The Band-Aid Christmas

The Band-Aid single remains one of the two best-selling singles in UK chart history, topped only by Elton John's Princess Diana tribute Candle in the Wind 1997. In America, while not nearly as big a hit on our Hot 100, do they know its Christmas managed to nearly equal its UK sales, racking up 2.5 million stateside by 1985? Of course, we Americans like a challenge. No country out spectacles us and gets away with it. We Are the World was co-written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, a pair of Motown nurtured pop gods who were each at the apex of their respective imperial periods.