Queen have the best-selling vinyl album of 2019 so far
9 July 2019, 16:45 | Updated: 16 January 2024, 11:27
It may have been released nearly 40 years ago, but Queen's Greatest Hits is the best-selling vinyl album of the year.
According to the Official Chart Company, Queen’s compilation from 1981 has sold 15,700 copies on vinyl in 2019 so far, to become the UK’s best-selling vinyl album of the year so far.
The soundtrack to the band’s biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, is also on the list of best-sellers, which compiles sales from January until the end of June 2019.
Billie Eilish’s debut album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? is second in the list.
The top 20 list also features classics like Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures, Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours and Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon.
The top 20 best-selling vinyl albums of 2019 so far are:
1. Queen – ‘Greatest Hits’
2. Billie Eilish – ‘When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?’
3. Joy Division – ‘Unknown Pleasures’
4. Fleetwood Mac – ‘Rumours’
5. Lewis Capaldi – ’Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent’
6. Pink Floyd – ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’
7. David Bowie – ‘Legacy’
8. The Greatest Showman OST
9. Foals – ‘Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Part 1’
10. Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody OST
11. Nirvana – ‘Nevermind’
12. Bruce Springsteen – ‘Western Stars’
13. Oasis – ‘(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?’
14. Amy Winehouse – ‘Back to Black’
15. The Specials – ‘Encore’
16. Billie Eilish – ‘Don’t Smile at Me’
17. Catfish & the Bottlemen – ‘The Balance’
18. Guardians Of The Galaxy Awesome Mix 1 OST
19. Bring Me The Horizon – ‘Amo’
20. George Ezra – ‘Staying at Tamara’s’
Queen's Brian May recently went on a personal voyage to Zanzibar, the birthplace of his late bandmate Freddie Mercury.
Meanwhile, an orchestral tribute to Queen and Freddie will soon tour the UK.
