Hello.
I have an question.
i was looking in the booklet of the greatest hits 2 album.
and by the singles i want it all and a kind of magic .
there are a line about that the 2 singles where number one hits in several country's
is this true or not?
but when i am searching on the internet i can not find anything if this where number one hits.
I want it all was number 2 here in the Netherlands in '89 and A kind of magic went to number 4 in '86. Both weren't #1 hits in the UK. I haven't checked other countries but i'm sure some other people here know.
Note from the English Wikipedia entry of a kind of Magic:
Queen's compilations The Platinum Collection, Classic Queen, and Greatest Hits II all make an unsubstantiated claim that the song reached number-one in 35 countries around the world,[2] but to date, there is no known territory where the song did reach the top position.
As for my country, I am not sure if there was an official chart in Brazil back in the 80s, but both songs were played a lot and at least AKOM was released as a single. Singles were not common at all back then over here, so it might as well have been the best seller at some point.
Cheers,
Ogre-
I've always been surprised at how few No.1s Queen had in the UK, considering how many hit singles they had overall, and their enormous popularity. I mean, really, BoRhap and Innuendo are their only genuine No.1s. Under Pressure got there obviously, but without Bowie, that may not have happened.
Pingfah wrote:
I've always been surprised at how few No.1s Queen had in the UK, considering how many hit singles they had overall, and their enormous popularity. I mean, really, BoRhap and Innuendo are their only genuine No.1s. Under Pressure got there obviously, but without Bowie, that may not have happened.
They didn't actually release that many singles in the UK in the 1970s.
Queen -- one single
Queen II -- one single
SHA -- 3 singles
ANATO -- 2 singles
ADATR -- 3 singles
NotW -- 2 singles
Jazz -- 2 singles
It was only in the 1980s when they went a bit mad and became a "singles" band.
Pingfah wrote:
I've always been surprised at how few No.1s Queen had in the UK, considering how many hit singles they had overall, and their enormous popularity. I mean, really, BoRhap and Innuendo are their only genuine No.1s. Under Pressure got there obviously, but without Bowie, that may not have happened.
It is surprising, but they were the kings of the top 3..and some of those songs that beat out killer Queen and Radio Ga Ga are forgotten about. Does anyone even remember the song that beat out Killer Queen?....Innuendo is a great song, but it's the biggest hit they did that no one remembers.
mike hunt wrote:
Does anyone even remember the song that beat out Killer Queen?....
I had to look it up. The answer saddened me greatly.
So does anybody have a theory as to why, as Holly says, they went mad for singles in the 80s? Did the industry push them that way? Was it possibly the result of the album/tour cycle getting longer, requiring more single releases to promote the tour?
junketerQ2 wrote:
In New Zealand IWIA peaked at No.3, not sure about AKOM but will check it out when i dig out my copies of the NZ charts.
Ok, so AKOM didn't do well at all in NZ only getting to #23.
I can also confirm that the original GH1 liner notes regarding Crazy Little Thing Called Love are incorrect..........it only made #2 in New Zealand & did not top the charts.