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 - Flash - 4-Pr - UK - 7" vinyl - £8.00, $10.32, €9.52 (New Item) (arrived 25-Jul-2024 10:32)on July 27, 2024 at 12:35 am
QUEEN Flash (1980 UK 7" vinyl single with an intact four prong centre, also including Football Fight, both taken from the 'Flash Gordon' motion picture soundtrack. The paper picture sleeve displays some light general wear, whilst the vinyl remains excellent with only a few light signs of play EMI5126)
- Queen - Las Palabras De Amor - 4pr - UK - 7" vinyl - £8.00, $10.32, €9.52 (New Item) (arrived 10-Jul-2024 16:58)on July 27, 2024 at 12:35 am
QUEEN Las Palabras De Amor (1982 UK 7" vinyl single with intact four prong centre, also including Cool Cat, plain die-cut paper sleeve EMI5316)
- Queen - Queen - Blair - VG - UK - vinyl LP - £18.00, $23.22, €21.42 (New Item) (arrived 02-Jul-2024 09:48)on July 27, 2024 at 12:35 am
QUEEN Queen (1973 UK 10-track vinyl LP with 'BLAIR'/'BLAIR RULES' etched in the run-outs, the band's debut album including Keep Yourself Alive, Son And Daughter and a short instrumental version of Seven Seas Of Rhye. The matt picture sleeve grades as VG with some edge scuffing and ringwear, whilst the vinyl shows little evidence of play EMC3006)
- Queen - Sheer Heart Attack - 1st - VG/EX - UK - vinyl LP - £40.00, $51.60, €47.60 (New Item) (arrived 04-Jul-2024 10:40)on July 27, 2024 at 12:35 am
QUEEN Sheer Heart Attack (1974 UK first press 13-track LP, the third album from the British rock group, including Stone Cold Crazy, Now I'm Here, Killer Queen & Brighton Rock, fully laminated picture sleeve with 'Trident' logo on the back & angled lyric inner. The sleeve [VG+] reveals a little minor ageing & the vinyl is clean EX/EX- with just a few faint signs of play. A great example EMC3061)
- Queen - A Day At The Races - 1st - VG/EX - UK - vinyl LP - £60.00, $77.40, €71.40 (New Item) (arrived 08-Jul-2024 12:34)on July 27, 2024 at 12:35 am
QUEEN A Day At The Races (Rare 1976 UK first press 10-track LP with 1U/1U matrices, their fifth studio album including Tie Your Mother Down, Somebody To Love & Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy, gatefold picture sleeve with picture inner. The sleeve [VG] shows obvious scuffs, mainly to the front whilst the vinyl remains in EX- condition with a few light hairlines, not affecting play. A respectable copy of this in demand Queen original EMTC104)
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