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Some albums updated on 10/8/20. Queen Greatest Hits Virgin Platinum 22X Album 10.08.2020 03.01.2011 Abba Gold - Greatest Hits Polydor Platinum 19x Album 10.08.2020 05.04.2004 Beatles Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Apple Corps Platinum 18x Album 10.08.2020 09.09.2009 Fleetwood Mac Rumours Rhino/Warner Records Platinum 14x Album 10.08.2020 24.04.1984 Bob Marley & The Wailers Legend Tuff Gong Platinum 13x Album 10.08.2020 20.05.2002 Simon & Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water Columbia Platinum 11x Album 10.08.2020 20.08.2001 Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman Elektra Platinum 9x Album 10.08.2020 08.04.1988

Spotify was down worldwide for 1 hour - now fixed.

Google Play Music is going away soon YouTube Music is replacing Google Play Music as your new destination for music listening and discovery. Between October and the end of this year, access to Google Play Music will be removed permanently. We know that you've spent time building your Google Play Music library, so we've made it easy to transfer your music library to YouTube Music with just one click, including playlists, uploads and recommendations. If you haven't tried YouTube Music yet, you'll notice that it looks a bit different from Google Play Music, but know that it was built by the same team with the same passion. It also offers more than 65 million official songs, albums and playlists, as well as many features that you love and expect from Google Play Music. Music store on Google Play Starting in 30 days, the Music store on Google Play will go away. It will no longer be possible to purchase music on Google Play, and all pre-orders will be cancelled. When you transfer, your purchases will move with you to YouTube Music. Will anyone miss it? Beatles albums are only £8.99 on Google Music, £3 cheaper than iTunes downloads. Looks like streaming is taking over. So how long before iTunes disappears?

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Following death of Wayne Fontana, On iTunes 1224 NEW Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders - A Groovy Kind of Love

Fleetwood Mac co-founder Peter Green has died. ALBUMS 19 +828 Fleetwood Mac - The Best of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac 146 +1266 Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac (Remastered) Singles 135 NEW Fleetwood Mac - Albatross 164 NEW Fleetwood Mac - Oh Well, pts. I & II 166 NEW Fleetwood Mac - Man of the World 172 +220 Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way

Boyzlife - Strings Attached is now no. 1 on iTunes album chart - price drop to £4.99. Wasn't expecting that.

All this Gaga stuff messes up my thread. Please go elsewhere!

And another Queen article on the OCC web site today 50 incredible Official Chart facts about Queen Here's some of those facts. Queen’s Greatest Hits is the bestselling album in UK music history, with paid-for sales of 6.37 million as of July 2020. Bohemian Rhapsody is the second bestselling Christmas Number 1 ever, with paid-for sales of 2.6 million. Bohemian Rhapsody now has 154.7 million plays. Don’t Stop Me Now is Queen’s most downloaded song, with 577,487 sales. Greatest Hits II ranks third best-selling hits collection of all time in the UK. It’s current paid-for sales are 4.07m as of July 2020.

^ Thanks. I usually look in www.officialcharts.com/news/latest-news/

I have searched the OCC web site but I can't find this story? Is there a link?

Well done Liverpool. 29 Gerry & The Pacemakers - You'll Never Walk Alone 48 Queen - We Are the Champions 168 Kop Choir - You'll Never Walk Alone 508 Queen - We Are the Champions 661 Gerry & The Pacemakers - You'll Never Walk Alone 1128 Gerry & The Pacemakers - You'll Never Walk Alone

... sales tally now stands at an impressive 2.81 million, making it 10x Platinum. Surely 10x platinum is 3,000,000 sales? You say, Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill (#1, 1995) 2,806,000 [12/03/20] That would be 9x platinum but BPI says, Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill - Sire - Platinum 10x - Album - 25.10.2002 - 12.06.1995

How accurate was the Album Chart?

2 NEW Vera Lynn - We'll Meet Again: The Best of Vera Lynn 5 NEW Vera Lynn - We'll Meet Again: The Very Best of Vera Lynn 10 +649 Various Artists - 100 Hits Wartime Memories 18 NEW Vera Lynn - Vera Lynn 100 22 NEW Vera Lynn - National Treasure: The Ultimate Collection

Great - Belfast store opened, 10:30 - 16:30h.

Sweet success 238 NEW The Sweet - The Ballroom Blitz 497 NEW The Sweet - Fox on the Run 663 NEW The Sweet - Love Is Like Oxygen (Re-Recorded) 675 NEW The Sweet - Wig Wam Bam 986 NEW The Sweet - Blockbuster 1415 NEW The Sweet - The Ballroom Blitz 1469 NEW The Sweet - Teenage Rampage 1481 NEW The Sweet - Love Is Like Oxygen

In the iTunes Albums chart, 64 NEW The Sweet - Hits This album is re-recordings of the old hits by a later version of "The Sweet", which only included Andy Scott from the original line-up. If you want the original recordings buy "Action - the ultimate story". 301 NEW The Sweet - Action! The Ultimate Story 562 NEW The Sweet - The Best of Sweet 656 NEW The Sweet - Desolation Boulevard (New Extended Version) My favourite track - Fox on the Run. The BBC adds, Steve Priest, the bassist and co-founder of glam rock band Sweet, has died at the age of 72. He was known for his playful humour and outrageous costumes when Sweet played hits like Blockbuster and Little Willy on Top of the Pops in the 1970s. Priest also sang the memorable lines "there's a girl in the corner that no-one ignores, 'cos she thinks she's the passionate one," in Ballroom Blitz. In total, they scored 13 Top 20 hits in the 1970s, with songs like Teenage Rampage, Hell Raiser, Wig-Wam Bam and the number one single Blockbuster.

There is an interesting Music Week article on NOW compilation albums here. NOW co-MD Peter Duckworth says, "The physical edition of Now will go one day, but not in the foreseeable future". Now launched its mid-tier subscription app three years ago in response to declining physical sales. In recent weeks, it rolled out a free ad-funded version of the streaming service.

On iTunes albums chart, 5 NEW Little Richard - The Very Best of Little Richard 10 NEW Little Richard - 20 Greatest Hits (Re-Recorded Versions)

17 NEW Little Richard - The Very Best of Little Richard

878 NEW Little Richard - Long Tall Sally (Re-Recorded) His death has just been announced.

40 patriotic albums in the Top 100 chart. Vera Lynn will make a fortune in royalties.

Top 10 albums on iTunes (apart from Now That's What I Call Music! 105 at no. 2) now connected to VE Day songs.

And in the Albums Chart, 1 Various Artists - 100 Hits Wartime Memories 2 Various Artists - World War 2 - 101 All Time Greats 3 Various Artists - 120 Essential Hits of the 1940S 4 Vera Lynn - We'll Meet Again: The Best of Vera Lynn 5 The Central Band of the Royal British Legion, The Bands of H.M. Royal Marines, The Blues & Royals and loads more similar albums in the Top 100. VE 75th anniversary.