Posted October 1, 201212 yr 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 Edited October 10, 201212 yr by Dandy*
October 9, 201212 yr I believe it did. For Zeus: 8 Track Cartridges took us into the 70s, & the cassette came popular from 72/73 onwards
October 9, 201212 yr 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
October 9, 201212 yr 21. PARACHUTES - COLDPLAY - 2,474,000 22. THE FAME - LADY GAGA - 2,476,000 Shouldn't The Fame be above Parachutes or are the sales incorrect?
October 10, 201212 yr 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
October 10, 201212 yr Author Thanks for spotting my tyupo, Guys. I've now corrected the Sales of 'Parachutes', to 2,480,000.
October 10, 201212 yr Sorry to be pedantic but there is another typo! It should read CDs - NOT CD's I agree :ph34r:
October 10, 201212 yr Morning glory must have sold a bucket load of tapes must be near or around 1 million
November 8, 201311 yr 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 Edited November 8, 201311 yr by Escapar82
November 9, 201311 yr "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..
November 9, 201311 yr 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
November 9, 201311 yr why is Spice not there? its sold 3m copies in the UK So has Sgt. Pepper, but not on CD.
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