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Thank you, Andilversen. Welcome to this topic; please, keep adding your updates.
In South Korea, in the monthly ranking of May, "Return Of The Champions" finished at number 98 (with sales of 131 copies)
Lee, when it comes to their USA compilations, we should also add about "Queen Collection", triple box set released in 1992.
In a Billboard article from April 1994, they listed the best selling box sets of the Soundscan era, from 1991 to March 13 1994 (albeit without sales figures). Link (please don't quote this post): http://books.google.com.ar/books?id=RQg ... 22&f=false.
"Queen Collection" finished at number 28 on that ranking (Led Zeppelin were at the top). I guess it may have sold 100,000 copies in the USA.
These were their sales, in my opinion:
Greatest Hits (1981) – 2,000,000
Classic Queen – 3,450,000
Greatest Hits (1992) – 7,000,000
The Queen Collection – 100,000
Greatest Hits I & II – 1,000,000
Queen Rocks – 70,000
Greatest Hits III – 150,000
Platinum Collection – 800,000
Greatest Hits: We Will Rock You – 1,080,000
Stone Cold Classics – 150,000
A-Z Queen – 10,000
Absolute Greatest – 50,000
Greatest Hits II – 5,000
Total – nearly 16,000,000
I can confirm that "Greatest Hits" was available through Columbia House (a USA music club) during the eighties.
No idea about "Collection 15 Of The Best", but it may done fine based on the fact that it was the only compilation officially released during their Capital era.
As some may be aware, an Irish best selling album was list was compiled recently and no Queen title featured the ranking, even though according to some inner sources, it just covered the 1992 to 2012 time frame. Much of that stuff was mentioned in the following topic: viewtopic.php?t=88883.
But regardless, that was enough for a few UKmix members to make fun of Queen and myself, most in a nice way of course.
I can't say that Queen sold this or that in Ireland because I don't really have enough information. Maybe they didn't sell as many albums as they did in the UK proportionately.
Anyway, because there is little information about Queen in Ireland –certainly in this topic-, I put together most of their charts stats on the Irish singles charts from the 1974 to present.
Some charts in Ireland
-Overall, Queen had 30 Top 10 hits.
-They also had 46 chart hits.
-I could be wrong, but I think they achieved more Top 10 singles and official hits than any other foreign band.
-They spent 265 weeks on charts (at least).
-They spent 127 weeks in the Top 10 (at least).
-Bohemian Rhapsody reached number one in 1975 and stayed there until early 1976; it was the Christmas chart topper in 1975.
-In 1991, it repeated that feat: number one during the Christmas week and further weeks at the summit during early 1992.
-In total, Bohemian Rhapsody spent 14 weeks at number one. In the physical era, it stayed there longer than any single by any band; it was also a Christmas chart topper twice (only single to do so); and had number one weeks in four different years (1975, 1976, 1991 and 1992).
-They were a regular feature in the Top 10 around the Christmas time in many different years (not many can boast that): 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1991, 1995.
-And Top 20 in several others: 1981, 1991 and 1998.
Nice HUR! I would say if anything they have had more success with the singles than they did in the UK!! Would love to know about the albums, the Irish market though is very small and not important on a worldwide basis, nevertheless I would still like to know. Great info, thanks!!
Absolute Greatest is back at number 60 in the Canadian top 100 album charts
Looks like this country is where this album is now considered the catalog Queen hits collection. It was at 120 last week and 126 the week before and now has spent 82 weeks on the Canadian top 200 album chart.
Its also number 7 in the Hard Rock chart whilst Greatest Hits is at number 30 - the latter album has now spent 823 weeks in that chart.
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During the first semester of 2012, Platinum Collection finished at number 97 on the mid year ranking selling 892 copies. Yes, the South Korean market is currently that small for foreign acts.
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