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. Mark Rivera – percussion, backing vocals.Russell Javors – rhythm electric guitar.Billy Joel – Baldwin SF-10 acoustic piano, lead and background vocals.Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. It has sold over 1.06 million copies as of 2017. The song was the 19th biggest-selling single of the 1980s in the United Kingdom, selling 975,000 copies. It was the second biggest-selling single of 1983 in the United Kingdom behind only Culture Club's " Karma Chameleon", which Joel had knocked off the number-one position on November 1, 1983. 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. 1.Christie Brinkley appears as the main character of the video and later married Joel. For now though, kick back, relax, and enjoy. It's tough to decide which one version is best, almost as tough as figuring out which supermodel the song was written about, so I'll leave that part up to you. So bust out some cotton swabs and clean out your ears because you're going to want to hear every note of these angelic renditions as I bestow upon you the best instances of "Uptown Girl" appearing in pop culture over the years. The song is a pop culture staple (and deservedly so, as it's like money and chocolate delivered straight to your soul), and has maintained its popularity by showing up all over screens across the decades.
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But this is hardly the first time "Uptown Girl" has been featured in a TV show or movie. As I'm sure you're aware, "Uptown Girl" is a 1983 hit recorded by living-God Billy Joel, and is widely considered to be one of the greatest songs of all time (by me and Christie Brinkley, anyway).
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One of the greatest things about Amy Schumer's new movie Trainwreck, besides its use of the surprising comedic talents of Lebron James and the simple fact that it allows everyone to see Schumer for two hours outside of her TV show, is that Trainwreck features the song "Uptown Girl" prominently throughout the film.