Biggest Selling albums list may surprise

The Baltimore Sun reports:

Quick, who's got the best-selling music album of all time?


The Beatles, right? The White Album, no doubt, or Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, or one of the hits collections.

No? Hmmm. Gotta be Elvis, then.

Wait, wait, don't say it. It must be the Stones.

U2? The Police? Who was bigger than any of those?

The Eagles and their little pop masterpieces, that's who. The "top this" distinction of the most copies of one album title ever sold in the United States - 29 million and counting - belongs to The Eagles: Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975.

And that compilation doesn't even contain "Hotel California," an iconic song from that era of rock history. No, it's 29 million copies of the "Tequila Sunrise" sound during 30 years of sales, the hits album featuring the carefully honed soft rock of "Peaceful Easy Feeling" and "Lyin' Eyes."

The collective rock wisdom of America finds it hard to take it easy on this sore point. Yes, the Eagles perfected a California vibe that soothed the nation in the mid-1970s.

Here's the list.