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 Day At The Races - 1st - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £125.00, $156.25, €146.25 (New Item) (arrived 02-May-2024 17:11)on May 3, 2024 at 9:12 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 die-cut round-cornered picture inner. The cover displays just a little light age wear, whilst the the vinyl has just a couple of light cosmetic hairlines. An excellent example of this in demand Queen original EMTC104)
- Queen - Greatest Hits - barcoded p/s - UK - vinyl LP - £15.00, $18.75, €17.55 (New Item) (arrived 01-May-2024 10:20)on May 3, 2024 at 9:12 am
QUEEN Greatest Hits (1981 UK 17-track LP compilation, housed in a glossy barcoded picture sleeve complete with the illustrated tracklist inner. The sleeve is Excellent with minor edge wear & the vinyl is clean & in Excellent condition with a few faint paper hairlines not affecting play EMTV30)
- Queen - The Works - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £15.00, $18.75, €17.55 (New Item) (arrived 30-Apr-2024 15:06)on May 3, 2024 at 9:12 am
QUEEN The Works (1984 UK 9-track vinyl LP, their eleventh studio album which includes the classic singles Radio Ga Ga & I Want To Break Free. The picture sleeve comes with its lyric inner and shows minor wear and faint foxing to the front whilst the vinyl remains in Excellent condition with light signs of play WORK1)
- Queen - Greatest Hits II - 180 Gram Half Speed Mastered - Sealed - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £34.99, $43.74, €40.94 (New Item) (arrived 30-Apr-2024 15:07)on May 3, 2024 at 9:12 am
QUEEN Greatest Hits II (2016 UK/EU 17-track double album 2-LP pressed on 180-gram heavyweight black vinyl from lacquers cut at Abbey Road Studios. One of Britain's Top 10 Best Selling Albums Ever, first released in 1991 and containing all their hit singles from 1981 to 1991. Gatefold picture sleeve with gold embossed Queen Crest logo and titles, factory sealed. Recommended)
- Queen - Greatest Hits - 1st - UK - vinyl LP - £35.00, $43.75, €40.95 (New Item) (arrived 30-Apr-2024 15:10)on May 3, 2024 at 9:12 am
QUEEN Greatest Hits (1981 UK 17-track compilation LP, complete with illustrated song credit inner, non-barcoded picture sleeve. The sleeve shows little of its age & the vinyl looks barely played - a superb copy of thisclassic! EMTV30)
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