page_title: List of best-selling singles of the 2000s (decade) in the United Kingdom
section_title: Chart
hierarchical_section_title: List of best-selling singles of the 2000s (decade) in the United Kingdom / Chart
caption_attribution_description: English: Rage Against The Machine End of set, before leaving stage Vegoose Music Festival
context_page_description: The UK Singles Chart is a music chart compiled by the Official Charts Company that calculates the best-selling singles of the week in the United Kingdom. Since 2005, the chart has been based on the sales of both physical and digital singles, originally on the condition that the single was available in both formats. In 2007, the rules were changed so that legal downloads of all songs, irrespective of whether a physical copy was available, were eligible to chart.
  Between 2000 and 2009, ten singles that reached the top of the singles chart sold more than 1 million copies in the United Kingdom. At the end of the decade, a retrospective chart was compiled by the Official Charts Company to determine the best-selling single of this ten-year period. The title was won by Will Young, the winner of the televised talent competition Pop Idol in 2001, with his double A-side single "Evergreen"/"Anything Is Possible", released in 2002. The single sold just under 1.8 million copies and saw Young finish ahead of fellow Pop Idol finalist Gareth Gates, whose debut single "Unchained Melody" sold 1.34 million copies.
context_section_description: These are the top 40 biggest-selling songs of the 2000s, according to the Official Charts Company.
  "Killing in the Name" was originally released in 1993 but it reached the Christmas number-one position in the United Kingdom in 2009.
caption: Rage Against the Machine's song "Killing in the Name" – originally released in 1993 – was the Christmas number-one in 2009 and also became the 35th best-seller of the decade.
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