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Elton John: Singles Discography

Date Song US HP CA UK AC CW RB AR MR AA sales air album(s)
8/15/1970 Border Song 92 G1,G5^^
11/28/1970 Your Song 8 7 9 7.0 G1,G4,G5,G6
12/18/1971 Levon 24 1.0 G2,G5^^^
3/4/1972 Tiny Dancer 41 35 1.5 2.0 G2**,G5,G6
4/22/1972 Rocket Man 6 2 39 3.0 G1,G4,G5,G6
8/12/1972 Honky Cat 8 31 6 2.0 G1,G4,G5
11/4/1972 Crocodile Rock 13 5 11 2.0 3.0 G1,G4,G5,G6
1/20/1973 Daniel 2 4 12 1.0 6.0 G1,G4,G5,G6
7/7/1973 Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting 12 7 2.0 G1,G4,G5,G6
9/29/1973 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 2 6 7 2.0 4.0 G1,G4,G5,G6
2/16/1974 Bennie and the Jets 11 37 15 2.0 3.0 G1,G4,G5,G6
3/2/1974 Candle in the Wind 6 5 2 4.0 G1,G4,G5,G6
6/1/1974 Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me 2 16 3 1.0 5.0 G1,G4,G5
9/7/1974 The Bitch Is Back 4 15 1.0 G2,G4,G5
11/23/1974 Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds 12 10 1.0 2.0 G2,G4,G5^^,G6
3/8/1975 Philadelphia Freedom 12 12 32 2.0 G2,G4,G5,G6
6/28/1975 Someone Saved My Life Tonight 4 22 1.0 G2*,G4,G5
10/4/1975 Island Girl 13 14 27 2.0 G2,G5,G6
1/24/1976 Grow Some Funk of Your Own 14 G2
1/24/1976 I Feel Like a Bullet in the Gun of Robert Ford 21 G2**
3/20/76 Pinball Wizard 7 G2,G4,G5^^,G6
7/3/1976 Don’t Go Breaking My Heart (with Kiki Dee) 14 16 11 1.0 G2*,G3**,G4,G5,G6
11/13/1976 Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word 6 11 11 1.0 2.0 G2*,G3**,G4,G5
10/21/1978 Part-Time Love 22 15 40 G4
12/16/1978 Song for Guy 4 37 G4
6/9/1979 Mama Can’t Buy You Love 9 11 36 1.0 1.0 G3
5/3/1980 Little Jeannie 3 33 12 1.0 G3,G5^
3/20/1982 Empty Garden 13 51 18 G3
3/27/1982 Blue Eyes 12 8 12 G3,G4
4/30/1983 I Guess That’s Why They Call It the Blues 4 5 2 22 4.0 G3,G4,G5
5/7/1983 I’m Still Standing 12 4 28 34 G3,G4,G5
5/23/1983
(album cut)		 Too Low for Zero G3
8/6/1983 Kiss the Bride 25 20 G3,G4
5/26/1984 Sad Songs Say So Much 5 7 2 24 G3,G4,G5
8/11/1984 Passengers 5 G4
9/8/1984 Who Wears These Shoes? 16 50 11 18 G3**
10/12/1985 Nikita 7 3 3 G3,G4,G5
10/26/1985 Wrap Her Up 20 12 G3
10/4/1986 Heartache All Over the World 55 45 G3*
6/4/88 I Don’t Wanna Go on with You Like That 2 30 11 13 G4,G5^^^
11/18/1989 Sacrifice 18 15 3 G4,G5,G6
10/20/1990 You Gotta Love Someone 43 33 15 G4
12/15/1990 Easier to Walk Away 63 G4
12/7/1991 Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me (live with George Michael) 11 12 12 0.5 G5^^,G6
6/6/1992 The One 9 10 16 G5
11/20/1993 True Love (with Kiki Dee) 56 2 G5^^
5/21/1994 Can You Feel the Love Tonight 4 14 18 0.5 1.0 G5,G6
8/27/1994 Circle of Life 18 11 2 2.0 G5
3/4/1995 Believe 13 15 12 G5
10/21/1995 Blessed 34 2.0 G5^
10/11/1997 Something about the Way You Look Tonight 110 2.0 G5
1/16/1999 Written in the Stars (with LeAnn Rimes) 29 10 2 0.5 G5
9/8/2001 I Want Love 9 6 G5
1/26/2002 This Train Don’t Stop There Anymore 24 10 G5
7/27/2002 Your Song (with Alessandro Safina) 4 G5^^
12/21/2002 Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word (with Blue) 11 G6

Album codes are for the following compilations:

G1 Greatest Hits (1970-74)
G2 Greatest Hits Volume II (1971-77)
G3 Greatest Hits 1976-1986 (1976-86)
G3 Greatest Hits Volume III (1979-87)
G4 The Very Best of (1970-90)
G5 Greatest Hits 1970-2002 (1970-2002)
G6 Rocket Man: The Definitive Hits (1970-2007)

Additional Notes:

* omitted from reissue
** added to reissue
^ not on 2-disc European version
^^ added to a third disc included with European version
^^^ on original U.S. release and on third disc of European version

Also, it is not an error that Greatest Hits Volume III and Greatest Hits 1976-1986 have the same code. They have roughly the same track listing (except as noted by asterisks).

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Last updated February 1, 2011.