Surely this album must be one of the biggest selling Greatest Hits albums ever.

Particularly in the UK.

 

How many copies has it sold to date now?

 

Does anyone know what the best selling Greatest Hits albums are.

It is the 4th biggest seller in the UK of all time, behind Queen's Greatest Hits, The Beatles "Sergeant Pepper" and Oasis "What's The Story Morning Glory". It has sold just over 4.1 million copies in the UK.

http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=74591

 

 

We do have the actual total sales figure for the ABBA Gold album in this week's sales topic, please read above link

and about 200k shy of Oasis in third place now :o I'm sure it will get there eventually, they still probably have another 100k left in them during this revival...maybe more

It is the 4th biggest seller in the UK of all time, behind Queen's Greatest Hits, The Beatles "Sergeant Pepper" and Oasis "What's The Story Morning Glory". It has sold just over 4.1 million copies in the UK.

 

 

How Many Sales ave the Top 3 had.

 

1) Queen

2) Beatles

3) Oasis

up to October 2006 the best selling albums in the UK were

 

1

GREATEST HITS

QUEEN

5,407,587

 

2

SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND

BEATLES

4,811,996

 

3

WHAT'S THE STORY MORNING GLORY

OASIS

4,314,715

 

4

BROTHERS IN ARMS

DIRE STRAITS

3,956,704

 

5

GOLD - GREATEST HITS

ABBA

3,943,950

 

6

THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

PINK FLOYD

3,781,993

 

7

GREATEST HITS II

QUEEN

3,644,619

 

8

THRILLER

MICHAEL JACKSON

3,578,107

 

9

BAD

MICHAEL JACKSON

3,554,301

 

10

THE IMMACULATE COLLECTION

MADONNA

3,402,160

 

11

STARS

SIMPLY RED

3,361,115

 

12

COME ON OVER

SHANIA TWAIN

3,344,280

 

13

RUMOURS

FLEETWOOD MAC

3,135,844

 

14

URBAN HYMNS

VERVE

3,054,374

 

15

NO ANGEL

DIDO

3,002,194

 

16

BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER

SIMON & GARFUNKEL

3,001,062

 

17

TALK ON CORNERS

CORRS

2,944,547

 

18

SPICE

SPICE GIRLS

2,920,669

 

19

BACK TO BEDLAM

JAMES BLUNT

2,895,874

 

20

WHITE LADDER

DAVID GRAY

2,851,429

 

there is a more up to date list somewhere on my computer but I can't find it at the moment...

Fantastic that this album is number 1 AGAIN!! :yahoo:

It must be rapidly closing in on Oasis now for the UK's number 3 best selling album ever. :dance:

Does anyone know the latest sales figures.

 

 

'Gold' was on 4,161,172 UK Sales by Midnight on Saturday 26th July.

 

To climb to No.1 in the latest Chart, it sold 30,254 more copies.

 

So, its UK Sales are now 4,191,426

 

'More ABBA Gold' - Re-Mastered comes out, in the UK, on August 25th.

It will not be very expensive, & I hear that 'I Am The City' sounds much

clearer on the 2008 version.

'Gold' was on 4,161,172 UK Sales by Midnight on Saturday 26th July.

 

To climb to No.1 in the latest Chart, it sold 30,254 more copies.

 

So, its UK Sales are now 4,191,426

 

'More ABBA Gold' - Re-Mastered comes out, in the UK, on August 25th.

It will not be very expensive, & I hear that 'I Am The City' sounds much

clearer on the 2008 version.

I tried to, not so many years ago to buy a copy of More ABBA Gold, only to find it had been deleted, so I'm gonna get myself a copy later this month!

Edited August 4, 200816 yr by Sound-Bite

If ABBA Gold is now the oldest album to top the charts, then what album was it before? Anyone know?

 

Yes - the oldest Album to top the Charts before 'ABBA Gold', was

'ABBA Gold'.

 

ABBA have held the Chart Record twice.

 

October 1992 to April 1999 = 336 Weeks - 337 Weeks if we count its

first Week at No.1 - rather than every Week after that, until April 1999,

when it returned there.

 

Now:,

 

June 1999 to August 2008 = 475 Weeks - 476 Weeks, if we count its

last Week at No.1 in June 1999, until it returned to No.1 on Sunday.

 

So, ABBA have broken their own Chart Record by 139 Weeks - or 140

Weeks, if we count its last Week at No.1 in June 1999.

Technically it's not the exact same album as the 1992 release - the original album had edited versions of 'Voulez Vous' and 'The Name of the Game' but from the 1999 re-release they've been replaced by the full versions. That's an extremely small and picky thing, though, and anyway the gap between 1999 and now still breaks the record.

 

Great news about More ABBA Gold being re-released, I've been trying to find it since I saw the film but it's out of print everywhere!

Edited August 4, 200816 yr by BillyH