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Madonna sold 51 million albums outside of US and Europe. Queen sold 48 million albums outside of US and Europe. All figures are detailed into the CSPC articles.
No need to argue over who is better. Just merge Queen and Madonna, and you get the one mega star 'QUEEN MADONNA'. 🙂
Nonsense. Queen songs are much more well known around the world and had more hits as well.
Pat,
Her career is not based on shock value. She has multiple massive hits. And people dont buy albums based on shock value. Miley Cyrus is no stranger to shocking people herself. But shes not even pulling 20% of Madonnas sales. Like who would purchase an album of which they dont like any of the songs in that album but just buy it bcoz its shocking? If anybody bought it for that reason, it would be kind of dumb. And I honestly dont understand what this pitting against Madonna vs Queen is all about. I mean, they are both legends. Get over it already.
Rolling Stone is an American magazine, it never claimed to be a international one there's a reason it got local versions for other countries. And if their lists are so international, why isn't there a single non-English speaking artist on their list except Santana? (even he still got most of his hit songs in English) It's quite simple, because there's hardly any non-English speaking artists that did too well in the US.
Also with American bias no one means a bias towards American artists, but rather artists who did well commercially in the US, something Queen did but definitely far from as good as other British bands from their era like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and The Rolling Stones. Unlike the rest of the world where they outdid all of these bands!
NUNO, Mentioning Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift etc raving about madonna, just loses it for me. There all from the same rubbish (in my opinion ) popy stuff that is not real music just written by loads of different writers making big bucks. Its not real music. Hey but if you think thats good stuff then thats your right. all those artists are hyped up by the american media and music industry regardless of the quality in the music.
Remember its not all about america or sales!!!!
To the dowters out there Nuno, djdj etc;
The figure which sums it all is 264,269,000, the total number of equivalent album sales for Queen.
With this score, they fly over Madonna in the all-time ranking. They move from 2 million behind to 23 million ahead! Even if her get updated, the American diva has little chances of ever catching back the British band.
In fact, the rise of Queen is so spectacular that if we want to see movement in the future we better look higher. Next up is no other than Elvis Presley at 314 million.
50 million is still a very long way to go, especially since the King continues to rack up significant sales year after year, but if the Queen bonanza doesn’t go away who knows where they can stop.
End of this debate I think!!!!
Hey MJD, will there be a Global Heatmap for Queen please?
Great job on this by the way. Thanks.
Dear Nuno
Worldwide (today), Queen is more popular than Madonna, and they were even before the movie. Do you hear Madonna’s songs in stadiums as much as Queen’s songs? You will never hear Madonna’s songs every time a team wins a trophy (i’m talking from Ecuador, a LATIN country, non-english speaker; and even though, when teams win a trophy, We Are The Champions stars playing). Madonna’s best selling digital song is Like a Prayer, which has 2.1 million downloads and ringtones; KILLER QUEEN has the same, or a little less; and this was said in the 2017 CSPC. Remember, KILLER QUEEN, that was just #12 in the US. Talking about their active time, Queen is the only BAND and the second act to have +100 million EAS in two or more decades. The first one? ELVIS PRESLEY. Madonna did that? Queen had the best performance of all music history (voted by PUBLIC) in Live Aid, and 2 billion people watched it, something that Madonna cannot presume. Queen has only 2 number 1 singles and 1 number 1 album in the US, and even though, they have 47 million album sales, which is a VERY BIG number for their chart results. And for talking worldwide, imagine that even though they have 47 million albums in the US, they have 192 million album sales worldwide. Madonna may have a little more, she has 24 million more US sales than Queen, but even though: Madonna’s worldwide album sales excluding the US: 130 million. Queen’s worldwide album sales excluding the US (with 10 million album sales less): 150 million. Also Queen is the best album seller in Europe with 97 million. Queen was the first BAND to have a show in a Communist country (Bulgaria) in 1986. Only Elton John did that in 1979 in Moscow. Well getting back to today, at least here in Latin America, every children knows We Will Rock You or We Are The Champions (at least ALL my known friends and classmates did), but i’m pretty sure few kids will know even a single song from Madonna. Now i’m a teen, so i am talking about times before the movie. Imagine with the movie.
Nuno, Queen's streaming numbers were great long before the movie. This very website said a YEAR before the movie came out that Queen would overtake Madonna overall even if she released another album.
Lol about Rolling Stone magazine. No one who thinks for themselves cares about other peoples opinion on music. People who think for themselves make their own minds up. And that's what's happened. Queen's music is far more loved than Madonnas. The figures prove that.
Streaming numbers - Madonna's numbers are pitiful compared to Queen's. The data tells the true story, not silly awards or the opinion of out out touch farts at Rolling Stone magazine.
djdj wrote "Rolling Stone is not a joke. You are being absurd. It is academic authority for music industry."
I suggest you look up the 'Appeal to authority fallacy'. That's the logical fallacy you've just made.
