{"id":424292,"date":"2026-01-23T04:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T04:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/424292\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T04:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T04:23:08","slug":"eagles-their-greatest-hits-1971-1975-is-first-album-to-sell-40-million-copies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/424292\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles ‘Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975’ Is First Album To Sell 40 Million Copies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWe knew it would happen one of these nights as The Eagles<\/a> continue to take it to the limit, and now the RIAA\u2019s Quadruple Diamond barrier is already gone.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Los Angeles stalwarts\u2019 Their Greatest Hits 1971-75 has become the first album certified 40 times platinum, widening its lead as the best-selling disc of all time in the U.S. As the 1976 compilation marks its 50th anniversary next month, the set now is 6 million units ahead of Michael Jackson\u2019s 1982 juggernaut Thriller on the bestseller list.<\/p>\n

\n\tCompiling 10 tracks from the group\u2019s first four LPs of its pre-Joe Walsh<\/a>\/Hotel California era, Their Greatest Hits 1971-75 is crammed with classics, including the first two of its five U.S. No. 1 singles, \u201cBest of My Love\u201d and One of These Nights.\u201d \u201cLyin\u2019 Eyes\u201d went to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, and Take It to the Limit\u201d reached No. 4. The set also features such radio mainstays as \u201cTake It Easy,\u201d \u201cWitchy Woman,\u201d \u201cAlready Gone\u201d and \u201cDesperado.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe disc spent five weeks atop the Billboard album chart during the Bicentennial and soon became the first disc ever certified Platinum by the RIAA. It has spent more than 500 nonconsecutive weeks on the Billboard 200 and was named the top-selling album of the 20th century in 1999. The Library of Congress added Their Greatest Hits to its National Recording Registry in 2017. <\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Eagles<\/a> formed in 1971 after Don Henley<\/a>, Glenn Frey<\/a>, Bernie Leadon and Randy Meisner had been playing in Linda Ronstadt\u2019s band. Don Felder joined in 1974, Walsh would replace Leaden the following year, and Timothy B. Schmit replaced Meisner in 1977. Its first LP with the former James Gang leader was 1976\u2019s Hotel California, which is the third-best-selling album in U.S. history with 28 million unit sold. <\/p>\n

\n\tCommonly known as\u00a0The Eagles\u00a0but with no \u201cthe\u201d on its album covers,\u00a0the group has amassed 14 Platinum titles overall with combined U.S. sales of some 126.5 million. The band continues to play live with Henley, Walsh, Schmit, Vince Gill and Deacon Frey, the son of Glenn Frey, who died in 2016 at 67.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We knew it would happen one of these nights as The Eagles continue to take it to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[53387,6346,88,53388,76726,216,17204,39689],"class_list":["post-424292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-don-henley","tag-eagles","tag-entertainment","tag-glenn-frey","tag-joe-walsh","tag-music","tag-novid","tag-the-eagles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}