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[QUOTE] [b]The Real Wizard wrote:[/b]

Europe, North America, Japan, South America, Australia - about as good as a band from the western world can do.[/QUOTE]

Even that is quite a stretch to say the least. There are around 47 nations in Europe, out of which Queen were massively popular in about half a dozen, and moderately successful in further ten, tops.

They did sell very well in America, especially for a foreign band; also in Brazil and Argentina, especially for a non-Portuguese/Spanish speaking band; same in Japan.

So yeah, great achievements, but no, they didn't actually 'conquer' the world.

lol...what a dumb argument. Worst is that I actually sat and read it.

[QUOTE] [b]Missreclusive wrote:[/b]

lol...what a dumb argument. Worst is that I actually sat and read it.[/QUOTE]

Nah... The worst part is that after reading it all, you then had to reply to it with another useless post.
At the very least you could have made a lame joke out of it. :/

Lol.

"that still means that at the very least 97.18% of the world inhabitants have never bought a Queen record"

It might boil down to 97% of the world population, but you have to understand that you're referring to a chunk of humanity that really is just a pile of dumb shit. Amongst their various issues (being shitty, for one) they've never heard of Queen. Fuck 'em.

Therefore the only successful artists ever are The Beatles, since any band who only sells to a pitiful 3% of the entire world's population obviously isn't successful. My mistake.

Defenition of world war is that large part of the world, with multiple continents is in state of war with each other. There was no war at the south american content, and only in a few countries in North Africa... still we talk about world war II

Queen was succesfull : (singles, albums & tours and a afair amount of Airplay:)

Europe
North America
South America
Asia
Australia
Africa


To me this is equal to WORLD WIDE succes.

Of course Antartica is missing : it seems that a polar bear ate some copies of The Works witch were washed a shore overthere...

The reason they didn't conquer large part of eastern Europe(Russia , communistic countries) and China and (middle east) Muslim area's is simply because their music was forbidden by goverment, religion etc.etc.!!!!!!!

Hell if they toured Kabul , Freddie would have been executed for saying "Goood evening you afghan tarts, have some champaign for breakfast "


Though they tried to conquer the Eastern Europe region with succes : they did a lot of effort to get to play a show ovverthere, Moscow was declined, but the Budapest went on. What do you think why they did : the concert itself was a financial loss, they knew that, but they learned from South America , that the album sales in that region will explode !! South America and the Budapest show is a perfect example of the generals of Queen fighting the battles on new grounds in their quest to conquer the world. And they did conquer the world !

[QUOTE] [b]The Real Wizard wrote:[/b]

Therefore the only successful artists ever are The Beatles, since any band who only sells to a pitiful 3% of the entire world's population obviously isn't successful. My mistake.[/QUOTE]

We're not defining successful, we're defining 'conquering the world' and 'being successful in every corner of the world'.

There's a huge difference.

Were Queen successful? Yes. Very.

Did Queen conquer the world? No. Not even close.

Can we get back on topic? :)

[QUOTE] [b]Sebastian wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]The Real Wizard wrote:[/b]

Therefore the only successful artists ever are The Beatles, since any band who only sells to a pitiful 3% of the entire world's population obviously isn't successful. My mistake.[/QUOTE]

We're not defining successful, we're defining 'conquering the world' and 'being successful in every corner of the world'.

There's a huge difference.

Were Queen successful? Yes. Very.

Did Queen conquer the world? No. Not even close.[/QUOTE]

You're not defining anything. You're being anal for the sake of being anal. If you want to play that game, no musical act has ever conquered the world because none have actually overthrown governments and usurped power. That sounds like a really pathetic argument, and it is, but only marginally more so than what you wrote. Please, at least try to be a little reasonable. You know very well what is meant by the METAPHORICAL "conquering the world", i.e. being successful in a large number of countries on more than one continent. Don't play dumb just to be contrary.

no :-)

It's not being anal, it's being insistent with terminology, which I still stand by.

There's a difference between saying 'Roger Taylor's about 60' and 'Roger Taylor's about 300', or between 'Italy won a handful of world cups' and 'Italy won twenty world cups'.

I'm not by any means denying they were successful on an international level. I'm arguing that they didn't actually conquer the world, and I don't mean it in a strictly literal military or political sense, I mean that by music business standards, they still did NOT conquer the world.

They sold millions of records, achieved well-deserved fame and fortune and produced some classic hits that will most likely still be remembered for generations.

But no, they didn't conquer the world.

However, all is quiet on the front of Roger ...

Everyone knows that Sebastian is Queenzone's very own Sheldon Cooper!

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