Greatest Hits

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Queen: The Platinum Collection - Greatest Hits I, II & III" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. Retrieved 5 November 2021. In the UK, Greatest Hits debuted at number two on the UK Albums Chart and climbed to number one the following week, spending four weeks at the top. The album continued to sell well throughout the 1980s, appearing on several UK year-end charts, and by the end of the decade it had become the fourth-biggest selling album in the UK during the 1980s, with sales of over 1.9 million copies. [14] By 2006, Greatest Hits had become the best-selling album in the UK and the first album to sell more than five million copies there. [15] In February 2014, Greatest Hits became the first album in the UK to sell over six million copies, [16] [17] and it was claimed that one in three families in the UK owned a copy. [18] In June 2022, Greatest Hits spent its 1,000th week on the UK Albums Chart, and in July 2022, it reached seven million sales, with one in four households in the UK estimated to have a copy of the album. [19] As of November 2023, the album has spent 1,073 weeks in the top 100 of the UK Albums Chart. [20]

Dutch album certifications – Queen – Greatest Hits II" (in Dutch). Nederlandse Vereniging van Producenten en Importeurs van beeld- en geluidsdragers . Retrieved 4 August 2021. Enter Greatest Hits II in the "Artiest of titel" box. Select 1997 in the drop-down menu saying "Alle jaargangen". Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, New South Wales, Australia: Australian Chart Book. p.243. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.

Spanishcharts.com – Queen – The Platinum Collection - Greatest Hits I, II & III". Hung Medien. Retrieved 5 November 2021. Scaping, Peter, ed. (1986). "Top 100 Albums: 1985". BPI Year Book 1986 (8thed.). British Phonographic Industry. pp.50–51. ISBN 0-906154-07-3. I have a problem with "greatest hits" albums because they use the single versions of songs instead of the full length album cuts, the edited Fat Bottomed Girls being the most egregious example here. That intro is just too brilliant to be cut. Danish album certifications – Queen – The Platinum Collection". IFPI Danmark . Retrieved 6 March 2019.

Queen+ – Greatest Hits III (Album)" (ASP). Dutch Charts (in Dutch). Hung Medien . Retrieved 24 July 2011. It’s ostentatious and even maddening at times, but there’s no faulting the ambition”: XTC’s The Big Express Charts.nz – Queen – The Platinum Collection - Greatest Hits I, II & III". Hung Medien. Retrieved 1 August 2020. Sólo Éxitos 1959–2002 Año A Año: Certificados 1979–1990 (in Spanish). Iberautor Promociones Culturales. 2005. ISBN 8480486392. Copsey, Rob (11 December 2019). "The UK's Official Top 100 biggest albums of the decade". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 12 December 2019.Los más vendidos 2018" (in Spanish). Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas. Archived from the original on 24 January 2019 . Retrieved 24 January 2019.

Caulfield, Keith (10 February 2014). "Queen's 'Greatest Hits' Becomes First Album to Sell 6 Million in U.K." Billboard . Retrieved 11 February 2014. Griffiths, George (9 January 2022). "Ireland's official biggest albums of 2021". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 9 January 2022. Ultratop − Goud en Platina – albums2002". Ultratop. Hung Medien. Archived from the original on 8 March 2021. The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community: Awards (Queen; 'Greatest Hits III ')". IFPI Switzerland. Hung Medien. Los premiados" (in Spanish). Cámara Argentina de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas. Archived from the original on 18 March 2005.Wyróżnienia – Złote płyty CD - Archiwum - Przyznane w 2019 roku" (in Polish). Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 23 February 2019.

The feeling that chaos was about to erupt was palpable": Thurston Moore's memoir Sonic Life is a fascinating insider account of life-changing outsider art, and one music geek's insatiable lust for the loud Album – Queen+, Greatest Hits III". Media Control Charts (in German). Archived from the original (ASP) on 13 December 2014 . Retrieved 24 July 2011. French album certifications – Queen – The Platinum Collection" (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique . Retrieved 18 December 2018. Swisscharts.com – Queen – The Platinum Collection - Greatest Hits I, II & III". Hung Medien. Retrieved 18 January 2019.The compilation Greatest Hits II reached number one on the UK Albums Chart, and is the tenth best-selling album in the UK with sales of 3.9 million copies as of 2014. [4] It is the seventh best-selling album in Germany, [5] the thirteenth best-selling album in France, [6] and the best-selling album by a foreign artist in Finland. [7] [8] Accumulated sales ( Greatest Hits II and Classic Queen for the US and Canada combined) are in excess of 25 million worldwide. [9] [10] Wyróżnienia – Złote płyty CD - Archiwum - Przyznane w 2019 roku" (in Polish). Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 7 August 2019. QUEEN Greatest Hits II Mexico Promo award disc". Eil.com. 30 September 1992 . Retrieved 14 August 2014. Portuguesecharts.com – Queen – The Platinum Collection - Greatest Hits I, II & III". Hung Medien. Retrieved 12 May 2020.