With sales of 5.7 million copies, "Gold: Greatest Hits" is the second-highest selling album of all time in the United Kingdom, after Queen's "Greatest Hits" (1981, 6.6 million units). In August, 2019, "Gold: Greatest Hits" became the longest-running top 100 album of all time, spending 900 weeks on the UK Albums Chart. The album spent 61 (non-consecutive) weeks in the top 10 and topped the British chart 5 times, most recently for two weeks in 2008 following release of the motion picture "Mamma Mia!".