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Alexandra Burke's 'Hallelujah' joins 'million-selling' singles list

The song is one of ten since the turn of the millennium to pass the million mark

January 9, 2009 | 9 Comments
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Alexandra Burke's recent Number One cover of Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' has become one of ten singles to sell over a million copies since the turn of the millennium in the UK.

Burke, the winner of this 2008's 'The X Factor', joins the likes of Bob The Builder, Shaggy and Hear'say on the exclusive list of post-millennium million-sellers.

The ten songs to have sold over a million copies, according to the Official Charts Company, are:

Gareth Gates – 'Unchained Melody'
Tony Christie featuring Peter Kay – '(Is This The Way To) Amarillo'
Shaggy featuring Rikrok – 'It Wasn't Me'
Band Aid 20 – 'Do They Know It's Christmas'
Kylie Minogue – 'Can't Get You Out Of My Head'
Shayne Ward – 'That's My Goal'
Hear'say – 'Pure And Simple'
Alexandra Burke – 'Hallelujah'
Bob The Builder – 'Can We Fix It?'
Will Young – 'Evergreen'/'Anything Is Possible'

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TimesUp

Jan 9, 2009

My god that list scares me!! Shows you that the UK's taste in Music is very very poor!! It looks like atleast 5 out of the 10 songs are because of X factor / Pop idol freaks...

hairy gonk mother

Jan 9, 2009

Oh dear! Not a good representation of the music buying public, shame on you all! I must say I don't own any of this utter rubbish!

chrispaz

Jan 9, 2009

Wow, now there's a list to be proud of...

Carryboy

Jan 9, 2009

Anybody who asks whats wrong with the music industry at the moment should be shown this list, i hope the latest reality tv "star" can be happy she has reached the aspiring heights of bob the builder.

chrispaz

Jan 9, 2009

The problem is that the bastards who have perpetrated the crimes on this list just don't give shit. As long as they make money, they don't care how much crap, meaningless music they flood the world with. At the moment, we can look back on British music with pride, that bands like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin etc, became the biggest and best bands in the world off their own backs. In 20, 30, 40 years, we're going to look back on the current era of British music with nothing but shame and disgust, and all the money in the world won't change that.

matt_the_crib

Jan 9, 2009

yeah there may be a lot of shite there but it wasn't me, now thats a tune lol

gazhat

Jan 9, 2009

.........say no more, as every year pass it'll just get worse and worse, i'm not suprised so many people look backwards to find quailty music, i mean just look at that list, its fucking embarassing...

ed2005

Jan 11, 2009

There is one song on this list that does deserve to be there -'Kylie's 'Can't Get You OUt Of My Head.' Pure class. And one of only three that wasn't a TV tie-in (the others being band Aid 20 and Shaggy). What does that tell us? On the one hand, great that the single still isn't dead, but there are so many better singles that should have done it? And how many of the above list have ended up in charity shops?