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Brian May And Roger TaylorFounding members Queen, appeared in a video on the official YouTube channel of Official Charts Thanks to the fans who helped the group make UK chart history the queen He became the first artist to have seven million selling albums in the UK.
Collection of 1981 the queen Entitled Great success, It already passed the six million sales mark in 2014, spent over 1000 weeks in the UK charts, and has now surpassed seven million “sales” through a combination of physical sales, downloads and streams. Huge success It has recorded 1.26 billion total UK streams to date, with the album’s most streamed track being “Bohemian Rhapsody”, with 240 million plays.
speaks Official charts website, May says: “Queens’ ‘Greatest Hits’ album has sold 7 million copies, bringing you the happy news that no album has done before.” Taylor adds: “The British audience and their infinitely broad tastes made it the best-selling album in history. Thank you very much, we are proud.”
At the end of last year, collection Huge success Reached the top 10 on the US charts for the first time (here). As stated therein Official ChartsThe collection is Britain’s most popular album of the past 60 years, with one in four British households owning a copy of the record.
