Best-Selling Singles
Artist
Single
Released
Genre
Sales (in millions)
Bing Crosby
"White Christmas"
1942
Christmas
50
Elton John
"Candle in the Wind 1997"/"Something About the Way You Look Tonight"
1997
Pop
33
"Silent Night"
1935
30
Bill Haley & His Comets
"Rock Around the Clock"
1954
Rock & Roll
25
Paul Anka
"Diana"
1957
20
USA for Africa
"We Are the World"
1985
The Ink Spots
"If I Didn't Care"
1939
Doo-wop
19
Gene Autry
"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"
1949
18
Baccara
"Yes Sir, I Can Boogie"
1977
Kenny Rogers
"Lady"
1980
Country
16
Celine Dion
"My Heart Will Go On"
1998
15
Scorpions
"Wind of Change"
1991
Hard Rock
14
The Black Eyed Peas
"I Gotta Feeling"
2009
Dance
13.2
Kyu Sakamoto
"Sukiyaki"
1961
13
Kesha
"TiK ToK"
Electropop
12.8
The Beatles
"I Want to Hold Your Hand"
1964
Rock
12
Village People
"Y.M.C.A."
1978
Pop, Disco
Whitney Houston
"I Will Always Love You"
1992
R&B
Terry Jacks
"Seasons in the Sun"
1974
11.5
George McCrae
"Rock Your Baby"
Disco
11
Biddu and Carl Douglas
"Kung Fu Fighting"
Mills Brothers
"Paper Doll"
1943
Roger Whittaker
"The Last Farewell"
1975
Goombay Dance Band
“Sun Of Jamaica”
1979
Pop, Calypso
Smokie
“Living Next Door To Alice”
1976
Pop, Rock
10.5
ABBA
"Fernando"
10
Cher
"Believe"
Pop, Dance
Bryan Adams
"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You"
Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean
"Hips Don't Lie"
2006
Latin Pop
Roy Acuff
"Wabash Cannonball"
Middle of the Road
"Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep"
1971
Procol Harum
"A Whiter Shade of Pale"
1967
Progressive Rock
The Monkees
"I'm a Believer"
1966
Lady Gaga
"Poker Face"
9.8
"Bad Romance"
9.7
Eminem featuring Rihanna
"Love the Way You Lie"
2010
Hip hop
9.3
Lil Wayne
"Lollipop"
2008
Rap
9.1
Britney Spears
"...Baby One More Time"
9
Elvis Presley
"Hound Dog"
1956
Madonna
"Hung Up"
2005
Dance-Pop
Shakira
"Whenever, Wherever"
2001
8.5
"Boom Boom Pow"
Katy Perry
"I Kissed a Girl"
8.4
Thelma Aoyama
"Soba ni Iru ne"
8.2
Jason Mraz
"I'm Yours"
Pop, Folk rock
8.1
Flo Rida
"Low"
2007
8
Enrique Iglesias
"Hero"
Shocking Blue
"Venus"
1969
Modern Talking
"You're My Heart, You're My Soul"
1984
Synthpop
Mahalia Jackson
"Move On Up a Little Higher"
1948
Gospel
Mary Hopkin
"Those Were the Days"
1968
Nirvana
"Smells Like Teen Spirit"
Grunge
"Hey Jude"
Utada Hikaru
"Flavor of Life"
Leona Lewis
"Bleeding Love"
7.7
Lady Gaga featuring Colby O'Donis
"Just Dance"
Georgie Fame
"The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde"
7.5
Lady Gaga featuring Beyoncé
"Telephone"
7.4
Avril Lavigne
"Girlfriend"
Pop punk
7.3
Julie Rogers
"The Wedding"
7
Adele
"Rolling in the Deep"
2011
Soul
Andrea Bocelli
"Con te partirò"
Danyel Gérard
"Butterfly"
Scott McKenzie
"San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)"
"Can't Buy Me Love"
Vernon Dalhart
"The Prisoner's Song"
1924
Usher featuring will.i.am
"OMG"
R&B, Soul
6.9
Rihanna featuring Jay-Z
"Umbrella"
6.6
Train
"Hey, Soul Sister"
"Toxic"
2004
6.5
"Womanizer"
Dawn
"Knock Three Times"
Taylor Swift
"Love Story"
Country, Pop
Timbaland featuring OneRepublic
"Apologize"
6.2
"Vogue"
1990
Dance-pop, R&B
6
Harry Simeone Chorale
"The Little Drummer Boy"
1958
George Michael
"Careless Whisper"
Janet Jackson
"Together Again"
Jay Sean featuring Lil Wayne
"Down"
R&B, Dance
Brotherhood of Man
"Save Your Kisses for Me"
Dawn featuring Tony Orlando
"Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree"
1973
Spice Girls
"Wannabe"
1996
Simon & Garfunkel
"Bridge Over Troubled Water"
1970
Mungo Jerry
"In the Summertime"
Neil Diamond
"Cracklin' Rosie"
The Jackson 5
"I Want You Back"
"I'll Be There"
The Archies
"Sugar, Sugar"
The New Seekers
"I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing"
Pop/Folk
Wings
"Mull of Kintyre"
Beyoncé
"Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)"
5.9
T-Pain
"Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')"
Snap & B
Soulja Boy Tell 'Em
"Kiss Me Thru the Phone"
Southern rap
5.7
Tino Rossi
"Petit Papa Noël"
1946
Alicia Keys
"No One"
5.6
Taio Cruz
"Dynamite"
T.I.
"Whatever You Like"
Hip Hop, Pop
Kanye West
"Heartless"
5.5
Jeannie C. Riley
"Harper Valley PTA"
Pop, Country
"Circus"
The Chipmunks
"The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)"
Children, Pop
"Crank That (Soulja Boy)"
5.2
Shop Boyz
"Party Like a Rock Star"
"Like a Prayer"
1989
Power pop, Gospel
5
"Hot n Cold"
Lady Antebellum
"Need You Now"
Country pop
"That Silver-Haired Daddy Of Mine"
Gene Austin
"My Blue Heaven"
1927
Engelbert Humperdinck
"Release Me"
Enrique Iglesias featuring Pitbull
"I Like It"
Bee Gees
"Massachusetts"
"Waterloo"
1910 Fruitgum Company
"Simon Says"
Cee Lo Green
"Fuck You!"
Donny Osmond
"Puppy Love"
"Surrender"
Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler
"Ballad of the Green Berets"
Mitch Miller
"March from Bridge On The River Kwai"
March
Nini Rosso
"Il Silenzio"
1965
"Daydream Believer"
Pop rock
The Animals
"The House of the Rising Sun"
"She Loves You"
1963
Tom Jones
"Delilah"
Three Dog Night
"Joy to the World"
The Partridge Family
"I Think I Love You"
The Tornados
"Telstar"
1962