Which Queen solo album sold the most, i think it's Brian's 'Back to the Light' closley followed by Mercury's 'Barcelona". What do you think, and are there any official sales figures regarding these solo albums?
1. Back to the Light
2. Barcelona
3. Mr. Bad Guy
4. Another World
5. Strange Fronter
6. Happiness
7. Electric Fire
8. Mad Bad & Dangerous To Know (The Cross)
9. Fun In Space
10. Shove It (The Cross)
11. Blue Rock (The Cross)
12. Fun On Earth
EDIT: just noticed that the original post was to discuss best selling, not 'best' or favourite; apologies! My list below is purely my favourites...
Every time I think about this I'm torn.....most of the solo projects have at least a couple of brilliant tracks, but equally all have some pretty dodgy moments too. I think I would prefer to vote for my favourite, rather than trying to factually and dispassionately state which is the 'best' (let's be honest, from a musical standpoint, plus performance, daring, etc... Barcelona is unarguably the 'best', but may however not be a lot of people's 'favourite').
My list would (today) be:
1. Mad Bad & Dangerous To Know (The Cross)
2. Electric Fire
3. Shove It (The Cross)
4. Barcelona
5. Back to the Light
6. Blue Rock (The Cross)
7. Mr. Bad Guy
8. Happiness...?
9. Fun In Space
10. Another World
11. Strange Frontier
12. Fun On Earth
(In keeping with your list I haven't counted 'Furia' or 'Starfleet')
Without having any data, I'd say Strange Frontier was probably the best selling Roger album, as he had a video on MTV.
Back To The Light sold decently with Driven By You as the lead single.
But the best seller has to be Barcelona. The title track got huge exposure.
"1. Mad Bad & Dangerous To Know"
I agree, there are some great tunes on this album, had it been a debut album by a new band (with no mega famous members) it would have been acclaimed. 'Closer to You' is a great song. 'Better Things' and 'Sister Blue' are up there too.
As far as singles goes Freddie and Brian did very well. Brian had one #1 single in our country (The Netherlands), Freddie had 3 top 10 hits and even a #1 hit in the UK in 1993. The best sold solo record here are Back To The Light and The Freddie Mercury Album.
Back to the light Was the best. Barcelona sold a Lot of copy in 1992, but in 1988 Was a flop Like Mr bad guy in 1985. The Freddie mercury album Was a top seller all over Europe. All the roger's and cross's album Was a flop except in Germany. I don't remember how Was another World.