USA success

Why are Queen more popular now probably more than ever in the USA?

Why the wilderness years?

And how did they manage to regain the audience?

Apart from the movie any theories?

Are they? Based on what numbers?

"Apart from the movie"

Go on then people... apart from the Oscar winning billion dollar movie.. why? This chump just doesn't get it?!

Good question ;-)

All because of AL, I think that's what he wants people to write, LOL, All because of AL,...……………………………...NOT!

I think it’s because of the billion dollar movie. LOL And Queen concerts and touring.

I still wonder if they really are in relation to the height of their past popularity in the seventies and around the The Game album. Also curious how one measures popularity so still waiting for the numbers to come in.
And if the popularity is based around the movie, than the fictional characters in that story are popular. Not the real Queen.

This past March there were THREE albums by Queen in the US Billboard top ten.

They are definitely bigger now than they were in 1980.

Like it or not, the film has made them the biggest band in the world.

Enjoy it. Any Queen fan with their head screwed on straight is foolish not to.

^^^ This.

Even before the BR movie, Queen music was played extensively in commercials in the US as well as quite often on singing reality shows and movies. You hear Don't Stop Me Now especially a lot. Young people who don't know who AL is were drawn to these songs. They stream and download them, which they did in massive numbers even before the movies. Queen got killed in America when AIDS became epidemic here and was associated with the Castro Clone look that Freddie embraced during that period. They never really were popular here in terms of singles or albums after that. Most young Americans now don't care if someone is gay, and realize how great Queen really is. I am around teenagers all the time and I hear about Queen a lot but never have heard the name Adam Lambert said by any of them. I am not an AL hater, just know he is not what has inspired the renewed popularity here.

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

This past March there were THREE albums by Queen in the US Billboard top ten.

They are definitely bigger now than they were in 1980.

Like it or not, the film has made them the biggest band in the world.

Enjoy it. Any Queen fan with their head screwed on straight is foolish not to.
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Exactly this. Brian & Rog are both in their 70's now so time is not on their side. Make the most of it whilst you can.

^^^ Bang on Makka.

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

This past March there were THREE albums by Queen in the US Billboard top ten.

They are definitely bigger now than they were in 1980.

Like it or not, the film has made them the biggest band in the world.

Enjoy it. Any Queen fan with their head screwed on straight is foolish not to.
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3 albums in the top 10 sounds pretty good. So we are just going by record sales for measuring popularity? Not that I have a better idea. Does the view on popularity in relation to the past also take in account that there are more people in the USA now than back then? Or maybe that doesnt matter and its just, more sales is more popular.

For me it's not a question of liking it, I dont really care how popular they are these days or not. And if the movie helped in a way, okay. I still regard it as mostly fictional.

And as I said, it doesnt affect me how popular they are these days or not. My head is screwed on straight but I don't need the opinion of others to let me enjoy what Queen was or is. I do detest it when others try to qualify what a Queen fan is or should do. Thats just dumb.

Gosh, Stick, what on Earth are you rambling about? Sales means popular, it's as simple as that.

There are 2 different kind of popularity, no doubt between 1980 and now.

It's probably the hair. Brian went to his natural gray and then made a cyborg prop mask with the production crew.

All the difference in the world


Truly hard to believe ANOTHER WORLD was 1998 ....21 fucking years ago!

Would be wonderful if he incorporated that CYBORG riff in his solo bit