Rounding out the year-end Top 5 is club anthem No Limit by Dutch Eurodance band 2 Unlimited (532k) at 4, and the uplifting debut single from British singer-songwriter Gabrielle, Dreams, at 5 (513k).Įlsewhere, the 1993 Christmas Number 1, Mr Blobby (the first ever eponymously titled Number 1), notched up 512,000 sales to place sixth overall that year, and Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You - the best-selling single of 1992 - continued to perform well the following year, finishing 10th with another 395,000 sales in 1993.įurther down, The Bluebells' 1984 single Young At Heart ranks 12th following a re-release thanks its use in a Volkswagen TV advert, which saw it top the chart in March. The track was the group's global breakthrough (Wheel Of Fortune was a hit in their homeland the previous year), and logged three weeks at the summit in May-June. Swedish group Ace Of Base scored the third best-seller of 1993 with All That She Wants (604k). In second place is UB40's (I Can't Help) Falling In Love With You, a reggae take on the Elvis classic that spent two weeks at the top in June and earned the band their third UK chart-topper, shifting 606,000 copies that year. Earlier this year, Meat Loaf collaborator Jim Steinman, who produced the song and its parent album, died aged 73 after a long illness. View Meat Loaf's Official Chart history in full here. served as the first single from Meat Loaf's Bat Out Of Hell II: Back Into Hell album, which was also the UK's top selling record of 1993. The singer's power ballad was a true phenomenon, topping the charts in 28 countries, including the UK's Official Chart, where it spent seven weeks at Number 1 and sold 723,000 copies that year, according to Official Charts Company data. 1993 saw Meat Loaf conquer the world with his single I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That), which became the UK's best-selling single of 1993.
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