The career-spanning collection also hit No.1 on Billboard's Vinyl Albums chart with the second-largest sales week of 2020 for any vinyl release. Perhaps the most indelible marker of the band’s sustained popularity, in this its Ruby year, the Greatest Hits collection incredibly returned to the top of the UK charts and hit the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 for the first time since its release in 1981. Not only is it 50 years since the band’s final line-up was completed with John Deacon joining Freddie Mercury, Brian May and Roger Taylor, but it’s also been 40 years since Queen’s Greatest Hits album was released. This year marks some significant milestones for Queen. “I have to pinch ’s the ultimate compliment to be sewn into people’s lives to that extent.”Brian May. Today it is still the ultimate playlist, and the biggest selling UK album, ever. To mark the band’s first decade, Queen's Greatest Hits was released -packed with 17 of their biggest hits to date. It is certified 8x Platinum in the United States, and is Queen's most commercially successful album worldwide with over 25 million copies sold, making it one of the best-selling albums of all time. It has spent over 700 weeks in the UK Charts, and is the best-selling album of all time in the UK, selling over 6 million copies there. Queen's 'Greatest Hits' was an instant success, peaking at number one on the UK Album Chart for four weeks. The album consisted of Queen's best-selling singles since their first chart appearance in 1974 with "Seven Seas of Rhye," up to their 1980 hit "Flash." The UK’s biggest selling album of all time: "Greatest Hits" is a compilation album by the British rock band Queen, first released in the UK on 26 October 1981.
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