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 Works - UK - vinyl LP - £25.00, $31.00, €28.50 (New Item) (arrived 29-Jan-2023 11:46)on January 30, 2023 at 2:10 am
QUEEN The Works (1984 UK 9-track vinyl LP including the singles Radio Ga Ga and I Want To Break Free. Complete with the bevel cornered lyric inner, the picture sleeve shows very little evidence of shelfwear and the vinyl appears barely played WORK1)
- Queen - Live Around The World - Black Vinyl + Booklet - Sealed - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £39.99, $49.59, €45.59 (New Item) (arrived 20-Jan-2023 17:16)on January 30, 2023 at 2:10 am
QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT Live Around The World (2020 UK/EU limited edition 20-track double album 2-LP pressed on Heavyweight Black Vinyl, Half Speed Mastered at Abbey Road Studios. Featuring live performances from around the World, including the entire 'Live Aid' setlist performance from Fire Fight Australia. Gatefold picture sleeve with 12-page souvenir booklet and download voucher, hype sticker & factory sealed)
- Queen - Sheer Heart Attack - 1st + Inner - VG - UK - vinyl LP - £45.00, $55.80, €51.30 (New Item) (arrived 18-Jan-2023 17:05)on January 30, 2023 at 2:10 am
QUEEN Sheer Heart Attack (1974 UK first issue 13-track vinyl LP, their marvellous third studio album including Stone Cold Crazy, Now I'm Here, Killer Queen & Brighton Rock, fully laminated picture sleeve complete with the lyric inner which displays angle-cut corners and the trident on both sides with the 'G&L' credit printed below. The sleeve shows light wear with the vintage price sticker to the reverse and small gap to top of sleeve, the inner is split on all three sides and the vinyl is VG+ with a small scuff on Side 1 EMC3061)
- Queen - The Game - 1st - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £20.00, $24.80, €22.80 (New Item) (arrived 19-Jan-2023 10:11)on January 30, 2023 at 2:10 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 wear, with light creases to corners/edges, 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 - Hot Space - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £15.00, $18.60, €17.10 (New Item) (arrived 19-Jan-2023 10:14)on January 30, 2023 at 2:10 am
QUEEN Hot Space (1982 UK 11-track vinyl LP, including Under Pressure with David Bowie, Staying Power, Body Language & Las Palabras De Amor. The glossy picture sleeve displays just a little general wear but comes with its illustrated lyric inner and the vinyl remains in excellent condition EMA797)
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