Name ________________ Date _________ The top 10 best-selling digital singles in the world … ever! Sales Ranking Artist Single Released (millions) 1 The Black Eyed Peas "I Gotta Feeling" 2009 15 2 Adele ”Rolling in the Deep” 2010 14 3 The Black Eyed Peas ”Boom Boom Pow” 2009 11 4 Bruno Mars "Just the Way You Are" 2010 13 5 Bruno Mars "Grenade" 2010 10 6 Carly Rae Jepsen "Call Me Maybe" 2011 14 7 Eminem featuring Rihanna ”Love the Way You Lie” 2010 13 8 Flo Rida featuring T-Pain "Low" 2007 12 9 Gotye featuring Kimbra "Somebody That I Used to Know" 2011 13 10 Jason Mraz "I'm Yours" 2008 12 TASK: Make a pie chart to show the ‘Top 7’ digital single sales of all-time 1. Work out your total number of sales for the 7 singles and write in the total in the table 2. Show here your calculation for how many ‘degrees per part’. ___________________________________________________________ 3. Multiply the ‘part’ by each single’s number of sales and write it in the ‘angle’ column 4. Check your angles add up to 360 degrees Single Sales (millions) Angle (º) “I Gotta Feeling” ”Rolling in the Deep” ”Boom Boom Pow” "Just the Way You Are" "Grenade" "Call Me Maybe" ”Love the Way You Lie” Total Feb 2014. Kindly contributed by Martyn Staines, Newbury, Berkshire who adapted it from a resource from Janet Wilkins (Skillsworkshop, 2008). Page 1 of 2 Search for Martyn and Janet on www.skillsworkshop.org Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best‐selling_singles#Best‐selling_digital_singles L2 Functional Maths / Adult Numeracy. For related resources and full curriculum links visit the download page for this resource at skillsworkshop Name ________________ Date _________ Answers TASK: Make a pie chart to show the ‘Top 7’ digital single sales of all-time 360º divided by 90 = 4 º Single Sales (millions) Angle ( º) “I Gotta Feeling” 15 15 x 4= 60 º ”Rolling in the Deep” 14 14 x 4 =56 º ”Boom Boom Pow” 11 11 x4 = 44 º "Just the Way You Are" 13 13 x 4 =52 º "Grenade" 10 10 x 4 = 40 º "Call Me Maybe" 14 14x 4= 56 º ”Love the Way You Lie” 13 13x 4= 52 º Total 90 milllion 360 º The Top 7 best‐selling digital singles…ever!! THE TOP 7 BEST‐SELLING DIGITAL SINGLES..… (percentages of singles sold) ”Love the Way You Lie” “I Gotta Feeling” “I Gotta Feeling” ”Rolling in the Deep” "Call Me Maybe" 14% 17% ”Rolling in the ”Boom Boom Pow” Deep” 16% 16% "Just the Way You Are" "Grenade" 11% 12% 14% "Call Me Maybe" "Grenade" ”Boom Boom Pow” ”Love the Way You Lie” "Just the Way You Are" Feb 2014. Kindly contributed by Martyn Staines, Newbury, Berkshire who adapted it from a resource from Janet Wilkins (Skillsworkshop, 2008). Search for Martyn and Janet on www.skillsworkshop.org Page 2 of 2 Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best‐selling_singles#Best‐selling_digital_singles L2 Functional Maths / Adult Numeracy. For related resources and full curriculum links visit the download page for this resource at skillsworkshop .