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Something About the Way You Look Tonight
"Something About the Way You Look Tonight" is a song by Elton John, released in 1997 as the first single from his 26th studio album ''The Big Picture''. The song and its video were dedicated to the memory of Diana, Princess of Wales, who died that year, with proceeds from the sale of the song going towards Diana's charities.
The single was released later also as a double A-side single with "Candle in the Wind 1997". According to the Recording Industry Association of America, with certified sales, this double A-side is "the best-selling single of all time."〔 (certified sales)〕〔(Elton John: Biography | Rolling Stone Music ) ''Rolling Stone'' "Candle in the Wind 1997," easily became the all-time highest-certified single".〕 The ''Guinness World Records'' 2009 states that the song is "the biggest-selling single since UK and US singles charts began in the 1950s, having accumulated worldwide sales of 33 million copies".〔(Guinness Book of Records, 2007 Edition, page 187 )〕
The video for the song featured actors and actresses from the UK television programme ''This Life'', as well as supermodels Kate Moss and Sophie Dahl and is regarded as one of Elton John's best videos. John has publicly revealed (through his "warts and all" documentary ''Tantrums and Tiaras'') that he finds videos "fucking loathsome" and after the album ''The Big Picture'' refrained from appearing in his own videos unless they were cameo appearances.
==Sales and chart positions==
In the UK alone, the double A-side single with "Candle in the Wind 1997" sold over 4,864,600 copies (8× Platinum), making the song the best-selling single ever in UK history.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC – Press Office: Elton John tops million sellers chart )〕 It remained for five weeks at the number-one position. In the US, the double A-side single spent 14 weeks at number one on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. The best-selling single in ''Billboard'' history and the only single ever certified Diamond in the US – the single sold over 11 million copies in the US.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Elton John: Biography - Rolling Stone Music )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://www.riaa.com/newsitem.php?news_year_filter=1999&resultpage=2&id=3abf3ec8-ef5b-58f9-e949-3b57f5e313df )〕 On the US adult contemporary chart, however, "Something About the Way You Look Tonight" and "Candle In the Wind 1997" charted separately; while the tribute to Princess Diana peaked at #2 on this chart, "Something About the Way You Look Tonight" spent ten weeks at #1 in late 1997 and early 1998. This double-sided single holds the record for the lowest amount of weeks in a chart year from a year-end number-one single, with as few as 8. (In 1998, it had 34 more total weeks, however it was only #8 in the year-end list of 1998).
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