ATTENZIONE:la query non gestirà record duplicati con il massimo COUNT
SELECT commodity, COUNT(commodity) `count`
FROM orders
GROUP BY commodity
ORDER BY `count` DESC
LIMIT 1
Ma questo sarà,
SELECT commodity, COUNT(commodity) `count`
FROM orders
GROUP BY commodity
HAVING COUNT(commodity) =
(
SELECT MAX(`COUNT`)
FROM
(
SELECT COUNT(commodity) `count`
FROM orders
GROUP BY commodity
) s
)