{"id":303258,"date":"2026-07-22T21:32:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T21:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/303258\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T21:32:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T21:32:38","slug":"queens-greatest-hits-named-the-uks-biggest-album-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/303258\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen\u2019s &#8216;Greatest Hits&#8217; named the UK\u2019s biggest album of all time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Queen\u2019s 1981 Greatest Hits compilation has been named the biggest album of all time by the U.K. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/chart-news\/biggest-albums-all-time-uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Official Charts<\/a>, which is celebrating its 70th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>Greatest Hits, which features such Queen classics as \u201cBohemian Rhapsody,\u201d \u201cWe Will Rock You\u201d and \u201cWe Are the Champions,\u201d\u00a0has sold 7.8 million album units to date.<\/p>\n<p>Coming in at #2 is ABBA\u2019s Gold \u2013 Greatest Hits, with Oasis\u2019 What\u2019s the Story Morning Glory,\u00a0Adele\u2019s 21 and The Beatles\u2019 Sgt. Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band\u00a0rounding out the top five.<\/p>\n<p>Several other classic albums have landed in the\u00a0top 10: Fleetwood Mac\u2019s Rumours at #6, Pink Floyd\u2019s The Dark Side of the Moon at #7, Michael Jackson\u2019s Thriller at #8, Bob Marley &amp; The Wailers\u2019 Legend at #9 and Dire Straits\u2019 Brothers in Arms at #10.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queen\u2019s 1981 Greatest Hits compilation has been named the biggest album of all time by the U.K. Official&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-303258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}