Posted on 01/23/2026 12:38:45 PM PST by nickcarraway
For years, the Eagles have had the bestselling U.S. album of all time. Now, the classic rock legends have made history once more, as Their Greatest Hits 1971–1975 becomes the first album to receive a quadruple diamond certification from the RIAA for U.S. sales exceeding 40 million.
With this new certification, Eagles now lead the second-highest-certified RIAA album, Michael Jackson's 34x platinum Thriller, by 6 million units. The band also claims the third-bestselling album in RIAA history with Hotel California, which has been updated to 28 million certified units.
Eagles' 'Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975' Has Been Making History for Decades
Released in February 1976, Eagles' Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 became the first album to receive an RIAA platinum certification, which was introduced the same year. The album spent five weeks atop the Billboard 200 and was inducted into the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry in 2017 for being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant." A sequel, Eagles Greatest Hits Vol. 2, arrived in 1982 and earned the band another diamond certification, despite their displeasure with the release.
For all the geography enthusiasts reading this: If you laid 40 million vinyl records side by side, they would stretch 7,575 miles — approximately the distance from Eagles' hometown of Los Angeles to Cairo, Egypt.
“With an assist from Ian Anderson.”
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We Used To Know
“Really? How so I’d not heard that. Was it similar to a Tull track?”
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Yes, very similar to “We Used To Know.”
ahh...Poco
Rose of Cimarron
“I have their CD and love it.”
Eagles is my favorite group, and I have SO many of their CDs.
How can you rip from YouTube? Special software?
There's a bunch of sites that convert a stream (from a URL you enter) into an mp5 (video) or mp3 (audio).
Leave me a message, maybe I’ll call.
Life’s been good to me, so far.
I just have the one with their top tunes.
Just search “convert YouTube to mp3”. Several online pages will allow you to paste in the video url and convert it to mp3 (sound) format.
There are lots of sites with current reviews of tools to rip from YouTube. See: YouTube to MP3.
Going to see them in a few hours here in Vegas at the Sphere.
Good to know. I know my sister bought software several years ago to record from her PC, but it was really expensive. I figure much has improved since then.
Thank you!!
One of my favorites, which isn’t a top tune, is “Girl From Yesterday”.
Thanks so much!!
I wonder if you all realize “ take it to the limit” is a railroad term. When the conductor told his brakeman to “ take it to the limit”, it meant ride the boxcar, or whatever type of rolling stock, the entire length of the track in the rail yard the car was rolling down. He would tie the handbrake on at “ the limit”, the spot at the end of the track farthest down without fouling the “ lead”.
Going to see them in a few hours here in Vegas at the Sphere.
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Planning to do that too in February.
Yes, very similar to “We Used To Know.”
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You can’t listen to it without thinking about HC right from about 2 seconds into the song...Anderson was very gracious about and if you listen to his interview about it, he said he was flattered.
What a show. The visuals were amazing. Joe Walsh songs were the best of the night for me.
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