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 - A Night At The Opera - 1st - VG - UK - vinyl LP - £50.00, $61.50, €59.00 (New Item) (arrived 21-Jan-2025 18:00)on January 22, 2025 at 12:52 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 seam split to the inner, whilst the vinyl is clean & grades Excellent with only light signs of wear EMTC103) #Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time
- Queen - Queen II - UK - vinyl LP - £20.00, $24.60, €23.60 (New Item) (arrived 17-Jan-2025 13:56)on January 22, 2025 at 12:52 am
QUEEN Queen II (1984 UK Fame issue of the 1974 11-track vinyl LP, their second studio album which includes the single Seven Seas Of Rhye. The glossy barcoded gatefold sleeve displays the 'Fame' logo top right and shows moderate signs of age-related wear with some notable edgewear, whilst the vinyl shows only light signs of play FA4130991)
- Queen - A Night At The Opera - 1st - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £150.00, $184.50, €177.00 (New Item) (arrived 16-Jan-2025 16:00)on January 22, 2025 at 12:52 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, housed in the original embossed gatefold picture sleeve with the picture inner. The sleeve shows light foxing with a split to the inner and the vinyl appears barely played, overall an Excellent example EMTC103) #Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time
- Queen - Kizuna + Bonus PVC Folder - Japanese - 2-LP vinyl set - £69.99, $86.09, €82.59 (New Item) (arrived 16-Jan-2025 18:00)on January 22, 2025 at 12:52 am
QUEEN Kizuna (2024 Japanese Tower Records exclusive limited edition 16-track double album 2-LP pressed on 180-gram heavyweight black, half-speed mastered by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios. Kizuna compiles tracks recorded live in concert between 1979 and 1986, as voted for by Japanese fans. Housed inside a gatefold picture sleeve with English lyric printed inners, Japanese lyric insert and exclusive obi-strip. This edition also includes an official 'Not For Sale' custom printed multi-purpose 12" x 8½" PVC folder, available exclusively from Tower Records stores in Japan!) ***Limited to only 2000 copies***
- Queen - A Day At The Races - 180gm + Stickered - UK - vinyl LP - £125.00, $153.75, €147.50 (New Item) (arrived 17-Jan-2025 09:32)on January 22, 2025 at 12:52 am
QUEEN A Day At The Races (Limited Edition 1999 UK 10-track LP pressed on 180gram Virgin Vinyl as part of The Millennium Vinyl Collection, an all analogue cutting from the analogue master tapes, first released in 1976. Comes housed in adeluxe gatefold picture sleeve with the printed inner. The packaging & the vinyl is near 'as new', still in the hype stickered PVC dust jacket)
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