From Planet Rock.
Already the best-selling album of all time in the UK, Queen’s blockbuster 1981 compilation album ‘Greatest Hits’ has achieved another momentous chart milestone this week.
The album has now spent more than 900 weeks inside the Official Albums Chart Top 100 and is only the third album in history to do so. Currently standing at 901 weeks, that equates to over 17 years on the chart.
‘Greatest Hits’ appropriately achieved the chart milestone 50 years after Queen’s first gig (still known as Smile at the time) at the City Hall in Truro, Cornwall.
Bob Marley & The Wailers’ 1984 hits album ‘Legend’ has spent 933 weeks on the chart, while ABBA’s 1992 best-of, ‘Gold: Greatest Hits’, is the currently the longest runner at 944 weeks.
Featuring songs including ‘Killer Queen’, ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, ‘We Are The Champions’ and ‘We Will Rock You’, Queen’s ‘Greatest Hits’ initially peaked at no.2 on the UK album chart before rising to no.1 where it remained for four weeks.
Since its release October 1981, Queen’s ‘Greatest Hits’ has sold more than 6.3 million copies in the UK and an estimated 25 million units worldwide, including 8 million in the US.
It’s the best-selling album ever in the UK ahead of ABBA’s ‘Greatest Hits’ and The Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.’
Sales of the record have been boosted in recent years thanks to the all-conquering success of the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, which was released in October 2018.
Last month, the Royal Mail announced it was celebrating the 50th anniversary of Queen by launching a very special series of 13 Queen stamps in their honour.
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- Queen - Sheer Heart Attack - 1st - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £30.00, $37.80, €36.30 (New Item) (arrived 22-Feb-2025 10:01)on February 22, 2025 at 1:42 pm
QUEEN Sheer Heart Attack (1974 UK first issue 13-track LP, their marvellous third studio album including Stone Cold Crazy, Now I'm Here, Killer Queen & Brighton Rock. Comes housed in the original fully laminated picture sleeve complete with the angle cut lyric inner. The sleeve is Excellent with some light shelf wear/laminate lift & a couple of seam splits to the inner whilst the vinyl is clean & in Excellent condition with a few minor signs of play EMC3061)
- Queen - Breakthru - Solid - UK - 7" vinyl - £15.00, $18.90, €18.15 (New Item) (arrived 20-Feb-2025 09:27)on February 22, 2025 at 1:42 pm
QUEEN Breakthru (1989 UK solid centre 7" vinyl single with paper labels, also includes Stealin', housed in a glossy flipback style card picture sleeve. The sleeve displays notable wear to the top, whilst the vinyl shows just light signs of play QUEEN11)
- Queen - Killer Queen - Original - Japanese - 7" vinyl - £35.00, $44.10, €42.35 (New Item) (arrived 14-Feb-2025 17:00)on February 22, 2025 at 1:42 pm
QUEEN Killer Queen (1976 Japanese 7" vinyl single, also including Flick Of The Wrist, with a unique picture insert featuring the group photograph from the 'Sheer Heart Attack' album cover, printed with Japanese biography and English lyrics onthe reverse. The insert displays minimal wear and the vinyl shows little signs of play P-1357E)
- Queen - Another One Bites The Dust - SP - US - 7" vinyl - £20.00, $25.20, €24.20 (New Item) (arrived 17-Feb-2025 13:18)on February 22, 2025 at 1:42 pm
QUEEN Another One Bites The Dust (1980 US wide centred 7" vinyl single, on the red Elektra label clearly printed with 'SP' below the catalogue number to show this was pressed by Specialty Records Corporation. Also including Don't Try Suicide,housed in an Elektra/Asylum company die-cut paper sleeve with a split to the bottom edge The vinyl remains Excellent with only a few light scuffs to show play E-47031)
- Queen - Another One Bites The Dust - SP - US - 7" vinyl - £20.00, $25.20, €24.20 (Back In Stock) (arrived 18-Feb-2025 17:00)on February 22, 2025 at 1:42 pm
QUEEN Another One Bites The Dust (1980 US wide centred 7" vinyl single, on the red Elektra label clearly printed with 'SP' below the catalogue number to show this was pressed by Specialty Records Corporation. Also including Don't Try Suicide,housed in an Elektra/Asylum company die-cut paper sleeve with a split to the bottom edge The vinyl remains Excellent with only a few light scuffs to show play E-47031)
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