Queen :: Charts & Sales History

[thebigham]

9/2/17 Billboard's Top Album Sales
Total = Chain, Independent, Mass Merchants, Non Traditional

177. QUEEN|PLATINUM COLLECTION 1,562 = 154 52 532 823

[Nippian93]

US digital sales: #163 Bohemian Rhapsody, @QueenWillRock 4,426 (4,428,158 total).

[slightlymad]

This may be of interest to Hernan and a few others, recently stumbled across an advert in Billboard magazine form the April 29th 2006 issue. It's a Queen advert from Hollywood Records celebrating Queen being featured in the VH1 Rock Honours. It states what I presume is over 40,000,000 albums sold in America and confirms in excess of 10,000,000 copies of Queen's Greatest Hits sold in the US, so it should be Diamond in award status, plus sales from the last 11 years!

Below is the link to the advert, it's on Page 2

http://www.americanradiohistory.com/...2006-04-29.pdf

[slightlymad]

Current UK Album Chart W/E 24th August 2017
No25 - Bob Marley - Legend
No61 - Queen - Greatest Hits
No80 - ABBA - Gold

UK Album Chart - Most Weeks Top 75
542Weeks = Bob Marley - Legend
526 Weeks = ABBA - Gold
522Weeks = Queen Greatest Hits

UK Album Chart - Most Weeks Top 100
798Weeks = ABBA - Gold
786 Weeks = Queen - Greatest Hits
785Weeks = Bob Marley - Legend

Queen + Bob gain one week on Abba in the Weeks in Top75

[thebigham]

Whoa! This is for the "standard" single. NOT digital...

RIAA.com:

QUEEN
Title: CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE
Certification Date: August 14, 2017
Label: HOLLYWOOD RECORDS
Format: SINGLE
Platinum

[loris39]

Queen total from Spotify - update August 2017

2,230,076,050 listens. This figure is comparable to 1,486,717.37 albums sold. I have also counted all the solo tracks from the Greatest Hits III.
The most listened album is A Night At The Opera, with 382,892,895 listens.

[thebigham]

8/26/17 Billboard's Top Album Sales
Total = Chain, Independent, Mass Merchants, Non Traditional

143. QUEEN|PLATINUM COLLECTION 1,796 = 180 32 611 974

194. QUEEN|GREATEST HITS 1 1,535 = 81 100 472 882

[Wayne]

The Queen album you're quoting is the remastered re-release which has a different catalogue number - that number is listed as having 285 weeks against it for top 200 wks. This is what I questioned last time I posted in the topic.

Wayne, it's still the same release. The album changed catalogue number because Queen changed record label from EMI to Island. Track listing is identical and so it all counts towards it's total weeks on chart. On the official UK chart website it is listed at 785 Top 75 weeks. Would love to know it's Top 200 weeks.......does anybody know?

On my UKCP, it's listed as having 285 wks against it - not quite sure what's going on. Hopefully zeus555 might be able to clarify?

[loris39]

Thanks for your updates, Nippian. It's been more than one year since we haven't got album results. I have to say that the digital track sales have dropped, but the streaming data have registered an impressive improvement. Streaming is getting more and more decisive. I think Bohemian Rhapsody is not far from its 5th Platinum, as it has sold more than 4,400,000 digital copies. It depends on how much the streaming market will be decisive in the global amount.

[Nippian93]

Billboard 200: #58 @QueenWillRock, Platinum Collection 9,214 units [1,874 album sales | 22,151 track sales | 7,688,578 streams]

[slightlymad]

The Queen album you're quoting is the remastered re-release which has a different catalogue number - that number is listed as having 285 weeks against it for top 200 wks. This is what I questioned last time I posted in the topic.

Wayne, it's still the same release. The album changed catalogue number because Queen changed record label from EMI to Island. Track listing is identical and so it all counts towards it's total weeks on chart. On the official UK chart website it is listed at 785 Top 75 weeks. Would love to know it's Top 200 weeks.......does anybody know?

[Wayne]

The Queen album you're quoting is the remastered re-release which has a different catalogue number - that number is listed as having 285 weeks against it for top 200 wks. This is what I questioned last time I posted in the topic.

[slightlymad]

Current UK Album Chart W/E 17th August 2017
No20 - Bob Marley - Legend
No70 - Queen - Greatest Hits
No77 - ABBA - Gold

UK Album Chart - Most Weeks Top 75
541Weeks = Bob Marley - Legend
526 Weeks = ABBA - Gold
521Weeks = Queen Greatest Hits

UK Album Chart - Most Weeks Top 100
797Weeks = ABBA - Gold
785 Weeks = Queen - Greatest Hits
784Weeks = Bob Marley - Legend

Queen + Bob gain one week on Abba in the Weeks in Top75

[braca]

Pity it is not controlled by the white house!
Leaking guaranteed

[thebigham]

^No, we don't. A SS chart with RTD totals for albums has not leaked in 3 years.

[braca]

8/19/17 Billboard's Top Album Sales
Total = Chain, Independent, Mass Merchants, Non Traditional

134. QUEEN|PLATINUM COLLECTION 1,874 = 173 29 674 998

185. QUEEN|GREATEST HITS 1 1,492 = 73 117 458 844

Many thanks for this
Do you have a total SoundScan number to date for them?
Cheers

[thebigham]

8/19/17 Billboard's Top Album Sales
Total = Chain, Independent, Mass Merchants, Non Traditional

134. QUEEN|PLATINUM COLLECTION 1,874 = 173 29 674 998

185. QUEEN|GREATEST HITS 1 1,492 = 73 117 458 844

[yuvalzirler]

Queen in Israel in the 70's-
Bohemain rhapsody-#1 for 3 weeks starting 20.6.76
You're my best friend-#1 for 2 weeks starting 25.7.76
Somebody to love-entered in 12.12.76, charted for 9 weeks (12-?-3-4-?-6-9-12-20-out), at least #3
Tie your mother down-at least #19 in 17.4.77
Good old fashioned lover boy-entered in 10.7.77, charted for 8-9 weeks (9-5-?-5-7-9-16-27-?-out)
We are the champions-entered in #1 in 6.11.77, charted for 14 weeks (?-8-6-6-2-2-1-2-2-2-?-6-10-21-out) and was #1 in 25.12.77 for one week
Bicycle race-entered in 19.11.78, charted for 8 weeks, peaked at #4 (17-?-13-5-4-9-15-20-out)
Don't stop me now-entered in 22.4.79, charted for 8 weeks, peaked at #15 (29-22-17-15-21-31-?-39-out)
Crazy little thing called love-entered in 25.11.79, charted for 8 weeks, peaked at #10 (20-13-12-10-14-22-?-38-out)
80's list will come soon!

[slightlymad]

Current UK Album Chart W/E 10th August 2017
No24 - Bob Marley - Legend
No70 - Queen - Greatest Hits
No85 - ABBA - Gold

UK Album Chart - Most Weeks Top 75
540Weeks = Bob Marley - Legend
526 Weeks = ABBA - Gold
520Weeks = Queen Greatest Hits

UK Album Chart - Most Weeks Top 100
796Weeks = ABBA - Gold
784 Weeks = Queen - Greatest Hits
783Weeks = Bob Marley - Legend

Queen + Bob gain one week on Abba in the Weeks in Top200

UK Album Chart - Most Weeks Top 200
1,186 weeks = ABBA - Gold
1,253 weeks = Bob Marley - Legend

With Queen, can't find the last time they charted with the original Greatest Hits album - for a long time now, they've been charting with the remastered version which is at almost 300 weeks on the chart.

The man you need to contact about this is Zeus555, his knowledge about this is phenomenal, almost as good as his knowledge about ABBA!!!

[yuvalzirler]

Just found some more Israeli charts from the 70's and 80's with Queen! I'll post the new discography soon

[Wayne]

Current UK Album Chart W/E 10th August 2017
No24 - Bob Marley - Legend
No70 - Queen - Greatest Hits
No85 - ABBA - Gold

UK Album Chart - Most Weeks Top 75
540Weeks = Bob Marley - Legend
526 Weeks = ABBA - Gold
520Weeks = Queen Greatest Hits

UK Album Chart - Most Weeks Top 100
796Weeks = ABBA - Gold
784 Weeks = Queen - Greatest Hits
783Weeks = Bob Marley - Legend

Queen + Bob gain one week on Abba in the Weeks in Top200

UK Album Chart - Most Weeks Top 200
1,186 weeks = ABBA - Gold
1,253 weeks = Bob Marley - Legend

With Queen, can't find the last time they charted with the original Greatest Hits album - for a long time now, they've been charting with the remastered version which is at almost 300 weeks on the chart.

[Nippian93]

US digital sales: #143 Bohemian Rhapsody, @QueenWillRock 5,364 (4,418,452 total).

[slightlymad]

Current UK Album Chart W/E 10th August 2017
No24 - Bob Marley - Legend
No70 - Queen - Greatest Hits
No85 - ABBA - Gold

UK Album Chart - Most Weeks Top 75
540Weeks = Bob Marley - Legend
526 Weeks = ABBA - Gold
520Weeks = Queen Greatest Hits

UK Album Chart - Most Weeks Top 100
796Weeks = ABBA - Gold
784 Weeks = Queen - Greatest Hits
783Weeks = Bob Marley - Legend

Queen + Bob gain one week on Abba in the Weeks in Top75

[slightlymad]

27/07/17 Billboard's Top 200 Album Sales

131. QUEEN|PLATINUM COLLECTION - 1827 Sales

[slightlymad]

Current UK Album Chart W/E 3rd August 2017
No24 - Bob Marley - Legend
No72 - Queen - Greatest Hits
No80 - ABBA - Gold

UK Album Chart - Most Weeks Top 75
539Weeks = Bob Marley - Legend
526 Weeks = ABBA - Gold
519Weeks = Queen Greatest Hits

UK Album Chart - Most Weeks Top 100
795 Weeks = ABBA - Gold
783 Weeks = Queen - Greatest Hits
782Weeks = Bob Marley - Legend

Queen + Bob gain one week on Abba in the Weeks in Top75