Top 40 best selling studio albums, according to Radio 2...

StefB

This cannot be right - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2QnbffHjH7pqfpKF20PQy7B/the-top-40-best-selling-studio-albums-of-all-time

In whose world has Keane's Hope & Fears or Take That's Beautiful World sold more copies that Hysteria, Slippery When Wet, Metallica or Nevermind, none of which even make the list?  There's no factual substance or sales figures backing this crazy list up, so I can't help but wonder what the point of it even is.

Gagaryn

StefB said:

This cannot be right - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2QnbffHjH7pqfpKF20PQy7B/the-top-40-best-selling-studio-albums-of-all-time

In whose world has Keane's Hope & Fears or Take That's Beautiful World sold more copies that Hysteria, Slippery When Wet, Metallica or Nevermind, none of which even make the list?  There's no factual substance or sales figures backing this crazy list up, so I can't help but wonder what the point of it even is.

Presume this is UK only and that waht leads to the dicrepancies. Wikipedia has a list of best selling worldwide along with best selling by year - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_albums

Matt_McG

UK list is here:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_albums_in_the_United_Kingdom

Seems to be correct.

EricTheWeary

Gagaryn said:

StefB said:

This cannot be right - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2QnbffHjH7pqfpKF20PQy7B/the-top-40-best-selling-studio-albums-of-all-time

In whose world has Keane's Hope & Fears or Take That's Beautiful World sold more copies that Hysteria, Slippery When Wet, Metallica or Nevermind, none of which even make the list?  There's no factual substance or sales figures backing this crazy list up, so I can't help but wonder what the point of it even is.

Presume this is UK only and that waht leads to the dicrepancies. Wikipedia has a list of best selling worldwide along with best selling by year - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_albums

If it's UK only I would be surprised to see Slippery,etc, in there. Seems about right, I certainly wouldn't have been amazed if Adele had been at number 1. 

stickyfiddle

You have to remember, you don’t get a really big selling record from selling to all the musos; you get it from selling to everyone else...

munckee

stickyfiddle said:

You have to remember, you don’t get a really big selling record from selling to all the musos; you get it from selling to everyone else...

When I look at the list and think of albums kicking round our house owned by me, missus munckee and my 13 year old daughter, the ones on the list we do not have a copy of between us are the ones by Michael's Jackson and Buble, Leona Lewis and The Corrs, we have all the others in some format.

JezWynd

Surprised Bridge Over Troubled Water didn't chart higher, esp as it spent 33 weeks at No. 1. James Blunt sold more! Blunt's album is definitely deserving of a place but he must have sold a lot of records to chart above Bridge, which has been out for 48 years and probably still sells in quantity.

TheBigDipper

6 Music had a different list to this one.

Winny_Pooh

I've got 5 of those on cd and 2 on download. 
To my shame one of them is Coldplay's first album!

munckee

Winny_Pooh said:

I've got 5 of those on cd and 2 on download. 
To my shame one of them is Coldplay's first album!

My biggest shame is my wife has simply red and phil collins.  The first coldplay album is great shiver is a properly top song.

ICBM

I have 22 of them.

It definitely should be clearer that it’s a UK top 40 though...

proggy

No Led Zeppelin!

EricTheWeary

The current album chart produced by that company is based on sales and weighted audio streams. 
If they have included audio streams in this that will have shifted it a bit, possibly to the detriment of the Led Zeps. Unless I missed it no Queen either yet when they did the top albums of all time a couple of years ago Queen Greatest Hits was number 1 ( I guess the dominance of compilations in that chart leading to the studio designation of this one). 

[based on a quick look at that list from two years ago if you take out the compilations it is pretty similar]

Winny_Pooh

munckee said:

Winny_Pooh said:

I've got 5 of those on cd and 2 on download. 
To my shame one of them is Coldplay's first album!

My biggest shame is my wife has simply red and phil collins.  The first coldplay album is great shiver is a properly top song.

Y'know Simply Red have grown on me, great tunes and fantastic singing. Coldplay peaked with the first album and I thought they were great at the time, (before I owned a Radiohead album) but they got so cringey that I can't innocently enjoy the first album ever again. 

ICBM

Winny_Pooh said:

Coldplay peaked with the first album and I thought they were great at the time, (before I owned a Radiohead album) but they got so cringey that I can't innocently enjoy the first album ever again. 

I’ve never liked the first album and thought they got much better later, although then eventually went downhill again.

I can’t stand Radiohead though. (Apart from Fake Plastic Trees.)

thecolourbox

Winny_Pooh said:

munckee said:

Winny_Pooh said:

I've got 5 of those on cd and 2 on download. 
To my shame one of them is Coldplay's first album!

My biggest shame is my wife has simply red and phil collins.  The first coldplay album is great shiver is a properly top song.

Y'know Simply Red have grown on me, great tunes and fantastic singing. Coldplay peaked with the first album and I thought they were great at the time, (before I owned a Radiohead album) but they got so cringey that I can't innocently enjoy the first album ever again. 

The first album was decent but Fran Healey from Travis put it well when I saw them at Symphony Hall earlier this year - he said basically they don't have their own style but just borrow whatever is popular at the time and use it to their advantage. So that's why you can like one album and none of the others because it just happened to be based on a style or asthetic you like. Which is why I like Parachutes and none of the others, because it's clearly in that Travis-ish late 90s indie brit pop after-thought style

ArchtopDave

My contribution clocks in at 11.

tone1

13 for me....

thumpingrug

Also 13, but there are all the older albums.  It does go to show that some people will buy utter shit though

UnclePsychosis

Only own two - Oasis and Pepper. Some utter shite in that list for the most part! 

proggy

I own Nos, 4, 6, 8 and 36.