ABBA’s greatest hits album Gold has overtaken The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band to become the second biggest selling album in the UK of all time, new statistics showed.
According to data from the Official Charts Company (OCC), ABBA’s best of from 1992 has sold 15,000 more copies than The Beatles’ 1967 record.
Both records have sold more than 5.1m copies in the UK with an estimated one in five UK households owning a copy of either album.
Queen’s 1981 Greatest Hits record is the UK’s biggest selling album with 5.9m copies sold.
Martin Talbot, OCC Managing Director, said: ‘The British people took Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny and Anni-frid to their hearts from the night that they won the Eurovision Song Contest on British soil, in Brighton, 39 years ago.
‘So it is perhaps apt that their huge Gold hits album has reached such heady heights, all these years later.’
Adele’s landmark 2011 album, 21, and Oasis’ 1995 second album, (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, complete the top five with both records selling 4.6m units.
According to data from the Official Charts Company (OCC), ABBA’s best of from 1992 has sold 15,000 more copies than The Beatles’ 1967 record.
Both records have sold more than 5.1m copies in the UK with an estimated one in five UK households owning a copy of either album.
Queen’s 1981 Greatest Hits record is the UK’s biggest selling album with 5.9m copies sold.
Martin Talbot, OCC Managing Director, said: ‘The British people took Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny and Anni-frid to their hearts from the night that they won the Eurovision Song Contest on British soil, in Brighton, 39 years ago.
‘So it is perhaps apt that their huge Gold hits album has reached such heady heights, all these years later.’
Adele’s landmark 2011 album, 21, and Oasis’ 1995 second album, (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, complete the top five with both records selling 4.6m units.
