Queen :: Charts & Sales History

[HUR]

Gfk figures (=French HDD) of Queen. French sales 2003-2008 :

Platinum Collection 264323
Greatest Hits 54422
Greatest Hits II 41331
Live At Wembley 86 38243
On Fire 34750
A Night At The Opera 22219
Greatest Hits III 17064
News Of The World 15517
Rock Montreal 12509
Return Of The Champions 12459
Live Magic 12099
Innuendo 10188
Kind Of Magic 9933
Made In Heaven 8731
The Cosmos Rocks 7226
A Day At Races 6726
Live Killers 5439
Jazz 4762
Queen I 4680
Queen II 4597
Miracle 4481
The Game 4413
Works 3410
Sheer Heart Attack 3241
Hot Space 2623
A Day At Races/A Night At The Opera 1189
At BBC 484
Five Live 414
Flash 165
Maximum Queen 126
Classic Queen 78
Rocks 74
Crown Jewels 55

Good figures for PC. The rest to be honest is disappointing, except their Live albums. ANATO sold only 22k and still their biggest studio album, Innuendo is third with just 10k in 6 years.

Their catalog as a whole still sold 607k during those 6 years, slighty over 100k per year.

Wow thank you, MJDangerous. Great figures. I think their figures may tend to be slighty lower according to this source than those provided by IFOP. For example, "Platinum collection" was certified double gold for sales of 200,000 in 2004 (in november), and continued to do well over 2005 (selling 47,000 copies). With further catalog sales, I thought the box set was more likely at around 300,000 copies by now.

Still, are you disappointed?. I was expecting even less for some albums. This means they sold an estimated 541,437 on catalog if we remove albums released after 2003.

[Robbie]

some info about Queen from the UK end of year charts from 2008...

Queen were the 46th best selling singles artists with total singles sales of 295,316. The biggest seller was Don't Stop Me Now which was the 135th best selling single of 2008 (with sales of about 75,000). They were the 47th best selling albums artist with total album sales of 363,830. Biggest selling album was Greatest Hits, number 135 for the year (sales about 120,000), with GH I,II and III at number 149 (sales at about 105,000).

The sales for Don't Stop Me Now and the two Greatest Hits collections are "guesstimates" but are within 5,000 sales of actual sales figures.

[MJDangerous]

Gfk figures (=French HDD) of Queen. French sales 2003-2008 :

Platinum Collection 264323
Greatest Hits 54422
Greatest Hits II 41331
Live At Wembley 86 38243
On Fire 34750
A Night At The Opera 22219
Greatest Hits III 17064
News Of The World 15517
Rock Montreal 12509
Return Of The Champions 12459
Live Magic 12099
Innuendo 10188
Kind Of Magic 9933
Made In Heaven 8731
The Cosmos Rocks 7226
A Day At Races 6726
Live Killers 5439
Jazz 4762
Queen I 4680
Queen II 4597
Miracle 4481
The Game 4413
Works 3410
Sheer Heart Attack 3241
Hot Space 2623
A Day At Races/A Night At The Opera 1189
At BBC 484
Five Live 414
Flash 165
Maximum Queen 126
Classic Queen 78
Rocks 74
Crown Jewels 55

Good figures for PC. The rest to be honest is disappointing, except their Live albums. ANATO sold only 22k and still their biggest studio album, Innuendo is third with just 10k in 6 years.

Their catalog as a whole still sold 607k during those 6 years, slighty over 100k per year.

[HUR]

My estimates for UK:
-Greatest hits 1: 119,000
-Platinum collection: 108,000
-The cosmos rocks: 70,000
-Greatest hits 2: 35,000+

Well DOne, Great analysis, you are the best.

Thank you, Nelson.

[nelson]

My estimates for UK:
-Greatest hits 1: 119,000
-Platinum collection: 108,000
-The cosmos rocks: 70,000
-Greatest hits 2: 35,000+

Well DOne, Great analysis, you are the best.

[borderwolf]

ARGENTINA
dvd monthly shipments chart - december

5 Rock Montreal
(QUEEN)

16 Rock MontreaL... And Live Aid
(QUEEN)

[nucleardolphin]

I was wondering if anyone knew how many copies of 'The complete works' by Queen were pressed worldwide. It was a vinyl boxset of all their studio albums up until 'The works', and was released in 1985. Thanks.

[HUR]

There is also catalogue sales from their 15 studio albums and sales from several live albums to add on HUR - you said earlier that Queen Rock Montreal sold about 15,000 last year??

Yes, but that was their DVD. It has now sold at least 71,000 copies in UK. The album probably sold 5,000-10,000 copies.

[EdWood]

There is also catalogue sales from their 15 studio albums and sales from several live albums to add on HUR - you said earlier that Queen Rock Montreal sold about 15,000 last year??

[HUR]

And "Greatest hits 1" has nw re-entered at #44 in pop catalog charts of USA.

Lets hope it rises a bit HUR. Its been out of those charts all over Christmas. On another top 200 Pop Catalog Chart that are leaked occasionally, the We Will Rock You Edition was above the usual Hits collection - probably this is a reason why its not been doing as well lately - sales are being split between the 2 albums - I personally prefer the Original UK version to the 1992 US version...

True. I would like to see how much Queen sold in both UK and USA last year. A source promised me to give me the retail sales for "Platinum collection" and "Greatest hits 1" in UK during 2008. Hopefully, we will know just in case that Queen don´t make the annual musicweek issue. In USA, I think they sold 450,000 copies last year.

My estimates for UK:
-Greatest hits 1: 119,000
-Platinum collection: 108,000
-The cosmos rocks: 70,000
-Greatest hits 2: 35,000+

That makes it roughly 332,000 with these 4 releases. But I don´t think this will be enough to make the annual top 50.

[EdWood]

And "Greatest hits 1" has nw re-entered at #44 in pop catalog charts of USA.

Lets hope it rises a bit HUR. Its been out of those charts all over Christmas. On another top 200 Pop Catalog Chart that are leaked occasionally, the We Will Rock You Edition was above the usual Hits collection - probably this is a reason why its not been doing as well lately - sales are being split between the 2 albums - I personally prefer the Original UK version to the 1992 US version...

[HUR]

And "Greatest hits 1" has now re-entered at #44 in pop catalog charts of USA.

[EdWood]

In the UK album chart this week, now have full access to top 200 chart data

109. (109) GREATEST HITS (Queen) (this has kept at the same position as over late Christmas/New Year but sales gone down alot in that week - all I know is that Mariah Carey at number 157 sold 3,040 copies so Queen must have sold over 4,000.

187. (RE) THE COSMOS ROCKS (Queen + Paul Rodgers) A surprising re-entry
I dont know how long this was in the top 200 after it dropped out of the top 100 due to the withdrawal of Chartsplus - hopefully should be getting the missing 6 weeks info. soon so should get full details..

[HUR]

Thank you, Chester.


http://dohinge.koeln.de/pda/archiv/knew ... tikel.html
"Freddie Mercury unvergessen
Queen-Musical kommt nach Köln
Köln (ddp-nrw). Mit einer eigens auf das deutsche Publikum zugeschnittenen Version soll das Queen-Musical «We will rock you» am 12. Dezember in Köln Premiere feiern. «Wir haben hier besonders loyale Fans, für die wir eine ganz besondere Inszenierung vorbereiten», erklärte Queen-Gitarrist Brian May am Freitag in Köln.

Das Stück mit 20 der größten Queen-Hits schildert nicht den Werdegang der Band, sondern ist in der Zukunft angesiedelt. Autor Ben Elton erzählt, wie sich junge Rebellen mit Hilfe der Rockmusik aus einem finsteren Medienimperium befreien, das die Jugendlichen lediglich mit synthetischen Boy- und Girlbands beschallt.

Queen hat in ihrer Karriere mehr als 150 Millionen Tonträger verkauft, 15 Millionen davon allein Deutschland. Brian May erinnerte in Köln auch an den charismatischen Sänger der Band, Freddie Mercury, der 1991 an den Folgen seiner Aids-Erkrankung starb: «Wir vermissen ihn sehr.»"

It reads that Queen sold 150 million album worldwide, including 15 million in Germany alone.

[Chester]

Thank you. But if we tried to measure the amount of copies bought by polish consumers in Poland (either german or any other one), do you reckon that their compilations would be very big. I know it is impossible to know for a fact, though.

Queen always were huge in Poland, but I'm sure that sales weren't big. Records cost too much in Central and Eastern Europe and CDs were something luxurious there before mid-90's. That's why Polish music shop imported only a few copies of one album.

Anyway, those countries released then some of the best-selling international albums under licence from major record companies, on vinyl records and rarely on cassettes. But print run always was limited. For example in Poland Queen released four albums in that way: "The Best Of" in 1980 (exclusive Polish compilation), "Innuendo" and "Greatest Hits II" in 1991 and "Live At Wembley '86" in 1992 - all four only on vinyl records.

[HUR]

Thank you. But if we tried to measure the amount of copies bought by polish consumers in Poland (either german or any other one), do you reckon that their compilations would be very big. I know it is impossible to know for a fact, though.

[Chester]

Chester, any sales in Poland for Queen?. I know "Made in heaven" is certified platinum for sales of 100,000 copies, which is big. But just that.

Almost every DVD of Queen or Freddie solo is Platinum in Poland, which means 10,000 sold units. But their only certified CD albums in Poland are "Made In Heaven" with sales of at least 100,000 units and "The Platinum Collection" with sales of 75,000 boxes.

Remember that major record companies released their catalogues in Central and Eastern Europe in the mid-90's. Earlier people from those countries had to buy records, which were imported mainly from Germany. That's why sales of "Greatest Hits" or "Greatest Hits II" weren't huge there.

[HUR]

Chester, any sales in Poland for Queen?. I know "Made in heaven" is certified platinum for sales of 100,000 copies, which is big. But just that.

[Chester]

The biggest newspaper in Poland, "Gazeta Wyborcza", began releasing the complete Queen's discography in exclusive Polish special editions with brand new booklets. They release one album every Tuesday with newspaper. The first part was released on Monday, November 24th, 2008 on 17th anniversary of Freddie Mercury's death. The complete collection will have 24 albums. Every album is released as a digipack in hard cover (like a book) with brand new photos, history of making the album in Polish and lyrics for every song. Those albums are also available in stores seperately:
1. A Kind Of Magic
2. A Night At The Opera
3. The Game
4. Sheer Heart Attack
5. News Of The World
6. A Day At The Races
7. The Works
8. Queen II
9. Innuendo
10. Live Magic
11. Queen I
12. Live Killers vol. I
13. Hot Space
14. Live Killers vol. II
15. Queen On Fire - Live At The Bowl - vol. I
16. Jazz
17. The Miracle
18. Queen On Fire - Live At The Bowl - vol. II
19. Live At Wembley '86 - vol. I
20. Made In Heaven
21. Live At Wembley '86 - vol. II
22. Return Of The Champions vol. I
23. Flash Gordon
24. Return Of The Champions - vol. II

Check it out:
http://merlin.pl/browse/promotion/4/queenkolekcja.html

It's the second time in Poland when Queen released there an exclusive album. The first time was in 1980, when they released there their first compilation of hits "The Best Of". It was a year before their first international compilation "Greatest Hits" was released globally.

Check it out:
http://www.winyle.kppg.netiz.pl/wykon.p ... 1087#plyta

[HUR]

Again from canada:

(103) 67 GREATEST HITS
QUEEN

Thank you, Luca, their musical "We will rock you" has been extended until march, this year.

And in UK:

"Press Release: Thursday January 8, 2009

CHAMPION!
We Will Rock You Scores Biggest West End Week of 2008


Queen and Ben Elton’s long-running musical We Will Rock You has emerged the champion of West End shows in end of year figures released today.

The ‘rock theatrical’ show, which has already achieved the distinction of becoming the longest running entertainment at The Dominion where it has continued to play for over six and half years last week achieved the highest number of paid admissions in one week for any West End show in 2008.

In the New Year week, commencing December 29, We Will Rock You set a new weekly admissions record for the year, attracting over 20,000 ticket buyers across six days.

“It is a testament to the incredible word of mouth on the entertainment value of the show,” said a producer spokesperson. “There isn’t another new musical which has lasted as long as Queen & Ben’s show, and last week’s figures show that across the Christmas – New Year period it was the No.1 choice among theatre-goers”."

[borderwolf]

Again from canada:

(103) 67 GREATEST HITS
QUEEN

[HUR]

Nielsen sales report from Canada: annual sales for "Greatest hits 1"

2005: 41,902
2006: 38,647
2007: 43,508

Total: 124,057

Very huge.

And here official sales for "Queen rock montreal" DVD in UK: it sold 56,302 copies during 2007 and 14,988 in 2008 up to june that year, for a total of 71,290

[borderwolf]

Argentina
DVD
biweekly sales chart (2nd half of december)

6 Live in Japan
(QUEEN)

9 Live at The Wembley Stadium
(QUEEN)

[HUR]

You´re welcome, Luca. On the other hand, they guys drew 17,000 poeple in Chile and 45,000 in Argentina. None of them re counted in the billboard boxscores this week, based on what I checked.

Finally some boxscores !

Queen + Paul Rodgers
Via Funchal
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Nov. 26-27, 2008
$1,006,163
8,860 /
10,000
2 /
0
$389.33, $58.40
Evenpro/Water Brother/Mondo Entretenimento

Queen + Paul Rodgers
HSBC Arena
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Nov. 29, 2008
$364,528
6,472 /
9,100
1 /
0
$217.99, $23.54
Evenpro/Water Brother/Mondo Entretenimento

Thank you, John. Finally some, indeed. Rather poor, considering their compilation sold so well last year and that "Collection 2" shipped 40,000 copies on its first week. Further evidence that "Q+PR" aren´t that big a draw.

[AutomaticBR]

honestly, 10,000 copies is NOTHING, specially for a big band like Queen, so i'm pretty sure all copies were sold in just a few weeks

For Cosmos Rocks it was almost a challange in most of countries...

the box was limited to 10,000 copies WORLDWIDE, and not 10k in every single country