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 - The Game - 1st - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £20.00, $26.20, €23.00 (New Item) (arrived 10-Apr-2025 16:00)on April 14, 2025 at 5:59 am
QUEEN The Game (1980 UK first press 10-track LP, including the hit singles Another One Bites The & Dust Crazy Little Thing Called Love, complete with illustrated lyric inner, silver metallicised picture sleeve. The sleeve shows some signs of wearwith a small tear to the opening edge, whilst the vinyl is Excellent with minor signs of play. This is a difficult sleeve to photograph/scan & always looks much worse in the images than it actually is, so don't panic! EMA795)
- Queen - A Night At The Opera - 1st - VG - UK - vinyl LP - £50.00, $65.50, €57.50 (New Item) (arrived 01-Apr-2025 09:58)on April 14, 2025 at 5:59 am
QUEEN A Night At The Opera (Classic 1975 UK first press 12-track LP with picture labels & 'BLAIRS' etched into the run-off area, their fourth studio album including the classic hit Bohemian Rhapsody, embossed gatefold picture sleeve with picture inner. The sleeve shows some obvious discolouring and a split to the bottom of the inner with tape repair to edges, whilst the vinyl shows a few light signs of wear EMTC103) #Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time
- Queen - Radio Ga Ga - Solid - UK - 7" vinyl - £10.00, $13.10, €11.50 (New Item) (arrived 26-Mar-2025 17:00)on April 14, 2025 at 5:59 am
QUEEN Radio Ga Ga (1984 UK solid centre 7" vinyl single, also including I Go Crazy, housed in a paper picture sleeve QUEEN1)
- Queen - The Platinum Collection - Coloured Vinyl 6-LP Set - Sealed - UK - vinyl box set - £249.99, $327.49, €287.49 (New Item) (arrived 27-Mar-2025 10:37)on April 14, 2025 at 5:59 am
QUEEN The Platinum Collection (2022 UK/EU limited edition Deluxe Box Set featuring 51-tracks on all three of their Greatest Hits double albums presented across 6 x 180-gram coloured LPs pressed at Optimal Media Germany on glorious Yellow, Red, Pink, Purple, Blue and Green vinyl,. Presented within a rigid 'Crest Logo' slipcase plus 24-page large format photo book, hype sticker & factory sealed. This is brand new old stock contained inside its original brown card shipping carton, barcode stickered with a manufacturing date of 26.04.2022. Recommended)
- Queen - Greatest Hits - 180gm - Sealed - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £39.99, $52.39, €45.99 (New Item) (arrived 27-Mar-2025 15:39)on April 14, 2025 at 5:59 am
QUEEN Greatest Hits (2016 UK/EU limited edition 17-track double LP pressed on 180gram Heavyweight Double Vinyl Half Speed Mastered at Abbey Road Studios - Britain's biggest ever selling album, first released in 1980 and containing all the hit singles from 1974 to 1980. Gatefold picture sleeve with discography printed inners, factory sealed from new complete with its '60 Years of the Official Album Charts' hype sticker. Essential)
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