Biggest-selling album by a group – the eagle’s hits 1971-75 is estimated to have sold more than 25 million copies worldwide. It is also the biggest-selling rock album in the US, with certified sales of 24 million.
Most weeks on U.S album chart – Dark Side of the moon by Pink Floyd entered the US chart on March 17, 1973 and is still there. It spent 741 weeks in the top and 353 weeks on the pop catalogue chart up to April 1998, topping the latter in its 1,075th chart week.
Biggest-selling heavy rock album in the U.S. Led Zeppelin lV by British band Led Zeppelin has sold 17 million copies since 1971.
Bruce Springsteen Born in the USA (1984) is the top-selling album by a US performer in the US, with sales of 15 million.
Fastest-Selling Album (U.K.) – Be Here Now (1997) by Oasis sold a record 345,000 copies in the UK on its first day of release. By the third day, it had sold 700,000 copies within 17 days it had passed the million marks. Like Oasis first two albums, it entered the chart at No. 1, breaking the record for the most consecutive releases to enter in pole position. It also headed the charts in nine other countries in its first week of release.
Most Highly-Paid Rock Stars –The Rolling Stones had an estimated gross income of $68 million in 1996-97, putting them 12th in the Forbes list of the world’s highest-paid entertainers. The British band narrows neat Celine Dion, who earned $65 million, and David Bowie, who earned $63 million. Formed in 1962, the Rolling Stones are the most enduring rock band: They had their first UK hit in 1963 with a version of Chuck Berry’s “Come On” and made their debut on US chart in 1964 with “(Tell Me) You’re Coming Back.” The band was still charting on both side of Atlantic in 1998. In 1994 and 1995, the band proved that they could still pull in the crowds when their Voodoo Lounge tour became the most successful tour of all time, taking an estimated $400 million in receipts. During the tour, the band most of the whom are now in their 50’s, put on 62 concerts instead of scheduled 28. Their 1997 Bridges to Babylon tour surpassed the currently consists of Keith Richards, Ron Wood, Charlie Watts, Darryl Jones and frontman Mick Jagger.
Biggest-selling heavy rock album in the U.K. – Bat Out Of Hell by Meat Loaf has sold more than 2.1 million copies in the UK since 1978. It had also spent a record 472 weeks on the UK album chart by April 1998.
Biggest-selling non-U.K. /U.S. rock album in the U.S. – Australian group AC/Dc’s Back in Black (1980) has sold more than 12 million copies in the US.
Biggest-selling non U.K. /U.S. rock album in the U.K – Irish group U2’s Joshua Tree (1987) has sold 1.8 million copies in the UK.
Most successful posthumous album in the U.S – Kurt Cobain and Nirvana topped the US chart with MTV unplugged in New York in November 1994 and with from The Muddy Banks Of The Wishkah in October 1996. Cobain died in April 1994.
Most Impressive Chart Entry – on October 5, 1991, Use your Illusion II by Guns ‘N’ Roses entered the US album chart at No.1 and Use your Illusion I entered at No.2- the most impressive entry in US chart history. In the first week, 4.2 million copies of these albums were shipped. The group also holds the record for best-selling album by a US heavy rock group: Appetite For Destruction (1987) has sold 14 million copies.
Biggest-selling debut album – Jagged Little Pill (1995) by Canada’s Alanis Morissette has sold almost 30 million copies worldwide. It is also the biggest-selling album in the US by a female artist.
Biggest rock concert –on July 21, 1990 an estimated 200,000 people watched Roger Waters Production of Pink Floyd’s The Wall at Potsdamer Platz on the border between the east and west Berlin, Germany. It is involved 600 performers.
Biggest Rock museum – Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft and eight richest man in the world, is donating his tens of thousands of pieces of Jimi Hendrix memorabilia to the new 130,000 square foot experience Music project museum in settle, which will be the world’s largest rock museum. A legendary guitarist, song writer and singer, Hendrix died in 1970 at the age of 28. On September 14, 1997. more than a quarter century after his death, he became the first rock artist to have a prestigious English Heritage Blue Plague placed on a building associated with him (his former house at 23 Brook Street, London, England).
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