Studio albums-wise "Morning Glory"? Of ten proper tracks you have four top 2 singles plus "Cast No Shadow", "She's Electric", "Morning Glory" itself and "Champagne Supernova" and the other two ("Hello" and "Hey Now!") probably got a few radio spins at the time as well.

Yes those two albums in particular are full of classics. The likes of 'Champagne Supernova' and 'She's Electric' were massive radio favourite at the time and have remained so...

 

When I first listened to 'Sgt. Peppers' I was surprised by how many of the tracks I was completely familiar with, particularly as none of them were ever released as singles.

Studio albums-wise "Morning Glory"? Of ten proper tracks you have four top 2 singles plus "Cast No Shadow", "She's Electric", "Morning Glory" itself and "Champagne Supernova" and the other two ("Hello" and "Hey Now!") probably got a few radio spins at the time as well.

 

 

I've never owned the album and Hey Now is the only one I couldn't hum. I would say the album is familiar to millions.

I've never owned the album and Hey Now is the only one I couldn't hum. I would say the album is familiar to millions.

 

It's a brilliant album. Best one on the list by a country mile..

I've got Sgt Pepper, (What's The Story) Morning Glory, Brothers In Arms and Dark Side Of The Moon. I've got all of Queen's early albums (some on vinyl only) so I own the songs on Greatest Hits and most of the ones on GHII.

Why was (and who made) (and when was) the decision for no singles to be released from Pepper?

Don't know but I think the fact that there were no singles made it such a big seller as it contains huge hits: With a Little Help from My Friends, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, When I'm Sixty four, A Day in the Life.... But most of all, it's a fabulous album, just like DSOTM.

Edited March 4, 201213 yr by SKOB

Why was (and who made) (and when was) the decision for no singles to be released from Pepper?

Most of their singles didn't appear on albums, which of course meant most of their albums didn't contain any singles.

 

Rubber Soul, Abbey Road and The White Album didn't have any singles on them either. I guess it helped them sell huge quantities of both. It also shows just how good they were, 9 years, 12 albums, of which only about half a dozen singles actually appear on, and so many songs, singles and albums regarded as classics.

Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane were both scheduled to appear on the album at first as the first concept was an album of songs linked to childhood. This was then ditched for the Pepper concept.

Albums by huge bands don't have to have singles to sell.

It's a brilliant album. Best one on the list by a country mile..

 

 

I strongly disagree. It is a good album that contains some very popular songs. Only Morning Glory and Some Might say did anything for me and even then I'd relegate them to songs I liked a lot in the late 90s but hardly ever listen to any more.

Why was (and who made) (and when was) the decision for no singles to be released from Pepper?

I don't think this was uncommon at the time. A lot of The Rolling Stones albums don't have any (UK, at least) singles on it either. Not sure why this was done though, except perhaps back then the thinking was that it would be unfair to make people own one track twice when you could replace it with different tracks instead. Or maybe as someone already mentioned, from the record company's perspective, it was perhaps thought to be easier to sell albums if you didn't put tracks people already likely owned on it.

I strongly disagree. It is a good album that contains some very popular songs. Only Morning Glory and Some Might say did anything for me and even then I'd relegate them to songs I liked a lot in the late 90s but hardly ever listen to any more.

 

Interesting. I don't see any fillers on it and for me all the tracks are strong. I'm a massive Michael Jackson fan for example and he has two albums in the Top 10 but would put Morning Glory above those albums if I had to choose as it's more consistent for me. I prefer Definitely Maybe over Morning Glory but only slightly. I can still listen to both those albums and enjoy like I did back in the day.

I didn't say there was filler on it. I am saying that it is not a brilliant album, in my opinion. It's an album of good songs. Nothing is visionary, nothing is earth-changing, none of it scares or excites me. I want that from a classic album.

I didn't say there was filler on it. I am saying that it is not a brilliant album, in my opinion. It's an album of good songs. Nothing is visionary, nothing is earth-changing, none of it scares or excites me. I want that from a classic album.

 

No I know you didn't use the word "filler" that was just my way of explaining how strong I thought the album was. I guess I don't think about it being visionary or life changing. I just love to listen to it.

And that is fair enough.

From the OCC website:

 

The Official Charts Company can reveal today that Adele’s 21 has overtaken Pink Floyd’s 1973 epic, The Dark Side Of The Moon, in the UK’s all-time biggest selling albums chart. The news comes just three weeks after the London-born singer’s 2011 second album overtook sales of Michael Jackson’s Bad.

 

21 has now sold over 4,142,000 copies in the UK, making it the seventh biggest-selling album of all-time. However, with just 12,000 sales separating 21 from the Number 6 album, Dire Straits’ 1985 long player Brothers In Arms, Adele could easily overtake the British rockers by the end of this week.

 

"As every week goes by, another record seems to tumble in front of Adele," comments the Official Charts Company's Managing Director, Martin Talbot. "Now, her 21 album has overtaken The Dark Side Of The Moon in the all-time biggest sellers list - and by the end of the week, it may well have overtaken Brothers In Arms, too. Then she will have Michael Jackson's Thriller in her sights. It has been an extraordinary 12 months or so for Adele, and it looks set to become even more extraordinary as the days and weeks go by."

 

The biggest selling albums of all-time Top 10 now stands as follows:

 

01) GREATEST HITS – QUEEN - 5,864,000 - (1981)

02) SGT PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND – THE BEATLES - 5,045,000 - (1967)

03) GOLD: GREATEST HITS – ABBA - 4,992,000 - (1992)

04) (WHAT'S THE STORY) MORNING GLORY? – OASIS - 4,520,000 - (1995)

05) THRILLER - MICHAEL JACKSON - 4,272,000 - (1982)

06) BROTHERS IN ARMS - DIRE STRAITS - 4,154,000 - (1985)

07) 21 – ADELE - 4,142,000 - (2011)

08) THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON - PINK FLOYD - 4,116,000 - (1973)

09) BAD - MICHAEL JACKSON - 3,960,000 - (1987)

10) GREATEST HITS II – QUEEN - 3,888,000 - (1991)

 

 

Edited March 19, 201213 yr by zeus555

Looks like 21 will be the second biggest selling studio album ever by the end of the year.

Adele's '21' has now outsold Dire Straits 'Brothers In Arms' Album, in the UK.

So it is now the 6th Best Selling Album in the UK, & the 4th Best Selling Studio

Album. To Midnight last Night, its UK Sales were over 4,158,000. It is now just

114,000 Sales behind Michael Jackson's 'Thriller', which is the 5th Best Seller.

 

From The OCC Site - Friday 23rd March 2012:,

 

21 has now sold over 4.15 million copies since its release in January of last year; to put this in perspective, one in six British households now owns the album.

 

The Top 10 biggest selling albums of all-time in the UK are now as follows. Please note, updated sales figures won’t be published until next Monday when this

chart week’s sales have been finalised.

 

01 GREATEST HITS – QUEEN

02 SGT PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND – THE BEATLES

03 GOLD: GREATEST HITS – ABBA

04 (WHAT'S THE STORY) MORNING GLORY? – OASIS

05 THRILLER - MICHAEL JACKSON

06 21 – ADELE

07 BROTHERS IN ARMS - DIRE STRAITS

08 THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON - PINK FLOYD

09 BAD - MICHAEL JACKSON

10 GREATEST HITS II – QUEEN

Edited March 23, 201213 yr by zeus555