What is the best-selling album in UK chart history, recorded by Queen?

What is the best-selling album in UK chart history, recorded by Queen? It is Greatest Hits (1981), Queen’s first major compilation album. It was released in the United Kingdom on 26 October 1981 and gathered the band’s biggest successes from 1974 through 1980.

The collection spans Queen’s breakthrough period, including songs such as “Killer Queen,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “We Are the Champions,” “Don’t Stop Me Now,” and “Another One Bites the Dust.” The original UK edition ends with “Flash,” from the Flash Gordon soundtrack. Track lists differed by territory, so international editions are not always identical.

Greatest Hits initially reached No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart for four weeks. Its enduring sales turned it into far more than a standard retrospective: it became a fixture in British households and continued charting for decades.

It is sometimes confused with Greatest Hits II, released in 1991, or with The Platinum Collection, a multi-album set. Those releases also sold strongly, but the UK chart-history record belongs to Queen’s 1981 Greatest Hits. By 2022, it had passed seven million UK sales.