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The UK's Top 30 All Time Best Selling CD's
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. LINK:, 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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All good titles but I'm surprised there's no Michael Jackson in there!
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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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All good titles but I'm surprised there's no Michael Jackson in there!
![]() Thriller smashed when the LP was still around and well. |
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No Brothers in Arms? No Stars? Surprised at that, I must say.
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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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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
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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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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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. 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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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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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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No spice girls either!
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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. 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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No spice girls either!
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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. 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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...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...
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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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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
![]() 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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Does Adele stand a chanc of gaining another 500k?
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All good titles but I'm surprised there's no Michael Jackson in there!
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True legends sell the LPs :P
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Does Adele stand a chanc of gaining another 500k?
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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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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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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. 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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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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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.
