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UK Albums - The Most Platinum Disks
UK ALBUMS WITH THE MOST B.P.I. PLATINUM AWARDS
(Albums with 7 or more - Platinum Awards) In the UK a Platinum Disk for an Album is awarded for every 300,000 Sales NOTE The Year in Brackets is their release Year & not the Year in which they went Platinum The B.P.I. is The British Phonographic Industry The 2 Queen 'Hits' Albums each have 626,000 Sales added in from a 1994 Double Album, (66,000 each), & a 2000 Triple Album 'The Platinum Collection', (560,000 each). This was done for the 50th Anniversary of the UK Album Chart in 2006. (As confirmed by UK 'Chart Expert' Alan Jones, in 'Music Week', in September 2009). This means that anyone who adds up Queen's UK Album Sales will be counting many of their Sales twice, if they simply add the Sales from the 1994 Double CD & 2000 Triple CD. You have to make allowances for the fact that 1,812,000 of them have already been added to the 3 Queen 'Hits' Albums from 1981, 1991 & 1999 ..Without their 626,000 enhanced Sales, the UK Totals for the 1st & 2nd Queen Hits Albums, would be 5,474,000, (still in 1st place), & 3,274,000, (down from 10th place to 18th), respectively. (The 3rd Queen Hits Album, (1999), was given 560,000 of the 1,680,000 Sales, (to late 2006), of The Platinum Collection, the 2000 Triple CD). WHAT ALAN JONES SAID IN 'MUSIC WEEK' W/E 19th SEPTEMBER 2009 In 1994, it, (Greatest Hits' (One), was issued in a slipcase with Greatest Hits II and in 2000 with Greatest Hits II and Greatest Hits III, ('The Platinum Collection'). As these packages contain the original albums, the decision was made, right or wrong, to share out the sales pro rata. As Greatest Hits I, II and III together have sold 1,680,000, individual tallies for all three have been allocated an extra 560,000 sales. (By all three, Alan means that 560,000 Sales, from 'The Platinum Collection', were also added to 'Greatest Hits III', which was released in 1999). By the same token, Greatest Hits I and IIs combined sales of 132,000 have been split, with an extra 66,000 being added to each. Taking all this into consideration, Greatest Hits has sold a massive 5,780,000 copies. Greatest Hits II, eighth on the list, has sold 3,840,000 copies". ALAN JONES W/E 19th SEPTEMBER 2009 NOTE Graceland Paul Simon. The OCC has revealed, (July 4th 2016), that this 1986 Album is the UK's 51st' Best Seller of All Time'. However, The B.P.I. have yet to give it the 8 Platinum Disks, that reflect that success. It only has 5 so far, & it got the 5th way back in June 1988. Several of the Albums below it, (in The OCC's Top 60 'All Time' UK Albums), have 8 Platinum Awards & none have less than 7. A)... 20 x Platinum = 6,000,000 'Sales' QUEEN -- GREATEST HITS (ONE) (1981) -- @@@ @@@ = Queen's Greatest Hits (One) is now on over 6,150,000 UK Sales B)... 17 x Platinum = 5,100,000 'Sales' BEATLES SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND (1967) ABBA GOLD - GREATEST HITS (1992) -- @@@ @@@ = ABBA Gold is now on over 5,300,000 UK Sales C... 16 x Platinum = 4,800,000 'Sales' ADELE 21 (2011) D)... 14 x Platinum = 4,200,000 'Sales' PINK FLOYD -- THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON (1973) DIRE STRAITS BROTHERS IN ARMS (1985) OASIS -- (WHAT'S THE STORY) MORNING GLORY? (1995) E)... 13 x Platinum = 3,900,000 'Sales' MICHAEL JACKSON THRILLER (1982) MICHAEL JACKSON BAD (1987) QUEEN -- GREATEST HITS II (1991) F)... 12 x Platinum = 3,600,000 'Sales' MADONNA -- THE IMMACULATE COLLECTION (1990) SIMPLY RED STARS (1991) AMY WINEHOUSE -- BACK TO BLACK (2006) G)... 11 x Platinum = 3,300,000 'Sales' FLEETWOOD MAC - RUMOURS (1977) BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS LEGEND (1987) SHANIA TWAIN -- COME ON OVER (1997) JAMES BLUNT -- BACK TO BEDLAM (2003) H)... 10 x Platinum = 3,000,000 'Sales' SIMON & GARFUNKEL BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER (1970) MEAT LOAF -- BAT OUT OF HELL (1977) ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK -- DIRTY DANCING (1987) ALANIS MORISSETTE -- JAGGED LITTLE PILL (1995) SPICE GIRLS -- SPICE (1996) THE VERVE URBAN HYMNS (1997) DAVID GRAY -- WHITE LADDER (1998) ROBBIE WILLIAMS -- I'VE BEEN EXPECTING YOU (1998) DIDO NO ANGEL (1999) BEATLES 1 (2000) LEONA LEWIS SPIRIT (2007) MICHAEL BUBLE CRAZY LOVE (2009) ADELE 25 (2015) I)... 9 x Platinum = 2,700,000 'Sales' MIKE OLDFIELD TUBULAR BELLS (1973) JEFF WAYNE & VARIOUS ARTISTS -- THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (1978) PHIL COLLINS ...BUT SERIOUSLY (1989) ELTON JOHN THE VERY BEST OF ELTON JOHN (1990) THE CORRS TALK ON CORNERS (1997) TRAVIS THE MAN WHO (1999) COLDPLAY A RUSH OF BLOOD TO THE HEAD (2002) DIDO LIFE FOR RENT (2003) SCISSOR SISTERS -- SCISSOR SISTERS (2004) KEANE -- HOPES AND FEARS (2004) COLDPLAY X&Y (2005) TAKE THAT -- BEAUTIFUL WORLD (2006) KINGS OF LEON -- ONLY BY THE NIGHT (2008) LADY GAGA THE FAME (2009) ED SHEERAN -- X (2014) J)... 8 x Platinum = 2,400,000 'Sales' ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK -- THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) ABBA GREATEST HITS (1976) -- @@@ ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK GREASE (1978) U2 THE JOSHUA TREE (1987) FLEETWOOD MAC TANGO IN THE NIGHT (1987) TRACY CHAPMAN TRACY CHAPMAN (1988) ROBBIE WILLIAMS LIFE THRU A LENS (1997) GEORGE MICHAEL LADIES & GENTLEMEN THE BEST OF (1998) EMINEM THE MARSHALL MATHERS LP (2000) COLDPLAY PARACHUTES (2000) ROBBIE WILLIAMS SING WHEN YOU'RE WINNING (2000) NORAH JONES COME AWAY WITH ME (2002) TAKE THAT PROGRESS (2010) @@@ = ABBA's Greatest Hits has now sold 2,606,000 in the UK K)... 7 x Platinum = 2,100,000 'Sales' ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (1978) MADONNA -- TRUE BLUE (1986) WHITNEY HOUSTON - WHITNEY (1987) R.E.M. -- AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE (1992) ROBBIE WILLIAMS SWING WHEN YOU'RE WINNING (2001) ROBBIE WILLIAMS GREATEST HITS (2004) TAKE THAT NEVER FORGET - THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION (2005) ADELE 19 (2008) SNOW PATROL EYES OPEN (2008) TAKE THAT -- THE CIRCUS (2008) MICHAEL BUBLE CHRISTMAS (2011) SAM SMITH IN THE LONELY HOUR (2014) |
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Thanks for this.
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In my OP I wrote this:,
"NOTE Graceland Paul Simon. The OCC has revealed, (July 4th 2016), that this 1986 Album is the UK's 51st' Best Seller of All Time'. However, The B.P.I. have yet to give it the 8 Platinum Disks, that reflect that success. It only has 5 so far, & it got the 5th way back in June 1988. Several of the Albums below it, (in The OCC's Top 60 'All Time' UK Albums), have 8 Platinum Awards & none have less than 7". Since I wrote it, The B.P.I. has 'up-graded' Graceland's UK Platinum Awards to 7. So it would now be in the 'Most Platinum Disks' List. PAUL SIMON - GRACELAND 7 x Platinum Certification (Album) 21 July 2016 WARNER MUSIC (WARNER BROS) |
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