Clean Bandit’s Rather Be hits 1 million UK sales!

Rather Be by Clean Bandit has now sold over a million copies in the UK, the Official Charts Company can confirm.

The track, which also features the vocals of north London singer/songwriter Jess Glynne, has become one of the UK’s biggest selling singles of all time.

Rather Be is only the 149th track to reach this sales milestone since the Official Singles Chart began in November, 1952, and now sits alongside the likes of Sir Elton John’s Candle In The Wind ‘97, Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody and The Beatles’ She Loves You in the Million Sellers Club.

Rather Be is the seventh track to cross over the million copies sales threshold this year, but only the first track released in 2014 to do so.

“One million is such a mental, massive number!”

“It’s just so hard to believe!” Clean Bandit’s Neil Amin-Smith tells OfficialCharts.com. “It’s amazing to be mentioned in the same breath as people like Elton John, The Beatles and Queen. One million is such a mental, massive number.”

“There’s no way we could have predicted what’s happened,” he adds. “A year ago we were having a great time doing what we were doing, but we were a million miles away from these kinds of numbers. It’s just crazy to think that Rather Be has performed like it has.

“Thank you all so much! People can’t even begin to imagine how amazing it feels for us when we can play the song and everyone sings it back at us. And I can’t quite believe that there are people still buying it now, it’s insane to imagine, but thanks to them too, the latecomers!”

“It’s insane to imagine there are people still buying it now!”

Released at the end of January, Rather Be spent four consecutive weeks at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart. It also became the fastest-selling single of 2014 so far, shifting an incredible 163,000 copies during its first week of sale. At the time of writing, Rather Be has spent 25 weeks in the Top 40.

As well as being a million seller, Rather Be is also the most streamed track of 2014 so far, too. To date, it has been played over 26 million times on audio streaming services such as Spotify, Deezer, Napster and O2 Tracks.

You can see the full list of all of the UK’s 149 million selling singles below:

The UK's Official Biggest Selling Singles Of All-Time

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