Queen - The Most Used Band/Artist in TV-commercials?

Very self-explanatory title :)

During the last six months I have seen at least three different commercials in the US that use Queen's music, the latest being Diet Coke that uses a nice cover of I Want it All.Can any artist top that? I only visit the US and live elsewhere, which makes this even more surprising, since I don't even watch much TV when travelling.

Historically, I would say that Queen music is used all around the world considerably more than any other artist's. Do you agree or do I just notice and register Queen songs much more easily? Coke even used I Want to Break Free for their ad a couple of years back, a song that is virtually unknown in the US.

It seems like they don't ever turn down a request to use a song in a commercial.
As long as they get the money i guess. I wonder what criteria Freddie used for people using his songs in commercials.

In the uk they are also extensively used in ads - off the top of my head (and there's probably more), Bo Rhap, Don't Stop Me Now, A Kind of Magic, I Want It All have very recently been used extensively in tv ad campaigns.

Used but butchered. In at least one recent case the words didn't fit so they just took them out. In another (Dacia) what was done was resinging by the cast.

I've seen the Dacia one. "Another one drives a Duster"

In Italy there's one currently circulating. The Rio 2016 Olympics ad features Bohemian Rhapsody in background.

It's a beautiful day was used here for a commercial with a young baby seal being released. Nice one.

There's alot of Queen commercials both on radio and TV. I guess Freddie is not amused.

In Sweden btw

Why wouldn't he be amused? He self-admittedly measured success by the money he made and called himself a musical prostitute. As long as he (or his estate) would be getting money, it seems that he would have approved.

Ok Mr Know it all. Why weren't Queen a fucking commercial band when Freddie lived? Never make me boring he so famously said to Jim the Hobbit , and commercial is fucking boring wouldn't you say.

I would think Freddie would be happy his music is being heard by so many people - and making money. The more the music is out there, the more people are exposed to it and then some of them will go and seek out the originals. I hear their music all the time. I was at the movies a couple of weeks ago and they used Queen music in three of the adverts before the film - I Want It All in the Diet Coke commercial (and I think there might be another Coke commercial now using another tune)...Don't Stop Me Now used in the trailer for the film Hardcore Henry and Bo Rhap used in the trailer for Suicide Squad. I think it's great.

off topic, but I wouldn't say I Want to Break Free is virtually unknown in the US. Almost every person I know who's heard Queen music at some point in their lives knows that song. It's partly because a) it's a great song, and b) the music video certainly gets people's attention

[QUOTE] [b]andres_clip wrote:[/b]

Ok Mr Know it all. Why weren't Queen a fucking commercial band when Freddie lived? Never make me boring he so famously said to Jim the Hobbit , and commercial is fucking boring wouldn't you say.[/QUOTE]

I'll bash your skull in, smartass.