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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2018 14:59:18 GMT
The Official Charts Company has revealed the 'All Time' Best Selling Studio Albums.
They have included Streaming Sales too.
The Sales go from when the Album Chart first started to Week 39 of this Year.
That's W/E 28th July 1956 to W/E 4th October 2018.
POS. TITLE TITLE ARTIST YEAR PEAK WKS AT #1 SALES
01... SGT PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND -- THE BEATLES -- 1967 -- 1 28 -- 5,34M
02... 21 -- ADELE -- 2011 -- 1 23 -- 5,11M
03... (WHAT'S THE STORY) MORNING GLORY? -- OASIS -- 1995 -- 1 10 -- 4,94M
04... THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON -- PINK FLOYD -- 1973 -- 2 0 -- 4,47M
05... THRILLER -- MICHAEL JACKSON -- 1982 -- 1 8 -- 4,47M
06... BROTHERS IN ARMS -- DIRE STRAITS -- 1985 -- 1 14 -- 4,35M
07... BAD -- MICHAEL JACKSON -- 1987 -- 1 5 -- 4,14M
08... RUMOURS -- FLEETWOOD MAC -- 1977 -- 1 1 -- 4,09M
09... BACK TO BLACK -- AMY WINEHOUSE -- 2006 -- 1 6 -- 3,93M
10... 25 -- ADELE -- 2015 -- 1 13 -- 3,50M
11... STARS -- SIMPLY RED -- 1991 -- 1 12 -- 3,45M
12... COME ON OVER -- SHANIA TWAIN -- 1997 -- 1 11 -- 3,43M
13... X -- ED SHEERAN -- 2014 -- 1 13 -- 3,38M
14... BAT OUT OF HELL -- MEAT LOAF -- 1977 -- 9 0 -- 3,37M
15... BACK TO BEDLAM -- JAMES BLUNT -- 2004 -- 1 10 -- 3,36M
16... URBAN HYMNS -- THE VERVE -- 1997 -- 1 12 -- 3,34M
17... BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER -- SIMON & GARFUNKEL -- 1970 -- 1 33 -- 3,26M
18... SPIRIT -- LEONA LEWIS -- 2007 -- 1 8 -- 3,17M
19... CRAZY LOVE -- MICHAEL BUBLE -- 2009 -- 1 1 -- 3,13M
20... DIVIDE -- ED SHEERAN -- 2017 -- 1 20 -- 3,10M
21... NO ANGEL -- DIDO -- 2000 -- 1 7 -- 3,09M
22... WHITE LADDER -- DAVID GRAY -- 1998 -- 1 2 -- 3,02M
23... THE FAME -- LADY GAGA -- 2008 -- 1 7 -- 2,99M
24... ONLY BY THE NIGHT -- KINGS OF LEON -- 2008 -- 1 4 -- 2,98M
25... TALK ON CORNERS -- THE CORRS -- 1997 -- 1 10 -- 2,96M
26... A RUSH OF BLOOD TO THE HEAD -- COLDPLAY -- 2002 1 3 -- 2,96M
27... SPICE -- SPICE GIRLS -- 1996 -- 1 15 -- 2,96M
28... LIFE FOR RENT -- DIDO -- 2003 -- 1 10 -- 2,90M
29... THE JOSHUA TREE -- U2 -- 1987 -- 1 2 -- 2,88M
30... BEAUTIFUL WORLD -- TAKE THAT -- 2006 -- 1 8 -- 2,88M
31... HOPES AND FEARS -- KEANE -- 2004 -- 1 5 -- 2,86M
32.. THE WAR OF THE WORLDS -- JEFF WAYNE & VARIOUS ARTISTS -- 1978 -- 5 0 -- 2,80M
33.. X&Y -- COLDPLAY -- 2005 -- 1 4 -- 2,79M
34... JAGGED LITTLE PILL -- ALANIS MORISSETTE -- 1995 -- 1 11 -- 2,78M
35... SCISSOR SISTERS -- SCISSOR SISTERS -- 2004 -- 1 4 -- 2,76M
36.. TUBULAR BELLS -- MIKE OLDFIELD -- 1973 -- 1 1 -- 2,76M
37... ...BUT SERIOUSLY -- PHIL COLLINS -- 1989 -- 1 15 -- 2,75M
38... CHRISTMAS -- MICHAEL BUBLE -- 2011 -- 1 3 -- 2,75M
39... TRACY CHAPMAN -- TRACY CHAPMAN -- 1988 -- 1 3 -- 2,71M
40... PARACHUTES -- COLDPLAY -- 2000 -- 1 1 -- 2,71M
©2018 Official Charts Company. All rights reserved.
Chart is based on album sales and streams from 1956 to wk 39, 2018.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2018 15:00:24 GMT
There has been some surprise that neither ABBA nor Queen made the List. Both Groups
would be in the Top 10 of the UK's Best Selling Album's Acts. Queen would be 2nd, (after
The Beatles), and ABBA would be about 8th. But neither Act had a truly gigantic Selling
UK Studio Album. Not one that sold the 2.7 Million needed to reach the All Time Top 40,
anyway...
'Arrival' had sold just under 1,670,000 UK copies by November 2006. It has sold
around 26,000 to 30,000 since then. Its UK Sales are about 1,700,000. Queen's
biggest Studio Album is 'A Night At The Opera' (1975). That is on about 1,900,000
to 1,950,000 UK Sales.
Both ABBA and Queen sell far better with Compilation Albums. Queen have the UK's No.1
'Hits' Album, with 'Greatest Hits' (One). They are also 3rd with 'Greatest Hits II'. ABBA are
2nd with 'Gold' and 8th with 'Greatest Hits', (One). It was 7th but 'Ladies And Gentlemen:
The Best Of George Michael', overtook it, after he died, a few Years ago.
In 2008, Alan Jones, ('Music Week'), gave out the UK's Total Sales of 'ABBA Gold' on 2 or 3 occasions, due to
it returning to No.1. If you carefully add his Totals to its Sales to the end of 2008, and for 2009 - 2018, (so far),
you get over 5,580,000 UK Sales for it. Which means that it should have had an 18th UK Platinum Award ages
ago. Instead it is still stuck on 17 for 5,100,000. I have worked it out 4 times and always I get over 5,580,000 UK
Sales for it.
The UK's Top 5 Best Selling Albums are:
1)... Greatest Hits (One) -- Queen -- (1981) -- Around 6,200,000 -- (But 626,000 are from 2 other Queen releases)
2)... Gold -- ABBA -- (1992) -- Over 5,580,000 -- (But it only has Sales Awards for 5,100,000 -17)
3)... Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band -- The Beatles -- (1967) -- 5,340,000
4)... 21 -- Adele -- (2011) -- 5,110,000
5)... (What's The Story) Morning Glory? -- Oasis -- (1995) -- 4,940,000
I don't see how 'Sgt. Pepper' can over-take either 'ABBA Gold' or 'Greatest Hits', by Queen. Both
of those Albums spend far, far longer in the UK Top 75 than The Beatles Album. That means that
it consistently sells less than those 2 Albums. So how can it ever outsell them?
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Post by chron on Oct 14, 2018 17:10:40 GMT
I couldn't care less about the numbers, but I think it's a good thing that a compilation album doesn't top this sort of chart. And it seems right that Sgt. Pepper should top it regardless, since, beyond units shifted, when it came out it represented a true line-drawn-in-the-sand moment, its impact going beyond pop culture and spreading into life at large (the album cover design alone is etched in the collective memory, along with things like JFK waving from a limo in Dealey Plaza and Neil Armstrong's photo of Buzz Aldrin standing on the moon). With all due respect to them, nothing ABBA or Queen put out could hold a candle to it (as I suspect Benny and Bjorn would be happy to tell you).
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Post by gary on Oct 14, 2018 19:18:45 GMT
^ There's not much doubt that Sgt. Pepper is the most important rock/pop album ever, whatever that means. It was a phenomenon. And it does have a few absolutely classic songs on it (With A Little Help From My Friends, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, She's Leaving Home, A Day In The Life). But have you listened to it recently as a whole? There's some pretty dire songs on it too. The whole of the second (vinyl) side is dull, with the exception of A Day In The Life. The Beatles themselves did better albums, and other artists have done far better albums. (All IMHO, of course!)
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Post by gary on Oct 14, 2018 19:28:52 GMT
^ Colin, so if Gold has sold at least 5,580,000 copies in the UK, and 626,000 of Queen's Greatest Hits' sales are not really sales of that album, Gold is actually the UK's biggest selling album, albeit only just (6,000 copies)?
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Post by gazman on Oct 14, 2018 19:57:50 GMT
Gary - my reckoning is that Queen would still be slightly ahead, but we'll never know - unless one or other of the albums leaps ahead in the future....
Sales in the UK from 'postal album' services such as Britannia Music - big in the 70s and 80s - were generally not counted. Both albums are reputed to have sold substantial numbers through that channel, but Queen probably more, since that album has a 12-year release date advantage.
But it's certainly likely to be far closer than whatever the Official Charts people might declare.
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Post by gary on Oct 14, 2018 20:11:14 GMT
^ Interesting. And while ABBA are currently benefiting from the Mamma Mia boost, Queen are soon going to get a big boost from their film.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2018 19:53:16 GMT
Gary -- it is The British Phonographic Industry - The B.P.I. - who give out UK Sales Awards.
Record Companies used to have to apply for Awards, but now The B.P.I. automatically gives
them out, as each Single, Album, DVD etc. reaches Sales thresholds. (They are the Bosses
of The OCC, and they both share a building in Central London).
By my calculations, 'ABBA Gold' should have had an 18th UK Platinum Award, (5,400,000),
ages ago. I get it to be on over 5,580,000 UK Sales.
For some reason, The B.P.I. don't think that it has even reached 5,400,000 UK Sales.
'Greatest Hits' by Queen, is the only UK Album with 20 Platinum Awards. That's for 6 Million
UK Sales. However, 626,000 of them are from 2 other Queen Compilations. 560,000 from
a 2000 Triple Queen CD and 66,000 from a 1994 Double Queen CD. So, 2 of'Greatest Hits'
Platinum Awards are really due to Sales from other Queen Albums being added in. The OCC
made a big fuss about it being the 1st UK Album to reach 6 Million Sales, but they never
mentioned that 626,000 of them were from other Queen Albums...
It is no use arguing with the decisions that The OCC and their Bosses, The B.P.I. make. They
ignore anyone whom they wish to.
For example, 'Sgt Pepper' was once on around 2,700,000 UK Sales. Then, we were told that
E.M.I. had 'found paperwork', for well over a Million 'missing' Sales. They were added in, and
it became a 4 Million+ UK Seller over-night. The UK and Global Media just accepted it all - no
questions asked. It is only on 5,340,000 UK Sales, due to those 'found' Sales, from several
Years ago. Some people say that it has yet to even reach 4 Million UK Sales, as they don't
believe the 'found' Sales story...
It was revealed, (a few Years ago), that 'ABBA Gold' is the UK's Best Selling CD. I don't think
that it has changed.
It is interesting, that whilst 'ABBA Gold' has 9 UK No.1's on it, 'Greatest Hits', by Queen, only
has 1 No.1 on it - 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. They had 5 further UK No.1's, but they are on later
Queen 'Hits' Albums'. Just as with 'Greatest Hits', their 'Greatest Hits II' also has 626,000
extra Sales, from the 1994 Double Album and the 2000 Triple Album. This causes the 2nd
Queen 'Hits' Album to be the UK's 10th Best Seller - 3,990,000 Sales. Remove its added
626,000 and it has 3,364,000 UK Sales. Which causes it to fall from 10th to 18th place...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2018 19:54:47 GMT
Go on then - how many albums on that list are we going to admit to owning, or having bought at some point?
I'm weighing in at 10. (Only 2 or 3 of which I would still actually listen to all the way through, and then only occasionally.)
There are quite a few bang-average albums in that list of 40, not surprisingly, and not that many are genuine timeless classics - but that's record-buyers for you...
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Post by gary on Oct 16, 2018 0:32:49 GMT
Oh dear, I own 12 of them! I only really rate Bat Out Of Hell, Bridge Over Troubled Water and Tracy Chapman!
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Post by foreverfan on Oct 16, 2018 15:50:09 GMT
I have 4, none of which I listen to today.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2018 16:14:29 GMT
The ones that I still actually play through occasionally (say once a year) would be 'Tubular Bells' and (gulp) 'War of the Worlds'. I sometimes give the extra disc that came with 'The Fame' a whirl (i.e 'The Fame Monster') but not the actual album as such.
The one I haven't played for the longest would be 'Urban Hymns'. Pretty sure we've still got it, but no idea where it is. 'Lucky Man' was a great song, mind you.
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Post by shoshin on Oct 16, 2018 22:20:30 GMT
...'Lucky Man' was a great song, mind you. And 'Sonnet'.
Somewhere I have Oasis, Floyd, Verve, Keane and Tubular Bells
I listened to Tubular Bells again a couple of years back, prompted by a Mike Oldfield documentary, but that's about it. Although recently I was briefly obsessed with the live vocals on this cover of The Great Gig In The Sky. Ola Bieńkowska and Amy Smith go way beyond what should possibly be expected from a tribute act. The belted climax from around 2:07 is really outstanding.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2018 12:10:30 GMT
...'Lucky Man' was a great song, mind you. And 'Sonnet'. Yes, good call. Another underrated song, for sure. I haven't played 'Dark Side' for ages, probably 5 or 6 years - maybe more. I suppose that's because it's such a familiar album and PF aren't one of my 'core' bands/acts. We've got all three of the Coldplay albums on that list, but I never play them. We stopped buying their albums after 'Mylo Xyloto'. They all seemed to be 50% great, 50% filler. 'X&Y' was probably the best overall, but I think it's in a cupboard now. It's also quite interesting to look at the list and consider what it tells us about the commercial trajectories of the acts concerned. Amazing how many copies 'Brothers in Arms' sold, for example, when it was nowhere near Dire Straits' best album. But they'd certainly cracked the 'radio-friendly single' format at that point and that triggered crazy sales. Are 'Dark Side' and 'Tubular Bells' the only albums on that list not to feature a UK Top 30 (or, post-1978, Top 40) hit single? |
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Post by Michal on Oct 17, 2018 18:08:11 GMT
What about Thriller and Bad? Does anybody care about them? Both are great albums. And The Bridge Over Troubled Water is a classic album, which I listen to now and then. And I have a weak spot for Alanis Morissette. Everybody listened to Jagged Little Pill in the 90s and I still do. A few more of these albums are on my wishlist...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2018 8:25:06 GMT
What about Thriller and Bad? Does anybody care about them? I've never actually sat down and listened to them all the way through. Then again, so many singles were released from them, it feels like I have! Imagine if ABBA had, for instance, released TNOTG, TACOM, Eagle, TYFTM, OMOW, HIYS and Move On from 'The Album'... I suppose they did (technically) release half of Voulez-Vous as singles (including the double-A) but even that felt a bit like overkill! |
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