Well done Lady Gaga for having the biggest selling single of 2009.

Westlife with only 1 song in there

Thats a shock

But not a huge enough hit to make the top 100....

I cannot see anyone beating Will's sales now.

I doubt they will because this was more than buying into the song or even the singer, these sales were made (and I include Gareth's in second place) by buying a souvenier of a show that was to become part of the last decade's tv history too.

Is will the biggest seller of all time?

More than Candle in the Wind?

More than White Christmas, or Band Aid?

I think you have to look at the sales in context. When people bought that they didn't know that the decade was to become dominated by talent shows. Pop Idol, being the first , was such a huge phenomenon at the time that the public were sent into a buying frenzy. I think it was an amazing achievement, especially as there were no downloads in those days, but as Will himself acknowledged on the TV last night - if a song has 6 months of promotion it's bound to do well
You would think though that the Winner's singles nowadays, which are available to download often at one fifth of the price people paid for Evergreen, would sell more not less

Yes that surprised me 'n'all. I expected far more songs from the last 3 or 4 years in the top 10.

No where near

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._year_%28UK%29

No, this is the top sellers of this decade. Will is 11th in the top selling songs in the UK. Which isn't bad for someone from a talent show!

I get you now , i got confused i thought you meant it had not charted over here origally and had not made top 100 . LoL my mistake

Thank you Kargo for typing the list in full.

It seems the low point for sales came in 2004 with just 2 songs, one of which was the Bandaid 20 charity single.

I noticed an upsurge in sales in 2008 coinciding with downloads being included in the charts. A few of these didn't become big hits until last year though.