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ABBA Gold has been announced as the UK's Best Selling CD - ever. For more details

- of the UK's Top 30 Best Selling CD's, go to this Link:,

 

http://www.officialcharts.com/features/cel...of-the-cd-1616/

 

The Graph is interactive - just click on it, for details of the Acts etc.

 

Although the Graph says 'Gold' has sold 3,657,687 on CD, & The BPI

& The OCC Press Release, says it has sold 4,040,000 - 4,038,000, to

be precise. So, 380,313 of its Sales are not in the Graph. (The Press

Release Total is the correct one, as it is based on Gold being the

first CD to reach 4 Million UK Sales).

 

Ironically, 'Gold' fell out of the Top 200 last Week, for the first time since

W/E 26th April 2008. It fell from No.188, in last Weeks Chart - W/E 29th

September. I'm not sure if it re-entered the Top 200, in the latest UK Album

Chart.

 

VINYL & CASSETTE - The CD News means that either 'Greatest Hits', by Queen, (1981),

or 'Sgt Pepper....', by The Beatles, (1967), is the biggest UK Seller, on Vinyl & Cassette.

(If Cassettes existed in the 1960's).

 

THE UK's TOP 30 BEST SELLING CD's

 

(To W/E 6th October 2012)

 

1. GOLD - ABBA - 4,038,000

2. 21 - ADELE - 3,553,000

3. (WHAT'S THE STORY) MORNING GLORY? - OASIS - 3,425,000

4. BACK TO BLACK - AMY WINEHOUSE - 3,225,000

5. BACK TO BEDLAM - JAMES BLUNT - 3,209,000

6. NO ANGEL - DIDO - 3,031,000

7. COME ON OVER -SHANIA TWAIN - 3,026,000

8. SPIRIT - LEONA LEWIS - 2,951,000

9. URBAN HYMNS - THE VERVE - 2,904,000

10. WHITE LADDER - DAVID GRAY - 2,863,000

11. LIFE FOR RENT - DIDO - 2,857,000

12. 1 - THE BEATLES - 2,854,000

13. A RUSH OF BLOOD TO THE HEAD - COLDPLAY - 2,755,000

14. BEAUTIFUL WORLD - TAKE THAT - 2,735,000

15. HOPES AND FEARS - KEANE - 2,732,000

16. CRAZY LOVE - MICHAEL BUBLE - 2,724,000

17. SCISSOR SISTERS - SCISSOR SISTERS - 2,652,000

18. TALK ON CORNERS - THE CORRS 2,651,000

19. X & Y - COLDPLAY - 2,608,000

20. THE MAN WHO - TRAVIS - 2,553,000

21. PARACHUTES - COLDPLAY - 2,480,000

22. THE FAME - LADY GAGA - 2,476,000

23. COME AWAY WITH ME - NORAH JONES - 2,471,000

24. ONLY BY THE NIGHT - KINGS OF LEON - 2,399,000

25. I'VE BEEN EXPECTING YOU - ROBBIE WILLIAMS - 2,377,000

26. GREATEST HITS - ROBBIE WILLIAMS - 2,269,000

27. SWING WHEN YOU'RE WINNING - ROBBIE WILLIAMS - 2,232,000

28. THE MARSHALL MATHERS LP - EMINEM - 2,231,000

29. EYES OPEN - SNOW PATROL - 2,249,000

30. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.....- GEORGE MICHAEL - 2,203,000

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I believe it did.

 

For Zeus: 8 Track Cartridges took us into the 70s, & the cassette came popular from 72/73 onwards

Thanks for that full info Zeus, so interesting! Earlier noughties albums clearly almost all CDs looking at the figure vs last totals I saw, whereas 80s and 90s clearly had a fair whack of tapes and vinyl (morning glory particularly there it appears), and the latest 21st Century really starting to show (presumably) the digital impact

 

Wish they had given us updated totals and the full formats breakdown as the more unusual ones would have been fascinating

Shouldn't The Fame be above Parachutes or are the sales incorrect?

True! From BPI site there is a pdf download. It shows,

 

21 PARACHUTES COLDPLAY PARLOPHONE 2000 2.480m

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Thanks for spotting my tyupo, Guys. I've now corrected the Sales

of 'Parachutes', to 2,480,000.

Where is the immaculate collection ?
Sorry to be pedantic but there is another typo! It should read CDs - NOT CD's
I have amended the title to halt a potential Buzzjack apostrophe "issue" :D
Morning glory must have sold a bucket load of tapes must be near or around 1 million
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Could someone add the total sales for these albums...? I have these total sales

 

Adele - 21 has sold more than 4,665,822,

Amy Winehouse - Back To Black has sold more than 3,513,084

James Blunt - Back To Bedlam has sold more than 3,278,190

Dido - No Angel has sold more than 3,070,900

Michael Buble - Crazy Love has sold more than 3,005,000

Dido - Life Fore Rent has sold more than 2,880,000

Lady Gaga - The Fame/ The Fame Monster has sold more than 2,867,600

Kings Of Leon - Only By The Light has sold more than 2,809,800

Keane - Hope & Fears has sold more than 2,800,000

Travis - The Man Who has sold more than 2,682,700

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"Only By The Night", surely?
"Only By The Night", surely?

 

Yes but these are the total sales..Surely, their total cd's sales are somewhere between of mine and Zeus..

Could someone add the total sales for these albums...? I have these total sales

 

Adele - 21 has sold more than 4,665,822,

Amy Winehouse - Back To Black has sold more than 3,513,084

James Blunt - Back To Bedlam has sold more than 3,278,190

Leona Lewis - Spirit has sold more than 3,100,000

Dido - No Angel has sold more than 3,070,900

Michael Buble - Crazy Love has sold more than 3,005,000

Dido - Life Fore Rent has sold more than 2,880,000

Lady Gaga - The Fame/ The Fame Monster has sold more than 2,867,600

Kings Of Leon - Only By The Light has sold more than 2,809,800

Keane - Hope & Fears has sold more than 2,800,000

Travis - The Man Who has sold more than 2,682,700

 

why is Spice not there? its sold 3m copies in the UK

So has Sgt. Pepper, but not on CD.

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