* Sales figures based on certification alone. "Angel's Wings" (Original Version) – 4:02ĭecade-end charts Chart (2000–2009)."Behind the Scenes Footage & Band Messages"."Uptown Girl" (Extended Version) – 5:02.It is also their second most streamed song in the United Kingdom of all-time. As of January 2019, it has 920,000 total sales. By March 2017, the song had sold almost 800,000 copies in the country from physical and digital copies which make up 81% of the total units. In Mexico, the song was the fourth best selling single of 2001. It has since been certified Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry for shipments of 600,000 copies. It became the band's biggest selling single (paid-for and combined sales categories) in the UK and also achieved the highest first week sales (292,318 copies) of any of their singles. In the United Kingdom, it was the sixth best selling single of 2001 and the 24th best-selling single of the decade in the UK charts, with sales of 756,215 copies. It became the biggest selling single of 2001 and the tenth best-selling single of all-time in Ireland. "Uptown Girl" reached number one in Ireland, Mexico and the United Kingdom. The music video was a parody of the Billy Joel one, with the members of Westlife playing workers in a burger bar, Robert Bathurst, Crispin Bonham-Carter, Ioan Gruffudd, Tim McInnerny and James Wilby play the snobby uptown customers and Claudia Schiffer is in the Christie Brinkley role. The Westlife version is slightly shorter than the Billy Joel version because one of the verses was not repeated. The song was also released as the fifth single for the European Special Edition and Asian Deluxe Edition Bonus Disc of the group's second album, Coast to Coast (2000).
It was also the 2001 Comic Relief charity single. It was released on March 5, 2001, as the first single from the album. " Uptown Girl" (rereleased as double A-side with " Angels Wings" in 2002) was recorded by Irish boy band Westlife for their third studio album, World of Our Own. Westlife international singles chronology " Queen of My Heart" / " When You're Looking Like That" Olivia Rodrigo mentioned the song and Joel in her hit single " deja vu", which became a Top 3 U.S.
The King’s Singers and others have developed several vocal harmony arrangements of the song, which are often performed by high school and college choirs.Christie Brinkley appears as the main character of the video and later married Joel. It has been covered by many subsequent artists (see "Cover Versions" below). The official video is from a live performance in front of a concert audience. On the 1989 album version, Joel sings and plays all the instrumentation (piano and synthesizers). In the original demo version of "And So It Goes," Joel sings the melody simply, accompanied by a simple piano backdrop, in a style very reminiscent of a hymn. The song was inspired by the Scottish ballad Barbara Allen, and is unique for Joel as it is written in iambic tetrameter. Joel dated Macpherson for a brief time shortly before becoming involved with model Christie Brinkley, who would ultimately become his second wife. Their relationship was dramatic, as Macpherson was only a teenager while Joel was reaching his mid-30s. Joel wrote the song about a doomed relationship with model Elle Macpherson. The original 1983 demo was released on the 2005 box set My Lives. It appeared as the tenth and final track of his 1989 studio album Storm Front. " And So It Goes" is a song written by Billy Joel in 1983, though it was not released until six years later.
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