Queen :: Charts & Sales History

[borderwolf]

Argentina
DVD biweekly sales chart (first part of december)

5 Live in Japan
(QUEEN) GLD

8 Live at The Wembley Stadium
(QUEEN) EMI

[slightlymad]

Firstly Happy New Year to everyone on UKmix, especially all you Queen fans out there. I was just wondering if anyone has seen any sales for the Queen Singles Collection Volume 1 Box Set, it was released late last year worldwide as a limited edition of 10,000. Below is the Press Release.

QUEEN: THE SINGLES COLLECTION, a project 35 years in the making is out now. In the first of four boxes of individual CD’s, facsimiles of the original vinyl singles. The tracks span more than 20 years, and are drawn from sixteen studio albums, beginning with the debut LP, Queen, in 1973, and ending in Made In Heaven in 1995.

Volume 1, the first box contains 13 CD singles, dating from the beginnings of the band’s recording career in 1970, to Don’t Stop Me Now in 1979. Box 2 will continue the story into the mid 1980s, and so on. Ultimately, the four boxes will offer every one of Queen’s singles to have made the upper reaches of the charts anywhere in the world. Naturally the set will take in all of the band’s UK singles, but it will also feature many that were only released abroad.

The Singles Collection will also include various rare non-album B-sides, including some live tracks, and some seldom-heard alternative mixes. It will trace the band through four decades, and many musical styles; every top 40 Queen single heard on the radio anywhere across the world will be found in this collection.

Few could have imagined that from such modest beginnings in 1970 when four student band members formed themselves into Queen, that by 2005 they would surpass even the Beatles’ world record for the longest time spent on the British album charts, as well as holding the record for the UK’s best selling album ever. Elsewhere around the world, in territories too numerous to list and far exceeding the 28 countries in which they toured, Queen enjoyed spectacular success; the many picture sleeves reproduced in the box set are a reminder of how the band literally conquered the world.

CD1:
1. A. Keep Yourself Alive
2. B. Son And Daughter

CD2:
1. A. Seven Seas Of Rhye
2. B. See What A Fool I’ve Been

CD3:
1. A. Killer Queen
2. A. Flick Of The Wrist

CD4:
1. A. Now I’m Here
2. B. Lily Of The Valley

CD5:
1. A. Bohemian Rhapsody
2. B. I’m In Love With My Car

CD6:
1. A. You’er My Best Friend
2. B. ’39

CD7:
1. A. Somebody To Love
2. B. White Man

CD8:
1. A. Tie Your Mother Down
2. B. You And I

CD9: Queen’s First EP
1. A. Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy
2. Death On Two Legs (Dedicated To…)
3. B. Tenement Funster
4. White Queen (As It Began)

CD10:
1. A. We Are The Champions
2. B. We Will Rock You

CD11:
1. A. Spread Your Wings
2. B. Sheer Heart Attack

CD12:
1. A. Bicycle Race
2. A. Fat Bottomed Girls

CD13:
1. A. Don’t Stop Me Now
2. B. In Only Seven Days

[nelson]

Argentina
DVD biweekly sales chart (first part of december)

5 Live in Japan
(QUEEN) GLD

8 Live at The Wembley Stadium
(QUEEN) EMI

THey are DVD act.

[AutomaticBR]

Firstly Happy New Year to everyone on UKmix, especially all you Queen fans out there. I was just wondering if anyone has seen any sales for the Queen Singles Collection Volume 1 Box Set, it was released late last year worldwide as a limited edition of 10,000. Below is the Press Release.

isn't a little bit... errrrrrrrrr... "funny" to ask for the sales for something that is LIMITED to 10,000 copies ONLY? :-?

[Wayne]

Firstly Happy New Year to everyone on UKmix, especially all you Queen fans out there. I was just wondering if anyone has seen any sales for the Queen Singles Collection Volume 1 Box Set, it was released late last year worldwide as a limited edition of 10,000. Below is the Press Release.

isn't a little bit... errrrrrrrrr... "funny" to ask for the sales for something that is LIMITED to 10,000 copies ONLY? :-?

Maybe the person who wrote it (slightlymad) is a bit....slightly mad :-?

[Lawyeris]

Firstly Happy New Year to everyone on UKmix, especially all you Queen fans out there. I was just wondering if anyone has seen any sales for the Queen Singles Collection Volume 1 Box Set, it was released late last year worldwide as a limited edition of 10,000. Below is the Press Release.

Yes, it already became a massive hit, sold about 200 000 copies around the world during it's first week of release

[HUR]

Argentina
DVD biweekly sales chart (first part of december)

5 Live in Japan
(QUEEN) GLD

8 Live at The Wembley Stadium
(QUEEN) EMI

THey are DVD act.

Maybe Slightlymad was asking for charts information. The box set reached #2 in the spanish singes charts and #32 in Italy.

[slightlymad]

Firstly Happy New Year to everyone on UKmix, especially all you Queen fans out there. I was just wondering if anyone has seen any sales for the Queen Singles Collection Volume 1 Box Set, it was released late last year worldwide as a limited edition of 10,000. Below is the Press Release.

isn't a little bit... errrrrrrrrr... "funny" to ask for the sales for something that is LIMITED to 10,000 copies ONLY? :-?

This release has not been recieved very well in the "Queen Community", I have bought a copy but how many other people have?. It is supposed to be the first in a series of 4 Box Sets, although a Limited run of 10,000 it may well have sold only 100 copies worldwide, that was what I was trying to find out. If it's a commercial failure it may well put in doubt the release of the future boxes. How many copies have been sold in the UK for instance?, probably Queen's strongest market, I haven't seen any sales for the UK, it may have sold like hot cakes we just don't know.

[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

[Lawyeris]

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...

[EdWood]

According to Zeus555's data Queen are on 1419 weeks on the top 75 UK album chart - more then any other act. I can't really see any other act ever surpassing Queen now in this table

[HUR]

According to Zeus555's data Queen are on 1419 weeks on the top 75 UK album chart - more then any other act. I can't really see any other act ever surpassing Queen now in this table

Great, Queen the best.

[john2000]

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

[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

[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.

[borderwolf]

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

6 Live in Japan
(QUEEN)

9 Live at The Wembley Stadium
(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]

Again from canada:

(103) 67 GREATEST HITS
QUEEN

[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”."

[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]

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]

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]

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]

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, 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.