After six months of trawling through digital data, record company accounts and hand-written till receipts dating back to the 1950s, the Official UK Charts Company has rewritten rock history.
In an exhaustive sales survey, The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band has been displaced as Britain’s bestselling album. The crown has passed to Queen’s Greatest Hits, released in 1981.
The survey, compiled for the VH1 music channel and to be broadcast this Saturday, suggests that popular taste is at variance with the critics’ views. Bob Dylan does not have a record in the top 100, and 1.68 million British households have a copy of Jason Donovan’s greatest hits.
And here is the UK's 100 best-selling albums.
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