Queen - Radio Airplay World Wide

Hi, the idea is to add the five most played Queen tracks on your local radio stations. Would be intersting to see the differences between countrys and cultures.

As for Germany ( my personal impressions)

- Radio GaGa
- I want to break free
- Another One Bites the Dust
- Killer Queen
- Under Pressure

Of course there are many more tracks, but with the finacial ties of todays business, stations like to choose the mediocore tunes.
Freedie still get some spots with "The Great Pretender" and "Living on my own".

Hi! Good one!

In Brazil, as far as I know:

- Under Pressure;
- Another One Bites the Dust;
- We Will Rock You;
- Crazy Little Thing Called Love;
- I Want to Break Free.

A Kind of Magic, We Are the Champions and Bo Rhap are also played occasionaly.

As for Freddie, How Can I Go On was a huge soap opera theme and still gets airplay, as well as The Great Pretender.

Cheers,

Ogre-

In Montreal, Canada, these Queen songs get the most airplay on my local rock station, CHOM 97.7:

Bohemian Rhapsody
We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions (played as one after the other, each time.)
Keep Yourself Alive
Under Pressure
Somebody To Love

Crazy Little Thing Called Love comes in a very close 6 to Somebody To Love, very, very close.

Fat Bottomed Girls, You're My Best Friend and Play The Game are also played, but not as often as the ones above.

Another One Bites The Dust isn't played as often as one would expect, as it was Queen's biggest hit in North America, but is still played on occasion.

The Show Must Go On is the only 90's Queen song ever played, and it's seldom played. I can't remember the last time they played it.

And sometimes, since it's Montreal, they play a song from the Rock Montreal album. The night of the Q+ AL concert, they played Jailhouse Rock, Bo Rhap, Tie Your Mother Down, and AOBTD, all from the 1981 show, all one after the other. Although that'll probably never happen again, it was nice to hear.

With regards to live songs (on Saturdays they play live songs a lot more, and there are "live song weekends" occasionally), Bo Rhap, WWRY/WATC, and Under Pressure are the ones played. Extremely rare, though.

The only solo song I've ever heard on the radio (and it wasn't on the local rock station), was Living On My Own, the remix that made it to #1 in the UK in 1993.

In Spain, there is a radio station played Queen tracks every day...not all the time, but five times for day at least.

In the UK Don't Stop Me Now is a huge radio play track, probably followed by Bohemian Rhapsody, We Will Rock You, Under Pressure, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, A Kind Of Magic, Killer Queen, Another One Bites The Dust.

Of course many others are played throughout the day on just one of my local radio stations in my area of the UK. Queen are played all the time throughout the UK every hour, every day, every year.

Having worked in a place where they only played Magic and Heart all day, the most popular songs were Radio Ga Ga, I Want To Break Free and A Kind of Magic. (UK) You could hear these nearly every day.

In my part of the U.S. it's very depressing. These are the only several tracks you'll have a chance hearing on the radio and I'll rank them as far as their frequency.

1. Bohemian Rhapsody(surprise!)
2.) Another One Bites The Dust
3.) WWRY/WATC
4.) Under pressure
5.) Fat Bottomed Girls
6.) CLTCL
7.) Somebody To Love
8.) Killer Queen

Once in a blue moon you may catch Keep Yourself Alive or Tie Your Mother Down. Nothing...and I mean NOTHING past 1981.

Oh...I forgot that You're My Best Friend is probably tied with Killer Queen for the #8 spot.

In Poland:
- The Show Must Go On
- We Will Rock You
- We Are The Champions
- You Don't Fool Me
- These Are The Days Of Our Lives
- Another One Bites The Dust

[QUOTE] [b]Self Made Man wrote:[/b]

In Poland:
- You Don't Fool Me
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Interesting !

Back in the 90s the rock radio stations in Canada took more risks. At least once I heard Doing All Right, Liar, Sweet Lady, Need Your Loving Tonight, the Live Killers version of Brighton Rock, and even the Hammersmith Odeon '75 version of the BoRhap medley (as part of the playlist, not a special "in concert" series).

these are the days of our lives is played a lot in the UK too.

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

[QUOTE] [b]Self Made Man wrote:[/b]

In Poland:
- You Don't Fool Me
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Interesting !

Back in the 90s the rock radio stations in Canada took more risks. At least once I heard Doing All Right, Liar, Sweet Lady, Need Your Loving Tonight, the Live Killers version of Brighton Rock, and even the Hammersmith Odeon '75 version of the BoRhap medley (as part of the playlist, not a special "in concert" series).
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Yes, "You Don`t Fool Me" was also a radio hit(mainstream radio) in Germany for a couple of years after it`s release in 96`.

[QUOTE] [b]PrimeJiveUSA wrote:[/b]

In my part of the U.S. it's very depressing. These are the only several tracks you'll have a chance hearing on the radio and I'll rank them as far as their frequency.

1. Bohemian Rhapsody(surprise!)
2.) Another One Bites The Dust
3.) WWRY/WATC
4.) Under pressure
5.) Fat Bottomed Girls
6.) CLTCL
7.) Somebody To Love
8.) Killer Queen

Once in a blue moon you may catch Keep Yourself Alive or Tie Your Mother Down. Nothing...and I mean NOTHING past 1981.[/QUOTE]


I'd say thats just about the same for my area (Detroit)......once I heard Sweet Lady when a radio station was doing 7 Queen songs in a row......also one of the sports radio talk stations around here occasionally uses various Queen songs as their "bump" music (I think that what its called....the music they play when coming back from commercials).....I've heard em use Sleeping On The Sidewalk, and Fight From The Inside!

In my part of Argentina, if you have luck, you can hear 1 Queen song every quarter of year.

The most played songs are:

1) Bohemian Rhapsody
2) The Show Must Go On
3) We Will Rock You
4) We Are The Champions
5) Another One Bites The Dust (if they are anouncing something about Queen)
6) Love Of My Life

Yesterday they played "Friends Will Be Friends" (the video version with the fan club singing in the end, possibly downloaded from YouTube, and with lot of distortion), because here was the Friends day.

Surprisingly I've heard It's a hard life a fair few times on absolute 80's/classic rock (UK)