The Eagles continue to fly high, as Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 becomes the first album to be certified quadruple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, marking 40 million units moved since the set’s 1976 release and remaining the RIAA’s biggest album in terms of U.S. sales and streams.
The greatest-hits set — which contains songs by the band’s original lineup of Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Bernie Leadon, Randy Meisner and Don Felder across their first four albums — spent five weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in 1976 and has spent a whopping 514 weeks overall on the all-genre albums chart. The track list includes “Take It Easy” (from 1972’s Eagles), the title track from 1973’s Desperado, “Take It to the Limit” (from 1975’s One of These Nights), and the group’s first-ever Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit “Best of My Love” (from 1974’s On the Border).
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In addition to the Greatest Hits certification, Eagles’ 1976 album Hotel California has been upgraded to 28 times platinum, making it the RIAA’s third-biggest album ever by U.S. sales and streams at 28 million units. (Michael Jackson’s Thriller sits between the two Eagles projects as RIAA’s second-biggest album, at 34 times platinum.) Hotel California spent eight weeks atop the Billboard 200 in 1977 and includes the Hot 100-topping title track.
Next up for the Eagles: Henley, Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit, along with Vince Gill and Glenn’s son Deacon Frey, return to their Sphere residency on Friday night for 12 more dates at the Las Vegas venue. The new run of dates will extend their record as the act with the most dates ever played at Sphere, with 56 announced concerts total. They have dates scheduled through the end of March.
After that, they’ll make their debut at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, going down April 23-May 3, as a headliner for weekend 2.
The RIAA gives quadruple diamond certification to artists whose albums have moved 40 million units. According to the RIAA, one equivalent album unit is equal to the sale of one physical album, 10 track downloads from the album, or 1,500 on-demand audio and/or video streams from the album.
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