Queen :: Charts & Sales History

[borderwolf]

United Arab Emirates
dvd
http://www.vmeganews.com/vip/vmeganews_ ... sp?catg=MD

#1 Queen - Rock Montreal (ne)\

[HUR]

Queenīs "Live at wembley ī86" at #25 on the back catalog chart in Netherlands.

Last week, I missed that their "Platinum collection" re-entered the charts in Norway at #40 too. Good catalog sales for Queen over there this year. That triple box set had already charted early this year, peaking at #15.

[Fastnbulbous]

While sales of new releases have struggled this year, artists such as Abba and Neil Diamond have enjoyed strong catalogue sales, while retailers such as Zavvi and HMV are increasingly focussing their attentions on catalogue.”

Think back to January of this year. Hardly anyone had heard of Vampire Weekend or MGMT. In the 80s and 90s, these bands would have been lucky to sell 25,000 copies. Yet so far they have sold 311,869 and 180,573 respectively worldwide.

Blockbuster artists may be selling a few percentage less. Guess they'll have to buy mom a smaller mansion this year. But overall sales are much healthier for most of the rest of the artists. I'm curious exactly how much Abba and Neil Diamond sold.

I think labels drop the ball in promoting reissues. There's plenty of good ones, recently including early U2 and Replacements. They'd sell more if they promoted them better.

[HUR]

Australia,
Album chart this week

#41 - Greatest hits 1 (down from #38)

DVD chart

#23 - Greatest video hits 1 (6 times platinum)
#32 - Live at wembley ī86 (4 times platinum)

This is what Queen sold in the last three weeks in UK, roughly:

22/09/08: 38,000
29/09/08: 20,000
05/10/08: 14,000

This is assuming "The cosmos rocks" did 28,112 + 10,000 + 6,000 in its three weeks on chart so far, which means it probably sold around 44,000 copies overall.

[HUR]

Thank you. It sounds like an interesting chart.

[Robbie]

In UK album charts this week:

40. (18) THE COSMOS ROCKS (Queen+Paul Rodgers) 3 wks
43. (37) GREATEST HITS (Queen) 466 weeks on chart - only 12 weeks behind all-time longevity album, Rumours...
80. (65) GREATEST HITS 2

Jennifer Hudson at number 37 sold 6434 copies so The Cosmos Rocks and Greatest Hits probably sold over 6,000 copies each. Greatest Hits 2 probably sold 2,500 (?) copies...

also the UK now has two Catalogue Albums charts, which began last week.

One is for Studio Albums, the other is for Greatest Hits type albums. Both are Top 20s. In the "Catalogue Greatest Hits Albums" chart Queen are at:

04: Greatest Hits
05: Greatest Hits II

Do you have a link, mate?.

unfortunately, Music Week don't allow non-subscribers to access any of the charts so I don't have an actual link I can give...

[EdWood]

Found this on Musicweek website:

http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?sect ... 035574&c=2

11:47 | Tuesday September 23, 2008

Music Week is to carry three new catalogue charts when it re-launches this Monday (September 29).

As part of an extensive revamp that will also include new pages dedicated to the live, publishing and media sectors, the magazine will run three new catalogue charts online, with one featured in the magazine on rotation. These are being specially compiled for Music Week by the Official Charts Company.


The Top 20 catalogue rundowns cover studio albums, greatest hits and downloads. Only releases at least two years old will be included.

Music Week editor Paul Williams says, “These charts reflect the growing importance of the catalogue market for today’s music business. While sales of new releases have struggled this year, artists such as Abba and Neil Diamond have enjoyed strong catalogue sales, while retailers such as Zavvi and HMV are increasingly focussing their attentions on catalogue.”

[HUR]

In UK album charts this week:

40. (18) THE COSMOS ROCKS (Queen+Paul Rodgers) 3 wks
43. (37) GREATEST HITS (Queen) 466 weeks on chart - only 12 weeks behind all-time longevity album, Rumours...
80. (65) GREATEST HITS 2

Jennifer Hudson at number 37 sold 6434 copies so The Cosmos Rocks and Greatest Hits probably sold over 6,000 copies each. Greatest Hits 2 probably sold 2,500 (?) copies...

also the UK now has two Catalogue Albums charts, which began last week.

One is for Studio Albums, the other is for Greatest Hits type albums. Both are Top 20s. In the "Catalogue Greatest Hits Albums" chart Queen are at:

04: Greatest Hits
05: Greatest Hits II

Do you have a link, mate?.

[Robbie]

In UK album charts this week:

40. (18) THE COSMOS ROCKS (Queen+Paul Rodgers) 3 wks
43. (37) GREATEST HITS (Queen) 466 weeks on chart - only 12 weeks behind all-time longevity album, Rumours...
80. (65) GREATEST HITS 2

Jennifer Hudson at number 37 sold 6434 copies so The Cosmos Rocks and Greatest Hits probably sold over 6,000 copies each. Greatest Hits 2 probably sold 2,500 (?) copies...

also the UK now has two Catalogue Albums charts, which began last week.

One is for Studio Albums, the other is for Greatest Hits type albums. Both are Top 20s. In the "Catalogue Greatest Hits Albums" chart Queen are at:

04: Greatest Hits
05: Greatest Hits II

[Robbie]

Estonia
week 40
albums

#01 QUEEN, GREATEST HITS II 1991
#02 QUEEN, GREATEST HITS I 1981
#03 QUEEN, GREATEST HITS III 1999
#24 QUEEN + PAUL RODGERS, COSMOS ROCKS 2008
#48 QUEEN, PLATINUM COLLECTION 3CD
#69 QUEEN + PAUL RODGERS, COSMOS ROCKS SP.ED.CD+DVD 2008
#94 QUEEN, GAME/80
#95 QUEEN, HOT SPACE

Wait a minute, you are telling me that "Greatest hits 2" is number one this week in Estonia?.

Thank you

with the other two Greatest Hits at #s 2 and 3. It seems a bit strange...

[HUR]

Estonia
week 40
albums

#01 QUEEN, GREATEST HITS II 1991
#02 QUEEN, GREATEST HITS I 1981
#03 QUEEN, GREATEST HITS III 1999
#24 QUEEN + PAUL RODGERS, COSMOS ROCKS 2008
#48 QUEEN, PLATINUM COLLECTION 3CD
#69 QUEEN + PAUL RODGERS, COSMOS ROCKS SP.ED.CD+DVD 2008
#94 QUEEN, GAME/80
#95 QUEEN, HOT SPACE

Wait a minute, you are telling me that "Greatest hits 2" is number one this week in Estonia?.

Thank you

[EdWood]

In UK album charts this week:

40. (18) THE COSMOS ROCKS (Queen+Paul Rodgers) 3 wks
43. (37) GREATEST HITS (Queen) 466 weeks on chart - only 12 weeks behind all-time longevity album, Rumours...
80. (65) GREATEST HITS 2

Jennifer Hudson at number 37 sold 6434 copies so The Cosmos Rocks and Greatest Hits probably sold over 6,000 copies each. Greatest Hits 2 probably sold 2,500 (?) copies...

[borderwolf]

Estonia
week 40
dvd

#06 QUEEN, LIVE AT WEMBLEY STADIUM 2DVD 2003
#07 QUEEN, GREATEST VIDEO HITS 1 2DVD
#09 QUEEN, GREATEST VIDEO HITS VOL.2 2003
#11 QUEEN, QUEEN ON FIRE-LIVE AT THE BOWL 2DVD 2004
#14 QUEEN, FREDDIE MERCURY TRIBUTE SP.10TH ANN.ED. 2008
#22 QUEEN + PAUL RODGERS, RETURN OF THE CHAMPIONS 2005

[borderwolf]

Estonia
week 40
albums

#01 QUEEN, GREATEST HITS II 1991
#02 QUEEN, GREATEST HITS I 1981
#03 QUEEN, GREATEST HITS III 1999
#24 QUEEN + PAUL RODGERS, COSMOS ROCKS 2008
#48 QUEEN, PLATINUM COLLECTION 3CD
#69 QUEEN + PAUL RODGERS, COSMOS ROCKS SP.ED.CD+DVD 2008
#94 QUEEN, GAME/80
#95 QUEEN, HOT SPACE

[borderwolf]

Italy
dvd

#05 LIVE AT WEMBLEY STADIUM
QUEEN

#09 QUEEN ROCK MONTREAL
QUEEN

#10 GREATEST VIDEO HITS I
QUEEN

#15 QUEEN ON FIRE - LIVE AT THE BOWL
QUEEN

#20 F.MERCURY TRIBUTE CONCERT:SPECIAL 10TH
QUEEN

[HUR]

Thank you, so Queen rank up there too with all those acts.

Belgium,
mid-price chart (Wl)

#17 - Greatest hits 1 (down from #13 over there)

[MJDangerous]

Any idea about "Innuendo" in 1991/1992?.

I have Innuendo at 315K in 91. In 92 it hasn't make the year end top 100 artist album chart, so under 120k sold. It sold probably between 80k and 100k.

MJDangerous, just a question about Japan. I donīt know much about the market and which acts sold in huge numbers except for a couple of acts like Michael Jackson, Madonna and Led Zeppelin. I see you have something like 8 million for Queen (maybe a bit less if you adjust their 80īs albums), is that good compared to other acts?. Normal?. I donīt ask to start a discussion, but just to know how the band stands in front of other successful international acts and have a good perspective of how big they are or not (no way we can compare them with local acts).

I have never compiled a list of best selling foreign acts in Japan, just checking the ones likely to be among the biggest acts :

Mariah Carey : 18 millions
The Beatles : Hard to tell exactly, but easily over 15 millions
Celine Dion : 8m+
Madonna : 8m
Bon Jovi : 8m-
Michael Jackson : 8m-
Billy Joel : 7,5m
Eric Clapton : 7m
Whitney Houston : 7m-
ABBA : 6,5m
Aerosmith : 5,5m

[HUR]

Hi, MJ dangerous, I was wondering if you might know much about Queens catalogue sales globally and how they are fairing up as the years go by. Cheers.

Hello. I donīt know what you mean by "catalogue", as it isnīt the same for all people. Queenīs back catalog ussually suffer from the fact that new compilations are continually being released each year and, therefore, they are regarded as "new" sales. But the focus is always in their old stuff. Obviously, to many people, those sales have no value because they reject acts that released many compilations and the like.

Here are annual sales for USA since 2004 (provided by Hanboo who uses Nielsen Soundscan as a source):

2004: 942,000
2005: 986,000
2006: 993,000
2007: 757,000

Total for USA: 3,678,000

UK (from Musicweek):

2005: 620,000
2006: 640,000
2007: 408,357

Total for UK (2005-2007): 1,668,357

In Japan, they sold 1,781,001 in 2004, mainly thanks to their new compilation "Queen Jewels" released in that year.

In a country like Belgium, to cite an example, this is how the mid-price chart looked like april 2005:

#1 - A night at the opera
#2 - A day at the races
#3 - News of the world
#5 - The works
#6 - The miracle
#8 - Queen 2
#9 - Made in heaven
#10 – A kind of magic
#11 – Hot space

According to codes from Brazil, their albums are still being shipped to stores which means there is still popular demand for them (even if it is in small quantities).

So they do still well worldwide.

[nucleardolphin]

Hi, MJ dangerous, I was wondering if you might know much about Queens catalogue sales globally and how they are fairing up as the years go by. Cheers.

[HUR]

Estimates as they are now fits well, maybe a few 80's album is a bit high, but considering infos we have that's ok.

BTW, if they are people interested, here some details of my estimates in UK, read album / sales in 000's (year of those sales) :

Sheer Heart Attack 215 (75)
A Night At The Opera 150 (75) 525 (76)
A Day At Races 50 (76) 175 (77)
News Of The World 195 (77) 80 (78)
Jazz 160 (78) 90 (79)
Live Killers 200 (79)
The Game 180 (80)
Hot Space 150 (82)
The Works 580 (84)
A Kind Of Magic 670 (86)
Live Magic 295 (86) 260 (87)
The Miracle 480 (89)

Wow good information. I take those are supposed to be retail sales, no?. Any idea about "Innuendo" in 1991/1992?. Something interesting is that their "catalog" sales (for their old studio albums and others like "A kind of magic" and "Live at wembley ī86") were important for the band in the end. Of course, other classic albums did better than them, but altogether Queen total sales wouldnīt be the same if they hadnīt achieved some "decent" catalog sales as the time went by.

MJDangerous, just a question about Japan. I donīt know much about the market and which acts sold in huge numbers except for a couple of acts like Michael Jackson, Madonna and Led Zeppelin. I see you have something like 8 million for Queen (maybe a bit less if you adjust their 80īs albums), is that good compared to other acts?. Normal?. I donīt ask to start a discussion, but just to know how the band stands in front of other successful international acts and have a good perspective of how big they are or not (no way we can compare them with local acts).

Last week in DVD UK chart

26 (24) Queen - Live At Wembley Stadium '86 (178 weeks)

[MJDangerous]

Estimates as they are now fits well, maybe a few 80's album is a bit high, but considering infos we have that's ok.

BTW, if they are people interested, here some details of my estimates in UK, read album / sales in 000's (year of those sales) :

Sheer Heart Attack 215 (75)
A Night At The Opera 150 (75) 525 (76)
A Day At Races 50 (76) 175 (77)
News Of The World 195 (77) 80 (78)
Jazz 160 (78) 90 (79)
Live Killers 200 (79)
The Game 180 (80)
Hot Space 150 (82)
The Works 580 (84)
A Kind Of Magic 670 (86)
Live Magic 295 (86) 260 (87)
The Miracle 480 (89)

[HUR]

Thank you Mario and MJDangerous. "A night at the opera" re-entered at #67 in 2005 with its re-issue, not bad. So do your estimations still stand?. Or will you change them?. I donīt know much about imports and such either.

[MJDangerous]

Mario confirmed me that sales figures weren't complete. Here is the complete breakdown of Queen in Japan, huge thanks dedicated to Mario

LP
1974/03/25 Queen # 52 , 14 wks, 23,620
1974/06/25 Queen 2 # 26 , 27 wks, 56,210
1974/12/21 Sheer Heart Attack # 23 , 37 wks, 103,730
1975/12/21 A Night At The Opera # 9 , 57 wks, 147,990
1977/01/09 A Day At The Races # 1 , 28 wks, 127,480
1977/11/25 News Of The World # 3 , 20 wks, 84,290
1978/11/25 Jazz # 5 , 30 wks, 106,140
1979/06/25 Queen Live Killers # 9 , 15 wks, 55,710
1980/07/21 The Game # 5 , 17 wks, 74,810
1980/12/21 Flash Gordon [Soundtrack] # 12 , 19 wks, 68,340
1981/11/10 Greatest Hits # 9 , 23 wks, 102,120
1982/05/11 Hot Space # 6 , 11 wks, 60,760
1984/03/16 The Works # 7 , 11 wks, 67,030
1986/06/25 A Kind Of Magic # 25 , 5 wks, 13,830
1986/12/20 Live Magic # 74 , 4 wks, 2,840

CT
1976/06/25 Queen Best16 # 28 , 6 wks, 3,380
1977/01/09 A Day At The Races # 24 , 5 wks, 2,700
1978/12/10 Jazz # 82 , 11 wks, 10,890
1980/07/25 The Game # 38 , 11 wks, 17,640
1980/12/27 Flash Gordon [Soundtrack] # 33 , 10 wks, 16,360
1981/11/10 Greatest Hits # 32 , 18 wks, 38,050
1982/05/11 Hot Space # 31 , 8 wks, 17,910
1984/03/16 The Works # 24 , 9 wks, 22,830
1986/06/25 A Kind Of Magic # 56 , 4 wks, 4,970
1989/06/09 The Miracle # 59 , 3 wks, 2,440

CD
1986/09/03 A Kind Of Magic # 34 , 5 wks, 7,360
1987/02/04 Live Magic # 49 , 3 wks, 4,660
1987/04/22 Greatest Hits # 95 , 1 wk, 2,700
1989/06/09 The Miracle # 20 , 5 wks, 18,530
1991/01/30 Innuendo # 13 , 5 wks, 41,670
1991/11/06 Greatest Hits II # 65 , 4 wks, 19,780
1992/01/29 CD Single Box # 97 , 1 wk, 2,510
1992/06/24 Live At Wembley '86 # 80 , 2 wks, 7,640
1994/06/22 Greatest Hits I & II # 65 , 2 wks, 8,690
1995/03/29 Greatest Hits I & II # 62 , 3 wks, 18,920
1995/11/17 Made In Heaven # 10 , 25 wks, 326,330
1997/11/19 Queen Rocks # 22 , 4 wks, 34,960
1999/11/18 Greatest Hits III # 25 , 16 wks, 49,625
2000/06/28 In Vision [Limited Edition] # 7 , 18 wks, 166,880
2001/10/24 Made In Heaven # 124 , 6 wks, 8,432
2001/11/21 Greatest Hits # 39 , 24 wks, 41,727
2001/11/21 Greatest Hits II # 192 , 7 wks, 6,850
2004/01/28 Jewels # 1 , 129 wks, 1,343,228
2004/02/11 Queen [2001 Digital Re-Mastering disc] # 197 , 1 wk, 1,137
2004/02/11 Queen 2[2001 Digital Re-Mastering disc] # 164 , 1 wk, 1,332
2004/02/11 Sheer Heart Attack [2001 Digital Re-Mastering disc] # 170 , 1 wk, 1,296
2004/02/11 A Night At The Opera[2001 Digital Re-Mastering disc] # 171 , 2 wks, 2,711
2004/02/11 A Day At The Races [2001 Digital Re-Mastering disc] # 176 , 1 wk, 1,261
2004/02/11 News Of The World [2001 Digital Re-Mastering disc] # 183 , 1 wk, 1,218
2004/02/11 Jazz[2001 Digital Re-Mastering disc] # 189 , 1 wk, 1,187
2004/02/12 The Game [2001 Digital Re-Mastering disc] # 204 , 1 wk, 1,077
2004/02/25 Flash Gordon [2001 Digital Re-Mastering disc] # 225 , 1 wk, 1,115
2004/02/25 Hot Space [2001 Digital Re-Mastering disc] # 201 , 1 wk, 1,252
2004/02/25 The Works[2001 Digital Re-Mastering disc] # 199 , 1 wk, 1,273
2004/02/25 A Kind Of Magic [2001 Digital Re-Mastering disc] # 208 , 1 wk, 1,221
2004/02/25 The Miracle [2001 Digital Re-Mastering disc] # 187 , 1 wk, 1,344
2004/02/25 Innuendo [2001 Digital Re-Mastering disc] # 178 , 1 wk, 1,413
2004/03/31 Made In Heaven [Design version] # 275 , 1 wk, 824
2004/03/31 Made In Heaven [2004.3version] # 198 , 1 wk, 1,196
2004/10/27 Queen On Fire - Live At The Bowl # 97 , 3 wks, 4,436
2005/01/26 Jewels2 # 9 , 15 wks, 65,371
2005/11/23 A Night At The Opera[30th Anniversary edition] # 67 , 3 wks, 6,114
2007/10/31 Rock Montreal # 70 , 3 wks, 3,454
2008/02/27 In Vision 2008 # 51 , 7 wks, 14,793

[HUR]

I entered 100k instead of 1000k for The Works in the excel document, I have now fixed the typo and yes Queen are up to 24,4 million albums shipped in UK.

Thank you. Good total for Canada too, so Queen were slighly bigger there in USA proportionately, of course.

[EdWood]

Good work MJD!

Will you be adding The Cosmos Rocks to this total eventually as well?