American Idol Increasing Sales of Queen albums?

It seems everything by Queen is selling a lot more today!

My mistake. Made In Heaven appears to be selling worse today!

Queen - Greatest Hits, Vols. 1 &2 now at # 22..

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Freddiettt wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Queen - Greatest Hits, Vols. 1 &2 now at # 22..[/QUOTE]

Dude! This is great! This is the best time to re-release some singles, like they did with Bohemian Rhapsody. I think they should re-release 'Headlong' and some other stuff from the Innuendo, Miracle, Hot Space, Works, and Magic albums.

Don't they have enough money??

Why don't they do it the RIGHT WAY instead of shamefully latching onto a show like American Idol??? What's next? TV Promotional ads??

This is what RIGHT WAY:

Brian, and Roger, and Paul Rogers WRITE NEW SONGS, and release a NEW ALBUM!

They go on TOUR! And if they did this, I'm sure Queen catalogue will all experience renewed sales!

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]SomebodyWhoLoves wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Don't they have enough money??

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Nope.

What do you think Paul Rodgers take is on all of this?Do you think there might be some bad feelings now that the Queen sales have gone up,I mean I don't know what Bad co.and Free sails are like.A little envy ,jealousy maybe?

Doubt very much that PR is jealous one little bit. He's a legend in his own right and seems to be at a very content point of his career. I think he's happy that his new colleagues are being supported.

I agree they should have done this before the tour!

That's all very nice but money is not everything. Once you are so rich as Brian and Roger you do not need to appear on such a trash show only to get richer. You won't even notice you are richer but your artistic credibility is harmed badly.

As a result Brian May, CBE and honorary doctor, highly acclaimed musician and guitar legend makes public excuses for telling a wannabe "idol" he is not going to ruin his most classic song ever himself for this show. That's simply awful.

So to the guy who said Queen were sell-outs and Freddie is rolling in his grave...are you off your ass?? This would make Freddie so incredibly happy, knowing that his work is remembered...I remember Brian quoting Freddie in saying that he would fucking well die to get the States back...well, shortly after he died, they DID get the States back...briefly. This is the best thing that could have happened to them...the tour and the show...remember something, Freddie was all about getting the publicity on the band side of things. So if anything, Freddie is looking down and smiling knowing that a whole new generation of people are really hearing Queen for the first time. Don't expect any of Queen's albums in the top 10 anytime soon, but looking at the sales numbers, those are significant jumps!! I just hope they build on what they just started to do again...

"...I remember Brian quoting Freddie in saying that he would fucking well die to get the States back..."

You remember wrong.

No YV I think you are wrong on that, Freddie was very keen to break the US again, he considered it his second home for many years before illness set in.

And I too remember him being quoted about wishing to be back on top there.

The fact is as a result of doing this show Queen will be in the public eye in the US even more than if it were just a tour, and whatever their personal feelings about these shows, my own feeling is both Brian and Roger would move heaven and earth to be back on top in the states which this show will get them one more step on the ladder to doing, it will open them up to a younger audience and that is what it is all about these days.

If I were marketing Queen I would do the same, the tour has been sucessful and now to top it they are on one of the top shows in America, what more publicity could you wish for.

I suspect Brian feels he does have a conflict here but at least he can control some of what happens and maybe foster new talent, much like he does with the musical.

However Rogers reasons for agreeing can only be guessed at...

Togg, if you can show me the source of FM saying he "would fucking well die to get the States back..." or something similar I take it back. It's annoying how people always claim to know what Freddie "would think" but making up quotes is really more than annoying.

For the rest I agree with you. If I were the Queen manager I would have recommended A.I., too. It does not need an Einstein to see that this is the biggest deal you can get on this planet and what a piece of luck that Bruce Gowers is the director. However, it's the job of the management to make money and the decision of the artist how far he goes to make it.

Now - what Freddie "would have done" to win back an audience in the USA is something we will never know. But we do know what he did: he did not tour. Jim Beach said in the "Champions" documentary that Freddie did not want to go back to a US tour before he did not have a No. 1 hit. The hit did not come and there was no tour. Somehow I have a feeling Freddie was thinking of a NEW hit, not Bohemian Rhapsody re-charting for some reason (Hollywood movie etc).

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]YourValentine wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Togg, if you can show me the source of FM saying he "would fucking well die to get the States back..." or something similar I take it back. It's annoying how people always claim to know what Freddie "would think" but making up quotes is really more than annoying.
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From a QPR interview this year.

I remember Freddie saying, 'I'll have to [expletive] die before we get back to the States and play the way we should do,' " May recalls.

It's a bit different to what the poster was saying.