Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 (1LP)

The Eagles officially became the first band to be able to say that they'd “gone platinum.” As you may or may not know, since people talk a lot about “going platinum” without necessarily offering up what it takes to do so, the RIAA Platinum Award is doled out to those albums which have shipped one million copies. More than a few artists have released full-length efforts that have achieved that status, The Eagles did it first...and, even more impressively, they continued to do it. Yes, they went on to release more albums that went platinum, but that's not what we mean. We're talking specifically about Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975), which just keeps on selling, even after all these years.

Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) was the best-selling album of the 20th century in the United States, and it stayed the best-selling album in the U.S. for some years until it was surpassed by Michael Jackson's Thriller after the artist's death in 2009. In August 2018, it regained the title of the best-selling album in the US, selling over 38 million copies.