5 best-selling British music artists

The British music scene has always had a healthy following across the globe, more often than not dominating the charts in numerous countries. Following on from last week's feature on the Music Year, we take a look at five of the richest bands and musicians who have all flown the flag for the UK across the world and the famous albums by which they made their name...

The Beatles - Studio albums: Please Please Me (1963) With The Beatles (1963) A Hard Day's Night (1964) Beatles For Sale (1964) Help! (1965) Rubber Soul (1965) Revolver (1966) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) Magical Mystery Tour (1967) The White Album (1968) Yellow Submarine (1969) Abbey Road (1969) Let It Be (1970)

Queen - Studio albums: Queen (1973) Queen II (1974) Sheer Heart Attack (1974) A Night At The Opera (1975) A Day At The Races (1976) News of the World (1977) Jazz (1978) The Game (1980) Flash Gordon (1980) Hot Space (1982) The Works (1984) A Kind of Magic (1986) The Miracle (1989) Innuendo (1991) Made in Heaven (1995)

Bee Gees - Studio albums: Idea (1968) Odessa (1969) Cucumber Castle (1970) 2 Years On (1970) Trafalgar (1971) To Whom It May Concern (1972) Life in a Tin Can (1973) Mr Natural (1974) Main Course (1975) Children of the World (1976) Here at Last... Bee Gees... Live (1977) Spirits Having Flown (1979) Living Eyes (1981) ESP (1987) One (1989) High Civilization (1991) She Isn't Everything (1993) Still Waters (1997) One Night Only (1998) This Is Where I Came In (2001)

Elton John - Studio albums, Empty Sky (1969) Elton John (1970) Tumbleweed Connection (1970) Madman Across the Water (1971) Honky Chateau (1972) Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player (1973) Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973) Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (1975) Rock of the Westies (1975) Blue Moves (1976) A Single Mum (1978) Victim of Love (1979) Breaking Hearts (1984) Reg Strikes Back (1988) Sleeping with the Past (1989) The One (1992) Duets (1993) Made in England (1995)

Pink Floyd - Studio albums: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967) Atom Heart Mother (1970) Meddle (1971) The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) Wish You Were Here (1975) Animals (1977) The Wall (1979) The Final Cut (1983) A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987) The Division Bell (1994)