Us Brits love the Queen
Not the monarch, you understand.. no the Royal leeches on society should still probably be shot or at least forced to work in McDonalds to earn their keep, "Would one like fries with that?"
No, according to the Official Charts, Queen have the best selling album in the country.
Which album, you say?
Is it "A Night at the Opera"? "A Day at the Races" per chance? Surely it isn't "The Miracle" (for that was truly woeful).
No.. it's Queen's (first) "Greatest Hits".. beating the second place "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" by the Beatles by over 600,000 copies.
There's something wholly depressing though, don't you think, that it's a "Best of" album that holds the top spot. It's a symptom of the general state of the music industry at the moment. I mean, it seems fitting that this "news" breaks just before Christmas, a time where seemingly every band in the known universe rushes out another "Best of" album for clueless fuckwits to buy for family members when they lack the time or the inspiration to actually go looking for a proper gift.
Yeah compilations are what sell, aren't they..?
Look how many "Now" albums there are.. people just don't have the attention span to listen to an album by the same artist all the way through these days it would seem, well certainly not unless all of the songs have been played to death on commercial radio stations anyway. And it's just going to get worse with random generic MP3 player playlists meaning that people no longer have the concept of listening to an entire album anyway..
Don't know where I'm going with this, and am very aware that I'm doing the "Grumpy Old Man" rant at the moment.. hmm.. better have a brew and step away from the internet methinks..
Anyway congrats to Queen.. I'm sure Roger Taylor and Brian May can whore themselves out for another couple of million on the back of this revelation whilst the tormented ghost of Freddie Mercury looks on in despair at how they've dragged a once great band through the mud of greedy commercialism.
Whoops, off again, bye now
No, according to the Official Charts, Queen have the best selling album in the country.
Which album, you say?
Is it "A Night at the Opera"? "A Day at the Races" per chance? Surely it isn't "The Miracle" (for that was truly woeful).
No.. it's Queen's (first) "Greatest Hits".. beating the second place "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" by the Beatles by over 600,000 copies.
There's something wholly depressing though, don't you think, that it's a "Best of" album that holds the top spot. It's a symptom of the general state of the music industry at the moment. I mean, it seems fitting that this "news" breaks just before Christmas, a time where seemingly every band in the known universe rushes out another "Best of" album for clueless fuckwits to buy for family members when they lack the time or the inspiration to actually go looking for a proper gift.
Yeah compilations are what sell, aren't they..?
Look how many "Now" albums there are.. people just don't have the attention span to listen to an album by the same artist all the way through these days it would seem, well certainly not unless all of the songs have been played to death on commercial radio stations anyway. And it's just going to get worse with random generic MP3 player playlists meaning that people no longer have the concept of listening to an entire album anyway..
Don't know where I'm going with this, and am very aware that I'm doing the "Grumpy Old Man" rant at the moment.. hmm.. better have a brew and step away from the internet methinks..
Anyway congrats to Queen.. I'm sure Roger Taylor and Brian May can whore themselves out for another couple of million on the back of this revelation whilst the tormented ghost of Freddie Mercury looks on in despair at how they've dragged a once great band through the mud of greedy commercialism.
Whoops, off again, bye now
Labels: Music, Queen, Top 100 albums
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