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Maiden Classic Named Album Of Past 60 Years

The Number Of The Beast is the best record since the Queen took to the throne

Published 29th May 2012

In honour of the forthcoming jubilee celebrations HMV asked its customers to name their favourite album of the past 60 years.

Voters were asked to choose from a shortlist of 60 albums and Maiden came out on top with a massive 9.2% of around 30,000 votes.

HMV’s Gennaro Castaldo, comments: "You often tend to see the same artists and albums dominate album polls, but with social media increasingly giving the most ardent and passionate fans a powerful voice, I think that’s all going to change, and so it’s no surprise that Iron Maiden have come out on top as their fans are renowned for being the most loyal and dedicated around.  Congratulations to Iron Maiden – we now know the number of the beast is, in fact, ....1. 

"The beginning of Elizabeth II’s reign, and the bright new future it represented, didn’t just coincide with a flowering of British popular culture, it helped to provide the very spark that lit the touch-paper for an explosion in music and film talent.  Since then, the Queen has presided over the richest period of cultural achievement in our nation’s history, so it’s only right that her Diamond Jubilee, which ironically also encapsulates sixty years of the official charts, should be a period when we reflect on the greatest British albums and films of the past six decades.”

Here's the top 60 albums of the past 60 years:

  1. Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast (9.18%)                      
  1. Depeche Mode - Violator (6.30%)                                    
  1. The Beatles - Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (5.69)      
  1. The Beatles - Abbey Road (5.67%)                   
  1. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon (5.23%)         
  1. The Beatles - Revolver (4.01%)                        
  1. Queen - A Night at the Opera (3.98%)                          
  1. Oasis - (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? (3.91%) 
  1. Adele - 21 (3.07%)                                             
  1. The Beatles - White Album (2.60%)                              
  1. Led Zeppelin - IV (2.50%)
  1. The Beatles - Rubber Soul (2.49%)
  1. The Clash - London Calling (2.48%)
  1. David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (2.38%)
  1. The Smiths - The Queen is Dead (2.25%)      
  1. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath (2.16%)
  1. Radiohead - OK Computer (1.99%)
  1. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (1.99%)
  1. Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1.89%)
  1. Oasis - Definitely Maybe (1.72%)
  1. Take That - Beautiful World (1.66%)           
  1. Led Zeppelin - II (1.48%)      
  1. Elbow - Seldom Seen Kid (1.44%)  
  1. The Who - Who's Next (1.38%)       
  1. Coldplay - Parachutes (1.31%)        
  1. Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks (1.30%)       
  1. Muse - Origin of Symmetry (1.25%)           
  1. Amy Winehouse - Back to Black (1.23%)   
  1. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures (1.20%)            
  1. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses (1.14%)
  1. David Bowie - Hunky Dory           
  1. The Cure - Disintegration  
  1. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless   
  1. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not       
  1. Pulp - Different Class        
  1. Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More 
  1. Blur - Parklife        
  1. Florence & The Machine - Lungs 
  1. The Prodigy - Fat of the Land       
  1. The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street            
  1. Kate Bush - Hounds of Love         
  1. Radiohead - Kid A 
  1. The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers         
  1. Portishead - Dummy         
  1. The Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed   
  1. The Specials - The Specials         
  1. Kasabian - Kasabian         
  1. Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
  1. Tinie Tempah - Disc-overy           
  1. Stereophonics - Word Gets Around          
  1. Massive Attack - Blue Lines         
  1. Primal Scream - Screamadelica  
  1. Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis      
  1. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 
  1. Blur - Modern Life is Rubbish       
  1. The Streets - Original Pirate Material       
  1. PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea 
  1. Dizzee Rascal - Boy in da Corner            
  1. Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque      
  1. Roots Manuva - Run Come Save Me