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David Bowie's biggest-selling downloads revealed

12 March 2013, 18:23 | Written by Luke Morgan Britton
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The top 40 downloads by David Bowie have been revealed in a special countdown by the Official UK Chart company.

While there are the obvious ones ranking high, ‘Life On Mars’ taking top spot and ‘Heroes’ and ‘Under Pressure’ completing the top three, there’s also some surprises.

‘Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy’, Bowie’s duet with Bing Crosby nearly makes it into the Top 10, while comeback track ‘Where Are We Now’ is already among his ten most downloaded tracks of all time.

Check out the full list below. It’s like if the charts just consisted of Bowie, oh what a place to live in.

1. Life On Mars
2. Under Pressure (with Queen)
3. Heroes
4. Let’s Dance
5. Space Oddity
6. Starman
7. Ashes To Ashes
8. Changes
9. Where Are We Now
10. Rebel Rebel
11. Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy (with Bing Crosby)
12. The Jean Genie
13. Modern Love
14. China Girl
15. Ziggy Stardust
16. All The Young Dudes
17. Dancing In The Street (with Mick Jagger)
18. Magic Dance E.p.
19. Golden Years
20. Sound And Vision Remix Ep
21. The Man Who Sold The World
22. Young Americans
23. Absolute Beginners
24. Suffragette City
25. Oh You Pretty Things
26. Sorrow
27. Queen Bitch
28. Life On Mars/wake Up/five Years (with Arcade Fire)
29. The Laughing Gnome
30. Cat People (putting Out Fire)
31. Fashion
32. Fame ’90 E.P.
33. As The World Falls Down
34. John I’m Only Dancing
35. Wild Is The Wind
36. Five Years
37. Rock N Roll Suicide
38. Kooks
39. Moonage Daydream
40. Drive In Saturday

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