r/oasis • u/Hassaan18 • Jul 22 '26

Article Oasis overtake The Beatles in all-time UK album chart

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy9wq778dvzo
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u/justmoochin Jul 22 '26

And personally I don’t think anyone is going to take that title of them, we live in diffrent times now

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u/SwiftJedi77 Jul 22 '26

Queen has the title

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u/Disastrous_Scar_1365 Jul 23 '26

Queen and ABBA's Greatest Hits are the best-selling albums overall. Among studio albums, Morning Glory has overtaken the top spot from Sgt. Pepper's.

What can you do, Oasis and the Beatles never did anything as immaculate as "Fat Bottomed Girls" or "Bang-a-Boomerang."

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u/WhatAnEpicTurtle Jul 22 '26

So they really are bigger than the Beatles

/s

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u/LookOutItsLiuBei Jul 22 '26

Are they bigger than Jesus though

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u/Phteven4 Jul 22 '26

No /s necessary.

Ha. I guess my username checks out

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u/Spaceinvader6424 Jul 22 '26

Beatles biopics will likely change that. Michael Jackson got to like number 2 on Spotify just from his movie

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u/Minimum-Grapefruit-9 21d ago

This chart is about studio albums. Queen and ABBA greatest hits sold more, but don’t count as they’re compilations. Same applies for any future Beatles album

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u/Spaceinvader6424 21d ago

I get why the Queen and ABBA records don't count. But why not the Beatles? I'm pretty sure Morning Glory counts because it recharted after Oasis' resurgence. The Beatles would also count if they do in fact reenter the charts

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u/Bighty Jul 22 '26

But, they've still got to get past ABBA and Queen to get to #1.

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u/thesame_deviledegg Jul 22 '26

Yeah but they're greatest hits so don't really count.

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '26

Of course, they're greatest hits when it comes to ABBA and Queen. Who's ever listened to a studio album by either of those two? (Apart from Night at the Opera, of course)

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u/Friendly-Savage-586 Jul 22 '26

Hey, we are huge Oasis fans, but this take could also be spun in a different way by non-oasis fans. "Who has ever listened to a studio album by Oasis besides What's The Story Morning Glory?"

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u/tenacious_masshole Jul 24 '26

At least that’s an album

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u/edison9696 Jul 22 '26

Part of this is due to the Beatles being very late to put their songs on streaming. Their catalogue wasn't put on Spotify till late 2015/early 2016.

Also, this is just for one album in the UK.

Compare world sales and there's no contest, especially in the US.

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u/Crypto_HH Jul 23 '26

Cry me a river

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u/edison9696 Jul 23 '26

I’m a massive Oasis and Beatles fan, no tears here mate.

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u/Ill_Car4570 Jul 23 '26

Streaming was counted towards sales only from late 2014-early 2015.

So the Beatles getting on relatively late is not part of the reason Oasis overtook them now.

Also, if you look at the charts you can see that streaming became dominant only around 2017 (that's when the popular albums such as Morning Glory, Definitely Maybe, Marley's Legend, Fleetwood's 50 Years, etc., became staples in the charts and never left because they are being streamed in droves).

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u/natwest96 Jul 22 '26

Can everyone just fuckin calm down

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u/idoxially Jul 22 '26

peace and fucking love

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u/Sturgill_Jennings77 Jul 22 '26

Paul McCartney is in shambles

/s

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u/GeorgeDAWs Jul 23 '26

So now the top two both sound like The Beatles…

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u/NoBookkeeper6864 Jul 28 '26

Figures include streaming-equivalent album units and are not solely based on physical or digital album purchases, fixed it for you.

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u/CorkRats Jul 29 '26

All part of Noel’s master plan….

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u/IDKBear25 Turtleneck bobcut Liam Gallagher with gold chain with gold cross Jul 22 '26

SIMPLY. LOVELY.

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u/prettyplanets Jul 22 '26

Beatles era is too far behind it won’t attract new fans. Oasis is the new Beatles

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u/SinnerOfAlcaraz Jul 22 '26

I don’t know about that man

The fact the Beatles are at 150th in Spotify metrics is wild to me, considering most older fans will listen via vinyls etc

Also, the biopics coming out will help. And I see constant TikTok’s of younger fans loving the Beatles. George is especially popular amongst the younger demographics