I know this comment's a few months old, but Something About The Way You Look Tonight didn't chart #1 because it was Elton John's best or even most-popular song. It charted because it was a double-A side with "Candle In the Wind 1997", and after Princess Diana's death, that single sold EVERYWHERE. As a 7-year-old, I begged my mother to buy it from a pharmacy check-out line (which she did) because I was devastated about the idea of this princess dying, and wanted to have it.stopnswop2 wrote: ↑Sat May 28, 2022 7:40 pm And we need to get some modern Elton John on there.
"Something About The Way You Look Tonight" from 1997 is the highest selling single of all time in both the US and UK.
Depending on how you count sales pre-Billboard, Candle 1997/SITWYLT are either the highest-selling single(s) in history, or second behind Bing Crosby's "White Christmas". But according to this forum post I found, Something in the Way You Look Tonight was only #39 in Billboard's 1998 Year-End Airplay Chart (and was #95 in 1997). That would seem to indicate that the song, although one I personally enjoy, is not one that had as much of a long-lasting effect as its physical sales would indicate. Maybe a good fit for WOMC's playlist, but it's not like it's a major oversight to leave it off, either.