QUEEN'S REIGN EXTENDED

Follow @hitsdd

rumor mail

Email

First Name

Last Name

Company

Country
CAPTCHA code

Captcha: (type the characters above)

By clicking submit you are agreeing
to Terms and Conditions

		SONY MUSIC TOPS $10B FOR SECOND STRAIGHT FISCAL YEAR Momentum in dollars and yen (5/14a) Check It Out Now MALONE, WALLEN NEED NO "HELP" ACHIEVING MILESTONE A genre-obliterating collab (5/14a) Check It Out Now RAJ KAPOOR: STACKING THE STARS, MAKING THE ACMs SHINE Producer putting the finishing touches on Thursday's show. (5/14a) Check It Out Now WHAT'S NOT TO "LIKE?" HUGE STREAMS FOR K. DOT No longer keeping his diss-tance. (5/14a) Check It Out Now HITS LIST: AROUND THE MAYPOLE The biz springs into motion. (5/14a) Check It Out Now
		THE NEW UMG Gosh, we hope there are more press releases. TIKTOK BANNED! Unless the Senate manages to make this whole thing go away, that is. THE NEW HUGE COUNTRY ACT No, not that one. TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN PLAYLIST Now 100% unlicensed!

Blighty Beat

QUEEN'S REIGN EXTENDED

7/19/22

Queen’s Greatest Hits (EMI) has become the first album to top 7m chart sales in the U.K. The 1981 collection hit the number via a combination of physical sales, downloads and streams.

Back in the pre-streaming days of 2014, Queen’s Greatest Hits was the first album to surpass 6m sales in the U.K. Greatest Hits has accumulated 1.26b U.K. streams to date with “Bohemian Rhapsody” accounting for 240m of the total, Official Charts Company announced.

“When it was released for the first time in 1981, career-spanning packages such as Greatest Hits were relatively rare, the preserve of only the very biggest acts,” Official Charts Company CEO Martin Talbot said. “Queen’s Greatest Hits can claim to be in more than one-in-four U.K. households’ record collections today, and there is no doubt that its massive success has done as much as any other release to turn hits packages into the omnipresent album concept that they are today.”