Queen :: Charts & Sales History

[HUR]

incredible figures, surely that must be half of all their UK album sales, I heard theyve sold 20 million albums in the UK, where did JP get these figures??

Well, if you get their certifications from the BPI site, prior to july, 1992, you will notice that Queen were certified for shipments of 8,600,000 (including "Five live ep" as part of their albums sales).

That puts their minimum sales total at 19,292,124 overall. But that doesn't count plenty of sales before 1992, as most of their albums were certified within days of going on sale and never updated after that. For example, "The miracle" was certified platinum 4 days after it was certified, but managed to sell 480,000 in 1989 alone (being one of the best sellers of that year).

Overall, they sold 24,000,000 copies in UK. This is just 4-5 million less than The Beatles there.

[EdWood]

This week on UK album chart....

136. (129) GREATEST HITS (Queen)

[borderwolf]

Billboard Top Catalog 21 february

38 QUEEN GREATEST HITS-WE WILL ROCK YOU 3431 0 3426 819184

40 QUEEN GREATEST HITS 3226 6 3042 6610414

[nucleardolphin]

incredible figures, surely that must be half of all their UK album sales, I heard theyve sold 20 million albums in the UK, where did JP get these figures??

[HUR]

Here are Queen's total shipments from july 1992 up through july 2008 (some figures, though, are as old as july 2006) as per Jimmypage59:

Queen: 119,457
Queen 2: 123,298
Sheer Heart attack: 110,200
A night at the opera: 312,914
A day at the races: 146,768
Innuendo: 189,501
Live at wembley: 479,551
Queen rocks: 328,885
Hot space: 45,806
The works: 92,943
A kind of magic: 259,203
The miracle: 71,653
Queen on fire: 113,507
Live magic: 170,152
Return of the champions: 86,698
Greatest hits 3: 606,633
Made in heaven: 1,399,568
Greatest hits 1: 1,891,191
Platinum collection: 1,747,373
Greatest hits 2: 1,794,858
News of the world: 89,199
Jazz: 76,728
The game: 76,154
Live killers: 77,144
Greatest hits 1&2: 194,324
Flash gordon: 38,611
Queen at the beeb: 49,835

Total: 10,692,124

[borderwolf]

Are you happy?.

Last year, "Platinum collection" was #75 on the year-end albums chart.

[HUR]

Denmark
dvd chart, week 6

1 (7) 45 QUEEN
QUEEN LIVE AT WEMBLEY STADIUM

Are you happy?.

Last year, "Platinum collection" was #75 on the year-end albums chart.

[borderwolf]

Denmark
dvd chart, week 6

1 (7) 45 QUEEN
QUEEN LIVE AT WEMBLEY STADIUM

[slightlymad]

Queen on the Billboard Catalogue Chart

Top Pop Catalog
Issue Date: 2009-02-14

This Week, Last Week, Two Weeks Ago, Weeks, Title, Artist, Peak

29 31 13 Greatest Hits: We Will Rock You, Queen 29
37 35 30 759 Greatest Hits, Queen 2

It's a shame Queen have sales split between these 2 versions as combined I think they would be Top 20 or even Top 10 most weeks.

[HUR]

Hahahahahaha. lol

[MJDangerous]

Here some Queen boxscores for their "Hot space tour" in 1982, not all of them are good

Hater!!! :evil:

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[HUR]

Here some Queen boxscores for their "Hot space tour" in 1982, not all of them are good., but...

Queen 1982 North American Tour

July 21, 1982
Montreal Canada
Montreal Forum
GROSS: ?
Capacity: ?
Attendance: ?

July 23, 1982
Boston MA
GROSS: $188,898
Capacity: 15,500
Attendance: SELLOUT

July 24, 1982
Philadelphia PA
Spectrum
GROSS: ?
Capacity: ?
Attendance: ?

July 25, 1982
Washington DC
Capital Centre
GROSS: ?
Capacity: ?
Attendance: ?

July 27-28, 1982
New York City NY
Madison Square Garden
GROSS: ?
Capacity: ?
Attendance: ?

July 31, 1982
Richfield Ohio
Richfield Coliseum
GROSS: ?
Attendance: ?

August 2-3, 1982
Toronto Canada
Maple Leaf Gardens
GROSS: $324,663
Capacity: 30,000
Attendance: 24,824

August 5, 1982
Indianapolis IN
Market Square Arena
GROSS: ?
Capacity: ?
Attendance: ?

August 6, 1982
Detroit MI
Joe Louis Arena
GROSS: $211,505
Capacity: 19,950
Attendance: 18,024

August 9, 1982
East Rutherford NJ
Brendan Byrne Arena
GROSS: ?
Capacity: ?
Attendance: ?

August 10, 1982
New Haven Conn.
Coliseum
GROSS: $117,282
Capacity: 10,275
Attendance: SELLOUT

August 13-14, 1982
Hoffman Estates
Poplar Creek Music Theater
GROSS: ?
Capacity: ?
Attendance: ?

August 15, 1982
St. Paul MN
St. Paul Civic Center
GROSS: $183,174
Capacity: 18,000
Attendance: 14,800

August 19, 1982
Biloxi MS
Civic Center
GROSS: ?
Capacity: ?
Attendance: ?

August 20, 1982
Houston Texas
Summit
GROSS: $157,075
Capacity: 17,048
Attendance: 13,453

August 21, 1982
Dallas Texas
Reunion Arena
GROSS: $149,100
Capacity: 19,012
Attendance: 11,760

August 24, 1982
Atlanta Georgia
Omni Coliseum
GROSS: ?
Capacity: ?
Attendance: ?

August 27, 1982
Oklahoma City, OK
Myriad Convention Center
GROSS: $128,929
Capacity: 11,000
Attendance: 10,772

August 28, 1982
Kansas City, MO
Kemper Arena
GROSS: $112,252
Capacity: 12,556
Attendance: 10,285

August 30, 1982
Denver CO
McNichols Arena
GROSS: $131,843
Capacity: 18,000
Attendance: 10,264

September 2, 1982
Portland Ore.
Coliseum
GROSS: $81,438
Capacity: 12,110
Attendance: 6,832

September 3, 1982
Seattle Washington
Seattle Center Coliseum
GROSS: $113,928
Capacity: 12,000
Attendance: 9,930

September 4, 1982
Vancouver B.C. Canada
Coliseum
GROSS: $140,064
Capacity: 16,696
Attendance: 10,264

September 7, 1982
Oakland Calif.
Coliseum
GROSS: $133,066
Capacity: 14,500
Attendance: 10,969

September 10, 1982
Phoenix AZ
Coliseum
GROSS: $157,405
Capacity: 20,000
Attendance: 13,328

September 11-12, 1982
Irvine Calif.
Irvine Meadows
GROSS: ?
Capacity: ?
Attendance: ?

September 14-15, 1982
Los Angeles Calif.
Forum
GROSS: $274,703
Capacity: 27,262
Attendance: 20,502

[borderwolf]

Estonia
week 6 - dvd chart
unofficial pedro.ee



2 QUEEN, LIVE AT WEMBLEY STADIUM (2DVD 2003)

3 QUEEN, GREATEST VIDEO HITS 1 (2DVD)

5 QUEEN, GREATEST VIDEO HITS VOL.2 (2003)

9 QUEEN, QUEEN ON FIRE-LIVE AT THE BOWL (2DVD 2004)

[HUR]

Sweden DVD charts this week:

#2- Live At Wembley '86
#6- Queen On Fire

Both peaked at #1...

[borderwolf]

Poland
Shipments: year-end chart 2008

#31 PLATINUM COLLECTION - QUEEN
(certified Gold)

[HUR]

Here are charts positions in Belgium:

Sheer heart attack: #1
A night at the opera: #1
A day at the races: ?
News of the world: ?
Jaz: ?
Live killers: ?
The game: #2
Greatest hits 1: #1
Hot space: #4
The works: #4
A kind of magic: #2
The miracle: #1
Innuendo: #1
Greatest hits 2: #1
Live at wmebley ´86: #1
Five live: #3
Made in heaven: #2
The best 1: #50
Greatest hits 3: #7
Platinum collection: #10
Return of the champions: #39

Thanks to Francis.

Also, interesting claim on the magazine "Guitar player (1983):

"
The group toured America and Europe in early 1977, and in the summer taped News Of The World. The LP topped the charts in the U.S., Holland, Belgium, France, Israel, Canada, Brazil, Ireland and Mexico. "We Are The Champions" backed by May's "We Will Rock You" became the biggest-selling single in Warner Brothers/Elektra Asylum history. Following a serie of business fiascos soon afterwards, Queen's members decided to manage themself. "We didn't particulary want the job", May recalls, "but we decided it was the best way to get precisley what we wanted and control our own destiny"."

[EdWood]

This week in Canadian Album charts:

Canada

5wks (65) 81 CLASSIC QUEEN

126 wks (74) 84 GREATEST HITS

In UK album charts - Queens Greatest Hits is at 129 down from 102. Other sales figures for the week: 2627 copies sold Frank Turner (72)

1081 copies sold John Martyn (161)

So Queen probably sold nearly 2,000 copies

[HUR]

Queen's 90's album sales were outstanding! Mindblowing even! I'm guessing GH took up a good proportion of those sales?

Yes, specially in Germany and Italy. And yes, obviously their compilations took the biggest share out of all of their sales, even if "The miracle", "Innuendo" and "Made in heaven" did fairly well on the charts.

[bestiamodesta]

How much did one LP cost in the early 70ies?

Because, for example, Sheer heart attack was Gold disc in UK because sold for more then 500.000Pounds. so with the cost of a single unit we can estimate how many discs were sold...

[slightlymad]

Queen Are Coming To Singstar

I know the following Quote highlighted in bold is untrue but it is in an official Queen Press Release

Rock Legends Queen get very own SingStar® title for PLAYSTATION®3 and PlayStation®2.

Want it all? You’ve got it now!

City/date: This March, rock lovers can recreate the excitement and magic of Queen’s iconic stadium concerts in their own living rooms thanks to SingStar® Queen from Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) – an experience that lets you grab a microphone and belt out the greatest hits of the legendary group’s chart-topping, 30-year career with your friends. Exclusive to PlayStation® and hot on the heels of the hugely popular downloadable Queen SongPacks in SingStore, SingStar Queen will be available on both PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™) and PlayStation®2 in PAL regions, giving every SingStar a shot at Queen home-stardom.

The tracklist is packed with the classic songs that made Queen one of the world’s favourite bands – a group so popular that they sold more than 300 million albums and had a worldwide hit musical created in their honour, We Will Rock You. Bohemian Rhapsody and We Are the Champions are there – as are Another One Bites the Dust and Don’t Stop Me Now. Whichever track is your favourite, you’ll be lining up to grab the mic and step into the trainers of the legendary Freddie Mercury to raise your living room roof.

With stellar tracks from the ‘70s. ‘80s and ‘90s (25 tracks on PS3 and 20 on PlayStation 2), SingStar Queen will rock SingStars who like to go solo, SingStars who like to duet and, quite possibly, the neighbours next door when they hear your performances coming through the wall.

And – for those PS3 SingStars downloading tracks from SingStore, loads of SingStar Queen Tracks are available to download right now!

Get ready for SingStar to rock you on PS3 and PlayStation 2 with the epic music of Queen this March.

The release date for UK is March 13th, and for the rest of PAL territories March 18th. The release date for US/Canada has not been confirmed yet, but will follow shortly.

Here’s the entire SingStar Queen Track list:

PlayStation 3
A Kind of Magic
Another One Bites The Dust
Bicycle Race
Bohemian Rhapsody
Breakthru
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Don’t Stop Me Now
Fat Bottomed Girls
Hammer to Fall
I Want It All
I Want To Break Free
Innuendo
Killer Queen
One Vision
Play The Game
Radio Ga Ga
Somebody to Love
The Show Must Go On
These Are The Days Of Our Lives
Tie Your Mother Down
Under Pressure
We Are The Champions
We Will Rock You
Who Wants To Live Forever
You’re My Best Friend

Could the 300 million quoted be a total for album and single sales?

[EdWood]

On UK album chart this week:

102. (89) GREATEST HITS (Queen)


On Canadian Top 100 album chart:

Classic Queen: 65 (60)
Queens Greatest Hits: 74 (72)

[nelson]

This week in Canadian Album charts:

Canada

3wks(62) 60 CLASSIC QUEEN

124wks (92) 72 GREATEST HITS


In UK album charts - Queens Greatest Hits is at 89 down from 87.

what was the peak in Canada?

[Lawyeris]

Queen's 90's album sales were outstanding! Mindblowing even! I'm guessing GH took up a good proportion of those sales?

Yes, I agree, they were outstanding.

nelson is outstanding too.

[nelson]

Queen's 90's album sales were outstanding! Mindblowing even! I'm guessing GH took up a good proportion of those sales?

Yes, I agree, they were outstanding.

[Wayne]

Queen's 90's album sales were outstanding! Mindblowing even! I'm guessing GH took up a good proportion of those sales?