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Focusing on albums released before January 1, 2006, the catalogue chart was topped in 2008 by Nickelback's All The Right Reasons, an album many casual purchasers would have regarded as a new release, rather than a reactivated 2005 album.
All The Right Reasons was more than two years old and selling fewer than 200 copies a week when Nickelback's record label, Roadrunner, belatedly decided to release the track Rockstar as a single. A tongue- in-cheek song namechecking Cher and James Dean, boasting a vocal assist from ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons, and a star-studded video, Rockstar was a huge hit, spending 50 weeks in the chart, and helped All The Right Reasons to sell 568,361 copies in 2008, while improving its career chart peak from 13 to two.
Meanwhile, Abba's 1992 compilation Gold - Greatest Hits, already a perennial seller, was given a major boost by the success of the Mamma Mia! movie, and storms to second place on the catalogue list, selling a further 410,119 copies. The film's remarkable ...