Guinness World Records aims to inspire ordinary people to do extra-ordinary things. Our mission is to entertain and inform, and to celebrate the world’s best. Guinness World Records is built on the Officially Amazing people that continue to attempt and achieve records around the world every day. Records are at heart of everything that Guinness World Records does. We receive more than a thousand applications a week, but fewer than 5% of these ever become a Guinness World Records title – our family of record holders are truly elite. We published our first annual of record-breaking achievement in 1955 and have never looked back. Today, the Guinness World Records book has sold over 130 million copies in more than a hundred different countries and has been translated into more than 25 languages across the globe making it the bestselling copyrighted book of all time.