The Official Charts Company released its all-time best-selling UK albums list on Wednesday, marking the 70th anniversary of the weekly UK album chart. Oasis’s second studio album, (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?, has climbed to third place on the ranking with 6.2 million combined chart units from streams and sales. The 1995 release, which features popular tracks such as Wonderwall and Don’t Look Back in Anger, has now surpassed The Beatles’ 1967 album Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, which has dropped to fifth position.
Queen’s Greatest Hits compilation from 1981 maintains its position as the all-time best-selling album in the UK, while Abba’s 1992 album Gold holds second place. Adele’s 2011 album 21 has moved up to fourth place on the list. Only Queen and Abba have achieved more than seven million UK chart units, a milestone Queen first reached in 2022.
Interest in Oasis’s catalog increased last year following the band’s announced worldwide reunion tour, which heavily featured tracks from the album. The album received mixed reviews upon its October 1995 release but subsequently won best British album at the 1996 Brit Awards. Songs from the record have taken on additional cultural significance in recent years, including Wonderwall’s popularity during a recent World Cup and Don’t Look Back in Anger’s role at a vigil following a tragic 2017 event.
Separately, the Official Charts Company released a list of the most-streamed albums of the 2020s. Olivia Rodrigo’s debut album Sour leads the streaming rankings with 268 weeks on the chart since its June 2021 release, ahead of Ed Sheeran’s = and Taylor Swift’s Folklore. Taylor Swift appears twice in the top 10 most-streamed albums of the decade.
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