After a recent recalculation of album sales that now includes all downloads, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has certified that Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 album by the Eagles as 38x platinum, which I believe means it has sold 38 million copies. That means this 70s-era album of soft country rock hits is the greatest selling album in history, outdistancing Michael Jackson’s 80s-era monster album, Thriller, which was certified at 33x platinum.
Just to top things off, their Hotel California comes in third place for all time sales, at 26x platinum. More
Wikipedia’s list of best-selling albums of all time is Here
The Eagles sucked back then and they still suck
I saw them after they released “Take it Easy” and were third bill, opening for Dave Mason and Procol Harum.
They stole the show.
This is rayciss
I have been a fan of The Eagles for a long time.
“Don Henley must die …
Stick a needle in his eye …”
(Mojo Nixon, aka: “The one man on Earth most in need of an enema.” (Don Henley))
Can’t argue with success. They did some good stuff and a lot of pap – but they seem to have struck the right “chord.”
izlamo delenda est …
Hard to believe Zamfir didn’t make the list…
Sorry, “Best of” or “Greatest Hits” doesn’t count.
I can’t believe Slim Whitman isn’t right up there.
Hummm, I wouldn’t have guessed that.
I always thought Chuck Mangione sitting in with them would be hot.
In a soft rock sort of way.
I grew up with them, therefore I love them. Lot’s of good memories. Them and the Doobies.
I put them on the same list as the Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan, Traffic. Tough to listen to more than one song.
I believe this album was a Columbia House special too – 12 tapes for a cent.
Grateful Dead, another band I never developed an appreciation for.
That wiki page should be titled, “Where fools money parted to.”
Mojo Nixon — Don Henley Must Die
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm-o7_VVAoU
What the hell does Hotel California even mean?
I always thought Poco was of similar genre, but superior in songwriting. But they never broke through like the Eagles.
PUKE! Can’t sing. Just noise.
I’ve always liked Joe Walsh. When he joined the Eagles it seemed like an incredibly odd thing for him to do, but he made them a better band, IMHO. And it probably kept Joe from drinking himself to death, so win-win.
Weren’t the originally Linda Ronstadt’s backup band? Anyway, if you check the bottom of the RIAA page you’ll up coming concert dates. I wonder how much their getting for tickets now-a-days?
“I hate the fuckin’ Eagles maaaan!…”
– Jeff Lebowski aka The Dude aka His Dudeness aka El Duderino (if you not into that whole brevity thing).
The Big Lebowski, now there is a classic!
Dark Side of The Moon held the record the longest.
I have owned all the albums on the list except for The Bodyguard.
Bat Out of Hell was a monster hit, nearly every song was epic.
Evidently black folk like Dark Side as well.
No Banana Splits?
No question Libtards tend to excel at making music, banging the drum, and harmonizing – if only they would stick to what they’re good at.
Sales don’t equal quality.
Record companies push crap and people buy it because they apparently need to be told what to listen to.
In the biography Twenty Thousand Roads, Parsons refered to The Eagles as a “plastic dry fuck.”
I am a big GP fan
The Who. All others are…. less
Hotel California did me in. Could not stand the Eagles after that. I wanted everyone else to hate it, too, so one night when I was tending an automated station, I backed up the reel every time that seven minute version ran, and got it played six times in one hour. It had to be the most depressing, nauseating, please-God-just-kill-me-now hour in broadcast history.
Bat Out Of Hell Is Number 1, PERIOD. For me anyway.
Mr. Anth Ropy – I believe Hotel California is about an insane asylum.
HOTEL CALIFORNIA RIPPED OF FROM BRITISH BAND ” JETHRO TULL ” USA TOUR 1972 WHEN THE EAGLES SUPPORTED THEM AND HEARD ” WE USED TO KNOW “
geez … this list is proof-positive that the music-buying public has absolutely NO taste
That wiki list has a ton of garbage on it. Just about every one is on a torment list or should be.
@JDHasty: If you are talking about the football team, I am in total agreement with you.
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Well, that’s a Thriller. Too bad they’re for the most part a bunch of loony Lefties.
Shrimp: got you beat.
One night while shooting pool with a buddy, the bar got taken over by a bunch of Vanderbilt college pukes stumbling all over the place. Maybe 80-100 of them.
So I put $10 worth of Kenny Rogers’ “Lady” on the jukebox and walked out the door.
@Cliche Guevara: That’s the evilest thing I can imagine.
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@cliche Guevara: I hate to break it to you, but the same song on a juke box that is selected multiple times in a very short time period will play only once. For example, say three guys (or gays, depending on how you look at it) all select “Lady”, one after the other during their turn at the box. They all hear it the one time it plays and each one thinks that was “their” song. It’s a money saving thing.
Actually, the evilest thing would have been to play the utter crap that the no-talent bum Springsteen put out. Now, that’s evil!