Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: These Legendary UK Rockers Just Joined the Ultra Rare 700 Week Club of the Billboard Albums 200

A legendary UK group...just became 1 of only 12 artists...to have an album log at least 700 weeks on Billboard’s Albums 200...

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
It's been thirty five years since the world lost Queen
frontman Freddie Mercury, but that has not stopped the group
from doing something only a dozen other artists have actually
pulled off, and this mark is particularly impressive.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Their Queen Greatest Hits compilation has just spent its seven
hundredth week on the Billboard two hundred, which ranks the
week's biggest albums.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
And the impact of the Oscar winning movie Bohemian Rhapsody
about Freddie Mercury's life played a big part in Queen
getting there because it basically introduced gen Z to their music.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
It's a very good movie and they've been streaming it
ever since a lot. But regardless, only Legends Superstars ever
pushed past seven hundred weeks, household names like Nirvana, Journey, Eminem,
Guns N' Roses, Metallica, Pink Floyd.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Yeah, it's almost all legacy artists. In fact, the only
two of twelve who you could argue are still in
their prime Bruno Mars with Dow WAPs and Hooligans and
Kendrick Lamar with Good Kid Matt City.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
That's true. Queen Greatest Hits which was first released back
in nineteen eighty one, is now streaming that's direct from Hollywood.