{"id":2532,"date":"2012-08-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xixentertainment.com\/press\/2012\/08\/05\/will-youngs-evergreen-is-best-selling-single-of-21st-century\/"},"modified":"2019-01-25T20:28:31","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T20:28:31","slug":"will-youngs-evergreen-is-best-selling-single-of-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xixentertainment.com\/press\/2012\/08\/05\/will-youngs-evergreen-is-best-selling-single-of-21st-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Young&#8217;s &#8216;Evergreen&#8217; is best-selling single of 21st century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"More Will Young articles\" href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalspy.co.uk\/celebrities\/will-young\/\">Will Young<\/a>&#8216;s debut single &#8216;Evergreen&#8217; has today been confirmed as the UK&#8217;s best-selling single of the 21st century. The singer&#8217;s double A-side single &#8216;Evergreen&#8217; and &#8216;Anything Is Possible&#8217; was released in February, 2002, and went on to sell over 1.8 million copies in the UK, reports the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/chart-news\/the-official-top-150-biggest-selling-singles-of-the-21st-century-revealed-1382\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Official Charts Company<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the news, Will Young <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/will_young31\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a>: &#8220;Ten years ago I won <em>Pop Idol<\/em>. Since then I have still not achieved my dream of a Tupperware range. Life can be cruel&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Young managed to fend off competition from Adele&#8217;s 2011 hit &#8216;Someone Like You&#8217;, which landed at two with sales of 1.35m. Gareth Gates is at three with &#8216;Unchained Melody&#8217;, which shifted 1.34m units.<\/p>\n<p>Will Young is managed by Simon Fuller at XIX Entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Young&#8216;s debut single &#8216;Evergreen&#8217; has today been confirmed as the UK&#8217;s best-selling single of the 21st century. The singer&#8217;s double A-side single &#8216;Evergreen&#8217; and &#8216;Anything Is Possible&#8217; was released in February, 2002, and went&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-2532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-will-young","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xixentertainment.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xixentertainment.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xixentertainment.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xixentertainment.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xixentertainment.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xixentertainment.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3837,"href":"https:\/\/www.xixentertainment.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532\/revisions\/3837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xixentertainment.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xixentertainment.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xixentertainment.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xixentertainment.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}