0/02/2014

Queen's Greatest Hits has become the first album to sell over 6 million copies in the UK... Ever! Plus: The Official Top 40 Biggest Selling Albums Of All Time revealed!

Legendary British band Queen have made chart history by becoming the first act ever to reach 6 million UK sales of an album, the Official Charts Company can confirm.

Queen have broken chart records after surpassing the 6 million sales milestone with their 1981 Greatest Hits album.  Britain’s best-selling album of all time, a staggering one in four British households now own a copy of the iconic act’s original bestof collection featuring such classic tracks as We Will Rock You, Another One Bites The Dust and their top-selling hit, Bohemian Rhapsody.

“Great news, AMAZING news from the Official Charts Company!“ guitarist Brian May told OfficialCharts.com. “Queen’s Greatest Hits which was released in 1981 has passed the 6 million mark in sales, which is incredible. I just want to say thanks to everyone who has supported us through the years, we hope to continue to serve you.”

Queen drummer Roger Taylor adds: "Wonderful. Who would have thought it! And all due to the Great British public. Thank you. A great honour!"

“Becoming the first album to pass 6 million sales is a quite incredible achievement by Queen and their iconic Greatest Hits album,” comments Martin Talbot, Chief Executive of the Official Charts Company. “Ever since it was first released in 1981, this package of classic pop and rock tracks has been an indispensable item in every music fan’s record collection – perhaps THE definitive greatest hits album!”

A true, enduring classic, the British public continue to buy Queen’s Greatest Hits in their droves; some 33 years after its original release, the album regularly sells several thousand copies per week, particularly around the Christmas gifting period, a trusted stocking filler for British music fans.

Sales of the album digitally are also now racking up, having been downloaded 124,000 times in the UK to date, thoughQueen’s Greatest Hits is evidently still very much an essential collectors’ favourite that music lovers demand to own a coveted physical copy of.

Queen’s Greatest Hits leads the way, some 900,000 copies ahead of ABBA Gold as the UK’s best-selling album of all time. ABBA last year overtook The Beatles‘ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band to take second place in the list.

And if 6 million sales isn’t enough for them, Queen’s follow-up, Greatest Hits II, which was release in October 1991 – a month before lead singer Freddie Mercury’s untimely death - also rides high at Number 10 in the all-time Official Albums Chart, having notched up a further 3.9 million UK sales to date.

The Official Top 40 Biggest Selling Albums Of All Time are as follows:

The Official Top 40 Biggest Selling Albums Of All Time

1	GREATEST HITS	QUEEN	1981
2	GOLD - GREATEST HITS	ABBA	1992
3	SGT PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND	BEATLES	1967
4	21	ADELE	2011
5	WHAT'S THE STORY MORNING GLORY	OASIS	1995
6	THRILLER	MICHAEL JACKSON	1982
7	THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON	PINK FLOYD	1973
8	BROTHERS IN ARMS	DIRE STRAITS	1985
9	BAD	MICHAEL JACKSON	1987
10	GREATEST HITS II	QUEEN	1991
11	THE IMMACULATE COLLECTION	MADONNA	1990
12	RUMOURS	FLEETWOOD MAC	1977
13	BACK TO BLACK	AMY WINEHOUSE	2006
14	STARS	SIMPLY RED	1991
15	COME ON OVER	SHANIA TWAIN	1997
16	BACK TO BEDLAM	JAMES BLUNT	2004
17	URBAN HYMNS	VERVE	1997
18	LEGEND	BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS	1984
19	BAT OUT OF HELL	MEAT LOAF	1977
20	BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER	SIMON & GARFUNKEL	1970
21	SPIRIT	LEONA LEWIS	2007
22	DIRTY DANCING	ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK	1987
23	NO ANGEL	DIDO	2000
24	1	BEATLES	2000
25	CRAZY LOVE	MICHAEL BUBLE	2009
26	WHITE LADDER	DAVID GRAY	1998
27	TALK ON CORNERS	CORRS	1997
28	SPICE	SPICE GIRLS	1996
29	THE FAME	LADY GAGA	2008
30	LIFE FOR RENT	DIDO	2003
31	A RUSH OF BLOOD TO THE HEAD	COLDPLAY	2002
32	BEAUTIFUL WORLD	TAKE THAT	2006
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