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The song sold 5,633,000 copies in the US in the first six months of 2014, the most ever of any song in the first six months of any calendar year. [49] It was also the best-selling song of 2014 in the US with 6.45 million copies sold for the year, [3] and has sold over 6.9 million total copies in the US as of April 2015. [50]
"Ferry Cross the Mersey" is a song written by Gerry Marsden. It was first recorded by his band Gerry and the Pacemakers and released in late 1964 in the UK and in 1965 in the United States. It was a hit on both sides of the Atlantic, reaching number six in the United States [ 2 ] and number eight in the UK. [ 3 ]
McLean wrote the lyrics in 1971 after reading a book about the life of Van Gogh. [2] It was released on McLean's 1971 American Pie album; the following year, the song topped the UK Singles Chart for two weeks, [3] and peaked at No. 12 in the United States, [4] where it also hit No. 2 on the Easy Listening chart. [5]
In 1970, the song was first made into a lullaby which was originally recorded by Antonio Regalario and performed by Restituta Tutañez. [4] In 2023, the Cultural Center of the Philippines's Himig Himbing: Mga Heleng Atin included the song together with other Filipino songs and hele to promote indigenous lullabies.
The song stayed in the charts for three weeks, before dropping out of the top 40. On December 20 that year, "Don't Stop Believin '" re-entered the chart at number nine after the song was performed again on The X Factor. The song remained in the top 10 for another seven weeks in 2010, hitting a peak of number six in the process.
"Kiss Me" is a song by American pop rock band Sixpence None the Richer from their self-titled third album (1997). The ballad [4] was released as a single on August 12, 1998, in the United States and was issued in international territories the following year.
["Only a Northern Song"] was a joke relating to Liverpool, the Holy City in the North of England. In addition, the song was copyrighted Northern Songs Ltd., which I don't own, so: It doesn't really matter what chords I play … as it's only a Northern Song. [2] – George Harrison, 1979
Lightfoot's single version hit number 1 in his native Canada (in the RPM national singles survey) on November 20, 1976, barely a year after the disaster. [11] In the United States, it reached number 1 in Cashbox and number 2 for two weeks in the Billboard Hot 100 (behind Rod Stewart's "Tonight's the Night"), making it Lightfoot's second-most successful single, behind only "Sundown".