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Forbes
28-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Queen Is Back On The Billboard Charts With A ‘New' Album
Queen's Demos at De Lane Lea debuts on Billboard's Top Album Sales and Vinyl Albums charts, as fans ... More rush to snap up the rare Record Store Day release. UNSPECIFIED - FEBRUARY 01: Photo of Freddie MERCURY and QUEEN; Freddie Mercury performing live on stage, (Photo by Fin Costello/Redferns) Queen may not be producing new music these days, but the band is still very much active — and commercially successful. While it has been years since the legendary rock outfit released a proper studio album, the group continues to thrive on the charts thanks to one of the most celebrated and valuable catalogs in music history. The band frequently reappears on various rankings with special editions, reissues, and commemorative releases, and this week, Queen once again earns a new win with a drop filled with music from the vault. Despite the fact that the musicians are not crafting new original tunes or albums any longer, Queen still manages to make a splash whenever it offers fans something they haven't heard before — or at least not in an official capacity. This frame, the group returns with De Lane Lea Demos, a new EP that immediately finds space on two Billboard tallies. The short collection arrives at No. 24 on the Vinyl Albums list and No. 31 on the Top Album Sales chart, becoming a bestseller immediately. In its first few days of availability, De Lane Lea Demos sold 4,800 copies in the U.S. That number is according to Luminate, the company that collects sales and streaming data for Billboard's charts. This was a particularly busy frame for new music, with plenty of beloved acts dropping albums and EPs. While Queen's latest effort doesn't claim one of the top starts of the week, the fact that the rockers are still landing new wins at all is remarkable. On the Top Album Sales chart, De Lane Lea Demos ranks as the sixteenth-highest debut out of 28 newcomers. Surprisingly, De Lane Lea Demos is just Queen's fifth title to land on the Vinyl Albums chart. Given the group's towering commercial success and the resurgence of vinyl as a viable and bestselling format in recent years, that's a fairly small number. On the Top Album Sales ranking, Queen has now appeared with 20 different projects throughout its long career. Queen issued De Lane Lea Demos in celebration of Record Store Day, a semi-annual event that often sees exclusive and limited-edition vinyl releases come from major artists. Only 5,000 copies of the 12-inch vinyl were pressed, and almost all of them sold out within a matter of days. The five-song set is made up of Queen's earliest demo recordings, laid down between late 1971 and early 1972. The musicians taped the songs at the famed De Lane Lea Studios in London — a name that the EP borrows.
Forbes
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Queen's Earliest Recordings Are Now A Bestselling Album
Queen's De Lane Lea Demos debuts inside the top 20 on three U.K. charts, thanks to a limited Record ... More Store Day release featuring the band's earliest recordings. TOPSHOT - A file picture taken on September 18, 1984 showing Rock star Freddie Mercury, lead singer of the rock group "Queen", during a concert at the Palais Omnisports de Paris Bercy (POPB). (Photo by JEAN-CLAUDE COUTAUSSE / AFP) (Photo by JEAN-CLAUDE COUTAUSSE/AFP via Getty Images) Queen is already one of the most successful acts in the history of the British music industry, and somehow, the band keeps adding to its list of bestsellers without releasing any wholly original material for a long, long time. The group appears on the rankings in the United Kingdom every week — sometimes with just one or two placements, and at other times, with several titles showing up all at once. This week, Queen returns with one more new win in the nation, thanks to yet another clever release from the vault that fans rushed to grab. De Lane Lea Demos arrives this week as a brand new hit for Queen in the U.K. The special set appears on three different tallies, and it opens inside the top 20 on all of them. The 12-inch vinyl collection launches highest on the Official Vinyl Albums chart, where it starts at No. 17. It also arrives at No. 19 on both the Official Albums Sales and Official Physical Albums charts. The archival release compiles five of Queen's earliest recordings, all laid down at the appropriately-named De Lane Lea Studios in late 1971 and early 1972. The five-track EP was released on vinyl exclusively for Record Store Day 2025, which helps explain its sudden success. Side A includes 'Keep Yourself Alive,' 'The Night Comes Down,' and 'Great King Rat,' while 'Jesus' and 'Liar' round out the B-side. Queen's followers are some of the most loyal in the business. The band doesn't need to release new music to generate interest, just a well-timed offering from the archives is enough to get people buying. In the case of De Lane Lea Demos, the limited-edition nature of the release and the band's enduring appeal helped it sell enough to place on multiple U.K. rankings. With De Lane Lea Demos, Queen earns its thirty-ninth placement on the Official Physical Albums chart. The new release gives the group its twenty-second appearance on the Official Albums Sales, and just one more on the Official Vinyl Albums ranking. A few more successes – which are surely coming in the next few years – will give Queen two dozen wins on both of those purchase-only rosters. Interestingly, while De Lane Lea Demos debuts on three charts, it doesn't overlap with some of Queen's more familiar titles. Neither Greatest Hits nor The Platinum Collection appear on the same rosters this frame. That's not to say those projects weren't popular, though. Greatest Hits sold enough to make the main ranking of most-consumed albums in the U.K., as well as both the Official Albums Streaming and Official Album Downloads charts. The Platinum Collection, meanwhile, is only present on the downloads-specific roster.
