Queen :: Charts & Sales History

[Basil]

Basil,

Great figures for GHII, you must have a good source.

Indeed I do. He is called Mr Mole.

One of the only things i can think of with the difference in totals is, maybe EMI shipped 1.5m by June 92, but a lot of these are counted in the 518k sales in the 2nd half of 1992. Maybe by June 92 it had sold say 1.1m (but certified for EMI shipments of 4XPL), they then decide to ship another 500k say, hence the 5XPL certification in June 92, but those shipments actually sell in the 2nd half of 92.

Could be the answer?

Yes, I think it's about the only answer really.

Would mean the album is around 2.7-2.9m and that is with record club sales.

So about 2.4-2.6m without.

Shows we have to be cautious when matching shipments and sales together I think.

Cheers - Basil

[jimmypages59]

Basil,

Great figures for GHII, you must have a good source.

One of the only things i can think of with the difference in totals is, maybe EMI shipped 1.5m by June 92, but a lot of these are counted in the 518k sales in the 2nd half of 1992. Maybe by June 92 it had sold say 1.1m (but certified for EMI shipments of 4XPL), they then decide to ship another 500k say, hence the 5XPL certification in June 92, but those shipments actually sell in the 2nd half of 92.

Could be the answer?

[Basil]

Basil, thank you for the figure. . does it mean that Greatest hits 2 has shipped over 3 M copies in UK?.

well yes and no.

I do have my own ideas on this one, but first I've posted data this way so that members can have a look and see what they think.

We appear to have all this data for an album released as recently as 1991, but it doesn't all add up the same.

Let's see what everyone thinks.

I'll add those s/scan to Page One.

Cheers - Basil

[HUR]

By the way Basil, here I leave two new soundscan, thank to Hanboo and Bracca:

Live magic 224K
Queen at the BBC 32K

[HUR]

Basil, thank you for the figure. . does it mean that Greatest hits 2 has shipped over 3 M copies in UK?.

[Basil]

Greatest Hits Vol 2 - UK Sales

July-December 1992 - 518,472
1993 - 168,070
1994 - 171,741
1995 - 161,760
1996 - 147,219
1997 - 92,892
1998 - 77,739
1999 - 99,796
2000 - 87,524
2001 - 56,647
2002 - 40,814
2003 - 24,438
2004 - 11,147
2005 - 37,616
January - August 2006 - 31,961

Thanks to my necessarily annoymous source.

These are all formats including record club sales which are 15% of the total overall, but almost nothing in the past few years.

This album came out in October 1991 and sales to June 1992 must have been huge, particularly over Christmas 1991 and the death of Freddie and so on.

Indeed in early June 1992 it was certified for shipments of 1,500,000 copies after only 7 months on release.

These sales start in July 1992 and the album cleared over 0.5m in the second half of 1992.

From 1993-1996 it sold 100-200k annually.

From 1997, sales dipped below 100k, but were really knocked by the Platinum Collection from 2001 onwards.

Slight revival in 2005 which continues in 2006.

A complication is the cert for shipments of 2,400,000 in March 2000.

This makes compiling a total difficult - any consensus here?

[MJDangerous]

Italian top 100 album chart :

#28 Greatest Hits II
#31 Live At Wembley '86
#52 Greatest Hits
#66 Innuendo
#99 Live Killers
#100 A Kind Of Magic

[braca]

http://www.bpi.co.uk/

MERCURY FREDDIE , VERY BEST OF , Gold , Fri Sep 22 2006 cd

MERCURY FREDDIE , LOVER OF LIFE, SINGER OF SONGS , Gold , Fri Sep 22 2006 dvd

[braca]

36 - 25 / 17
week 4 Freddie Mercury - The Very Best Of Freddie Mercury Solo
Parlophone - 51.000
http://www.mediatraffic.de/albums.htm

[EM64T]

Thanks Mester!

[jimmypages59]

Look here;
http://www.ukmix.org/forums/viewtopi...3100&start=450

and here;

http://www.ukmix.org/forums/viewtopi...3100&start=425

for Queen Chart Histories/Runs.

[EM64T]

You know any Queen chart trajectory?

[braca]

What about the Freddie Mercury solo album sales?

17 new Freddie Mercury - The Very Best of Freddie
Mercury Solo
Parlophone - 79.000

So 79.000 sold in it 1st week
beyonce did a little better with 736.000 copies sold
according to
http://www.mediatraffic.de/albums.htm

17 / -
week 2 Freddie Mercury - The Very Best Of Freddie Mercury Solo
Parlophone - 75.000

25 - 17 / 17
week 3 Freddie Mercury - The Very Best Of Freddie Mercury Solo
Parlophone - 65.000

[HUR]

A LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AND GOLD AND PLATINUM AWARDS FOR QUEEN
Cologne, 15th August, 1997. Queen band members Roger Taylor and Brian May, joined by manager Jim Beach, were at POPKOMM, 1997 to receive from Helmut Fest, EMI ELECTROLA Managing Director, a triple platinum award (over 1.5 million units sold in Germany) for the "Made In Heaven" album released in 1995, gold (over 250,000 records sold) for "Queen Dance Traxx 1" (1996) and gold for the double CD "Queen Greatest Hits 1 & 2" (1997).
Roger Taylor and Brian May then accepted a special award on behalf of QUEEN - the Lifetime Achievement Award bestowed on the band at the VIVA Comet Awards.

http://queen-fip.com/QUEEN/cuttings.htm
NOW QOL

http://www.ifpi.de/
still lists MIH as 2P

Yes, I had also read that "Made in heaven" was on 3 platinum award in Germany, and Brian and Roger had been given those awards. Looking at the performance of the album, I think that 1,5 M could easily be right.

[jimmypages59]

Unfortunatley I don't have any exact price references for Queen UK BPI Awards Discs. But you can see how much originals by similar sized artists such as U2, Led Zeppelin, Madonna etc, sell for, in this link. There are also some US RIAA Awards discs in there too, that are for Queen.

http://eil.com/shop/PresetList.asp?P...es-Award-Discs

[braca]

Those UK awards dics are fake. The Killer Queen is just a copy of the normal UK 7" coloured gold and sold as a souvenir 'gold!' disc, nothing to do with BPI Awards. The Somebody To Love is exactly the same just a slightly better shot at it. If they were original BPI Awards disc they would sell for considerably more £'s. Here is an original UK Gold Awards disc for A Night at the Opera from 1976;

http://www.queenmuseum.com/index.php...ask=view&id=39

It does look different.
You have a point reference the price!!!
Thanks

[jimmypages59]

Those UK awards dics are fake. The Killer Queen is just a copy of the normal UK 7" coloured gold and sold as a souvenir 'gold!' disc, nothing to do with BPI Awards. The Somebody To Love is exactly the same just a slightly better shot at it. If they were original BPI Awards disc they would sell for considerably more £'s. Here is an original UK Gold Awards disc for A Night at the Opera from 1976;

http://www.queenmuseum.com/index.php...ask=view&id=39

[braca]

A LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AND GOLD AND PLATINUM AWARDS FOR QUEEN
Cologne, 15th August, 1997. Queen band members Roger Taylor and Brian May, joined by manager Jim Beach, were at POPKOMM, 1997 to receive from Helmut Fest, EMI ELECTROLA Managing Director, a triple platinum award (over 1.5 million units sold in Germany) for the "Made In Heaven" album released in 1995, gold (over 250,000 records sold) for "Queen Dance Traxx 1" (1996) and gold for the double CD "Queen Greatest Hits 1 & 2" (1997).
Roger Taylor and Brian May then accepted a special award on behalf of QUEEN - the Lifetime Achievement Award bestowed on the band at the VIVA Comet Awards.

http://queen-fip.com/QUEEN/cuttings.htm
NOW QOL

http://www.ifpi.de/
still lists MIH as 2P

[braca]

http://www.popsike.com/php/detaildata.p ... 4057264503

QUEEN-Somebody to Love -7" Single Platinum Disc

BPI?
does any one know

[braca]

http://www.popsike.com/php/detaildata.p ... 3847969745

QUEEN...GOLD DISC - Queen, Killer Queen, original 7" record without picture sleeve.

BPI lists this one as
Award Type: Silver
Artist Name: QUEEN
Record Type: Single
Record Title: KILLER QUEEN

Is the gold rec a fake or is BPI not up to date (on this one as well?
does any one know?

thanks!

[braca]

Found this on the web
DVD Music Video Chart - Sunday 17 September 2006

This Week (Last Week) Artist -Title (Weeks in Chart)

01 (01) FREDDIE MERCURY - Lover Of Life Singer Of Songs (2 weeks)
02 (02) PINK FLOYD - Pulse - 20.10.94 (72 weeks)
03 (07) QUEEN - Live At Wembley Stadium (157 weeks)
04 (RE) WHO - The Vegas Job (RE)
05 (RE) PINK FLOYD/SYD BARRETT - Pink Floyd/Syd Barrett (RE)
06 (05) STATUS QUO - The One & Only (2 weeks)
07 (NE) REM - When The Light Is Mine - Best Of The Irs Years (NE)
08 (04) GIRLS ALOUD - Off The Record (2 weeks)
09 (09) PINK FLOYD - The Wall (14 weeks)
10 (08) THE EAGLES - Farewell Tour - Live From Melbourne (35 weeks)

11 (03) DREAM THEATER - Score (2 weeks)
12 (11) VARIOUS ARTISTS - 40 Years Of Top Of The Pops - 1964-2004 (7 weeks)
13 (RE) BLONDIE - Live (RE)
14 (17) PAUL MCCARTNEY - Put It There (2 weeks)
15 (RE) JOHN LENNON/PLASTIC ONO BAND - Sweet Toronto (RE)
16 (19) THE EAGLES - Hell Freezes Over (84 weeks)
17 (RE) VARIOUS ARTISTS - Woodstock Diaries (RE)
18 (23) ELVIS PRESLEY - '68 Comeback Special (61 weeks)
19 (18) JAMES BLUNT - Chasing Time - The Bedlam Sessions (31 weeks)
20 (13) VARIOUS - Metal - A Headbanger'S Journey (6 weeks)

21 (RE) QUEEN - Greatest Video Hits - 1 (RE)
22 (21) ELVIS PRESLEY - On Elvis (7 weeks)
23 (28) BABY EINSTEIN MUSIC BOX ORCHESTRA - Baby Mozart - Music Festival (5 weeks)
24 (22) VARIOUS - Glastonbury (9 weeks)
25 (29) ROBBIE WILLIAMS - What We Did Last Summer (80 weeks)
26 (12) RAINBOW - Live In Munich 1977 (4 weeks)
27 (RE) QUEEN - Greatest Video Hits - 2 (RE)
28 (NE) JOHNNY CASH - Entertains (NE)
29 (RE) THE WHO - Live At The Royal Albert Hall (RE)
30 (RE) LIVE CAST RECORDING - Les Miserables In Concert (RE)

[braca]

What about the Freddie Mercury solo album sales?

17 new Freddie Mercury - The Very Best of Freddie
Mercury Solo
Parlophone - 79.000

So 79.000 sold in it 1st week
beyonce did a little better with 736.000 copies sold
according to
http://www.mediatraffic.de/albums.htm

17 / -
week 2 Freddie Mercury - The Very Best Of Freddie Mercury Solo
Parlophone - 75.000

[braca]

The numbers for ANATO posted by jimmypages59
are higher then the 90,400 the chart Coy informed some time ago ref the period 94 - 03. It would seem that the chart coy data does not cover all sales?

Thanks for the numbers!

[HUR]

Yes, with all those compilations, those are very decent numbers. It also shows how "Queen" and "Queen 2" are ready to be certified platinum. Dispite that, I feel I understand what John is pointing.

[jimmypages59]

I think the thing with Queen is that a lot of people just go the for the Greatest Hits packages rather than the original studio albums. Although 300,000+ (about 21k a year) for A Night At The Opera is reasonably good sales.

I will carry on with list, i'll just post them in order as I get the info.