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And if Queen has 32 million Spotify listeners and Madonna 13, I think we all know who is more popular now. But yes historically Madonna is bigger.
Queen were always more popular than Madonna, especially outside the US.
Facebook exists since 2004, and they were always bigger.
Today:
Queen - 28.5 million likes
Madonna - 17.8 million likes
i swear it sounds like the age of the posters who are fighting madonna vs queen is around 8. just grow up and stop it, you attack each other like it was your mother or brother you were defending. none of these artists know or care that you even exist. maybe that will give u some context...
I'm not inventing excuses. Those are facts when streaming wasn't around, when radio stations were huge, havingtheir own countdowns and Madonna's songs were pretty much radio and tv friendly. And yes, let'snot forget about all her fans listening on Madonna casette, cds, etc. Those times when illegal downloading was huge too. Madonna is bigger.
And do more of them know queen. Do they know the queen member names? Do they recognize the Queen's faces? Im pretty sure a lot of them can think how madonna looks like.
It seems to me like many view her more as an icon than a musican, and that's not meant in any negative way.
I know more people would jam out to Bohemian Rhapsody than any Madonna song, yeah she's well known but she's not really "in with the kids" kinda like Justin Bieber's Baby, sure everyone knows it but who the heck still listens to it.
Maybe not the most bright comparison but I hope you get the point. I really don't have anything against her, in fact I enjoy a couple of her albums.
And bringing up face recognition is not really fair since they're a band. But I need to point out Freddie Mercury's pose have been all over the internet for a decade now. It have also become some sort of icon if you ask me.
Well they may only know Freddie, but at least every 9 year old will know the beat of We Will Rock You, and this is a fact, (i’m from Latin America in case you don’t know) if you want to I can go to my old primary and do a survey of how many kids know Queen/Queen songs and how many know Madonna/Madonna songs. I don’t talk about adults because all of them know both bruh.
I would also say that Freddie is one of the most iconic frontman lead singer anywhere and that he is the biggest gay icon as well ever. The difference is Queens music is so much greater , though like AL I still like a couple of her albums.
Madonna was bigger in the 80s and 90s. Madonna is global, she outsold Queen in South America, Asia and Oceania. Queen outsold her in Europe.
Europe is not the whole world.
May be Madonna fans should look at the ASR on this site. Forget about her being bigger here or there. Queen are bigger overall.
Also more successful see ASR.
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Queen networth = < $450 million ( all members' combined networth and after the success of the BH movie )
Madonna networth = $850 million
Yes, Madonna is historically bigger.
Highest grossing tours of all time, Madonna's " Sticcky & Sweet Tour is #20.
Madonna also has a tour in the top 20 in the 90s, 00s and 2010s.
Meanwhile, Queen is nowhere to be found on the list.
So tell me, how are they bigger than Madonna?
It's not the grossing of a tour, or how much money she made silly, that could be just down to how much she charges duh!
Queens Rock in rio for one example 250,000 people two nights running , the highest for a paying audience at that time!! Oh and guess what ? It was in the 80s!!!
It was in the 80s but nowhere in the top 10 highest grossing list of the 80s.
