What about "Don't go breaking my heart"? It doesn't appear on the list although it may have been his biggest hit single during the 70s.

Hi MSchr!

Which list do you refer to? For sure Don't Go Breaking My Heart is part of the article 🙂

Hallo,
perhaps I'm too blind to find it. I'm not refering to the 1993 version from the Duets album. The original version from 1976 is not on the list with the physical singles. If I overlooked it please tell me.

It *is* on the physical singles list, but it's missing from the digital singles list.

On which page exactly? I'm sorry, but I'm still confused because it's not listed under "Rock of the Westies".

hello what are the total AES for George Michael and Elton John’s version of Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me??

hi, coming back to this article im curious as total of dont let the sun go down on me. what are the separate sales for the original and the george michael duet?

Biggest Tracks

16. 1983 – I Guess That’s Why They Call It the Blues [Too Low for Zero] – 4,180,000
17. 1995 – Can You Feel the Love Tonight [Orphan] – 3,470,000
18. 1975 – Philadelphia Freedom [Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy] – 3,280,000

The Lion King soundtrack sold 18m though... I understand that you wouldn't want to credit him for the entire soundtrack, but I feel like he should be credited to some extent, especially if the Tarzan soundtrack is credited entirely to Phil Collins.

Hi Analord!

While the soundtrack isn't credited to him, I 100% agree that CYFTLT should get its relative share from the OST sales in this ranking. It was laziness from me as back then I didn't had the OST estimated.

I can’t believe that in Wikipedia it is mentioned that Goodbye Yellow Brick Road sold 30 million copies.

Wikipedia, as we know it, is built by anonymous contributors. Some are reliables, others aren't. And often, artists pages are fanmade... The 30 million copies for GYBR are as fake and ridiculously inflated as the 1 billion sales claims for the Beatles and Elvis. Or the 750 million sales for MJ, 110 million for Thriller, 300 million for Nana Mouskouri, 45 million for Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell, etc.

Sales of this album on Wikipedia are supported by a number of sites that give the same sales estimate. I believe the reason so many sites put up sales so high is because the album is double, so it counts twice. It would be nice to find a site that gives this information so it can be placed there, but at this point it gets difficult. After the 30 million appeared on Wikipedia, various sites copied the information and spread it around. What a pity. At least, thanks to Chartmasters we have sales information, no inflation.

Yes, this is the sad part about a lot of media outlets. Many are too lazy to look into anything themselves and simply copy what other newspapers have written already, often word for word haha. That's how these claims spread

Elton has surpassed 10M in streaming EAS. Of the current top 50 best selling artists, he is the 14th best in streaming.

A lot of these artists are from the streaming era though (Drake, BTS...etc) so I wouldn't compare their streams with Elton's.

Top 10 pre-2000s acts :

Queen - 21.6m
The Beatles - 16m
Michael Jackson - 14.4m
Metallica - 11.9m
AC/DC - 10.2m
Elton John - 10m
Bob Marley - 9.1m
Guns N' Roses - 8.8m
Nirvana - 8.6m
Pink Floyd - 8.3m

Not including Mariah Carey (8.8m) and 2Pac (8.4m) because they had a lot of success with their 21st century music.