Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2016 20:26:04 GMT
NOVEMBER 2006 -- In November 2006 The OCC published a Top 100 List of the UK's All Time Best Selling Albums.
At that time ABBA Gold was in 5th place, and Greatest Hits, (1976), was in 27th place. Later Albums No.101 to No.110
were revealed & ABBA had another Album in those 10 - Arrival at No.104.
Here they are - with their UK Sales to November 2006:,
05.. GOLD - GREATEST HITS -- ABBA -- 3,943,950
27.. GREATEST HITS -- ABBA -- 2,598,576
104.. ARRIVAL -- ABBA -- 1,653,225
So Greatest Hits has got 8 Awards for 2,400,000 UK Sales & it has actually sold 200,000 towards a 9th Award.
Here is the full List of long over-due up-dated Platinum Album Awards, that The B.P.I. gave out today.
(The B.P.I. is the British Phonographic Industry).
Until today ABBA's 8 UK No.1 Albums, (from their Year's together), only had 8 Platinum Awards between them.
When ABBA were together, an Album could only earn 1 Platinum Award - no matter how many times it sold
300,000 in the UK. Now Greatest Hits, (1976), alone has 8 Platinum Awards.....
Today - Friday 5th February 2016 - The B.P.I. gave out long due Sales Awards to several UK Albums.
Greatest Hits (One) by Queen rose from 11 UK Platinum Awards to 20. Their Greatest Hits II Album
went up from 8 to 13 Platinum Awards. (Although both of those Albums have at least 566,000 Sales,
(each), added in from a 1994 Double Album & a 2000 Triple Album). ABBA Gold has risen from 14 Platinum
Awards to 17. Sgt. Pepper by The Beatles is up from 3 Platinum Awards to 17. This means that the 1st
Greatest Hits Album by Queen, has the most Platinum Awards, with The Beatles & ABBA Albums joint 2nd.
21 by Adele moves from 1st place to 4th, with its 16 Platinum Awards. The 1976 Greatest Hits Album by
ABBA now has 8 Platinum Awards - up from 1. (A lot of other 1970's & 1980's Albums by ABBA need their
1 Platinum Awards increased too. As do further Beatles Albums from the 1960's etc.
ABBA - GOLD - GREATEST HITS
17 x Platinum Certification (Album) 05 February 2016
UNIVERSAL MUSIC (POLYDOR)
ABBA - GREATEST HITS
8 x Platinum Certification (Album) 05 February 2016
UNIVERSAL MUSIC (POLAR)
QUEEN - GREATEST HITS
20 x Platinum Certification (Album) 05 February 2016
UNIVERSAL MUSIC (VIRGIN)
QUEEN - GREATEST HITS II
13 x Platinum Certification (Album) 05 February 2016
UNIVERSAL MUSIC (VIRGIN)
BEATLES - SGT PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND
17 x Platinum Certification (Album) 05 February 2016
UNIVERSAL MUSIC (APPLE CORPS)
PINK FLOYD - THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
14 x Platinum Certification (Album) 05 February 2016
WARNER MUSIC (RHINO)
ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK - GREASE
8 x Platinum Certification (Album) 05 February 2016
UNIVERSAL MUSIC (POLYDOR)
ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK - SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER
7 x Platinum Certification (Album) 05 February 2016
WARNER MUSIC (REPRISE)
REM - AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE
7 x Platinum Certification (Album) 05 February 2016
WARNER MUSIC (WARNER BROS)
JEFF WAYNE - THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
9 x Platinum Certification (Album) 05 February 2016
SONY MUSIC (COLUMBIA)
SIMON & GARFUNKEL - BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER
10 x Platinum Certification (Album) 05 February 2016
SONY MUSIC (COLUMBIA)
DIRE STRAITS - BROTHERS IN ARMS
14 x Platinum Certification (Album) 05 February 2016
UNIVERSAL MUSIC (VERTIGO)
U2 - THE JOSHUA TREE
8 x Platinum Certification (Album) 05 February 2016
UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ISLAND)
ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK - THE SOUND OF MUSIC
8 x Platinum Certification (Album) 05 February 2016
SONY MUSIC (SONY MUSIC)
BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS - LEGEND
11 x Platinum Certification (Album) 05 February 2016
UNIVERSAL MUSIC (TUFF GONG)
MIKE OLDFIELD - TUBULAR BELLS
9 x Platinum Certification (Album) 05 February 2016
UNIVERSAL MUSIC (VIRGIN)
MICHAEL JACKSON - THRILLER
13 x Platinum Certification (Album) 05 February 2016
SONY MUSIC (EPIC)
MEAT LOAF - BAT OUT OF HELL
10 x Platinum Certification (Album) 05 February 2016
SONY MUSIC (EPIC)
WHITNEY HOUSTON - WHITNEY
7 x Platinum Certification (Album) 05 February 2016
SONY MUSIC (ARISTA)
PHIL COLLINS - BUT SERIOUSLY
9 x Platinum Certification (Album) 05 February 2016
UNIVERSAL MUSIC (VIRGIN)