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:
“Think of admitting the details of a single case of the criminal court into our thoughts, to stalk profanely through their very sanctum sanctorum for an hour, ay, for many hours! to make a very barroom of the mind’s inmost apartment, as if for so long the dust of the street had occupied us,—the very street itself, with all its travel, its bustle, and filth, had passed through our thoughts’ shrine! Would it not be an intellectual and moral suicide?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Still let my tyrants know, I am not doomed to wear
Year after year in gloom, and desolate despair;
A messenger of Hope comes every night to me,
And offers for short life, eternal liberty.”
—Emily Brontë (1818–1848)