Even the Teletubbies make an appearance with 1.11m copies of Teletubbies Say "Eh-Oh!" sold in the UK.Īppearing six times on the list, The Beatles boast by far the highest amount of singles on the UK million-selling singles chart. The list of 123 singles includes million-selling singles from artists such as Queen, The Beatles, Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Adele. The records are ranked by sales in the first-ever authoritative chart of the UK's million-selling singles. Lennon and McCartney's 1964 hit is in turn just ahead of I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston, followed by Baddiel and Skinner and the Lightning Seed's Three Lions and then Ken Dodd's Tears. It is a chart in which Don't You Want Me? by the Human League sits just outside the Top 20 but immediately above the Beatles' Can't Buy Me Love. The Official Charts Company has ranked the top UK million-selling singles to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the singles chart, with some interesting results. Do They Know It's Christmas? by Band Aid released in 1984 is in second place with 3.69m singles bought in the UK. Released after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997, the song is at the top of the UK million-sellers chart with 4.9m copies sold. from sugar beets, which represents more than 54% of domestic sugar production in the U.S.The most authoritative chart ever of the UK's million-selling singles, released on Monday, shows Elton John ranked highest for sales for his double A-side Something About The Way You Look Tonight/ Candle in the Wind. ![]() More than 4.5 million tons of sugar are produced each year in the U.S. Today, sugar beets are grown in 52 countries. Three years later, there were more than 90 sugar beet factories operating in 18 states.Īs of 2017, there were 20 operating sugar beet factories in nine states processing 35 million tons of sugar beets grown on more than 1 million acres. ![]() By 1914, the United States rivaled Europe in sugar beet production. It wasn’t until 1870 that the first successful sugar beet factory was built in the United States in Alvarado, California. In the middle of the 19 th century an attempt was made to cultivate sugar beets in Utah but that was not successful either. Sugar beets made their way to New England in 1836 but failed to take root. By 1850, the sugar beet industry was well established in Europe. This prompted the development of beet sugar’s commercial viability. ![]() Sugar Beets Take Rootĭuring the Napoleonic Wars 35 years later, the English blockade of continental Europe cut off cane sugar supplies from the West Indies. The sugar content of those first factory beets was 6%, compared to modern beets’ 15% to 20% sucrose. In 1801, he opened the world’s first sugar beet factory in what is now Poland. Marggraf’s apprentice, Franz Karl Achard, began selectively breeding sugar beets in 1784. In 1747, three decades before the American colonies declared their independence, German chemist Andreas Marggraf discovered that sugar beet roots contained sucrose, the same sugar as that of sugar cane. The modern sugar beet’s roots are buried deep in history, politics and geography. Did you know that sugar is one of the world’s oldest documented commodities? While the first indications of sugar cane’s domestication were around 8,000 BCE, extracting real sugar from beets is a more recent discovery.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |