Official Top 40 best-selling songs of 1995

Earth Song - one of the most creative, poignant and epic songs ever created. In 1995, he was singing 'what about the trees', 'what about elephants' etc. Everyone took the mick. Today it shows how right he was to be singing about it.

So can I ask what happened to the original top 40 best sellers list for 1995? Because this one has been doctored by the OCC.
I have a screen shot of the original OCC top 40 1995 best sellers list that I used for a quiz night a couple of years ago. I'm going to attempt to dig that out and attach a picture so you can see this has been doctored. The original list included:

Livin' Joy - 'Dreamer' at #40.
Seal - 'Kiss From A Rose' #39
MN8 - 'I've Got A Little Something For You' #38
Mariah Carey - 'Fantasy' #37
Pulp - 'Common People' #36
Meatloaf - 'I'd Lie For You (and thats the truth)' #35.
N Trance - 'Stayin Alive' #34
East 17 - 'Thunder' #33
Madonna- 'You'll See' #32
Oasis - 'Some Might Say' #31
Scatman - Scatman (Ski Ba Dop Ba Dop Bop) #30

Queen - 'Heaven For Everyone' weren't in the top 40. They sat at #41.
The Beatles 'Free As A Bird' was #42.

So why has this been altered? Even the Wiki stubs have remained the same as previous?

What a terrible year for music! Absolutely terrible!!

"1995 was the year an enduring pop classic finally got its dues to become the year's best-seller: Unchained Melody." Finally??? It's only 5 years since the last time Unchained Melody was the best seller of the year! It's literally 5 weeks since the equivalent article about 1990 was trumpeting the Righteous Brothers' version as the best seller of that year.

Who writes these things? They clearly have a talent for engaging, well written, good quality copy which will draw people in, but coupled with absolutely no knowledge of the history of the charts whatsoever.

(As it happens I graduated with a Journalism degree in 2000, did the whole post-grad NCTJ thing, and have been obsessed with the pop charts ever since I was about 8. I seriously fancy a side-hustle writing for the OCC, I'm not perfect but there wouldn't be any glaring errors like there often are here, and I'm probably quite cheap. Ha ha, hustling in the comments section, the cheek of it :-) )

Wow! Wasn't expecting to even see Madonna "You'll See" here when it was released just 9 weeks before the year end and had almost half of it's sales in 1996. Being #29 on Year End chart when tbe song was released so late in the year and peaked #05 is quite an achievement. East 17 "Thunder" was released the exact same week and peaked #04 but ended up at #31 on Year End Chart.

Oasis biggest selling single ever, "Wonderland" was released a week later than Madonna and was able to get to #10 spenidng just 8 weeks on the charts. This song spent 36 weeks inside the UK TOP 100 during 1996 so I believe we may see it inside the Year End TOP 40 of 1996 as well.,

"I Believe/Up The Rood" that ended the year at #03 was released the same week "Wonderland" and was the single that prevented Oasis best selling single to be a #01 on the UK Official Singles as they stayed weeks at #01.

Coolio "Gangsta's Paradise" was #02 on this year end and was released just 1 week before Madonna and stayed just 2 weeks at #01 so was only 10 weeks on the charts during 1995. "Fairground" was released 4 weeks before Coolio song and spent 4 weeks at #01 but only managed to be #07 year end best seller (still amazingly good but when comparing to Colio or Robson & Jerome or Oasis songs just shows how last year weeks sales made all the difference).

This really shows how last weeks of the year were so important for both singles and albums sales as CD-singles or CD-Maxi-Singles were always great small Christmas gifts (now none offers a digital track as a Christmas Gift). Almost half ot the TOP 10 best selling singles of the year were released on the last 10 weeks before year end and one of them still made it to the year end TOP 40 despite just peaking #05 on the charts.