Oasis dominate BBC’s biggest selling Britpop tracks of 1990s countdown


Liam Gallagher live with Oasis in New York (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever Media)

Liam Gallagher live with Oasis in New York (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever Media)




It’ll come as no great surprise that yesterday’s bank holiday countdown of the UK’s biggest selling Britpop track of the 1990s which was aired on the BBC culminated with Oasis‘ Wonderwall at number one.

Despite never reaching the summit of the UK singles chart, Wonderwall’s release in 1995 propelled the Gallagher brothers and their second album (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? to worldwide fame, racking up sales of well over one million in the UK alone along the way.

Oasis dominated the Top 10, three singles which did reach number one in the UK – Don’t Look Back In Anger, D’You Know What I Mean? and Some Might Say – all in there along with Roll With It and Whatever.

Breaking the Oasis run briefly are Bitter Sweet Symphony and The Drugs Don’t Work from The Verve’s own nineties blockbuster Urban Hymns (if anything an antidote to Britpop rather than part of it), while Cornershop’s Brimful Of Asha and Blur’s Britpop chart battle victor Country House complete the Top 10.

“This chart has taken me back to the glory days of the Evening Session and a time when Britpop ruled the Airwaves,” Jo Whiley has said. “Wonderwall has always been a special song to many people so I’m not surprised it’s at Number 1 – it’s an enormous anthem. The whole chart has brought back so many memories of brilliant songs and bands from a very special time in British pop music.”

UK’s biggest selling 90s Britpop tracks, Top 10:

1/ Oasis – Wonderwall
2/ Oasis – Don’t Look Back In Anger
3/ The Verve – Bitter Sweet Symphony
4/ Oasis – D’You Know What I Mean?
5/ Cornershop – Brimful Of Asha
6/ The Drugs Don’t Work
7/ Oasis – Whatever
8/ Blur – Country House
9/ Oasis – Roll With It
10/ Oasis – Some Might Say


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