Which country has more Queen fans?

We have Queen fans in Canada as well the number rumoured to be several million but the exact figures are not in.

Lisa I hear you... when I was in school I was condemed for loving Queen because they were a "gay disco group"... of course these were closed minded teenagers but to this day Queen are reviled in some parts because of reasons that have nothing to do with talent or music.

A lot of us were art students in school and Queen were new to the music scene then. We loved their originality and the fact that they were British! Even our music teacher loved them (he was in his 20s and really appreciated their music). We used to dissect songs for class from Queen II especially. Then we moved on to SHA and ANATO. It was fun learning how Freddie sang all the parts and mixed them into the classic we hear today!

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Brianmay1975 wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Well people still haven't grown up... I'm from Romania and I dare say that there aren't so many Queen fans out here, though their music is appreciated better than Led Zepp or AC/DC by most of the population. But... I've still got some unpleasant surprises, many people dislike Queen because Freddie was gay. And a month ago one of the TV channels broadcasted the WWRY Live in Montreal and there was a short introduction whose main idea was that "when most people hear the name Queen, they automatically think at homosexuality, drugs, AIDS..." Arrrgh!!! I wanted to kill them!
But the nice part is that Queen is really appreciated by the older generations (e.g. my grandmother liked them a lot), because they have good music...[/QUOTE]

I don't think it's only the fact Freddie was gay and so on. Most people in Romania don't really enjoy the fact that Queen's music is not that easy to understand. They prefer "easy" music with no inner message, with stupid lyrics and meaningless moves.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Bullwinkle wrote: [/QUOTENAME]The south put everyone to shame for the abc contest at Breakthru 04 in Cleveland. The two finalists were from Tennessee and Alabama. After Brandon won that competition he said (and I am paraphrasing)

"Never let it be said that the south doesn't like Queen."[/QUOTE]

Oh, sure, some of us do. I'm from Georgia myself, live in Kentucky most of the year. But that doesn't change the fact that I was born in the state that contains Ralph Reed.

LOL!!!!
"Howdy, neighbour!!"

yup, ya gotta keep in mind that the bible belt in the usa had queen banned for ages, so its unlikely alot of folks down there would admit to fandom :(

i think the UK probably...i would really love to see more Queen stuff in the US.

I cannot blieve I just found this topic...
Hmm, where do I start??? OK, let me begin with the arrogant, know-nothing Jingles. Lynyrd Skynyrd were a good band. No, not as good as Queen but still produced a fair amount of excellent material. A reason they may have been so popular in the south is because they were from the south, the same reason Queen were more popular in Europe than anywhere else. As for the racist symbol, I assume you mean the rebel flag. True, some racist groups have used the flag as their symbol, but it is more synonomous with the south than it is any racial overtones given to it by a few loonies. The race issue is only one aspect of the flag and one contributor of the South's attempted secession. My point is, simply carrying a Rebel flag does not constitute racism. Poor taste? yes. Racism? Most definately not.

Now for my self-hating southerner GeeksandGeeks...
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]geeksandgeeks wrote: [/QUOTENAME]No one in the southern United States will admit they listen to Queen. Down here, people are all right-wing extremists - they don't care if you're talented, they just care if you're a fag. Up in the more enlightened parts of the country it may be different.[/QUOTE]
The only extremism I hear is coming from you. DO you realize how many people you just lumped into a group you essentially called bigots? That has to be one of, if not THE, most ignorant remark I've ever seen on QZ; And I'm considering all of Baer and Britt's posts. Not is it only a generalisation, it is obviously untrue. Erin, Pieter, Catgurl and myself are all southerners and Paul is a psuedo-southerner and we all freely admit to liking Queen. Also, I live in AL and have never recieved any negative reaction when asked what type of music I listen to. Ignorance OF the band, but not hatred towards them.
Of course, the south still has its problems but to live in la la land and pretend the North is a perfect entity free of hatred and bigotry while paniting the sotuh full of lynchings and bible-thumpers is just silly.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to get my fiddle from the shop and go door-to-door telling everyone how Boston is a modern day Gomorrah.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]KingMercury wrote: [/QUOTENAME]i´m from argentina...
I can´t say that Argentina is the country that has more queen fans, beacuse i didnt count them, jaja, but in fact, there is a lot of fans here
The best sellers bands (in argentina) are (in order of sales): 1-The Beatles
2-Queen
I think that Argentina and Brazil, are the countrys with more Queen Fans in Sudamerica[/QUOTE]

I know that Brazilians are real rockers!!!
They love rock and they absolutely love Queen!

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Soniutza wrote: [/QUOTENAME]
I don't think it's only the fact Freddie was gay and so on. Most people in Romania don't really enjoy the fact that Queen's music is not that easy to understand. They prefer "easy" music with no inner message, with stupid lyrics and meaningless moves.[/QUOTE]

You made the point here Soniutza! Yes this is true, but you can find music with no inner message and with stupid lyrics everywhere in the world. And almost everytime I said to someone that I love Queen, I've heard something nasty about his death and his sexual orientation in the same phrase, even if the one I was talking to didn't hate Queen or even liked them. And this is getting really annoying, btw...

i think that in Holland there are also very much Queenfans, for such a little country.
Queen has been the all-time number 1 in the top 100 and top 2000 with BoRap since 1975...
and it wasn't the british who started the Queen fanclub at all!
First of all, in Holland, BEFORE any fanclub,there was "The Dedicated Queen Followers Association".
It was operated by dutch fans, who were te very first to recognise the true stars Queen were BEFORE anyone else did!!!
The people running this PRE-Queenfanclub thing were:
Donna Martinelli
Hennie Einkotter
Anja van Wijk
Rosy Kanselaar
This followers association existed quit long, and
because they grew so fast, the Official Dutch Queen Office was launched, before Hannie and Anja took that over some 21 years ago...
and 6 months later, the british started with the Official International Queen Fan Club, so the nomination in the Guiness Book Of World Records for the longest running fanclub, is....?
WE, the dutch, were the first to recognise the superstars Queen were then, and still are today!
It would be so nice, if these people could be traced and invited to the dutch meeting or the convention....like Vicky, Sue, Amanda...who all ran the fanclub in England before Jacky and Val took over....
Most fans do not even know the old names and faces...but the fanclubs as we know them today were started by REAL and TRUE heros!!!
They actually were the initiators and gave us the fanclubs in Holland and the U.K. as we know them now for more than 2 decades!
We are so lucky to have fanclubleaders who stick around and still go for it!
That is one of Queen's superachievements aswell!

But, to get to the point again,
Holland has an awful lot of Queenfans living in it, and although not too many are registered as active fanclubmembers here, in the hearts of the people from Holland, Freddie and Queen still live on!!!

Thanks for shattering the myth!

Well, I'm 14 years old, and I live in Joppatowne, Maryland, in the United States of America. And I am a HUGE Queen fan...and I must say that at least around here, Queen is one of the most popular older groups amongst my school, and nearly all of my friends and acquaintances either have the "Greatest Hits 1-2" boxed set, love 'em or at least like Queen somewhat. We did a lip-synch project in Drama, earlier this year.....we would get up onstage and lip-synch to a song we chose.....I chose "I Feel Good" by James Brown......and one kid said, "I'm gonna do Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen!" And, sadly, I had no idea what the hell he was talking about...and then a girl in my class chose to do "Killer Queen" by Queen...I thought the only notable things they had ever done were "We Will Rock You," "We Are The Champions," "Another One Bites the Dust" and "that song Vanilla Ice ripped off." Curious, I got their greatest hits........now, I'm a Queenaholic. And nearly everyone in my school, from "preps" to "punks" to "goths" like them. Only Led Zeppelin rivals them when it comes to popularity of an older group (unless you count Nirvana, who has both beat). Also, I've seen Queen songs be in the top 5 most popular song selections on real.com's "Real Rhapsoides." There are a number of youths in this country who love them, I believe (when we were in kindergarten, it was universally thought that "We Will Rock You" was the greatest song ever). Undoubtedly, that was our first exposure. Queen has finally gotten the critical acclaim they deserve over here too; from VH1, MTV, NME, and in 2001 they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Only Rolling Stone magazine remains harshly critical of the band. As time goes on, I think you'll see Queen become more and more acceptable from coast to coast in the USA

Good for you!
I think classic rock is enjoying a huge resurgence with the kids who are sick of all the fabricated crap. Queen with their wealth of crafty hooks and songwriting are a natural for youths to gravitate too. My son is 14 and he says a lot of the kids at school love Queen.
Queen AC/DC and Zepplin among others are huge at the schools way more so then theStones or Beatles (but the kids will get them soon too!!)