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A million-selling single is regarded by the Official Charts Company (OCC) as one that has sold at least 1 million copies since the start of the UK Singles Chart in November 1952. As well as a traditional purchase of a physical record, a sale can represent one permanent digital download of a track (physical singles usually consist of two songs, although both are only included in sales figures for double A sides or where both receive a high level of interest and airplay). Both British Phonographic Industry (BPI)-certified awards (Silver, Gold and Platinum) and the weekly charts now include audio streaming at 100 streams of a song to one sales unit (from 30 June 2014) but these are not included in the sales figures published by the OCC. Certified awards can also include shipments (sales to trade)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Certified Awards - Qualifying Criteria )〕 The OCC and ''Music Week'' regularly announce when a record becomes a million seller.〔〔〔 , 163 singles have sold 1 million copies in the UK.〔 Of these, 107 were originally released in the 20th century (70 of them selling 1 million before the year 2000)〔 and the remaining 56 were released between 2000 and 2014. The most recently released single to become a million-seller is "Uptown Funk" by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars,〔 which was released in December 2014 and passed a million sales ten weeks later in February 2015. Bing Crosby's "White Christmas is the earliest release: originally 1942, although only sales from 1952 onwards are counted. The year in which the most million-sellers were released is 2011, with ten;〔 a record 36 releases from the 1990s have sold 1 million copies (26 of them achieving it during the decade), and the 2010s have so far seen 33 new million-sellers. ==History== In 1959, British periodical ''Disc'' introduced an initiative to present a Gold record to singles that sold more than 1 million units. Information about when a record was classified gold by ''Disc'' is "not well documented", and the awards relied on record companies correctly compiling and supplying sales information.〔 This led to errors, such as The Shadows' instrumental "Apache" and The Archies' "Sugar, Sugar" incorrectly being awarded a gold disc in January 1970.〔 Such inaccuracies led to the instigation of an official classification system.〔 In April 1973, the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) began classifying singles and albums by the number of units sold. The highest threshold is "Platinum record" and was then awarded to singles that sold more than 1 million units.〔 For singles released after 1 January 1989, the number of sales required to qualify for Platinum, Gold and Silver records was dropped to 600,000 units (Platinum), 400,000 units (Gold) and 200,000 units (Silver).〔 In February 1987, the BPI introduced multi-Platinum awards so that if a single sold 1,200,000 units it was classified as double Platinum, 1,800,000 units as triple Platinum, etc.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bpi.co.uk/certified-awards.aspx )〕 Digital downloads have been counted towards singles sales from 2004 onwards.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Do you count downloads? )〕 Additionally, audio streaming has been included in the official chart and BPI awards since 30 June 2014, at a rate of 100 streams representing one unit sale,〔 however the OCC still compiles a 'sales' (only) (chart ) and still quotes these traditional sales figures in its features and articles.〔 In 1963, The Beatles' song "She Loves You" became the best-selling single of all time in the UK. This record was broken in 1977 when Paul McCartney's new band Wings surpassed it with "Mull of Kintyre", which also became the first song to sell 2 million copies in the UK. In 1984, Band Aid released the charity-record "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in response to the famine in Ethiopia; it sold 1 million copies in the first week and soon became the best-selling single. This record was broken in 1997, following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, when Elton John released "Candle in the Wind 1997", a re-write of the Marilyn Monroe tribute released in 1973. Selling more than 650,000 copies on its first day on sale and more than 1.5 million in its first week, it quickly became the UK's best-selling single.〔 It was classified by the BPI as 9× Platinum (5.4 million) in October 1997, but more recent estimates suggest sales of 4.92 million. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of million-selling singles in the United Kingdom」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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