Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of best-selling albums in the United Kingdom/archive1


 * The following is an archived discussion of a featured list nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The list was promoted by Dabomb87 03:26, 6 July 2012.

List of best-selling albums in the United Kingdom

 * Nominator(s): A Thousand Doors (talk &#124; contribs) 07:23, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

The Official Charts Company were recently good enough to publish the list of the UK's biggest-selling albums ever. I've been updating this list ever since then, and I hope that it is of a sufficient quality to be featured. I welcome any advice on how it could be improved. Thaks very much! A Thousand Doors (talk &#124; contribs) 07:23, 29 May 2012 (UTC)


 * I am inclined to support this but I have one somewhat major concern - the number of albums sold is not listed in the table. I have no clue how much the ones that aren't mentioned in the lede have sold, and in that case it doesn't really help me. I'll support this if the estimated sales data as of the time the OCC made the list is added - otherwise, I am neutral.  Toa   Nidhiki  05  01:00, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, the sales data was not revealed on the Radio 2 programme. The OCC have published the sales for the top 10 up to March 2012 in an article here, and I've included this page in the External Links section. But even that data is now outdated (21 has since overtaken Thriller; ABBA have sold five million). I'm not entirely against including it in the table, but it would end up looking something like this. A Thousand Doors (talk &#124; contribs) 10:26, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Alright, that makes sense - no need to include incomplete sales data. I support this, then.  Toa   Nidhiki  05  14:10, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks very much for the support! A Thousand Doors (talk &#124; contribs) 07:35, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Comment Why do all of the refs have a location set in London? From what I gather, the location refers to the city of publication -- not it's headquarters. How do we know for sure the BBC News article or BBC press release was written and published in say, Manchester? Best to remove it, unless it states in the article 'London'. -- Lemonade51 (talk) 13:02, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
 * There's probably one or two places where putting "London" would appropriate, but I'm really not sure, so I've just removed the lot. A Thousand Doors (talk &#124; contribs) 16:50, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

Comment - you have included Adele's album at number 5, because a news story published some time after the Radio 2 show said it had overtaken "Thriller", but how do we know that other albums have not moved up/down the list since the Radio 2 show? As the over-arching source is the Radio 2 show, should the list not be as it was presented in that show.....? -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:15, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I guess the over-arching sources that are being used for this article are releases that come from the Official Chart Company, who both compiled the Radio 2 list and announced that Adele's album was at number five. I think only 21 is selling a sufficient enough quantity these days to climb any higher up the list – most of the rest of the albums have reached something of a saturation point, and I don't believe that there'll be much movement between the positions any time soon. Obviously, this list will become outdated at some point in the future, but at the moment I think it's sufficiently accurate, and hopefully the article can be updated to reflect any further changes that the OCC announce in the future. A Thousand Doors (talk &#124; contribs) 00:01, 12 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Comment I reviewed this at the peer review and found it to be a good candidate for FLC, I'd like to see some other comments here, but at the moment leaning to supporting the nomination. The Rambling Man (talk) 16:36, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks again for the (moral) support! A Thousand Doors (talk &#124; contribs) 07:35, 1 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Comment – Only thing I see worth noting is that "the" should be added before "earliest-released" in the Beatles photo caption. Giants2008  ( Talk ) 01:48, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Yikes, don't know how I missed that. Fixed. A Thousand Doors (talk &#124; contribs) 07:35, 1 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Support Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell #9 is quite surprising given its 6x Platinum :). Even more surprising is that Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band hasn't received any certifications; do you know why? This would be interesting to know. Otherwise pretty good. Regards.-- GoP T C N 12:19, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Oops, sorry, missed the key :)-- GoP T C N 12:20, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
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