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]