Best-selling Single By Year
Here's a year-by-year look at the #1 best-selling songs of each of the past 20 years. From 1992 through 2004, the numbers are for physical singles. From 2005 on, they are for digital songs.
- 1992: "I Will Always Love You", Whitney Houston - 3,086,000
- 1993: "Whoomp! (There It Is)", Tag Team - 2,754,000
- 1994: "I'll Make Love To You", Boyz II Men - 1,627,000
- 1995: "Gangsta's Paradise", Coolio featuring L.V. - 2,534,000
- 1996: "Macarena (bayside boys mix)", Los Del Rio - 3,747,000
- 1997: "Candle In The Wind 1997", Elton John - 8,111,000
- 1998: "The Boy Is Mine", Brandy & Monica - 2,591,000
- 1999: "Believe", Cher - 1,707,000
- 2000: "Maria, Maria", Santana featuring The Product G&B - 1,337,000
- 2001: "Loverboy", Mariah Carey - 571,000
- 2002: "A Moment Like This", Kelly Clarkson - 600,000
- 2003: "This Is The Night", Clay Aiken - 948,000
- 2004: "I Believe", Fantasia - 401,000
- 2005: "Beverly Hills", Weezer - 962,000
- 2006: "Bad Day", Daniel Powter - 1,936,000
- 2007: "Crank That (Soulja Boy)", Soulja Boy Tell'em - 2,714,000
- 2008: "Bleeding Love", Leona Lewis - 3,420,000
- 2009: "Boom Boom Pow", The Black Eyed Peas - 4,762,000
- 2010: "California Gurls", Katy Perry featuring Snoop Dogg - 4,398,000
- 2011: "Rolling in the Deep", Adele - 5,813,000
Read more about this topic: List Of Best-selling Singles In The United States
Famous quotes containing the words single and/or year:
“Are God and Nature then at strife,
That Nature lends such evil dreams?
So careful of the type she seems,
So careless of the single life;”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
“As the Arab proverb says, “The dog barks and the caravan passes”. After having dropped this quotation, Mr. Norpois stopped to judge the effect it had on us. It was great; the proverb was known to us: it had been replaced that year among men of high worth by this other: “Whoever sows the wind reaps the storm”, which had needed some rest since it was not as indefatigable and hardy as, “Working for the King of Prussia”.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)