I’D always known my taste in music was nothing to be proud of, but I’m feeling rather smug all of a sudden.

BPI, the voice of the UK recorded music industry, has released their list of Britain’s best selling albums of all time. Or at least since records began in 1956.

I was shocked to note that I must be cool as I own every one of the top five.

Queen’s Greatest Hits. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles. Gold: Greatest Hits by Abba. Oasis’ What’s the Story Morning Glory. Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits.

A list of cheesy sing-a-long treats as far as I’m concerned.

A list that does not, however, paint me, or the British music buying public, in a particularly good light.

Classics these albums undoubtedly are. But cool? Almost certainly not.

We have the poptastic, the swaggering, the glamorous and the downright brilliant – and nothing the current crop can even come close to competing with.

Plenty of inescapable anthems in there that have provided the soundtrack to many a good night out.

I’m just off to iron my spangly jumpsuit for a night on the tiles boogying to Dancing Queen and pretending I’m down with the kids.

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