Queen's 'Greatest Hits' on course to reach Number 1 for the first time in 40 years
It's already the best-selling album of all time in the UK
Queen’s ‘Greatest Hits’ album is currently on course to reach Number 1 on the UK album chart for the first time in 40 years.
To celebrate the album’s 40th anniversary, Queen reissued ‘Greatest Hits’ last Friday (2nd July) on a variety of formats including a collector’s edition CD signed by Brian May and Roger Taylor with an exclusive slipcase cover, and four highly-limited band member colour cassettes.
According to the Official Charts Company, ‘Greatest Hits’ is at Number 1 at the midweek stage and it’s leading Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Sour’ by 4,000 chart sales. 86% of the sales so far are from physical formats.
If it stays at Number 1 on Friday, it will be the first time Queen’s ‘Greatest Hits’ has topped the chart since its four-week stint in November and December 1981.
Originally released on 26th October 1981, ‘Greatest Hits’ is already the best-selling album of all time in the UK, and in 2019 it became the first record ever to sell more than 6 million copies. To date, it has spent 952 weeks in the Official Albums Chart.
In recent years, the album has enjoyed a sales boost thanks to the rip-roaring success of the Queen movie Bohemian Rhapsody.
Seminal songs that feature on ‘Greatest Hits’ include ‘Killer Queen’, ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, ‘Another One Bites The Dust’, ‘Don’t Stop Me Now’, ‘We Will Rock You’ and ‘We Are The Champions.’
Brian May speaks to Absolute Radio's Leona Graham:
Brian May caught up with Absolute Radio's Leona Graham this week to discuss Queen's 'Greatest Hits', Freddie Mercury and much more. Watch their chat below:
Brian May’s debut solo album ‘Back To The Light’ from 1992 is being re-released on Friday 6th August.
The album boasts the singles ‘Too Much Love Will Kill You’ and ‘Driven By You’, and fans will also be able to enjoy a number of bonus tracks on the reissue’s second disc called ‘Out of the Light’.