List of best-selling singles of the 1950s in the United Kingdom

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Bill Haley & His Comets had the biggest-selling single of the 1950s with "Rock Around the Clock", the first single in the UK to sell more than one million copies.
1950s in music in the UK
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←1949

UK Singles Chart during the 1950s;[2] it was expanded to a Top 20 on 1 October 1954.[3]

Sales of records significantly increased in the mid-fifties, following the birth of rock and roll. As a result, the top ten biggest-selling singles of the 1950s were all released in the latter half of the decade.[4] The biggest-selling single of this period was "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley & His Comets, which became the first single ever to sell more than a million copies in the UK.[5]

Singles

Best-selling singles of the 1950s in the UK
No. Single Artist Record label[a] Year[a] Sales Chart
peak[a]
1 "Rock Around the Clock" Bill Haley & His Comets Brunswick 1955 1,390,000 1
2 "Diana" Paul Anka Columbia 1957 1,240,000 1
3 "Mary's Boy Child" Harry Belafonte RCA 1957 1,170,000 1
4 "What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?"
The Checkmates
 		Pye 1959 920,000 1
5 "Jailhouse Rock" Elvis Presley RCA 1958 880,000 1
6 "
What Do You Want?
" 		Adam Faith Parlophone 1959 820,000 1
7 "Living Doll" Cliff Richard & The Drifters Columbia 1959 770,000 1
8 "All Shook Up" Elvis Presley
HMV
 1957 740,000 1
9 "Love Letters in the Sand" Pat Boone London 1957 710,000 2
10 "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" Buddy Holly Coral 1959 680,000 1
  1. ^ a b c The record labels, years and chart peaks are those given by the OCC.[6]

References

General (chart positions)
  • OCLC 6967919. Archived from the original
    on 26 July 2011. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
Specific
  1. ^
    OCLC 476290235. Archived
    from the original on 22 July 2010. Retrieved 22 July 2010.
  2. davemcaleer.com. Archived from the original
    on 3 September 2011. Retrieved 4 November 2010.
  3. ^ "Key Dates in the History of the Official UK Charts". London: Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 10 January 2008. Retrieved 27 July 2011.
  4. OCLC 29519791
    . Retrieved 27 July 2011.
  5. ^ Westbrook, Caroline (14 January 2005). "The history of the chart-topper". London: BBC News. Retrieved 27 July 2011.
  6. ^ "Artist Chart History". London: Official Charts Company. 2010. Archived from the original on 3 September 2011. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
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