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 - £40.00, $49.60, €46.40 (New Item) (arrived 19-Apr-2024 13:09)on April 20, 2024 at 5:43 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 [VG] shows some minor discolouring to the back. The inner has some seam splits along some of the edges, whilst the vinyl is clean & grades EX with minimal signs of wear EMTC103) #Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time
- Queen - Queen II - Italian - vinyl LP - £25.00, $31.00, €29.00 (New Item) (arrived 08-Apr-2024 14:56)on April 20, 2024 at 5:43 am
QUEEN Queen II (1974 Italian 11-track LP with the date '26-4-74' machine stamped in the run-outs, housed in a single pocket picture sleeve with English lyric inner with round edges & flipbacks. The cover [VG] has some light paper scuffing & fading-to-white around the edges, with all text legible, the sleeve has a samll tape repair to one edge due to a small split & the vinyl shows just a few light signs of play 3C064-95186)
- Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody - UK - 3" CD single - £20.00, $24.80, €23.20 (New Item) (arrived 01-Apr-2024 13:28)on April 20, 2024 at 5:43 am
QUEEN Bohemian Rhapsody (1988 UK 3-track 3" CD single including I'm In Love With My Car & You're My Best Friend, housed in a superb 3" card picture wallet. The sleeve shows a couple of light marks from storage & the disc is Excellent with minor signs of play QUECD3)
- Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody - Japanese - 3" CD single - £35.00, $43.40, €40.60 (New Item) (arrived 01-Apr-2024 13:31)on April 20, 2024 at 5:43 am
QUEEN Bohemian Rhapsody (2000 Japanese 3-track 3" CD single, issued to coincide with the release of the 'Visions' album. Includes a Karoake Version performed by Queen plus Now I'm Here, housed in a unique lilac snap-pack picture sleeve with English lyric insert - The front of the sleeve also promotes the Toyota Pronard TV for which the track was used in the marketing campaign TODP-2560)
- Queen - A Winter's Tale - Xmas Pack - UK - CD single - £15.00, $18.60, €17.40 (New Item) (arrived 01-Apr-2024 13:35)on April 20, 2024 at 5:43 am
QUEEN A Winter's Tale (1995 UK limited edition 3-track CD single, including Thank God It's Christmas & Rock In Rio Blues, housed in a green card Christmas envelope pack. The packaging shows some minor edge scuffing & the custom title sticker on the back is unbroken & the disc is unplayed CDQUEENS22)
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