SLADE | 1973 |
| 65 | BRIGHT EYES | ART GARFUNKEL | 1979 |
| 66 | HEARTBEAT/TRAGEDY | STEPS | 1998 |
| 67 | PARTY ROCK ANTHEM | LMFAO FT LAUREN BENNETT AND GOONROCK | 2011 |
| 68 | MARY'S BOY CHILD | HARRY BELAFONTE | 1957 |
| 69 | CALL ME MAYBE | CARLY RAE JEPSEN | 2012 |
| 70 | BLUE MONDAY | NEW ORDER | 1983 |
| 71 | THE LAST WALTZ | ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK | 1967 |
| 72 | EARTH SONG | MICHAEL JACKSON | 1995 |
| 73 | DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS? | BAND AID 20 | 2004 |
| 74 | JUST THE WAY YOU ARE (AMAZING) | BRUNO MARS | 2010 |
| 75 | CAN'T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD | KYLIE MINOGUE | 2001 |
| 76 | STRANGER ON THE SHORE | MR ACKER BILK AND HIS PARAMOUNT JAZZ BAND | 1961 |
| 77 | DON'T GIVE UP ON US | DAVID SOUL | 1976 |
| 78 | SATURDAY NIGHT | WHIGFIELD | 1994 |
| 79 | SPACEMAN | BABYLON ZOO | 1996 |
| 80 | I LOVE YOU LOVE ME LOVE | GARY GLITTER | 1973 |
| 81 | ANGELS | ROBBIE WILLIAMS | 1997 |
| 82 | NO MATTER WHAT | BOYZONE | 1998 |
| 83 | PRICE TAG | JESSIE J FT B.O.B | 2011 |
| 84 | POKER FACE | LADY GAGA | 2009 |
| 85 | TORN | NATALIE IMBRUGLIA | 1997 |
| 86 | IMPOSSIBLE | JAMES ARTHUR | 2012 |
| 87 | I BELIEVE/UP ON THE ROOF | ROBSON & JEROME | 1995 |
| 88 | 2 BECOME 1 | SPICE GIRLS | 1996 |
| 89 | LOVE THE WAY YOU LIE | EMINEM FT RIHANNA | 2010 |
| 90 | HIT ME WITH YOUR RHYTHM STICK | IAN DURY AND THE BLOCKHEADS | 1978 |
| 91 | GHOSTBUSTERS | RAY PARKER JR. | 1984 |
| 92 | TELETUBBIES SAY "EH-OH!" | TELETUBBIES | 1997 |
| 93 | THAT'S MY GOAL | SHAYNE WARD | 2005 |
| 94 | I REMEMBER YOU | FRANK IFIELD | 1962 |
| 95 | ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL (PART 2) | PINK FLOYD | 1979 |
| 96 | PURE AND SIMPLE | HEAR'SAY | 2001 |
| 97 | BACK FOR GOOD | TAKE THAT | 1995 |
| 98 | HEY JUDE | THE BEATLES | 1968 |
| 99 | ONLY GIRL (IN THE WORLD) | RIHANNA | 2010 |
| 100 | BLUE (DA BA DEE) | EIFFEL 65 | 1999 |
| 101 | DANCING QUEEN | ABBA | 1976 |
| 102 | I DON'T WANT TO MISS A THING | AEROSMITH | 1998 |
| 103 | I FEEL LOVE | DONNA SUMMER | 1977 |
| 104 | THE YOUNG ONES | CLIFF RICHARD & THE SHADOWS | 1962 |
| 105 | BLEEDING LOVE | LEONA LEWIS | 2007 |
| 106 | RIDE ON TIME | BLACK BOX | 1989 |
| 107 | CRAZY | GNARLS BARKLEY | 2006 |
| 108 | FAME | IRENE CARA | 1982 |
| 109 | UNCHAINED MELODY | THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS | 1965 |
| 110 | STAND & DELIVER | ADAM AND THE ANTS | 1981 |
| 111 | I WILL SURVIVE | GLORIA GAYNOR | 1979 |
| 112 | UPTOWN GIRL | BILLY JOEL | 1983 |
| 113 | SAILING | ROD STEWART | 1975 |
| 114 | CAN WE FIX IT? | BOB THE BUILDER | 2000 |
| 115 | SUGAR SUGAR | THE ARCHIES | 1969 |
| 116 | WHITE CHRISTMAS | BING CROSBY WITH THE KEN DARBY SINGERS AND JOHN SCOTT TROTTER ORCHESTRA | 1942 |
| 117 | GANGNAM STYLE | PSY | 2012 |
| 118 | SAVE YOUR KISSES FOR ME | BROTHERHOOD OF MAN | 1976 |
| 119 | FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK | POGUES FT KIRSTY MACCOLL | 1987 |
| 120 | THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT | TIGHT FIT | 1982 |
| 121 | WE ARE YOUNG | FUN FT JANELLE MONAE | 2011 |
| 122 | I'D LIKE TO TEACH THE WORLD TO SING | THE NEW SEEKERS | 1971 |
| 123 | DON'T CRY FOR ME ARGENTINA | JULIE COVINGTON | 1976 |
| 124 | WHEN WE COLLIDE | MATT CARDLE | 2010 |
| 125 | EYE LEVEL | THE SIMON PARK ORCHESTRA | 1972 |
| 126 | UNDER THE MOON OF LOVE | SHOWADDYWADDY | 1976 |
| 127 | LONG HAIRED LOVER FROM LIVERPOOL | LITTLE JIMMY OSMOND | 1972 |
| 128 | FIGHT FOR THIS LOVE | CHERYL COLE | 2009 |
| 129 | TIE A YELLOW RIBBON ROUND THE OLE OAK TREE | DAWN FT TONY ORLANDO | 1973 |
| 130 | TITANIUM | DAVID GUETTA FT SIA | 2011 |
| 131 | DON'T GO BREAKING MY HEART | ELTON JOHN & KIKI DEE | 1976 |
| 132 | MYSTERIOUS GIRL | PETER ANDRE FT BUBBLER RANX | 1995 |
| 133 | WHOLE AGAIN | ATOMIC KITTEN | 2001 |
| 134 | THE A TEAM | ED SHEERAN | 2011 |
| 135 | USE SOMEBODY | KINGS OF LEON | 2008 |
| 136 | GET LUCKY | DAFT PUNK FT PHARRELL WILLIAMS & NILE RODGERS | 2013 |
| 137 | BLURRED LINES | ROBIN THICKE FT TI & PHARRELL WILLIAMS | 2013 |
| 138 | LADY GAGA | BAD ROMANCE | 2009 |
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