The Killers’ Mr Brightside has overtaken Oasis’s Wonderwall to change into the largest single to have by no means reached primary within the UK.
The gang-pleasing traditional of pupil nights and canopy bands solely peaked at quantity 10 – however has remained a well-liked earworm for years.
Twenty years after its first launch, it is racked up 1.066m in bodily/obtain gross sales and greater than 530 million streams within the UK, in keeping with the Official Charts Firm (OCC).
It is also spent almost eight years repeatedly contained in the UK’s high 100 – probably the most of any music ever.
And when mixed streams and bodily gross sales are totted up, it is the third-biggest music of all time within the UK, says the OCC.
The defiant, upbeat anthem about getting back from heartbreak was first launched in 2003 with simply 500 CDs launched by indie label Lizard King.
However when Any person Informed Me hit quantity three the next 12 months, Mr Brightside obtained a brand new lease of life and reached quantity 10 within the singles’ chart.
“It is humorous, I nearly do not feel a lot of part of it anymore,” frontman Brandon Flowers instructed the OCC.
“It is simply this factor that exists on the earth, and it is wonderful that I had one thing to do with it, however I nearly really feel a bit bit faraway from it as a result of it is so large.”
Mr Brightside is from the Las Vegas band’s debut Scorching Fuss, one of many largest rock albums of the 2000s, and one which established them as pageant favourites within the UK.
The band are touring once more this summer time, taking part in 16 enviornment exhibits, together with six nights on the O2 in London and 4 on the beleaguered Co-op Live in Manchester.
After Mr Brightside, the opposite largest songs by no means to have hit primary within the UK are:
2. Wonderwall (Oasis)
3. All Of Me (John Legend)
4. Take Me To Church (Hozier)
5. Fairytale Of New York (The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl)
The most important promoting single of all time within the UK charts, when it comes to bodily gross sales and downloads (excluding streams) is Elton John’s reworked Candle In The Wind/One thing About The Approach double A-side from 1997, which was launched after the demise of Princess Diana.
