List of records of the United Kingdom

List of records of the UK lists national and international records achieved by people, groups or institutions from the United Kingdom.

Music

Most successful act in UK chart history — Queen (more than 1,322 Weeks)^[1]
Biggest all-time sales for an album: Queen — Greatest Hits (5,407,587+ copies)^[2]
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

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.

Highest grossing Computer game spin-off film - Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (also Germany, USA and Japan) made $252 million (£173.6 million).
Most plasticine used in a feature film - Aardman Animation's Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit 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.

↑ "Queen top UK album charts league". The British Broadcasting Corporation. 2005-07-04. Retrieved 2006-11-25.
↑ "Queen head all-time sales chart". The British Broadcasting Corporation. 2006-11-16. Retrieved 2006-11-25.

People

Sporting records

National records

Motion records

Speed	Air Transcontinental Land speed record Railed Production car Special motorcycle Production motorcycle Wheel-driven British Water speed record Underwater Sailing Sound barrier Speed of light

Distance	Flight distance record Flight altitude record Ocean depth record Flight endurance record Boundary of space

Other	Spaceflight records FAI records

Man-made objects

Physical phenomena