Remix albums: the best, biggest and highest charting

Below is a look at a selection of the best, biggest and highest-charting remix albums.

 

From OCC,

Beatles – Love

Released: 2006

The collection debuted at Number 3 on the Official Albums Chart and is the UK’s biggest remix album of the last 20 years, with 864,000 chart sales.

 

Madonna – You Can Dance

Released: 1987 You Can Dance reached Number 5 in the UK and is reportedly the second best-selling remix album of all time globally, with estimated sales of 5 million.

 

J To That L-O – The Remixes

Released: 2002 No. 4. It’s UK tally stands at 452,000 chart sales.

 

Linkin Park – Reanimation

Released: 2002 No. 3, and has 301,000 chart sales.

 

Massive Attack – No Protection

Released: 1995 Overall UK chart sales stand at 653,000.

 

P Diddy – We Invented The Remix

Released: 2002 It's UK chart sales stand at 178,000.

 

Michael Jackson – Blood On The Dance Floor: HIStory In The Mix

Released: 1997 Scoring two weeks at Number 1. UK chart sales are 283,000, its global sales are reportedly six million, making it the most successful remix album ever.

 

Elton John vs. Pnau – Good Morning To The Night

Released: 2012 One of the few remix albums to reach Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart.

 

NOTE: Beatles LOVE reportedly sold 6 million worldwide.

No Protection selling 653,000?!!!! Surely that can't be anywhere near correct? I'd have thought it was nearer 653 copies than 653,000!

More likely 653k are the sales of Protection and No Protection combined.

That does sound more feasible, depending on how strong a seller Protection has been as a catalogue seller. Even then I'm finding it difficult to believe as I think Protection sold less than 300K in the 90s.

That Elton John + PNAU remix album is seriously good/unappreciated!

That does sound more feasible, depending on how strong a seller Protection has been as a catalogue seller. Even then I'm finding it difficult to believe as I think Protection sold less than 300K in the 90s.

The album (Protection/No Protection) is showing as 2 x Platinum (600k sales) on the BPI certification database https://www.bpi.co.uk/award/9216-2279-2

 

However that 2 x Platinum award is dated 22 July 2013, which is the date that automatic certifications were introduced. The album (as Protection) had previously been certified Platinum in March 1996 https://www.bpi.co.uk/award/5231-2279-2

 

Unless there really has been a lot of sales under the radar then I wonder if there's an OCC database error here with possible double counting of sales of No Protection.

Edited August 24, 20204 yr by Robbie

BPI gives the same release date of 26/9/94.

So I would say this is the combined total sales.

So 653,000 in total and not 653,00 + 300,000.

Shame on them for not mentioning Gaga's The Remix, which was an absolute success in the UK and reached peak #3, selling almost 200k. I'm not mistaken, it's the best-selling remix album of the past decade in the UK & all over the world - and one of the best-selling remix albums in history.

Bit of a messy article as usual,

sure that's the total for Protection/No Protection, Massive Attack are big catalogue sellers, their first 3 albums are all Double Platinum even if Blue Lines their debut was only one week in the low top 20

 

 

when I think of remix Albums, also the first that comes to mind is Gaga's so it's weird they skipped it

 

is the Beatles really a Remix album? it's more like a sorta Mash-up album to me :D

 

 

Is the Beatles really a Remix album? it's more like a sorta Mash-up album to me :D

The OCC did say,

Produced by George Martin and his son Giles, Love remixed Beatles classics - including Eleanor Rigby, Strawberry Fields Forever and a mashup of Blackbird/Yesterday - for a Cirque du Soleil Vegas show of the same name.

 

Choose whichever word you prefer. :rolleyes:

but it's not like we got the Tiesto Remix of Yesterday and the Calvin Remix of Help :D

but it's not like we got the Tiesto Remix of Yesterday and the Calvin Remix of Help :D

Not all remixes have to be dance bangers?

https://www.nme.com/news/music/john-lennons...x-album-2738240

 

Speaking of Beatles-related remix albums, there's one just been announced for John Lennon out on October 9th!

^ that sounds 1000% like the original, see for me going and doing a clean-up of the original is not a Remix

^ that sounds 1000% like the original, see for me going and doing a clean-up of the original is not a Remix

I see what you mean, but I guess technically it has been "re-mixed"

I don't think that quite the same as a remix album though - I wouldn't count the track-by-track remixes of Beatles albums either. Love just about counts as one because there's some reinterpretation, not just trying to improve the sound quality.

I see the barrell-scraping Stone Roses remix album is being reissued on vinyl. *contains excitement*.