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 - Jazz - 1st + Poster - VG - UK - vinyl LP - £40.00, $53.20, €46.80 (New Item) (arrived 19-Apr-2025 16:00)on April 21, 2025 at 3:00 am
QUEEN Jazz (1978 UK first press 13-track LP, including the singles Bicycle Race, Fat Bottomed Girls & Don't Stop Me Now, housed in the original embossed gatefold sleeve with round-cornered laminated inner & loose 'nude bicycle race' fold-out poster. The sleeve [VG] shows some light edgewear and scuff marks; the inner has a little minor creasing; the poster, although detached, shows no signs of being displayed. The vinyl is superb with very little sign of play EMA788)
- Queen - Don't Stop Me Now + Sleeve - UK - 7" vinyl - £18.00, $23.94, €21.06 (Back In Stock) (arrived 16-Apr-2025 16:00)on April 21, 2025 at 3:00 am
QUEEN Don't Stop Me Now (1978 UK 7" vinyl single with an intact four prong centre, also including In Only Seven Days. The card picture sleeve shows a little ringwear and edgewear. Whilst the vinyl remains in excellent condition EMI2910)
- Queen - Seven Seas Of Rhye - UK - 7" vinyl - £20.00, $26.60, €23.40 (Back In Stock) (arrived 07-Apr-2025 16:00)on April 21, 2025 at 3:00 am
QUEEN Seven Seas Of Rhye (1974 UK 7" vinyl single with intact four prong centre, also includes See What A Fool I've Been, EMI company die-cut paper sleeve EMI2121)
- Queen - The Game - 1st - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £20.00, $26.60, €23.40 (New Item) (arrived 10-Apr-2025 14:38)on April 21, 2025 at 3:00 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 wearwith a small tear to the opening edge, 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 - The Game - 1st - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £20.00, $26.60, €23.40 (New Item) (arrived 10-Apr-2025 16:00)on April 21, 2025 at 3:00 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 wearwith a small tear to the opening edge, 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)
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