{"id":532292,"date":"2026-04-15T14:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/532292\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T14:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:01:09","slug":"quiz-what-was-the-best-selling-uk-single-the-year-you-were-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/532292\/","title":{"rendered":"Quiz: What was the best-selling UK single the year you were born?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in the 90s, BBC Bitesize was officially launched and people were listening to music by the likes of Oasis<\/a> and The Spice Girls<\/a> on compact discs,<\/a> known as CDs, or cassette tapes. The World Wide Web (www)<\/a> became available to the public, top phones<\/a> included the Nokia 3110 and Nokia 3210 and iconic films like Clueless<\/a> wowed audiences.<\/p>\n

In the music industry, Bryan Adams achieved the record for the longest consecutive run at number 1 on the UK singles chart – 16 weeks – with (Everything I Do) I Do It for You. Two versions of Unchained Melody were also top selling songs and Cher\u2019s Believe became recognised as the best-selling single by a female solo artist in UK chart history.<\/p>\n

Elton John’s Candle in the Wind\/ Something About the Way You Look Tonight is also the biggest-selling single of all time in the UK. It was released following the death of Princess Diana in 1997.<\/p>\n

1990: \u2018Unchained Melody\u2019 by The Righteous Brothers1991: \u2018(Everything I Do) I Do It For You\u2019 by Bryan Adams1992: \u2018I Will Always Love You\u2019 by Whitney Houston1993: \u2018I\u2019d Do Anything For Love (But I Won\u2019t Do That)\u2019 by Meat Loaf1994: \u2018Love Is All Around\u2019 by Wet Wet Wet1995: \u2018Unchained Melody\u2019 by Robson & Jerome1996: \u2018Killing Me Softly\u2019 by Fugees1997: \u2018Candle In The Wind\/Something About The Way You Look Tonight\u2019 by Elton John1998: \u2018Believe\u2019 by Cher1999: \u2018Baby One More Time\u2019 by Britney Spears<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back in the 90s, BBC Bitesize was officially launched and people were listening to music by the likes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-532292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}