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Hi.
Silly question - when i look at the physical singles, i see:
We are the champions - 5,191,000 copies
We will rock you - 585,000 copies
Both of them were released as one single, how come they're separated in sales?
Hi dan!
WWRY is indeed the B side of the main WATC single. But it was also released as an A side in a handful of markets which sold 585k.
On the new Miracle reissue on Spotify, there is a problem with counting the streaming numbers. 'The Miracle backing track', 'I Want It All backing track', 'Rain Must Fall backing track' and 'My Baby Does me backing track' all have the same count as the original songs.
It happens. On the Physical Graffiti Deluxe version, the Driving Through Kashmir demo version of Kashmir, also just shows the original stream count. Strangely, at one point many years ago, for maybe a few days it showed its own count, which at the time was around 800k, but within a few days it had reverted back to just showing the same count as the original and has done ever since.
The first gold record of the single "Another one bites the dust", for +500,000 copies sold, in which year was it awarded?
I'm not exactly sure what you mean but these are it's US RIAA cert dates for its Gold and Platinum certs. On top of this, I can't think of any other country, where the original 7" single shipped 500k.
QUEEN ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST NOVEMBER 25, 1980 PLATINUM SINGLE
QUEEN ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST OCTOBER 01, 1980 GOLD SINGLE
In those days the requirement for a Gold single was one million units sold
I believe this was adjusted to 500,000 at the end on the 80ties
The Riaa site (unfortunetly) just tallies the certifications as 500,000 for G and 1,000,000 for P regardless when it was awarded. The org certification (no longer listed on the riaa site) was for 2,000,000 copes sold.
I expected Face it alone to do better performing on the charts. It was well recieved from critiques and gets a lot of attention. But nevertheless what a successful band and a noticeable upswing after the biopic. Well deserved. Queen is present on the radio every day, at least on my station in Germany.
Wow, so they've sold 300 million records (pure sales) and are likely the most streamed pre-90s artist of all-time. I wish Freddie Mercury was here to see how many people still love his voice.
We Will Rock You just joined the 1B club. Queen now has 5 songs with over 1B streams on Spotify.
That’s just incredible how this band keeps breaking all sorts of records. I would think radio ga ga and we are the champions would be next and not far off ?
Yes, the main version has just passed 1B but if you take all versions of WWRY (which we do on here) it passed 1B some time ago. It currently sits on 1,055,715,830.
Tony, no it's I Want To Break Free that will be next in line, then Somebody to Love
I Want To Break Free 920m
Somebody To Love 787m
We Are The Champions 712m
Killer Queen 637m
Radio Ga Ga 621m
Crazy Little Thing Called Love 580m
I’m on Amazon prime, are they separate figures from Spotify or all lumped together?
