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 - Friends Will Be Friends (Extended Version) - UK - 12" vinyl - £15.00, $19.95, €17.55 (New Item) (arrived 21-Apr-2025 16:26)on April 23, 2025 at 3:58 pm
QUEEN Friends Will Be Friends (1986 UK 3-track 12" single, featuring the Extended Version and 7" Version, also includes Seven Seas Of Rhye, superb glossy picture sleeve features a great photograph taken during the making of the video. The sleeve displays some general wear, and the vinyl shows only light signs of play 12QUEEN8)
- Queen - Headlong + insert - UK - 12" picture disc - £50.00, $66.50, €58.50 (New Item) (arrived 21-Apr-2025 16:00)on April 23, 2025 at 3:58 pm
QUEEN Headlong (1991 UK limited edition 3-track 12" Picture Disc single with clear surround, also including All God's People and Mad The Swine; with the back picture insert within a clear PVC sleeve. This example remains in Near Mint condition 12QUEENPD18)
- Queen - Sheer Heart Attack - 1st - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £30.00, $39.90, €35.10 (New Item) (arrived 21-Apr-2025 11:50)on April 23, 2025 at 3:58 pm
QUEEN Sheer Heart Attack (1974 UK first issue 13-track LP, their marvellous third studio album including Stone Cold Crazy, Now I'm Here, Killer Queen & Brighton Rock. Comes housed in the original fully laminated picture sleeve complete with the angle cut lyric inner. The sleeve is Excellent with some light shelf wear/laminate lift & a couple of seam splits to the inner whilst the vinyl is clean & in Excellent condition with a few minor signs of play EMC3061)
- Queen - Headlong + insert - UK - 12" picture disc - £50.00, $66.50, €58.50 (New Item) (arrived 21-Apr-2025 12:07)on April 23, 2025 at 3:58 pm
QUEEN Headlong (1991 UK limited edition 3-track 12" Picture Disc single with clear surround, also including All God's People and Mad The Swine; with the back picture insert within a clear PVC sleeve. This example remains in Near Mint condition 12QUEENPD18)
- Queen - Interview Picture Disc - UK - picture disc LP - £25.00, $33.25, €29.25 (New Item) (arrived 21-Apr-2025 12:11)on April 23, 2025 at 3:58 pm
QUEEN Interview (UK limited edition interview LP Picture Disc, part of 'Talking Picture' series of albums which contain rare and spontaneous interviews with the stars. These interviews are exclusive 'Baktabak' records and have not beenheard by anyone apart from the interviewer prior to release. Features a great image of Freddie on stage on the A side with a group image on the B side, housed in a die-cut series sleeve BAK2014)
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