Posted on 08/20/2018 9:36:51 AM PDT by SMGFan
The Eagles have flown past Michael Jackson’s Thriller to take the record for the best-selling album of all time.
Recording Industry Association of America confirmed to the Associated Press on Monday that the band’s 1976 compilation album, Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975), has been certified 38x platinum, which means sales and streams of the album have reached 38 million copies. That officially puts it ahead of Thriller, which has been certified 33x platinum.
That’s not even the limit of the Eagles’ record-selling dominance. In addition to grabbing the No. 1 spot, the band also has the third-best-selling album of all time: 1977’s Hotel California, which is now 26x platinum.
“We are grateful for our families, our management, our crew, the people at radio and, most of all, the loyal fans who have stuck with us through the ups and downs of 46 years. It’s been quite a ride,” Don Henley said in a statement.
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Well I ain’t sure how it happened
And I don’t know exactly when
But everything got bigger
And the rules began to bend
And they taught the people
How to get their hair to shine
And how sweet life can be
If you keep a tight behind
And they raised the cost of living
And could we have known
They’d doubled the price of tickets
To go see Johnny’s show
Fiji Hill wrote:
I’m a big fan of the Eagles. My favorite Eagles recordings are:
Such a Fool
I Told Myself
Don’t You Want to Be Mine?
My personal favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMTIvzqHxMg
Timeless tune!
Blame it on Don Felder.
Linda is a goddess!
Ian Anderson said that he considered “Hotel California” to be a tribute.
Then he showed his watch and said it was a “tribute” to Rolex....LOL!
My test case for balancing my Dynaudio speakers is “Hotel California”
Its stupid. There are more thriller albums out there. They redefined streaming as album sales. So if you stream an eagles song ten times its an album sale. You did not even need to buy it. And since the eagles album is a greatest hits album its singles are counted both for the greatest hits and the actual original album. When you count album sales the winner is Jackson. If you count downloads it the eagles. But even they will disappear as new stars are shooting up the charts. Taylor could put out a greatest hits record and the eagles would be gone in a few years by this counting.
The music buying public today is only exposed to one hit wonders and short lived superstars with a few hits before they fade. They don’t get exposed to artists that can turn out hit after hit.
Not true at all Beyonce, Swift, Mars, there are lots of stars with ten or more top ten singles out there. I bet people could name 20 current pop stars with more than 10 top 25 hits.
Taylor Swift ?
And “Thriller” was all Quincy Jones. MJ just sang on it.
The Eagles DVD of the Sydney Australia live concert is also acoustically fantastic.
That was my first thought as well—I love that song.
“There’s so many things you should have told her,
But night after night you’re willing to hold her, just hold her.
Tears on your shoulder.”
New kid in town - Best song on Hotel California
Try Anything Once: I have that CD, it’s pretty great. Have you heard Alan Parsons’ version of The Time Machine?
I finally broke down and listened to Gaudi. I left it on the rack back in the ‘80s, because who wants a pink CD? I mean, really. Turns out it was pretty good.
As to Boston, they’re a victim of Scholz’s MIT perfectionism, and perhaps laziness. They had a great first album, the second was meh, and then to sit on their (his) behind for a decade was nearly criminal. That, and to let Brad Delp’s voice wither on the vine (from lack of use) until he killed himself ...
That, and I’m tired of his leftist whining. No more Boston for me. Well, aside from that nifty version of the Star Spangled Banner they did at one point. That’s a pretty good one to bring out for special events.
:P
Used to be my favorite group. Then, Don Henly ... vile liberal (redundant, I know).
Parsons without Woolfson just wasn’t the same.
Greatest hits albums don’t count :P
Here’s an interesting group of lists. We both might learn something. :-)
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