So...
There's an "Absolute Greatest" Reissue coming out on vinyl for the German market.
I don't know why that album was released in the first place, since it's just a rehashing and trimmed down version of the Greatest Hits compilations, and now they're going to invest in a limited re-pressing....
Surely they'd have been better, this year of all years, rather than celebrating the tenth anniversary of a naff compilation, to do something with Live Killers as we all hoped they might? Or even the Miracle, which for some reason never happened...
SW10 wrote:Money for old rope and a rip off but what did you expect from that old bunch of misers who decide what gets released!
but it'll sell, won't it? there's little motivation for the record company releasing the "anthologies" that I want - because a few thousand sales is comparatively unwise, when an Absolute Greatest can yield a few hundred thousand sales.
I doubt that. AG sold well in the UK when released 10 years ago, but now you have all these compilations + the best-selling soundtrack in the charts, don't think AG re-release will generate many sales. It's quite an odd move indeed.
k-m wrote:I doubt that. AG sold well in the UK when released 10 years ago, but now you have all these compilations + the best-selling soundtrack in the charts, don't think AG re-release will generate many sales. It's quite an odd move indeed.
I think a few hundred-thousand is a realistic worldwide sales figure. Even more so, as the new generation of Q+AL fans will have a single-purchase solution to getting an instant hits collection.
And - unlike their studio albums - which never seem to have the worldwide sales figures of other huge bands (Zep, Beatles etc) - Queen's compilation LPs always sell shedloads.
Queen - Greatest Hits is the biggest ever album from the UK ever !
Quite a superb achievement sweeping other bands away like Zeppelin, Beatles, etc.......
I am very proud of Freddie & the boys!
SW10 wrote:Queen - Greatest Hits is the biggest ever album from the UK ever ! Quite a superb achievement sweeping other bands away like Zeppelin, Beatles, etc.......
I am very proud of Freddie & the boys!
There is a world outside of the UK, you know. Worldwide:
Queen
Greatest Hits - 25m worldwide sales
Queen All other LPs = 70m (= average less than ½ million per LP) - this includes the other compilations
It's also a damning indictment of Queen as being "just" a singles band.
Beatles 257m
Original (non-compilation) LPs = 20 = sales 170m = average 8m per LP
Zep 137m
Original (non-compilation) LPs = 9 = 100m = average 11m per LP
The album is a silver vinyl douple LP and is only sold in Germany. WAS sold, I should say because it already sold out. Of course German fans had to order loads of copies in order to supply copies to their international friends. The online shop already sold a white vinyl copy of the album a couple of years ago before Christmas. The low number of available copies makes it collectible for the Queen collectors.
YourValentine wrote:The album is a silver vinyl douple LP and is only sold in Germany. WAS sold, I should say because it already sold out. Of course German fans had to order loads of copies in order to supply copies to their international friends. The online shop already sold a white vinyl copy of the album a couple of years ago before Christmas. The low number of available copies makes it collectible for the Queen collectors.
I prefer these kind of releases. they're more of a nice addition to a vinyl collection than the standard re-issues.
Rainbow did a similar thing with a green vinyl release from their recent tour, again - a German release. Nice 180g and clear sound.
@Brenski You will have to argue your case with the Guinness Book of World Records ha ha ha.
Queen ARE officially the band that has got the biggest selling album ever in the UK and there is fuck all you can do about it lol
Quite satisfying that !
Zeppelin Beatles etc lost out to real talent - QUEEN.
well, it looks like Rose/100%/Jazz+ has been consigned to the same place as
Gerry, Champagne Freddie, Happy Star, rugby_guy, Queen2, Mr Music et al
He/she/it will always get away with the usual abuse, but inevitably slips up with a threat of violence. It's always these threats that are Geraldine's ultimate undoing.
thanks Barbara