Posted August 24, 20204 yr 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.
August 24, 20204 yr 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!
August 24, 20204 yr 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.
August 24, 20204 yr 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
August 24, 20204 yr Author 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.
August 25, 20204 yr 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.
August 25, 20204 yr 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
August 25, 20204 yr Author 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:
August 25, 20204 yr but it's not like we got the Tiesto Remix of Yesterday and the Calvin Remix of Help :D
August 25, 20204 yr 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?
August 26, 20204 yr 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!
August 27, 20204 yr ^ that sounds 1000% like the original, see for me going and doing a clean-up of the original is not a Remix
August 27, 20204 yr ^ 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"
August 27, 20204 yr 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.
August 28, 20204 yr I see the barrell-scraping Stone Roses remix album is being reissued on vinyl. *contains excitement*.
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