{"id":303292,"date":"2026-07-22T22:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T22:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/303292\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T22:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T22:08:16","slug":"queens-greatest-hits-named-the-uks-biggest-album-of-all-time-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/303292\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen\u2019s &#8216;Greatest Hits&#8217; named the UK\u2019s biggest album of all time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:ABC Audio;\" href=\"https:\/\/abcaudio.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"ABC Audio\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"208\" height=\"100\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/aol_abc_audio_645.png\"\/><\/a>Wed, July 22, 2026 at 7:10 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1d88c95a-6cd0-4b62-8278-f27e61932c0e.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Queen&#8217;s &#8216;Greatest Hits&#8217; (Hollywood Records)<\/p>\n<p>Queen\u2019s 1981 Greatest Hits compilation has been named the biggest album of all time by the U.K. <a data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/chart-news\/biggest-albums-all-time-uk\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">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,&#8221;\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":"Wed, July 22, 2026 at 7:10 PM UTC Queen&#8217;s &#8216;Greatest Hits&#8217; (Hollywood Records) Queen\u2019s 1981 Greatest Hits compilation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-303292","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\/303292","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=303292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}