Why Brian and Roger are looking like "Rip off" to fans?

[QUOTE] [b]Jimmy Dean wrote:[/b]

[...] And if you're complaining Queen is ripping you off because they added 3 new tracks to Queen Forever... so you have to buy the whole album to get it... when you know it's available on iTunes separately... again... you're not being forced to pay for anything. [...][/QUOTE]

I'm not agree with the quoted part.

You can buy separately any Queen Forever track in WAV, FLAC, ALAC or in any lossless format?
In this case, you are being forced to buy the full album, if you want to obtain songs legally.

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

To demonize Bri and Rog for approving of selling products with the Queen name on it is ridiculous. If you look around in virtually every record store in the civilized world, there are AC/DC, Zeppelin, Beatles, Doors, Floyd and Bob Marley mugs, plates, wallets, buttons and patches. Marshall even has a half-size refrigerator that looks like a amp head and cabinet.

http://www.autospies.com/images/users/Agent001/images/screenshot_2208.jpg

It's 2014. We're in the age of people senselessly spending money on novelty items they don't need. Why not cash in, which also carries the far more important byproduct of keeping your band/company's name in public consciousness ?
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Good point........and there are other bands that are worse with the merchandising stuff...................i.e. Kiss! lol..........think of anything you can buy in a store and you can probably get a Kiss-branded version of it somewhere............

[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b]


Very strange as Queen are more popular than all those groups.[/QUOTE]


In what parallel universe are you living where that is true? More popular than the Beatles? Uh...........no.............not even close...........

[QUOTE] [b]KumoNin wrote:[/b]

They've got more than enough money.[/QUOTE]



This might be kinda going off on a tangent here, but....(and maybe this isnt what you meant!).........good lord, I hate it when people say stuff like that...........like making money is a bad, evil, immoral thing (when you get over a certain amount? and who decides what that amount is?)

To the best of my knowledge, Brian and Roger aren't doing anything illegal or underhanded to make their money.....so the more power to em, or to any other band or artist that is rakin in the bucks (no matter what I might think of their musical or artistic merit, or lack of it)


(going off to re-read my copy of Atlas Shrugged now...)

I fact...every band that Gerry listed is more popular and has a bigger "presence" on almost every level tan Queen here in America. at includes Bob Marley and The Doors.

Brenski is right, unfortunately.

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

I fact...every band that Gerry listed is more popular and has a bigger "presence" on almost every level tan Queen here in America. at includes Bob Marley and The Doors.

Brenski is right, unfortunately. [/QUOTE]

not sure how to take that last word lol

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[b]brENsKi wrote:[/b] not on a world level they're not. I've just come back from a holiday in Boston & New England, and queen definitely fall down the pecking order there behind; Beatles, ACDC, Zep, , Michael jackson, Elvis, Madonna Floyd and Mariah Carey and several others.

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Among the youth, Queen are probably the most popular rock band that are more than two decades old. At least if you go by Spotify or Facebook followers.

Well, in the US yes. Although Queen are bigger in the US then some may think. The problem was they couldn't maintain their huge success past 1980 and only had a surge in sales post 1992. Likewise, when their popularity waned in the US they sold more and more in Europe, South America, etc. I think based on all sales (album/singles/DVDS/music videos and recently digital tracks) Queen are the third biggest selling band of all time behind The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. Pretty good when you think they both had a 10-11 year head start and have overall released a lot more albums altogether. Queen have sold a lot less then bands like AC/DC and Pink Floyd in America but when you look at worldwide album sales they nearly hit Pink Floyd's total and beat AC/DC.

They're also the second biggest album sellers of all-time in the UK only bested by The Beatles.

This is based on research I've see by people who have spent a lot of time looking into sales/charts, etc. it isn't just some opinion from fans.

[QUOTE] [b]brENsKi wrote:[/b]
[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b]
Queen products in record stores are very hard to find but artists like AC/DC, Zeppelin, Doors, Beatles, Floyd etc are ten a penny and easily found.
Very strange as Queen are more popular than all those groups.[/QUOTE]
not on a world level they're not. I've just come back from a holiday in Boston & New England, and queen definitely fall down the pecking order there behind; Beatles, ACDC, Zep, , Michael jackson, Elvis, Madonna Floyd and Mariah Carey and several others.
Coincidentally, before you say America is bollox, the USA market is FOUR times that of the UK and the USA pecking order perfectly reflects worldwide sales with Queen coming in just below all of the above with the addition Elton John & Celine Dionne - Queen are 12th in the worldwide sales list
So it's easy to see why Queen is a slightly less marketable brand form a merchandise point of view.[/QUOTE]
I'm not sure about anywhere else, but Queen here are definitely more popular than at least Elvis, Madonna, Mariah Cary, Elton John and Celine Dion.

The problem of Queen is the marketing, no matter if the band sold few discs, i see many bands with don´t have the genious of the queen, but the marketing of them, is very big!! Here in my town, only ONE time, i saw official queen products, doesn´t counteins cd and dvd

primejive usa: You are picking on me for something i never said.
i never said every other group is bigger than Queen, that was "The Real wizard" post and not mine.

"The King of Rhye Sorry to disappoint you but Queen are a bigger group than the Beatles,
they have probably sold more sales than the Beatles and according to "The Record Collector" magazine
are the number one group for serious music collectors.
Queen have achieved more than the Beatles ever could.

[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b]
Queen have achieved more than the Beatles ever could.[/QUOTE]

Bold.

Not Bold tom christie 22 just fact!
Queen have broken load of worldwide records from record breaking concert attendances to selling
over 6 million sales and counting of the first "Greatest Hits" album.
They are a very impressive foursome are they not!

we ALL think they're very impressive - but check the worldwide sales lists - outside of the UK they are a big band but not massive: - most of the list is actual albums - NOT Greatest Hits, also many of the Greatest Hits showing have had less sales time since release than Queen's Greatest hits.
just look where their G/Hits is in this list - end figure is worldwide sales

Band/Artist Title Year Sales
Michael Jackson Thriller 1982 42.4
Eagles Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) 1976 32.2
Shania Twain Come On Over 1997 29.6
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV 1971 29
ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits 1992 28
Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet 1986 28
Spice Girls Spice 1996 28
Various artists Grease: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture 1978 28
Whitney Houston / Various artists The Bodyguard 1992 27.4
Fleetwood Mac Rumours 1977 26.8
Britney Spears ...Baby One More Time 1999 26
AC/DC Back in Black 1980 25.9
Bob Marley & The Wailers Legend: The Best of Bob Marley & The Wailers 1984 25
Carole King Tapestry 1971 25
Madonna True Blue 1986 25
Mariah Carey Daydream 1995 25
Norah Jones Come Away with Me 2002 25
Queen Greatest Hits 1981 25
Simon & Garfunkel Bridge over Troubled Water 1970 25
U2 The Joshua Tree 1987 25
Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill 1995 24.8
Backstreet Boys Backstreet's Back / Backstreet Boys 1997 24
Backstreet Boys Millennium 1999 24
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory 2000 24
Ace of Base Happy Nation/The Sign 1993 23
TLC CrazySexyCool 1994 23
Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon 1973 22.7
Cyndi Lauper She's So Unusual 1983 22
Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? 1995 22
The Beatles 1 2000 21.6
Eagles Hotel California 1976 21.5
Adele 21 2011 21.3
Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction 1987 21.3
Bon Jovi Cross Road 1994 21
Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP 2000 21
Madonna Like a Virgin 1984 21
Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell 1977 20.5
Santana Supernatural 1999 20.5
Celine Dion Falling into You 1996 20.2
Madonna The Immaculate Collection 1990 20.1
Celine Dion The Colour of My Love 1993 20
Avril Lavigne Let Go 2002 20
Boston Boston 1976 20
Britney Spears Oops!... I Did It Again 2000 20
Def Leppard Hysteria 1987 20
George Michael Faith 1987 20
Eric Clapton Unplugged 1992 20
Lionel Richie Can't Slow Down 1983 20
Madonna Ray of Light 1998 20
Michael Jackson HIStory: 1995 20
Michael Jackson Off the Wall 1979 20
Phil Collins No Jacket Required 1985 20
Prince & The Revolution Purple Rain 1984 20
Shania Twain The Woman in Me 1995 20
Supertramp Breakfast in America 1979 20
Tina Turner Private Dancer 1984 20
Usher Confessions 2004 20
Whitney Houston Whitney 1987 20
Green Day Dookie 1994 20