I am a music historian, and with @AdrianRMG I have researched the best-selling single of every decade all the way back to 14,000BC. Here's a thread:
2010s - Ed Sheeran, The Shape of You
2000s - James Blunt, You're Beautiful
1990s - Lou Bega, Mambo No.5
1980s - Cher, If I Could Turn Back Time
1970s - The Beegees, Haaaah
1960s - Herbie Bonson, Do The Crunch
1950s - Chunky Finchman & The Interrupters, She's My Baby
1940s - Jöhn Smith, Britain (Is Where I'm From)
1930s - Disney Inc., Unconscious Tower Maiden
1920s - Phillip Jameson, Dirty Anklez
1910s - Rupert McCarthy, Bellum Est Malum (War Is Bad)
1900s - The Wright Brothers, Ten Feet High Club
1850s - Nurse Licebaron, Little Timmy
1820s - Lord Crisp-Banbury, Mambo No. 4
1790s - Beethoven, Post-deafness Acoustic Sessions
1770s - Handel, Zadok The Priest (Club Edit)
1580s - Cher, I Turned Back Time
1440s - Bogis De Bonbon, Hurmurnurmur
1430s - Baron Von Hurb, Ma-lreanr
1420s - Glög, Ü
1350s - The Rancid Prince, Be My Daddy
1310s - Sir Chillalot, Mambo No.3
660s - The People of Byzantium, The Coronation of Cher
70s BCE - The Bethelehem Bbz, Zoopzappyzappa
2540s BCE - Nafkatiti, Mambo No.2
2650s BCE - Gogmagog, Stonehenge Finish
3220s BCE - The People of Babylon, The Aliens Are Gone
3230s BCE - The Aliens, Does Anyone Want To Hang Out
12,450BCE - Brog, Mambo No.1
14,000BCE - H. Sapiens, Rock Scraping On Other Rock (Once)
Wow this blew up! Me and @AdrianRMG don't have a SoundCloud but we'd really appreciate if you could follow Glög's. He might be a centuries-old taxidermised corpse but that doesn't stop him dropping dank lofi hip-hop beats to study/chill to
@AdrianRMG p.s. If you liked this check out some of the other stuff we've made, thanks!
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