List of records of the UK
- List of records of the UK
List of records of the UK lists national and international records achieved by people, groups or institutions from the United Kingdom.
Music
UK
* Most successful act in UK chart history — Queen (more than 1,322 Weeks) [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4648611.stm|title=Queen top UK album charts league|date=2005-07-04|format=HTML|publisher=The British Broadcasting Corporation|language=english|accessdate=2006-11-25]
*Biggest all-time sales for an album: Queen — "Greatest Hits" (5,407,587+ copies) [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6151050.stm|title=Queen head all-time sales chart|date=2006-11-16|format=HTML|publisher=The British Broadcasting Corporation|language=english|accessdate=2006-11-25]
* Most BRIT Awards won by an individual - Robbie Williams with 14 awards.
* Most BRIT Awards by a female artist - Annie Lennox with 7
* Most BRIT Awards won by a group - U2 (Ireland) with 7
* Youngest BRIT solo winner - Joss Stone at age 17
* Oldest BRIT solo winner - Tom Jones at age 62
World
* Fastest selling Download Single of all time - Leona Lewis of ITV's "The X Factor"'s debut single "A Moment Like This" had a record 50,000 downloads within 30 minutes of being available online.
* Fastest concert recording to digital download release - Sir Paul McCartney and Bono's (Ireland) cover of The Beatles classic "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" became available on the internet 44 mins and 39 secs after the Live 8 Performance.
* Youngest recorded violinist - Vanessa-Mae recorded both Tchaikovsky and Beethoven concertos at age 13.
* Longest opera - The Sadler's Wells Company performed an uncut version of "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" by Richard Wagner between 24 August and 19 September 1968. Each performance comprised 5 hours and 15 minutes of music.
Movies
* Highest grossing Computer game spin-off film - "" (also Germany, USA and Japan) made $252 million (£173.6 million).
* Most plasticine used in a feature film - Aardman Animation's "" used 2,844 kg (6,272 lb) of plasticine.
* Fastest selling live-action DVD - "Harry Potter and The Goblet Of Fire" (also USA) sold more than six copies a second on the day of its release (20 March 2006 - UK). It also sold more than 5 million copies on its first day of release in the USA (7 March 2006).
* Actor with the highest average box-office gross - Orlando Bloom has appeared in 14 movies which have grossed a total of $4.6 billion (£2.45 billion), taking his box-office gross to $328 million (£174 million) per film.
ee also
*Extreme points of the United Kingdom
*List of United Kingdom disasters by death toll
*UK by-election records
Notes
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