1986 in British music cover of the disco song "Don't Leave Me This Way". The band included singer Jimmy Somerville who had previously enjoyed success with Bronski Beat, and later started a solo career. The Christmas number one single was something of a surprise, a re-issue of Jackie Wilson's 1957 single "Reet Petite". Wilson had died in 1984, but the song been re-issued after being used in a television advert for Levi's, with a new video made of a Claymation version of Wilson. Having first been released 29 years earlier, it broke the record for the longest time between a single being released and
In for the Kill (song) the week ending 28 March 2009. Four weeks after its debut, the song peaked at number two with 51,724 copies sold. The single spent four consecutive weeks atop the UK chart, before falling to number three with sales of 44,310 copies. In January 2011, "In for the Kill" was named the eleventh best-selling download in the United Kingdom of all time. The song had sold 875,523 copies in the UK as of July 2014. In Ireland, the track debuted at number 47 on 16 April 2009 and peaked at number 13, four weeks later. "In for the Kill" was less