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UK’s 60 biggest selling albums of all time revealed
Posted On Jul 08 2016
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Gold: Greatest Hits was the second-best seller with nearly 5.2 million units shifted since its release in 1992, followed by the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the best-selling studio album and the only other release to break the five million mark (5.1 million).
To celebrate its 60th anniversary, the Official Albums Chart has today revealed the UK’s top 60 biggest selling albums of all time.
Notable albums that appear a bit further down on the tally include Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours at #11, Madonna’s The Immaculate Collection at #12, Bob Marley & The Wailers’ Legend at #16, Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell at #19, and The Beatles’ hits retrospective 1 at #20.
Though the two bands have jockeyed for decades to hold the record for the most albums sold, it has finally been made official: the iconic Queen have outpaced the Swedish supergroup for the most successful album in British history. Queen’s Greatest Hits with 6.1 million copies sold in the United Kingdom.
Queen guitarist Brian May says: “Great news, incredible news from the Official Chart Company”.
In celebration of its 60th anniversary, the UK’s Official Albums Chart has compiled a list of the 60 top-selling albums.
Elsewhere on the charts is ABBA’s Greatest Hits album which is the second biggest-selling album of all time selling 5.2 million units.
Of the eight artists whose work dominates the top 10, all but Queen and ABBA did so with original release albums; Queen and ABBA make the list with compilation albums. Its follow-up “25” is already at No 27 in the best-selling list seven months after its release in November 2015. Well, I always thought the band showed promise, but this is beyond our boyhood dreams!’ Queen guitarist Brian May told OfficialCharts.com. “25” beat Oasis’ 18-year-old record of being the fastest-selling album ever, selling 800,000 copies in its first week, compared to the 650,000 Oasis’ third album sold in 1997.
The extraordinary sales of her album don’t come as a huge shock.
