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**zeus555** · Mon May 20, 2013, 01:44

So, the 1st Queen Hits Album should have 19 UK BPI Awards - for Sales,
& perhaps a 20th Award for Shipments - as the LP is already 2 thirds of
the way to a 20th Award. (19 X Platinum = 5,700,000).

The ABBA Album should have 17 Awards, as should The Beatles Album.

But, the BPI Awards for each of them are:,

1) Queen - 11 - and the 11th was awarded in January 1992. (So, it is entitled to 8 or 9 more Awards)
2) ABBA - 13 - And the 13th was awarded in February 2005. (So it really should have 4 more Awards)
3) The Beatles - 0 - As The BPI did not start giving Awards until 1973. (So, it is entitled to 17 Awards)

Zeus555

**loris39** · Sun May 26, 2013, 19:12

Greatest Hits sales of2013.

USA: 34,000 copies
USA We Will Rock You Edition: 26,000 copies
Canada: 7/7,500 copies
UK: 26/28,000 copies

Counting only these three countries, we have a total of approximately 95,000 units in the first five months of 2013.

In Australia, the album keeps selling well, and in the last few months he was ahead of some top-50 albums for some weeks.
At the beginning of 2013, he spent some weeks in chart in italy, Austria, France, Sweden, Belgium and this week also in Norway.

**thebigham** · Mon May 27, 2013, 23:40

6/1 Catalog 200

143 QUEEN GREATESTHITS 1,385 7 1,496 7,095,235

179 QUEEN GREATESTHITS?WE WILL ROCK YOU 1,280 8 1,384 1,165,760

**borderwolf** · Wed May 29, 2013, 12:54

Czech Republic
dvd chart
week 21

1. QUEEN Hungarian Rhapsody

**thebigham** · Thu May 30, 2013, 15:40

6/8 Catalog 200:

52 QUEEN PLATINUM COLLECTION 2,141 164 811 852,953 2xp

90 QUEEN GREATESTHITS?WE WILL ROCK YOU 1,764 38 1,280 1,167,524 not certified!

179 QUEEN GREATESTHITS 1,286 ?7 1,385 7,096,521 8xp

**slightlymad** · Thu June 6, 2013, 15:10

Where's Hernan gone? Our Queen charts expert hasn't posted since March 28th, surely that's a record, hope your OK HUR

**slightlymad** · Sun June 9, 2013, 19:20

UK Album Charts 09/06/2013

89 (91) Queen Greatest Hits

Does anybody have the chart run for GH in 2013 and how many weeks it's spent inside the Top 100? Must be one of the best years for GH for a while I would think.

**HUR** · Sun June 9, 2013, 19:36

Originally posted by slightlymad

Where's Hernan gone? Our Queen charts expert hasn't posted since March 28th, surely that's a record, hope your OK HUR

I'm still here, I'm OK. I still post, just not here. Nothing interesting to add, but I will see what I can bring in the next few weeks. Thanks for asking.

And thank you for the charts news, by the way.

**thebigham** · Mon June 10, 2013, 17:22

6/15 Billboard charts:

Top 200 SS Albums 1991-2013

65 HOL QUEEN GREATEST HITS 7,097,801 8xp

**slightlymad** · Thu June 13, 2013, 21:50

Some up to date sales from the USA thanks to the Hard Rock Album Chart

Hard Rock Album Chart
39 QUEEN GREATEST HITS-WE WILL ROCK YOU 1,579 - 1,170,760
56 QUEEN GREATEST HITS 1,307 - 7,099,108
81 QUEEN PLATINUM COLLECTION 1,050 - 854,853

Music Video Charts
31 QUEEN LIVE IN BUDAPEST 234 - 18,518
40 QUEEN ON FIRE LIVE AT THE BOWL 196 - 254,738

Great total for Queen On Fire

On another note Eagle Rock have announced the release of The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert on Bluray for September 2013, could be another good seller.

**HUR** · Thu June 13, 2013, 22:46

Wow, what happened with Queen On Fire?

Last total I had was 105,000, from December 2010 (maybe it was related to the album version, not the DVD). This is a tremendous number for that DVD.

**slightlymad** · Sat June 15, 2013, 20:42

Hi All, this is for HUR, here is an interesting link to a forthcoming sale at Bonhams for a few Sales awards for Queen that were presented to their engineer Mike Stone, the link has detailed photos of each award, some interesting ones include

Somebody To Love - Gold Japan (No sales though)
You're My Best Friend - Platinum Japan (No sales though)
ADATR - Holland 120,000 copies sold May 1977
NOTW - Germany 250,000 copies sold
ANATO - Denmark 30,000 copies sold April 1978

http://www.bonhams.com/search/?q=Que...e=1&MR0__sub=1

Does this match your sales HUR?

**loris39** · Sun June 16, 2013, 18:07

UK Albums Chart:

#85 Greatest Hits

I Tunes Top-100 Albums Canada

#1 Greatest Hits

**HUR** · Sun June 16, 2013, 18:49

Thank you for the link, Slightlymad. All very interesting. Everything matches very good what I would have guessed myself, but these are very valuable records.

In Germany, News Of The World was certified Gold (250,000) in 1978, reached 450,000 in March 1979 (according to Billboard) and eventually went Platinum (500,000) in 1990.

In Netherlands, A Day At The Races was indeed Platinum (100,000) in May 1977, after peaking at number 1 for 5 weeks. It is good to know it reached 120,000 in 1977. I know it shipped 13,037 copies between 1994 and February 2004 (an average of 1,300 a year). It is safe to assume it has sold some 200,000 in Netherlands.

**zeus555** · Sun June 16, 2013, 19:36

This Week, (W/E 22nd June), the Top 5 Albums with the most UK Top 100 Weeks, are all in the Top 100.

Here they are - with Totals so far:,

THE UK's TOP 5 ALBUMS WITH THE MOST TOP 100 WEEKS

1) Gold - Greatest Hits - ABBA - 668 Weeks
2) Greatest Hits - Queen - 656 Weeks
3) Legend - Bob Marley & The Wailers - 619 Weeks
4) Rumours - Fleetwood Mac - 547 Weeks
5) Bat Out Of Hell - Meat Loaf - 516 Weeks

And here are Queen's 'Greatest Hits' UK Top 100 Weeks - so far - in 2013:,

05/01/2013: 82-72-67-69-75-83-97

01/06/2013: 90-91-89-85

Total = 11 Weeks - so far

Zeus555

**EdWood** · Mon June 17, 2013, 16:00

Just saw this on Kworb showing Queen's positions on iTunes in Canada - anyone know why its currently at number 1?

Canada (45)

Songs:

266. We Will Rock You

Albums:

1. Queen: Greatest Hits
203. Queen: Absolute Greatest
330. Classic Queen

Queen also saw a slight rise on the UK album charts yesterday - Greatest Hits is now at 85 from 89 last week - the only sales figures we have are for the following 2 albums:

57 Goo Goo Dolls 2,745
95 ABBA 1,364

So Queen probably sold around 1,700?

**Timmy94** · Fri July 5, 2013, 13:57

The Platinum Collection - Greatest Hits I, II & III celebrates its 4-year-jubilee on the Flemish Albums Chart this week. It's the all-rime longest charting album there.

Its chart run:
26 / 14 / 17 / 11 / 10 / 14 / 18 / 29 / 45 / - / 44 / 41 / 50 / - / 48 / - / 45 / 40 / 44 / - / 38 / 32 / 30 / 33 / 38 / - / 89 / 77 / 75 / 73 / 90 / 93 / - / 81 / 56 / 47 / 57 / 51 / 47 / 53 / 52 / 61 / 56 / 61 / 65 / 66 / 70 / 68 / 67 / 59 / 63 / 87 / 72 / 49 / 64 / - / 86 / 98 / - / 98 / 99 / 89 / 74 / 70 / 74 / 74 / 56 / 44 / 42 / 35 / 39 / 54 / 74 / 78 / 74 / 74 / 76 / 79 / 68 / 49 / 52 / 50 / 56 / 86 / - / 73 / 54 / 41 / 45 / 59 / 69 / 74 / 74 / 71 / 66 / 83 / - / 94 / 74 / 82 / - / 93 / 65 / 65 / 65 / 65 / 74 / 88 / 96 / 99 / - / 98 / 95 / - / 91 / - / 97 / 88 / 83 / - / 91 / 89 / 68 / 75 / 68 / 98 / - / 99 / - / 87 / 54 / 50 / 83 / 90 / 61 / 95 / 78 / 99 / - / 89 / 64 / 55 / 24 / 23 / 17 / 15 / 17 / 20 / 20 / 20 / 17 / 23 / 40 / 45 / 57 / 56 / 48 / 52 / 64 / 56 / 59 / 74 / 60 / 68 / 93 / 91 / 93 / 86 / 100 / 110 / 79 / 105 / 108 / 108 / 84 / 68 / 55 / 89 / 108 / 89 / 51 / 69 / 73 / 55 / 62 / 65 / 54 / 79 / 93 / 83 / 51 / 75 / 72 / 96 / 120 / 93 / 84 / 89 / 63 / 61 / 68 / 66 / 65 / 63 / 72 / 78 / 73 / 94 / 104 / 96 / 119 / 109 / 116 / 112 / 149 / 125 / 101 / 62 / 47 / 74 / 77 / 137 / 98 / 102 / 101 / 117

**HUR** · Fri July 5, 2013, 18:20

Thank you, Timmy. That is what I call an amazing chart run, speaking of which:

Some great VHS's charts stats for Queen in Italy.

Not many people know this, but M&D used to run a monthly Music Video ranking back in the nineties (they staterted in April 1991):

Greatest Flix II
01.12.1991: 4
01.01.1992: 2
01.02.1992: 6
01.03.1992: 5
01.04.1992: 7
01.05.1992: 7
01.06.1992: 9
01.07.1992: 10
01.08.1992: 10
01.09.1992: 12
01.10.1992: 16
01.11.1992: 18
01.12.1992: 20
01.01.1993: 17

Box Of Flix
01.01.1992: 5
01.02.1992: 4
01.03.1992: 1
01.04.1992: 1
01.05.1992: 1
01.06.1992: 1
01.07.1992: 2
01.08.1992: 2
01.09.1992: 3
01.10.1992: 3
01.11.1992: 3
01.12.1992: 3
01.01.1993: 1
01.02.1993: 6
01.03.1993: 7
01.04.1993: 7
01.05.1993: 5
01.06.1993: 14
01.07.1993: 11
01.08.1993: 11
01.09.1993: 16
01.10.1993: 20

Queen At Wembley
01.04.1992: 3
01.05.1992: 4
01.06.1992: 5
01.07.1992: 1
01.08.1992: 1
01.09.1992: 1
01.10.1992: 1
01.11.1992: 4
01.12.1992: 4
01.01.1993: 2
01.02.1993: 2
01.03.1993: 10
01.04.1993: 9
01.05.1993: 11
01.06.1993: 12
01.07.1993: 7
01.08.1993: 7
01.09.1993: 9
01.10.1993: 18
01.11.1993: 16
01.12.1993: 13
01.01.1994: 14
01.02.1994: 14
01.03.1994: 15
01.04.1994: 16

Champions Of The World
01.12.1995: 1
01.01.1996: 1
01.02.1996: 3
01.03.1996: 4
01.04.1996: 4
01.05.1996: 10

It would be:

-Box Of Flix: 5 months (22 weeks) number one, 17 months (74 weeks) Top 10

-Queen At Wembley: 4 months (17 weeks) number one, 16 months number (69 weeks) Top 10

-Champions Of The World: 2 months (8 weeks) number one, 6 months (26 weeks)
Top 10

-Greatest Flix II: 1 month number 2, 9 months (39 weeks) Top 10

Some may be incomplete.

I wish I had these same details for other European countries from around that time.

These are really some amazing stats. But then again, Queen's chart success was great in Italy back then.

All thanks to "me".

**AndiIversen** · Sat July 6, 2013, 19:12

Sweden

Sverigetopplistan albums

#50 RE The Platinum Collection - 27 weeks on

**HUR** · Sat July 6, 2013, 21:35

USA Back Catalogue Albums

199 (200) Greatest Hits (7,102,812 sold)

USA Music Videos

34 (38) Hungarian Rhapsody (19,264 sold)

UK Albums

113 (104) Greatest Hits
199 (191) Platinum Collection

Canada Back Catalogue Albums

26 (2) Greatest Hits (534,280)
44 (26) Absolute Greatest (97,219)

Canada Music Videos

7 (New) Queen An Evening At The Concert Hall (2,062)
34 (28) Live At Wembley reissue (2,429)

Belgium/Wallonia Albums

101 (99) Platinum Collection

Belgium/Flanders Albums

117 (101) Platinum Collection

France Albums

128 (111) Greatest Hits
136 (131) Greatest Hits II

South Korea Albums

66 (92) Platinum Collection

Netherlands Music Videos

29 (26) Live In South America

Not sure if I missed any.

**HUR** · Wed July 10, 2013, 22:11

Originally posted by slightlymad

Some up to date sales from the USA thanks to the Hard Rock Album Chart

Hard Rock Album Chart
39 QUEEN GREATEST HITS-WE WILL ROCK YOU 1,579 - 1,170,760
56 QUEEN GREATEST HITS 1,307 - 7,099,108
81 QUEEN PLATINUM COLLECTION 1,050 - 854,853

Music Video Charts
31 QUEEN LIVE IN BUDAPEST 234 - 18,518
40 QUEEN ON FIRE LIVE AT THE BOWL 196 - 254,738

Great total for Queen On Fire

On another note Eagle Rock have announced the release of The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert on Bluray for September 2013, could be another good seller.

This is what there is for Queen On Fire this week:

5 EGRO 48 QUEEN ON FIRE LIVE AT THE BOWL 194 55 125 1,425

Probably just a reissue.

I didn't bother to check the Billboard topic last time, but this is what was actually listed three weeks ago:

3 EGRO 20 26 40 QUEEN ON FIRE LIVE AT THE BOWL 196 (23) 254 738

It was on just 738 sales, not 254,738.

I knew there was something wrong there.

So the last total I posted still stands: the DVD had sold 105,000 by December 2010. By now, probably some 110,000. But not quite as much as 255,000. Still, good DVDs sales for Queen in the USA, no matter what.

Apart from that:

CHART: Top Hard Music Albums

88 HOL 68 68 66 QUEEN GREATEST HITS 1,370 14 1,197 7,104,182
1 HOL 90 QUEEN ICON 1,047 59 657 3,108
95 HOL 50 92 95 QUEEN GREATEST HITS-WE WILL ROCK YOU 1,003 6 943 1,176,513

I don't think this Icon release was needed at all. I don't see the point.

**slightlymad** · Sat July 13, 2013, 19:29

Sorry for the miss information HUR regarding Queen On Fire, oops

All Time Biggest Selling Downloads in the USA Sales to July 6, 2013

155 ( 160 ) QUEEN BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY 3,296,159 ( 217,037 )

So far this year Bo Rhap has sold 217,037 downloads in America, not bad for a 38 year old song

**HUR** · Sat July 13, 2013, 20:57

No problem, Slightlymad.

Amazing sales for Bohemian Rhapsody indeed. Counting physical and digital sales, it has sold like a million in four different decades in the USA.

More than 5 million overall (although hopefully Topicel won't read this last comment, lol).

Some charts stats:

UK Albums

79 (113) Greatest Hits

France Albums

142 (128) Greatest Hits
173 (136) Greatest Hits II

Australia Catalogue Albums

34 (36) Greatest Hits

Italy DVD

6 (Re) Live At Wembley

Netherlands DVD

22 (Re) Hungarian Rhapsody
30 (29) Live In South America

Belgium/Wallonia Albums

109 (101) Platinum Collection

Belgium/Flanders Albums

70 (117) Platinum Collection

South Korea Albums

58 (66) Platinum Collection

Poland Albums (monthly)

34 Platinum Collection

Czech Republic DVD

4 (12) Hungarian Rhapsody

Sweden Albums

46 (50) Platinum Collection

**brian05** · Sat July 20, 2013, 12:35

From BPI,

From 19th July 2013, any album, single and music DVD that has passed a qualifying threshold for a Silver, Gold, Platinum or Multi-Platinum certification will now be automatically updated on the Official Charts Company�s database. These titles will also be updated in Music Week�s charts pages and be added to the BPI�s consumer-facing searchable database at http://www.bpi.co.uk.

The �auto-update� will be based on sales as registered by the Official Charts Company (from 1994 onwards, when their records begin) and only applies to titles that have (a) not been previously certified or (b) are eligible for a certification upgrade based purely on sales from 1994 onwards. A retrospective �drop� of missing titles has been conducted and a weekly sweep will occur going forward to maintain the integrity of the scheme.

Can we expect any new certifications for Queen, especially Greatest Hits I?

See http://www.bpi.co.uk/home/bpi-sales-awa ... ation.aspx

**nucleardolphin** · Sat July 20, 2013, 20:18

This would be seriously interesting. If the BPI do their job then I am sure Queen will get a whole bunch of awards for CDs and DVDs. However, I think this sounds like more guff, same kind of rubbish you'd expect to here from the RIAA, IFPI or maybe even the european central bank.

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