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.
Explore eil.com & 991.com sister – the world’s best online store for rare, collectable & out of print Vinyl Records, CDs & Music memorabilia since 1987.
EIL.COM Favourite Music Update Rare CDs, CD Singles, Rare Records, Vinyl Records, Albums and Music
- Queen - Live Killers - Red & Green Vinyl + Obi - Japanese - 2-LP vinyl set - £85.00, $113.05, €100.30 (New Item) (arrived 27-Nov-2021 09:57)on November 29, 2021 at 9:17 pm
QUEEN Live Killers (1979 Japanese-only 22-track double LP pressed on Green & Red Vinyl with picture labels & matching inners, housed in a deluxe gatefold picture sleeve complete with Japanese/ lyric insert & obi-strip. The packaging is Excellent [tiny 5mm tear in top right corner of the obi] with minimal shelf wear & the vinyl is clean & in Excellent condition with merely the odd faint cosmetic sign of play P-5567~8E)
- Queen - Las Palabras De Amor - Inj - UK - 7" vinyl - £8.00, $10.64, €9.44 (New Item) (arrived 17-Nov-2021 13:50)on November 29, 2021 at 9:17 pm
QUEEN Las Palabras De Amor (1982 UK injection moulded 7" vinyl single, also including Cool Cat, plain die-cut paper sleeve EMI5316)
- Queen - A Day At The Races - Dutch - vinyl LP - £50.00, $66.50, €59.00 (New Item) (arrived 16-Nov-2021 15:51)on November 29, 2021 at 9:17 pm
QUEEN A Day At The Races (1976 Dutch 10-track vinyl LP, the fifth studio album from the legendary British band, including Tie Your Mother Down, Somebody To Love & Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy, front-laminated gatefold picture sleeve with die-cut illustrated inner. The sleeve is NM with minimal wear to edges, whilst the vinyl shows only light signs of play. A classic album and the first Dutch copy we have seen 7C066-98485)
- Queen - Queen II - Dutch - vinyl LP - £35.00, $46.55, €41.30 (New Item) (arrived 16-Nov-2021 16:12)on November 29, 2021 at 9:17 pm
QUEEN Queen II (Rare 1974 Dutch 11-track vinyl LP housed in a glossy gatefold picture sleeve. The sleeve shows minimal shelfwear whilst the vinyl appears barely played 1A062-95186)
- Queen - At The Beeb - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £55.00, $73.15, €64.90 (New Item) (arrived 17-Nov-2021 10:23)on November 29, 2021 at 9:17 pm
QUEEN At The Beeb (Original 1989 UK Band Of Joy label issue 8-track LP, featuring recordings for BBC radio made in February [prior to the band signing with EMI] and December 1973, housed in a picture sleeve featuring an early photograph of theband with notes on the sessions printed on the reverse. This was later issued by Hollywood Records in the USA on vinyl picture disc LP & CD and sounded slightly different due to remastering. The sleeve has only a little light storage wear andthe vinyl has minimal signs of play, overall an excellent example BOJLP001)
Be the first to comment