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**slightlymad** · Thu January 20, 2022, 13:30

Originally posted by Braca3 View Post

>> slightlymad

Both version were certified originally. (Red version gold 11/16/92 platinum 1/13/93)
have a screenshot but the site for not allow me to post it for some reason.

If I remember correctly when GH was certified 7P they were merged / combined before decoupled again in dec 2020.
I have no idea why they reversed the decision to combine the 2.

Thanks Braca3, so has the Original GH sold 9,000,000 + 2021 and the 1992 Red Version sold 5,000,000 as the respective 9 x Platinum and 5 x Platinum Awards were both issued on the same day December 11 2020. It's all very confusing. It all boils down to Hollywood Records calling the 1992 issue Greatest Hits (which apart from 2 songs it is) If the had called it 'The Best of Queen' or similar there would be no confusion. For me personally the sales of both Greatest Hits should be combined and sales should be approaching 15,000,000 copies.

**Braca3** · Thu January 20, 2022, 15:20

>> slightlymad

If u fwd me ur private email by PM I can email you the screenshot
maybe you are allowed to post it

**Rockintunesbaby** · Thu January 20, 2022, 15:48

Has anyone tried contacting Hollywood records?

**Braca3** · Fri January 21, 2022, 22:08

01/21/2022 (WEEK ENDING: 01/20/2022)

LW

TW

ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL

TOTAL

CHANGE

ALBUMS

TEA

SEA

38

QUEEN | GREATEST HITS 1
HOLLYWOOD

14,676

5%

2,017

416

12,243

YTD OVERALL ACTIVITY

RANK

ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL

YTD ACTIVITY

ALBUMS

SONGS

AOD STREAMS

VOD STREAMS

36	QUEEN \| GREATEST HITS 1 HOLLYWOOD

44,000

7,100

12,300

46,440,000

3,175,000

**Braca3** · Sat January 22, 2022, 14:17

Mjd posted a reply on the GH 9p vs 5p
https://chartmasters.org/2020/01/que...ge-5/#comments

**slightlymad** · Sun January 23, 2022, 12:37

For those that don't visit Chartmasters (Why not it's Amazing) here is MJD's response

Yes, the situation about Queen’s US compilations has always been confusing. Let’s clear things up.

About our figures:

GH (original, 1981) sold 4.27m with the 2004 WWRY edition included
GH 2 (original, unreleased in the US) sold 150k (imports)
GH 1&2 sold 1.175m
PC sold 1.55m
Classic Queen sold 3.7m
GH (US, 1992) sold 7.47m

No double counting, and no merging apart from GH 1981 + GH 2004. This can be debatable, it would be better to split everything on next update I suppose.

Now, the RIAA certs are kinda messy. About PC, it was the same album certified in 2005 and 2012, so ‘only’ 2xP total, it then went 5xP in 2021 for 1.67m boxes sold. It’s consistent with our 1.55m estimate from an earlier date.

Certifications from GH are bogus though. Former awards of Classic Queen (3xP up to 2002, 3.7m sales now) and GH (8xP up to 2006, including the original plus 1992) were fine if we pass on the dubious merge of GHs.

The new ones make little sense though since it appears they haven’t merge the albums the same way as before. The 1981 can’t be at 9xP if we don’t add the 1992 release that is now listed aside at 5xP, and that one sold much more than 5m.

Yet, if we add together the certified units from these main 3 releases (9+5+3), the total is good (we were at 14m+ but then now you need to add SPS).

My guess is that they have now sorted things up, splitting the 1981 and 1992 releases, but they’ve put the wrong release dates in front of certs. Meaning:

the 1981 release with SPS is past 5m
the 1992 release with remaining SPS (same tracks included inside the 1981 release can’t be certified twice) is past 9m
the 2004 version may be included in one of these totals, which one is almost impossible to know as it depends on how they dispatched the SPS of the common tracks
no PC sales were certified on these awards, they stick to certifying it on its own

**Rockintunesbaby** · Sun January 23, 2022, 15:17

I have to say I’m still confused!

**Braca3** · Sun January 23, 2022, 15:58

as i understand it
Individual downloaded tracks and streaming numbers can be credited to either GH album or original studio album etc. It makes little sense to have both versions separately certified this way.
There are numerous GH packages which had tracks added years later to boost sales and interest. The only argument is, I guess, both have a separate catalog number but as Hollywood can credit sales to either package that feature the song....they can manipulate it as they see fit.

**Braca3** · Fri January 28, 2022, 22:19

Chart Date: 01/28/2022 (WEEK ENDING: 01/27/2022)

LW

TW

ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL

TOTAL

CHANGE

ALBUMS

TEA

SEA

38

37

QUEEN | GREATEST HITS 1
HOLLYWOOD

14,807

1%

2,492

498

11,817

YTD OVERALL ACTIVITY

RANK

ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL

YTD ACTIVITY

ALBUMS

SONGS

AOD STREAMS

VOD STREAMS

35	QUEEN \| GREATEST HITS 1 HOLLYWOOD

59,000

10,000

17,100

61,334,000

3,986,000

**Rockintunesbaby** · Sun January 30, 2022, 22:53

Interesting article.

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/quee...dio-rock-band/

**Braca3** · Fri February 4, 2022, 22:27

Chart Date: 02/04/2022 (WEEK ENDING: 02/03/2022)

LW

TW

ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL

TOTAL

CHANGE

ALBUMS

TEA

SEA

37

31

QUEEN | GREATEST HITS 1
HOLLYWOOD

15,699

6%

2,853

371

12,476

YTD OVERALL ACTIVITY

RANK

ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL

YTD ACTIVITY

ALBUMS

SONGS

AOD STREAMS

VOD STREAMS

35	QUEEN \| GREATEST HITS 1 HOLLYWOOD

75,000

13,200

21,000

77,833,000

4,763,000

**Braca3** · Fri February 11, 2022, 21:08

Chart Date: 02/11/2022 (WEEK ENDING: 02/10/2022)

LW

TW

ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL

TOTAL

CHANGE

ALBUMS

TEA

SEA

31

35

QUEEN | GREATEST HITS 1
HOLLYWOOD

15,213

-3%

2,542

432

12,239

YTD OVERALL ACTIVITY

RANK

ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL

YTD ACTIVITY

ALBUMS

SONGS

AOD STREAMS

VOD STREAMS

34	QUEEN \| GREATEST HITS 1 HOLLYWOOD

90,000

16,000

26,000

93,405,000

5,526,000

**Braca3** · Fri February 18, 2022, 21:10

Chart Date: 02/18/2022 (WEEK ENDING: 02/17/2022)

LW

TW

ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL

TOTAL

CHANGE

ALBUMS

TEA

SEA

35

39

QUEEN | GREATEST HITS 1
HOLLYWOOD

15,853

4%

2,815

437

12,600

YTD OVERALL ACTIVITY

RANK

ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL

YTD ACTIVITY

ALBUMS

SONGS

AOD STREAMS

VOD STREAMS

33	QUEEN \| GREATEST HITS 1 HOLLYWOOD

107,000

19,000

30,000

110,038,000

6,290,000

**slightlymad** · Sun February 20, 2022, 15:39

The Bohemian Rhapsody Movie had it's UK Terrestrial TV premiere last nigh on Channel 4 and it has boosted Queen's performance on iTunes

5 +50 Queen - The Platinum Collection
6 NEW Queen - Greatest Hits
57 NEW Queen - Greatest Hits 2
74 NEW Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody Soundtrack

**Lawyeris** · Mon February 21, 2022, 11:18

Originally posted by slightlymad View Post

The Bohemian Rhapsody Movie had it's UK Terrestrial TV premiere last nigh on Channel 4 and it has boosted Queen's performance on iTunes

Only all collections, it's pity...

**AnderF10** · Thu February 24, 2022, 00:22

Japan (Oricon)

Digital Albums
18 (RE) Queen Jewels (226/62,700)

**Braca3** · Sat February 26, 2022, 02:56

Chart Date: 02/25/2022 (WEEK ENDING: 02/24/2022)

LW

TW

ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL

TOTAL

CHANGE

ALBUMS

TEA

SEA

39

36

QUEEN | GREATEST HITS 1
HOLLYWOOD

16,044

1%

2,402

497

13,146

YTD OVERALL ACTIVITY

RANK

ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL

YTD ACTIVITY

ALBUMS

SONGS

AOD STREAMS

VOD STREAMS

32	QUEEN \| GREATEST HITS 1 HOLLYWOOD

123,000

21,600

35,000

127,209,000

7,105,000

**AnderF10** · Thu March 3, 2022, 00:06

Japan (Oricon)

Digital Albums
22 (18) Queen Jewels (249/62,949)

**Braca3** · Fri March 4, 2022, 21:41

LW

TW

ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL

TOTAL

CHANGE

ALBUMS

TEA

SEA

36

39

QUEEN | GREATEST HITS 1
HOLLYWOOD

15,015

-6%

2,375

442

12,197

Chart Date: 03/04/2022 (WEEK ENDING: 03/03/2022)

YTD OVERALL ACTIVITY

RANK

ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL

YTD ACTIVITY

ALBUMS

SONGS

AOD STREAMS

VOD STREAMS

33	QUEEN \| GREATEST HITS 1 HOLLYWOOD

137,000

24,000

39,000

142,596,000

7,845,000

**AnderF10** · Wed March 9, 2022, 16:00

Japan (Oricon)

Digital Albums
18 (22) Queen Jewels (234/63,183)

**Braca3** · Fri March 11, 2022, 21:52

Chart Date: 03/11/2022 (WEEK ENDING: 03/10/2022)

LW

TW

ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL

TOTAL

CHANGE

ALBUMS

TEA

SEA

39

QUEEN | GREATEST HITS 1
HOLLYWOOD

15,191

1%

2,037

475

12,679

YTD OVERALL ACTIVITY

RANK

ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL

YTD ACTIVITY

ALBUMS

SONGS

AOD STREAMS

VOD STREAMS

34	QUEEN \| GREATEST HITS 1 HOLLYWOOD

153,000

26,300

44,000

159,853,000

8,950,000

**slightlymad** · Wed March 16, 2022, 12:54

Queen Perform Exceptionally Well In France in 2021

Following the release of SNEP's annual report Queen did exceptionally well in France placing 10th in the Biggest selling Artist of the year. Quite a feat as they were the highest placed non French act beating the likes of Adele, Abba, Ed Sheeran and The Weekend. As I don't speak French it's hard to see what area's Queen performed well in but I presume the Digital Market was great for the band. They also did well in the Vinyl chart placing 4 LP's in the Top 100.

France Top Vinyl Sales 2021

No4 - Queen Greatest Hits
No8 - Queen Greatest Hits 2
No15 - Queen Bohemian Rhapsody Soundtrack
No69 - Queen A Night At The Opera.

France Top 200 Albums 2021

No114 - Queen Bohemian Rhapsody Soundtrack

**AnderF10** · Thu March 17, 2022, 01:12

Japan (Oricon)

Digital Albums
24 (18) Queen Jewels (201/63,384)

**Rockintunesbaby** · Thu March 17, 2022, 03:14

Originally posted by AnderF10 View Post

Japan (Oricon)

Digital Albums
24 (18) Queen Jewels (201/63,384)

Queen Jewels sold 201 copies in Japan last week?

**AnderF10** · Thu March 17, 2022, 13:25

Originally posted by Rockintunesbaby View Post

Queen Jewels sold 201 copies in Japan last week?

Yes. 201 digital copies only.

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