"Wind of Change" - Scorpions

"Wind of Change" is a song recorded by the West German rock band Scorpions for their eleventh studio album, Crazy World (1990). Klaus Meine, the band's lead singer, composed and wrote the power ballad, which was produced by Keith Olsen and the band. Meine wrote the lyrics after the band visited the Soviet Union during the height of perestroika when the enmity between the communist and capitalist blocs subsided concurrently with the implementation of large-scale socioeconomic reforms in the Soviet Union.

"Wind of Change" is one of the best-selling singles of all time, with an estimated 14 million copies sold worldwide. It is the best-selling single ever by a German artist. In 1991, the band presented Mikhail Gorbachev with a gold record and $70,000 in royalties from the single, with Soviet news outlets reporting that the money would be donated to children's hospitals.

Sales: 15 million copies