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The best-selling album of all time in the UK has been revealed - and it’s Queen’s 1981 Greatest Hits.
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the album chart, the Official Charts Company has unveiled the 60 best-selling albums of all time in Britain. The only album to have sold over six million copies, and thus the No.1 album, is Queen’s classic compilation album.
There’s another greatest hits at No.2 - Abba’s Gold, while The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band completes the top three. By far the most recent album in the top 10 is Adele’s 21, which comes in at No.4.
See the full top 60 best selling albums in the UK below.
1) Queen – ‘Greatest Hits’
2) Abba – ‘Gold: Greatest Hits’
3) The Beatles – ‘Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’
4) Adele – ‘21’
5) Oasis – ‘(What’s The Story) Morning Glory’
6) Michael Jackson – ‘Thriller’
7) Pink Floyd – ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’
8) Dire Straits – ‘Brothers In Arms’
9) Michael Jackson – ‘Bad’
10) Queen – ‘Greatest Hits II’
11) Fleetwood Mac – ‘Rumours’
12) Madonna – ‘The Immaculate Collection’
13) Amy Winehouse – ‘Back To Black’
14) Simply Red – ‘Stars’
15) Shania Twain – ‘Come On Over’
16) Bob Marley And The Wailers – ‘Legend’
17) James Blunt – ‘Back To Bedlam’
18) The Verve – ‘Urban Hymns’
19) Meat Loaf – ‘Bat Out Of Hell’
20) The Beatles – ‘1’
21) Simon And Garfunkel ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’
22) Original Soundtrack – ‘Dirty Dancing’
23) Leona Lewis – ‘Spirit
24) Michael Buble – ‘Crazy Love’
25) Dido – ‘No Angel’
26) David Gray – ‘White Ladder’
27) Adele – ‘25’
28) The Corrs – ‘Talk On Corners’
29) The Spice Girls – ‘Spice’
30) Lady Gaga – ‘The Fame’
31) Coldplay – ‘A Rush Of Blood To The Head’
32) Dido – ‘Life For Rent’
33) Kings Of Leon – ‘Only By The Night’
34) Take That – ‘Beautiful World’
35) Keane – ‘Hopes And Fears’
36) U2 – ‘The Joshua Tree’
37) Jeff Wayne – ‘The War Of The Worlds’
38) Scissor Sisters – ‘Scissor Sisters’
39) Phil Collins – ‘But Seriously’
40) Coldplay – ‘X&Y’
41) Alanis Morissette – ‘Jagged Little Pill’
42) Mike Oldfield – ‘Tubular Bells’
43) Travis – ‘The Man Who’
44) Tracy Chapman – ‘Tracy Chapman’
45) Coldplay – ‘Parachutes’
46) Abba – ‘Greatest Hits’
47) Original Soundtrack – ‘Grease’
48) Robbie Williams – ‘I’ve Been Expecting You’
49) Ed Sheeran – ‘X’
50) Norah Jones – ‘Come Away With Me’
51) Paul Simon – ‘Graceland’
52) Original Cast Recording – ‘The Sound Of Music’
53) George Michael – ‘Ladies And Gentleman – The Best Of’
54) Fleetwood Mac – ‘Tango In The Night’
55) Eminem – ‘The Marshall Mathers LP’
56) Robbie Williams – ‘Swing When You’re Winning’
57) Take That – ‘Progress’
58) Snow Patrol – ‘Eyes Open’
59) Take That – ‘The Ultimate Collection’
60) REM – ‘Automatic For The People’
