Queen :: Charts & Sales History

[HUR]

More than a year ago, I remember posting the following peak positions for Queen in Portugal:

The Works: #1
A Kind Of Magic: #3
The Miracle: #3
Innuendo: #1
Greatest Hits 2: #1
Live At Wembley '86: #1
Made In Heaven: #1
Queen Rocks: #27
Greatest Hits 3: #4
Queen On Fire: #9

These were posted by a Queen fan on a Queen Portuguese site. The guy spoke like he knew what he was talking about although, while searching for a source to confim them, I took it with a "pinch of salt", like British generally say.

Well, I have found new information:

Portugal

15 August 1986

Nº 01 – GAL COSTA - "Bem Bom"
Nº 02 – V/A - "San Francisco"
Nº 03 – QUEEN - “A KInd of Magic”
Nº 04 – PETER GABRIEL - “So”
Nº 05 – FREI HERMANO DA CÂMARA - "O Melhor de...”
Nº 06 – JEAN MICHEL JARRE - "Rendez-Vous”
Nº 07 – MADONNA - "True Blue”
Nº 08 – GENESIS - "Invisible Touch"
Nº 09 – COCK ROBIN - "Cock Robin"
Nº 10 – BRYAN FERRY/ROXY MUSIC - "Street Life"

The guy who runs the blog Viva80s told me: "#3 was the highest position achieved by Queen with this album here!".

7 March 1987

Nº 01 – MARIA BETHÂNIA – “Dezembros”
Nº 02 – NUNO DA CÂMARA PEREIRA – “Mar Português”
Nº 03 – RUI VELOSO – “Rui Veloso”
Nº 04 – CENTURY – “...and Soul It Goes”
Nº 05 – QUEEN – “Live Magic”
Nº 06 – MINISTARS – “Ministars”
Nº 07 – EUROPE – “The Final Countdown”
Nº 08 – GNR – “Psicopátria”
Nº 09 – XUTOS & PONTAPÉS – “Circo de Feras”
Nº 10 – PAUL SIMON – “Graceland”

Also from that site: "Tudo isto ajudou imenso para sucesso de "The Works" e para as vendas que o disco seguiu alcançar. O álbum andou no cimo dos tops, praticamente em todo o mundo, mas em Portugal chegou mesmo ao Nº 1 do "Top Disco". Já na America, depois do vídeo-clip de "I Want To Break Free" a banda foi totalmente posta de lado pelos gringos americanos."

From Billboard, I was also able to know that "Made In Heaven" was #1 during at least 8 weeks in Portugal from 1995 to early 1996.

This means that three of the peak postions posted by that Portuguese fan on that Queen forum are now confirmed as truth. Therefore, there is a good chance that he was right with the other albums.

[borderwolf]

Korea
shipments weekly chart

43 Absolute Greatest [2009 Digital Remaster...
Queen

[HUR]

I think that Bestiamodesta will like this, but here are some old Russian charts from about 1995 and 1996. Not official, but several ones compiled by some of the main stores:

March 1996

1 Queen Made In Heaven
2 Ozzy Osbourne Ozzmosis
....
10 Queen Innuendo

Las ventas de CD en la tienda "Daros, Ekaterinburg (Mayo 1 - 7 de mayo)
1 (9). Joy - "Mejor"
2 (8). C.C. Catch - "Clásicos"
3 (-). Fancy - "Slice Mi Niza"
4 (-). Joe Dassin - "Greatest Hits"
5 (-). Queen - "A Kind of Magic"
6 (-). Dire Straits - "The Very Best of"
7 (-). Modern Talking - "The Album Therd / El cuarto álbum"
8 (-). Modern Talking - "En el Jardín de Venus"
9 (-). Modern Talking - "Romantic Warriors"
10 (-). Sting - "Mercury Falling"

1. (-) Sting - "Mercury Falling"
2. (-) The Beatles - "Antología 2"
3. (1) Queen - "Made In Heaven"
4. (12) Pink Floyd - "Dark Side Of The Moon"
5. (25) Madonna - "Something To Remember"
6. (-) Elton John - "Love Songs"
7. (2) Ozzy Osbourne - "Ozzmosis"
8. (20) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - "Murder Ballads"
9. (-) Mark Knopfler - "Golden Heart"
10. (10) Queen - "Innuendo"
TUTTI 1996

Las ventas de CDs en la tienda de "Gloria", Ekaterinburg (6 de diciembre -13 de diciembre)
1. East 17 - "Up All Nights"
2. Cabballero - "Los Elementos"
3. Kids Video - "La Invasión de la Spacepeckers"
4. Valeriy Meladze - "Señor"
5. Europa Plus 2 - Colección
6. DJ Hits 28 - Colección
7. Queen - "Made in Heaven"8. Filipp Kirkorov - "Dile al sol, sí!"
9. Harajuku - "Just One Look"
10. G. Krichevski - "Mejor"

Las ventas de CD en la tienda "Daros, Ekaterinburg (6 de diciembre -13 de diciembre)
1. Chris Rea - "The Best of"
2. Queen - "Baladas"
3. Moderatto - "20 Greatest Hits"
4. Colección - "Best Ballads 95"
5. Louis Armstrong - "The Ultimate Collection"
6. Elton John - "15 Greatest Ballads"
7. The Cranberries - "No Need to Argue"
8. Pink Floyd - "Wish You Were Here"
9. Colección - "Maxi Power 6"
10. ABBA - "Oro Negro"

1. (-) Reserva - "El mejor de Occidente (vol.2)"
2. (-) Reserva - "Aviator"
3. (2) Queen "Greatest Hits"
4. (-) Armik - "Gypsy Flame"
5. (5) E-Type - "Explorer"
6. (6) Angélica varo - "Winter Cherry"
7. (-) Alla Pugacheva - "Colección"
8. (-) Colección - "Mi alma sin descanso" (música de la película por Eldar Ryazanov)
9. (-) Tamaño de Rusia y el profesor Lebedinskii - "Come on, come on"
10 (9). Valeriy Meladze - "El último romántico

Lista de ventas de CDs de artistas extranjeros para abril de 1996 por la revista "Jimmy" (sólo la primera docena de los cientos presentado a la revista. Entre paréntesis, la posición del álbum en marzo)
La venta de CDs de artistas extranjeros en la tienda "Daros, Ekaterinburg (16 julio-23 julio)
1 (-). Chris Rea - "The Road to Hell"
2 (-). Savage - "Greatest Hits y más"
3 (-). Ladi en Red 2 - "una colección de grandes baladas"
4 (-). AC / DC - "The Best"
5 (-). Colección - "Dance & Romance"
6 (-). Colección - "DJ Mix Hits 2"
7 (-). Queen - "Greatest Hits"
8 (3). Ace of Base - "El Brige"
9 (-). Boney M - "Lo Mejor de 10 años"
10 (-). C. C. Catch - "Clásicos"

Las ventas de CDs en la tienda de "Gloria", Ekaterinburg (31 enero-6 febrero)
1 (-). Colección - DJ Hits 40
2 (-). Collection - DJ Hits 39
3 (-). Alla Pugacheva - "No me haga daño, señores",
4 (-). Andrei Gubin - "The Tramp Boy"
5 (-). Agatha Christie - "Opium"
6 (-). Queen - "Made in Heaven"7 (-). Jeanne Bichevskaja - "Las canciones de Rusia (vol 3)"
8 (-). Colección - "Yo ksyusha"
9 (-). Fun Factory - "sin parar! - The Album"
10 (-). Nancy - "Nuevo y Mejor Canción

Las ventas de CD en la tienda "Daros, Ekaterinburg (31 enero-6 febrero)
1 (-). Scotch - "Best of"
2 (-). Masterboy - "Generation of Love"
3 (5). Queen - "Made in Heaven"
4 (-). Collection - DJ Hits 39
5 (-). Cobrados - Sax & Sexo
6 (6). Collection - Best Movie Hits (vol 1)
7 (7). Modern Talking - "The Very Best of"
8 (-). Colección - Unión 14
9 (1). Bad Boys Blue - "Super 20"
10 (-). Michael Shufutinskiy - "La Mujer"

Las ventas de CDs en la tienda de "Gloria", Ekaterinburg (Diciembre 11 - Diciembre 17, 1996)
1. (2) Colección - "Fantastic Dance (Compilación)"
2. (-) Waldo - "The Riddle"
3. (-) Queen-"Greatest Hits"4. (-) Masterboy - "Colores"
5. (7) E-Type - "Explorer"
6. (-) Angélica varo - "Winter Cherry"
7. (-) Reserva - "Rec Top 5"
8. (5) Dream - "Pilot"
9. (-) Valeriy Meladze - "El último romántico"
10. (-) CHajf - "Real World"

[borderwolf]

Canada
1 APRIL, 2010
(FOR THE WEEK ENDING 28 MARCH, 2010)


159 GREATEST HITS
QUEEN

[trueno]

Absolute Chart Run in Hungary:

27-9-6-4-9-30-25-25 (Gold)-24-12-9-14-8-9-19-28-25 (Platinum)

[loris39]

Hungary

25th Absolute Greatest [Platinum]

[bestiamodesta]

wow fantastic!!!!

[loris39]

Hey slightlymad: thank you very much for this jewel you have indicated.

[slightlymad]

UK Album Chart

79 (93) Queen - Absolute Greatest

To all my fellow Queen fantatics below is a youtube link to a very rare demo of the Queen track 'Jesus' from their first album, this is well worth a listen as it features some wonderful guitar playing by Brian May that never featured on the official release.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENWbKlgYnQM

[nucleardolphin]

Releasing live albums year after year is beginning to get a little dull. As a die hard fan I would buy anything the band put out, but, an Anthology would be great. A double album Anthology would be even better, I thought the Beatles putting out 3 different albums was a little unnecessary and actually rather boring! I want to hear something new, unreleased songs etc.

[loris39]

Queen archivist Greg Brooks has recently declared, on the website Queenheaven.it, that the issue of the Anthology is premature because, first of all, many other live concerts have the priority. He finally said that Queen members are participating in a new project which could be published within this year (probably, "Hammersmith '75"...).

[borderwolf]

Argentina
biweekly DVD sales chart
(february: 1st part)

10 Live in Japan
(QUEEN)

[borderwolf]

Hungary
week 5

9 QUEEN
Absolute Greatest

(certified GOLD)

[nucleardolphin]

Queen rock!

[Karolina]

Poland Olis Chart

42-38-34-33-35-OUT TOP 50-31-24

[nucleardolphin]

I wanted to take this opportunity to thank MJD for his superb website, worldwidealbums.net. Unfortunately, as he has said in his own words, 'he is starting a real office job'. I will miss his updates from before 2009, especially in the archives section which, I think really needs some updating especially with Michael Jackson!
Also when I click many of the archive artists to look up individual album sales I get all this French stuff come up, for example, type in Queen, where as with other artists there is no problem
Well once again, thankyou MJD for your endless dedication and work!

[borderwolf]

Poland

ABSOLUTE GREATEST

certified GOLD

(27 january 2010)

[nucleardolphin]

would love to find a list of the top selling artists WORLDWIDE! for the 2000's, any ideas or thoughts on that, who would they be?

[borderwolf]

Argentina
weekly shipments chart
17/01/2010 23/01/2010

TW LW LW2

18 - 32 Absolute Greatest
(QUEEN)

[nucleardolphin]

HUR thanks for posting that, unfortunately though there weren't figures for many of the acts, would love to see them. I was surprised at Take That being so high, theyve only released 2 albums this decade, anyway, good to see Queen so high.

[HUR]

HUR hi, I was wondering if you could submit the UK list of top selling bands of the decade, you mentioned Queen were 19, did they publish the figures? many thanks. ND

It was posted here:

http://www.ukmix.org/forums/viewtopic.p ... 7&start=50

[nucleardolphin]

HUR hi, I was wondering if you could submit the UK list of top selling bands of the decade, you mentioned Queen were 19, did they publish the figures? many thanks. ND

[borderwolf]

Serbia
unofficial
www.ips.co.yu/top%20lista.htm
Top 20
January 2010


16
new
QUEEN-Absolute Queen

[HUR]

Impressive sales for Queen. Thank you.

Best selling albums acts of the decade in UK

19 Queen

[RollingBob]

Total single sales in UK in Noughties : 1,118,445