Almost 1000 weeks in the charts
Such income is only not possible with Spotify streaming; Queen would need 14.4 billion streams for this in 2020. The Queen Productions Ltd but also earns a lot of money by licensing the music for films, series, commercials, etc. Statistics on Queen are also out of this world apart from income. The “Greatest Hits” album has been in the UK album Top 100 charts for 990 weeks. The best-selling British album of all time even made it to number 2 on the current album charts last week.
Brian May on Freddie Mercury
Brian May and his tireless efforts on and off the stage are an important factor for continued success. In an interview on “The Simon Mayo Drivetime Show” he talks about the “Greatest Hits” record. So it was important for Queen in which order the songs are on the album. In the past, a record or CD was inserted and listened to, there was no “shuffle”. Accordingly, the album should also be “a journey” for the listener.
Otherwise May also talks about Mercury. This is still present for him: “Maybe I’m slowly becoming an old romantic, but Freddie is in my head every day,” reveals May. “He is always on my mind and I can always feel what he is doing in a certain situation would say, oh what would Freddie think, ah, he would like this, he would laugh at this or whatever. He’s so much part of the legacy we’ve created, it always will be. “
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