Queen, Greatest Hits (39 years and one month) Released: Oct. 26, 1981 Entered top 10: Nov. 28, 2020 Boost factor: Vinyl sale at Walmart 3. Aretha Franklin, 30 Greatest Hits (approx. 33 years ...

Queen’s first "Greatest Hits" album is officially the United Kingdom’s biggest-selling album ever. Yes, it even outsells the Beatles "Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band" by almost a ...

Greatest Hits is one of seven Queen releases that have spent at least a full year on the U.K. albums chart, and one of three that have made it to triple-digit frames on the ranking.

Queen’s Greatest Hits skyrocketed up from No 36 to No 8 after 412 weeks on the Billboard 200 chart. The compilation record’s previous peak was No 11, which was hit back in 1992.

The oldest track on Queen’s Greatest Hits originally appeared on the band’s self-titled debut album in 1973, as an instrumental, and again on 1974’s Queen II as a fully formed song.

QUEEN GREATEST HITS album is to be re-released for its 40th anniversary, as Brian May teases that "something else is also coming!" By George Simpson, Film & Music Editor ...

According to the Official Charts tally Queen ‘s 1981 Greatest Hits album is far and away the best seller as well as the only one to have sold more than six million copies in the UK (6.1 million ...

Not that other Queen compilations haven't also reached the upper echelon of the Billboard 200. The band's Greatest Hits I, II & III: The Platinum Collection, a three-disc overview, hit No. 6 on ...

Queen's Greatest Hits is one of the most ubiquitous LPs ever released, a compilation that's cemented itself across the decades as a staple of any music lover's collection.

Queen's second Greatest Hits album, released in October 1991, a month before the death of singer Freddie Mercury - is also the UK's tenth biggest record, with sales around the four million mark.

Queen have made UK chart history as they have become the first musicians to sell seven million copies of a single album. The rock band's first Greatest Hits collection, recorded in 1981, includes ...

What this fan project does, though, is strip Queen’s legendary music of both of those qualities, and yet, That Gamer’s 8-bit cover of the band’s first Greatest Hits album still sounds as ...