May 2021 newsletter – Top 10 quiz answers

Top 10 selling [physical] singles of all time:

  1. White Christmas – Bing Crosby, 1942
  2. Candle in the Wind – Elton John, 1997
  3. In the Summertime – Mungo Jerry, 1970
  4. I Will Always Love You – Whitney Houston, 1992
  5. Rock Around the Clock – Bill Haley & His Comets, 1954
  6. It’s Now or Never – Elvis Presley, 1960
  7. We Are the World – USA for Africa, 1985
  8. If I Didn’t Care – The Ink Spots, 1939
  9. Yes Sir, I Can Boogie – Baccara, 1977
  10. My Heart Will Go On – Celine Dion, 1997

Top 10 selling [digital] singles of all time:

  1. Shape of You – Ed Sheeran, 2017
  2. Despacito – Luis Fonsi featuring Daddy Yankee, 2017
  3. Spotlight – Xiao Zhan, 2020
  4. Work – Rihanna featuring Drake, 2016
  5. Something Just like This – The Chainsmokers and Coldplay, 2017
  6. Perfect – Ed Sheeran, 2017
  7. See You Again – Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth, 2015
  8. Closer – The Chainsmokers featuring Halsey, 2016
  9. Rolling in the Deep – Adele, 2011
  10. Uptown Funk – Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars, 2014

Highest grossing films of all time

  1. Avatar – 2009
  2. Avengers: Endgame – 2019
  3. Titanic – 1997
  4. Star Wars: The Force Awakens – 2015
  5. Avengers: Infinity War –  2018
  6. Jurassic World – 2015
  7. The Lion King – 2019
  8. The Avengers – 2012
  9. Furious 7 – 2015
  10. Frozen II – 2019

Top 10 bestselling fiction books of all time:

  1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, JK Rowling – 1997
  2. The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – 1943
  3. Dream of the Red Chamber, Cao Xueqin – 18th century
  4. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien – 1937
  5. And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie – 1939
  6. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis – 1950
  7. She: A History of Adventure, H Rider Haggard – 1887
  8. The Adventures of Pinocchio (Le avventure di Pinocchio), Carlo Collodi, Italy – 1881
  9. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown – 2003
  10. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, JK Rowling – 1998

Top 10 bestselling author of all time:

  1. William Shakespeare
  2. Agatha Christie
  3. Barbara Cartland
  4. Danielle Steel
  5. Harold Robbins
  6. Georges Simenon
  7. Enid Blyton
  8. Sidney Sheldon
  9. JK Rowling
  10. Gilbert Patten

[Answers taken from Wikipedia]

 

 

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