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Old 01-10-2012, 18:01
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Today, 'ABBA Gold' has been announced as the UK's Best Selling CD of all time,
with 4,038,000 CD's sold, since September 1992.

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http://www.officialcharts.com/featur...f-the-cd-1616/

THE UK's TOP 30 BEST SELLING CD's

(To W/E 6th October 2012)

1. GOLD - ABBA - 4,038,000
2. 21 - ADELE - 3,553,000
3. (WHAT'S THE STORY) MORNING GLORY? - OASIS - 3,425,000
4. BACK TO BLACK - AMY WINEHOUSE - 3,225,000
5. BACK TO BEDLAM - JAMES BLUNT - 3,209,000
6. NO ANGEL - DIDO - 2,031,000
7. COME ON OVER -SHANIA TWAIN - 3,026,000
8. SPIRIT - LEONA LEWIS - 2,951,000
9. URBAN HYMNS - THE VERVE - 2,904,000
10. WHITE LADDER - DAVID GRAY - 2,863,000
11. LIFE FOR RENT - DIDO - 2,857,000
12. 1 - THE BEATLES - 2,854,000
13. A RUSH OF BLOOD TO THE HEAD - COLDPLAY - 2,755,000
14. BEAUTIFUL WORLD - TAKE THAT - 2,735,000
15. HOPES AND FEARS - KEANE - 2,732,000
16. CRAZY LOVE - MICHAEL BUBLE - 2,724,000
17. SCISSOR SISTERS - SCISSOR SISTERS - 2,652,000
18. TALK ON CORNERS - THE CORRS 2,651,000
19. X & Y - COLDPLAY - 2,608,000
20. THE MAN WHO - TRAVIS - 2,553,000
21. PARACHUTES - COLDPLAY - 2,474,000
22. THE FAME - LADY GAGA - 2,476,000
23. COME AWAY WITH ME - NORAH JONES - 2,471,000
24. ONLY BY THE NIGHT - KINGS OF LEON - 2,399,000
25. I'VE BEEN EXPECTING YOU - ROBBIE WILLIAMS - 2,377,000
26. GREATEST HITS - ROBBIE WILLIAMS - 2,269,000
27. SWING WHEN YOU'RE WINNING - ROBBIE WILLIAMS - 2,232,000
28. THE MARSHALL MATHERS LP - EMINEM - 2,231,000
29. EYES OPEN - SNOW PATROL - 2,249,000
30. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.....- GEORGE MICHAEL - 2,203,000
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Old 01-10-2012, 18:04
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All good titles but I'm surprised there's no Michael Jackson in there!
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Old 01-10-2012, 18:12
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wiki states that oasis went 14x platinum and that equates to 4,517,000 sales in uk alone and provides sources for this info unlike the site you link to
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Old 01-10-2012, 18:15
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All good titles but I'm surprised there's no Michael Jackson in there!
True legends sell the LPs :P
Thriller smashed when the LP was still around and well.
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Old 01-10-2012, 18:27
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No Brothers in Arms? No Stars? Surprised at that, I must say.
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Old 01-10-2012, 18:29
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Whats interesting is that many of those who sell loads disappear into thin air. David Gray, Dido, The Corrs, Travis, James Blunt. No where to be seen thesedays. I guess there is a lession to learn within that.

The second interesting thing is that alot of those on the list are from the past 15 years. So with all the reports of sales being on the decline this list goes against that.
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Old 01-10-2012, 18:53
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wiki states that oasis went 14x platinum and that equates to 4,517,000 sales in uk alone and provides sources for this info unlike the site you link to
Grps3 - You have misunderstood the Top 30. It only shows
the UK's Best Selling CD's. That is not the same as the UK's
Best Selling Albums.

The Oasis Sale, that Wikipedia shows, is for all of its UK
Sales - on CD, Vinyl, & Cassette.

The Oasis Album is the UK's 4th Best Seller. 'Gold', by
ABBA is 3rd, with about 5,030,000 Sales, when its Vinyl
& Cassette Sales are added to its 4,038,000 CD Sales.

The Site that I Linked to, is for the Official UK Charts
Company. They actually compile the UK Charts. So, we
can pretty much say that they know which CD's have sold
the most UK copies.
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Old 01-10-2012, 19:01
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This is wrong. Madonna's Immaculate Collection has sold 3.6 million copies in the UK.

Are we really to believe that half of those sales were LPs?? I think not.
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Old 01-10-2012, 19:02
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This is wrong. Madonna's Immaculate Collection has sold 3.6 million copies in the UK.

Are we really to believe that half of those sales were LPs?? I think not.
I am rather confused by its absence as well.... must have sold a hell of a lot of cassets.

Plus I am surpised Spice isnt in the top 30 either given it was number 1 for what seemed forever. I thought its sales were over 3 million in the UK too. This was supposed to be the period cassete tapes were dying out but they must have been selling more than people have given them credit for.
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Old 01-10-2012, 19:05
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Grps3 - You have misunderstood the Top 30. It only shows
the UK's Best Selling CD's. That is not the same as the UK's
Best Selling Albums.

The Oasis Sale, that Wikipedia shows, is for all of its UK
Sales - on CD, Vinyl, & Cassette.

The Oasis Album is the UK's 4th Best Seller. 'Gold', by
ABBA is 3rd, with about 5,030,000 Sales, when its Vinyl
& Cassette Sales are added to its 4,038,000 CD Sales.

The Site that I Linked to, is for the Official UK Charts
Company. They actually compile the UK Charts. So, we
can pretty much say that they know which CD's have sold
the most UK copies.
ah my bad then, sorry
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Old 01-10-2012, 19:13
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It looks like the type of thing that Suicidal Syd from Viz would read at the start of his strip to send him into a suicidal gloom.
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Old 01-10-2012, 19:15
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No spice girls either!
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Old 01-10-2012, 19:25
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.

The second interesting thing is that alot of those on the list are from the past 15 years. So with all the reports of sales being on the decline this list goes against that.
But it's purely on CD sales. Its natural for the list to be full of stuff from the last 15 years as it's the past 15 years where Cd's have been the main medium of how people buy music.

The actual top 10 best selling UK album ever are

1.Greatest Hits 1-Queen
2.Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band-The Beatles
3.Gold-Abba
4.(What's the story) Morning Glory-Oasis
5.21-Adele
6.Thriller-Michael Jackson
7.Brothers In Arms-Dire Straights
8.Dark Side Of The Moon-Pink Floyd
9.Bad-Michael Jackson
10. Greatest Hits 2-Queen
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Old 01-10-2012, 19:29
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No spice girls either!
Their biggest selling album sold 2.9m which is about the same as White Ladder by David Gray which I find quite incredible given how big The Spice Girls clearly were
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Old 01-10-2012, 19:30
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This is wrong. Madonna's Immaculate Collection has sold 3.6 million copies in the UK.

Are we really to believe that half of those sales were LPs?? I think not.
Stacey - If we suppose that 'The Immaculate Collection'
was 31st in the CD List, with, (say), 2,190,000 CD Sales,
then that does not mean that its other 1,410,000 Sales
were on Vinyl. It means that they were on a mixture of
Vinyl & Cassette Tape. A lot of people played Cassette
Tapes in their cars, in the 1990's.

And, The OCC are also saying that 'Spice' sold a lot of
its copies on Cassette Tape.

They'd be in the CD Top 30, if they had each sold enough
CD's to get into it. The same goes for Michael Jackson, &
Queen.

Yes, a lot of the Acts, in the Top 30 simply could not remain
successful for very long. In April 1999, The Corrs became only
the 2nd Male/Female Group to have the No.1 & No.2 Albums,
at the same time. (ABBA had done it in January 1977). But,
although they had a No.1 Album in 2000, & a No.2 Album,
in 2004, by 2006, it was all over. In February of that Year,
their 'Dreams - The Ultimate Collection', Album, could only
reach No.67, & it spent just 1 Week in the Top 75. They
have not had a UK Hit Album since....
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Old 01-10-2012, 20:57
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...But it's purely on CD sales. Its natural for the list to be full of stuff from the last 15 years as it's the past 15 years where Cd's have been the main medium of how people buy music...
I'd say at least the past 20 years, quite possibly 25. CDs launched in 1983, I wasn't keen at first but obtained a CD player in 1988 because some of the releases I wanted to buy just weren't appearing as LPs any more.
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Old 01-10-2012, 22:25
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I'd say at least the past 20 years, quite possibly 25. CDs launched in 1983, I wasn't keen at first but obtained a CD player in 1988 because some of the releases I wanted to buy just weren't appearing as LPs any more.

I don't know the facts but I know that when I first started buying music in the 90's, all I used to get were cassettes. It wasn't until 95/96 that I started buying CD's. Maybe I was just way behind the times
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Old 01-10-2012, 23:14
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I don't know the facts but I know that when I first started buying music in the 90's, all I used to get were cassettes. It wasn't until 95/96 that I started buying CD's. Maybe I was just way behind the times
Same here as Cd's were more expensive and as a child with pocket money you could usually stretch to a tape not CD i never bought Cd's until around rhe early noughties in my early teens when the price dropped and Tapes started to become obselete so the list akes sense to me.
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Old 01-10-2012, 23:17
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Does Adele stand a chanc of gaining another 500k?
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Old 02-10-2012, 01:14
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All good titles but I'm surprised there's no Michael Jackson in there!
True legends sell the LPs :P
Thriller smashed when the LP was still around and well.
That was my initial thought and then it occurred to me that Thriller was at it's height as an LP.
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Old 02-10-2012, 12:39
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Does Adele stand a chanc of gaining another 500k?
Perhaps if they do a Special Edition with Skyfall etc
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Old 02-10-2012, 16:56
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A lot of good music there of course but a lot of those are pretty 'middle of the road' as my mother says. A bit boring, no?

I loved the shania twain album when i was about eight though embarassingly...
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Old 02-10-2012, 17:22
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Is there any point in this list? It's a bit like publishing a best seller list but only including Kindle sales.
Dark Side Of The Moon has sold more than Abba's Gold but doesn't appear as a lot of those sales were vinyl.
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Old 02-10-2012, 17:53
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Is there any point in this list? It's a bit like publishing a best seller list but only including Kindle sales.
Dark Side Of The Moon has sold more than Abba's Gold but doesn't appear as a lot of those sales were vinyl.
It hasn't actually. Check the link.



http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-...bums-chart907/

Agree with whoever it was that said it was a boring set of albums. The flaws of democracy as a system are right there in that list
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Old 02-10-2012, 18:42
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Is there any point in this list? It's a bit like publishing a best seller list but only including Kindle sales.
Dark Side Of The Moon has sold more than Abba's Gold but doesn't appear as a lot of those sales were vinyl.
It's due to the CD being 30 this year hence......
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