shirley bassey is the biggest selling british female artist of all time.
shirley bassey is the biggest selling british female artist of all time.
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by 1967 shaw's record sales were declining and her manager decided on more of a cabaret appeal. she was invited by the bbc to represent the uk in that year's eurovision song contest in vienna. she had reservations as she felt it would destroy her credibility, but performed five songs on "the rolf harris show", with the public voting that the one that should represent the country was the bill martin/phil coulter composition "puppet on a string". although she disliked the song and thought it was unrepresentative of her material, the song won the contest by a near-record margin of votes, and made shaw the first person to win the contest for the uk. it gave her a third uk no. 1 single, a record for a female at the time. "puppet on a string" also became an international hit (though not in the us) and the largest-selling single of the year in germany, qualifying for a gold disc for one million plus sales in the uk and europe. globally, the single achieved sales in excess of 4 million, making it the biggest selling winning eurovision track to date. some estimates suggest this makes the track the biggest selling single by a british female artist of all time. her eurovision success almost did not happen; the bbc wanted to drop her because she had been the "other woman" in a divorce case.
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