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Sales Don’t Lie: People Really Like Buying Shakira Songs

hipsdontlieA blogger at Yahoo! has a list claiming to count down the world’s 20 biggest-selling singles released after 2000, all of which have topped the five-million-sold mark around the globe. The surprising thing about the list, aside from Shakira’s dominance (songs by the hip-shaking Colombian singer take up 20% of the list), is how many recent songs are on it; from the last 18 months alone, you have Britney Spears’ “Womanizer,” Katy Perry’s “I Kissed A Girl,” Lady GaGa’s “Just Dance,” and Pink’s “So What.” Sure, the ruling of later-decade singles can probably be chalked up in part to the rise of iTunes as the single-serving store of choice, but I really thought that “So What” would at least have taken a backseat to “Umbrella,” sales-wise. Full list after the jump.

1. Hips Don’t Lie (featuring Wyclef Jean) – Shakira
2. Crazy In Love (featuring Jay-Z) – Beyonce
3. My Humps – Black Eyed Peas
4. Toxic – Britney Spears
5. Womanizer – Britney Spears
6. Oops!… I Did It Again – Britney Spears
7. Stan – Eminem
8. Low – Flo Rida
9. Boulevard Of Broken Dreams – Green Day
10. I Kissed A Girl – Katy Perry
11. Just Dance (featuring Colby O’Donis) – Lady Gaga
12. Bleeding Love – Leona Lewis
13. Hung Up – Madonna
14. We Belong Together – Mariah Carey
15. So What – Pink
16. Umbrella (featuring Jay-Z) – Rihanna
17. Whenever, Wherever – Shakira
18. Underneath Your Clothes – Shakira
19. La Tortura – Shakira
20. Can’t Get You Out Of My Head – Kylie Minogue

Biggest Selling Singles Since The Year 2000 [The Y! Music Playlist Blog]

 
By Maura at 10:30 AM on Thu Sep 3 2009
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  • 2ironic4u
    Kinda bummed that there's only one real "rock" entry in there and it's the power ballad.
  • @2ironic4u: Calling "Boulevard" a rock song is a stretch. Green Day haven't had any real bite in over 12 years.

    I'm honestly surprised Hey Ya! isn't in there, because it was certainly inescapable when it was charting (and I didn't mind that one bit).
  • chachwitablog
    I take back what I said (in the pitchfork "top singles of the decade" post) about not thinking "Crazy in love" was really all that enormous. Looks like it was! (Not that I mind!)

    I'm also thinking Britney got totally robbed on "toxic" not being her second #1 hit - (digital?) sales weren't being counted by billboard at that time, were they? (Or maybe Oops should have made #1 too?)
  • baconfat
    @brasstax: yeah but you couldn't buy it as a single in the states (except on vinyl) and at the time it came out the itunes music store was only about 6 months old, which means it was not being used to the same extent it has been lately. look - it took itunes music store 3 years to get its first billion downloads sold, and the second billion came in less than a year after that.

    it was also only released as a cd single in the uk, australia, and germany.
  • Spacejam
    where's that one Kid Rock song? ...oh wait, never mind.
  • johnlempka
    Love to see the numbers on these.
  • dusty vinyl
    A highly dubious list in terms of both some inclusions and some exclusions.

    Notably non-sourced as well.
  • clarknhilldaleredux
    This shit is NOT bananas!
  • Truth: I did think about the non-sourcing of the list before posting it, but I thought its framing of "the biggest singles of the past 20 years" would be at the very least an interesting thing to debate. What songs did you think were missing? (Also, all Anglophone artists? Worldwide? I know piracy is a problem in other countries, but hmm.)
  • 10 not 20.
  • I think the craziest thing about this list is that I actually like 16 of the 20 songs. I didn't think I liked that much of ANY sales-related list.
  • 2ironic4u
    @brasstax: I think plenty of songs from both AI and 21st Century have bite (St. Jimmy, Know Your Enemy, Horseshoes and Handgrenades, Holiday, etc.) Or is your argument more along the lines of "they don't rock like they USED to, maaaaaan"?
  • Audif Jackson Winters III
    No Band Aid 20?
  • dusty vinyl
    The measured biggest music markets by IFPI are all the major western countries as you might expect with most other territories being swamped in terms of size, so as such you'd expect a western preponderance. The absence of Japanese artists, whose sales in their own market are incredible, sticks out like a sore thumb though.

    As to the list, Well the multiple Shakira inclusions were a bit dubious. "La Tortura"? Really? "Underneath Your Clothes"? Really?

    Also "My Humps" by Black Eyed Peas is surely an error at #3. Of the "major" markets it only hit #1 in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and Israel - and that was before the digital boom. Compare to Bleeding Love a little lower down the list for instance which hit #1 in 34 countries, had long chart runs at the top in many and benefitted from the digital boom. A more likely candidate should surely be "Where Is the Love" from BEP.

    Where is Coldplay's mammoth Viva La Vida (which easily sold more than Low worldwide)? And Apologise by Timbaland/One Republic which had huge sales everywhere and topped so many charts?
  • fre2daa
    I love that one of the songs is in spanish. The thought of 5+ million people (minus the spanish speaking) shaking their asses to something they may not know what's about it's kinda funny.

    Go Shakira!
  • LaMareada
    Shakira is more popular on continental Europe than I think some of the posters realize or anywhere dance pop is the dominant pop music. (of course she dominates Latin America). The most suspect song is Stan, too slow and talky, it must have American and Anglophone popularity. Most rap songs that cross over big in non-English speaking countries are more danceable and easier to "sing" along with.

    If it weren't for their total unpopularity in the US, Oasis and Robbie Williams would be on that list too, its astonishing how mega popular they still are in European and Latin countries. Their singles and albums since 2000, not re-releases of Angels and Wonderwall.

    Coldplay, TaTu, Blink182, Juanes and more songs by Green Day and Kylie would be more representative of everywhere else too. During the Bush admin everyone LOVED American Idiot, doesn't hold up as well anymore.
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