STATUS QUO ---> UK album charts

Here you find the UK chart notes of the Status Quo albums.

Quo-Highlights in the british album-charts:

  • Quo have had 4 UK No.1 albums and a total of 4 No.2 albums.
  • 19 albums have made the TOP10.
  • The biggest seller to date is "Rockin all over the years" with 1,200,000 UK sales!
  • "Rockin all over the years" is the fastest selling Quo album in the UK too, with 300,000 copies sold in one week.
  • Every Quo studio album since 1972 has made the charts and gained some kind of award (silver or more).
  • Almost 500 weeks spent in the UK album-charts.
  • Longest album on the chart is "12 Gold Bars" with 54 weeks.
  • Quo have had the most Hit UK albums apart from the Rolling Stones and the Beach Boys.

    Status Quo: UK Album-Charts with awards:

    Awards:
    Silver = 60,000 sold copies and more
    Gold = 100,000 sold copies and more
    Platinum = 300,000 sold copies and more

    A l b u m - T i t e l

    Release-Date

    highest position

    Weeks in charts

    awards

    Piledriver

    November 1972

    5

    37

    Gold

    Best of (PYE)

    June 1973

    32

    5

    silver

    Hello

    October 1973

    1

    24

    Platinum

    Quo

    May 1974

    2

    18

    Platinum

    On the Level

    March 1975

    1

    24

    2x Platinum

    Down the Dustpipe (PYE)

    November 1975

    20

    7

    silver

    Blue for you

    March 1976

    1

    27

    2x Platinum

    Status Quo Live

    March 1977

    3

    20

    Platinum

    Rockinīall over the world

    November 1977

    5

    17

    Platinum

    If you canīt stand the heat

    November 1978

    3

    19

    Platinum

    Whatever you want

    October 1979

    3

    20

    Platinum

    Twelve Gold Bars

    March 1980

    3

    54

    3x Platinum

    Just supposinī

    October 1980

    4

    24

    2x Platinum

    Never too late

    March 1981

    2

    21

    Platinum

    1+9+8+2

    April 1982

    1

    17

    Platinum

    From the makers of..

    November 1982

    3

    14

    Platinum

    Back to Back

    November 1983

    9

    9

    Gold

    12 Gold Bars II

    Dezember 1984

    12

    12

    Gold

    In the Army now

    September 1986

    7

    17

    Platinum

    Ainīt Complaining

    June 1988

    12

    10

    Gold

    Perfect Remedy

    November 1989

    49

    6

    silver

    Rockinīall over the years

    October 1990

    2

    28

    3x Platinum

    Rock til you drop

    September 1991

    10

    10

    Gold

    Live alive Quo

    September 1992

    36

    4

    silver

    Thirsty Work

    September 1994

    13

    7

    silver

    Donīt stop

    February 1996

    2

    13

    Platinum

    Whatever you want - The very best of

    October 1997

    13

    8

    silver

    Under the Influence

    05.04.1999

    26

    2

    silver

    Famous in the last Century

    08.05.2000

    27

    3

    -

    Heavy Traffic

    23.09.2002

    15

    3

    silver

    Riffs

    17.11.2003

    44

    2

    -

    The Party ain't over yet

    25.09.2005

    18

    2

    -

    In search of the fourth chord

    23.09.2007

    15

    2

    -

    Pictures - 40 years of hits

    03.11.2008

    8

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