Posted on 02/20/2024 7:52:16 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat
They're about to break a major record.
And fans of legendary rock band Queen will feel it's justified, as they prepare to sell their music catalogue for over a billion dollars.
During the pandemic, some of the most influential artists to ever grace our radios began selling over their life's work for a hefty sum...
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Well Freddie won’t get to enjoy it.
Probably worth 1.2 billion. Like I like to argue, the 1970's was a great music decade.
We are the Champions probably gets played at more sporting events than almost any other piece of music.
Freddie is deadie
Freddie’s Dead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B6TKClPFQA
The taxman will take a huge cut.
They might be better off waiting...
For starters, because it was actually music. I laugh at the hype around Usher's "Yeah", they only play the riff, anybody can play that.
More money for the others they better hurry up and spend it looking rather old now lol
I haven't bought a commercial CD...or downloaded a song...in 20+ years.
Until recently. Now they play some stupid Journey song just as much.
Yep, it's noticeably better than streaming quality in most cases.
Superfly helped glamorize the drug biz. Curtis Mayfield helped too,... inspite of his anti-drug “Freddie’s dead” tune.
No it didn’t. Superfly showed the drug business to be awful.
Rich people like Queen are why there’s no money left over for the rest of us!
-Financial Moron
I’ve loved music since I was a kid...just about every kind (even some classical). I’ve always believed that if a song is worth owning it’s worth owning in it’s purest form. Today,the purest forms are CD....DVD Audio...and SACD.
Overvalued.
I enjoyed a lot of Queen’s music since the mid 70’s, but I would think the intrinsic commercial value of those recording would have depreciated quite a bit over the decades.
It was us, the Boomer generations, who bought most of that music. Most of us already have it in our collections.
I would not expect the typical 18 to 32 y/o to be actively acquiring more Queen.
I just noticed at the time the big uptick in brutherz trying to look like Superfly. And those dudes liked their drugs. And that was at a tiny Presbyterian college in central KS.
It’s about using the music in commercials and movies, that’s where the real money is made today.
Saw a short clip of Howard Stern interviewing Billy Joel. Joel threw up a figure of 1 billion plus to sell his catalog. I thought that was absurd but I bet it’s worth more than queen.
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