The best selling single of all time is from a movie. It actually won the Academy Award for best song. Can you name the song, the composer, the movie that it debuted, the person who song the song in the movie and the person who first performed the song publicly and where he/she performed it?
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Off the top of my head I'm going to say,
White Christmas from the movie White Christmas sung by Bing Crosby. I don't know the where part.
Now, I'm going to look it up.
Well, I was wrong (I think), the best-selling single of all time is Elton John's remake of "Candle in the Wind" 1997 referring to Princess Diana. According to Wikipedia. "As of 2006, it is the world's best-selling CD single in history". BUT reading on, Wikipedia also says....
"The Guinness Book of Records 2007 states that "Candle In the Wind 1997" is the biggest selling single 'since records began', however states that in total overall sales, Bing Crosby's White Christmas has sold the most singles. This accounts for the ambiguity appearing in the main article when stating 'best selling single'"
Hmmmm, do they have a fact checker working for them? Sounds the same to me. But all the places I looked, Candle 1997 has sold 37 million while White Christmas has sold 30 million.
I'M SO CONFUSED!!!!!
So, for your question, and all the sub-questions that go along with it, I'll have to go with my original thought.
White Christmas, Irving Berlin, Holiday Inn, Bing Crosby, Bing Crosy, CBS radio show The Kraft Music Hall in December 1941
I thought it was "everything I do I do it for you" by Brian Adams, from the film "Robin Hood - Prince of Theives"
That was longest at number one, but best selling I am sure is White Christmas from White Christmas, sung by Bing Crosby, written by Irving Berlin
Well, Kim is right the second time.
It is White Christmas, which has sold 50 million singles and over 100 million is all (including soundtracks and stuff). It was first in Holiday Inn (1942) before it was in White Christmas (1954). Irving Berlin wrote it, Bing Crosby sang it, both in the movie and on his radio show "The Kraft Music Hall" where it was first played publicly.
The Wikipedia article on White Christmas says Crosby's single of "White Christmas" is recognized as the best-selling single in any music category and Crosby's recording has sold millions of additional copies as part of numerous albums, including his best-selling holiday collection Merry Christmas, which was first released as an LP in 1949 and has never been out-of-print since.
The 2007 Guinness Book of Records lists Crosby's recording as the biggest selling single of all time with an estimated 50 million copies sold. The "White Christmas Musical website", confirms the Guinness statistics and lists the Crosby recording as "the best selling record in history.", although this is a non-official title.
"Candle In The Wind" was never in a movie and never won an Oscar.
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