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.
It also reached number one in the United Kingdom for five weeks, his only number-one hit in the country. "Uptown Girl" peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100 for five consecutive weeks from November 12 to December 10, 1983. At the end of the video Joel and Brinkley ride off on a motorcycle.
A poster of Brinkley can be seen in the garage as well as on a billboard above the garage advertising "Uptown cosmetics". Brinkley arrives in a chauffeured Rolls-Royce as Joel and the mechanics dance with her. The video depicts Joel and his backup singers working as auto mechanics. "I remember thinking, 'Don’t drop the future Queen of England,'" he recalled.Christie Brinkley appears as the main character of the video and later married Joel. See the snaps and some of some of the moves recreated by Sleep in the CBS clip below.Īt one point, Sleep even carried Diana across the stage. While sadly no video exists of this undoubtedly memorable performance, several photos do. (She was certainly living in an "uptown world," no?) The lyrics present an especially interesting parallel to Diana's royal troubles and affairs.
"Uptown Girl" had reached number one in the United Kingdom in 1983 and staying atop the charts for five whole weeks, making it second biggest-selling single of the year. Sleep came up with the moves - including bits of jazz, ballet and even a kickline - but the music choice came from the princess. (At 5 feet and 11 inches, Diana towered over the 5-foot, 2-inch ballet dancer.) "But I soon realised she had a good sense of humour, and that we could have some fun with our height difference." "My first thought was, she’s too tall to dance with me," Sleep said in The Guardian.
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Photo credit: Princess Diana Archive - Getty Images
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