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Here are the Top Album Sales for the week ending July 27, 2019

1. No. 6 Collaborations Project – Ed Sheeran
2. Voyager – 311
3. III – Banks
4. When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? – Billie Eilish
5. K.R.I.T. IZ HERE – Big K.R.I.T.
6. Map Of The Soul:  PERSONA – BTS
7. ‘Let’s Rock’ – The Black Keys
8. The Lion King (2019) – Soundtrack
9. Bohemian Rhapsody (Soundtrack) – Queen
10. Greatest Hits I, II & III:  The Platinum Collection – Queen

#EdSheeran #311 #Banks #Billie Eilish #BigKRIT #BTS #TheBlackKeys #TheLionKing #Queen

Here are some music events that have happened today, August 3.

*August 3, 1985 – Madonna scored her first UK No.1 single with ‘Into The Groove’. The track was taken from the movie ‘Desperately Seeking Susan’ which featured Madonna and Rosanna Arquette. ‘Into The Groove’ is Madonnas best selling single in the UK, having sold over 850,000 copies.

*August 3, 2007 – Queen guitarist Brian May handed in his astronomy PhD thesis – 36 years after abandoning it to join the band. May had recently carried out observational work in Tenerife, where he studied the formation of “zodiacal dust clouds”.

#Madonna #MusicNewsTidBits #IntoTheGroove #RosannaArquette #Queen #BrianMay

Sorry I’m late on this but here is the Top Album Sales for the week ending July 20, 2019

1. Dreamville & J.Cole: Revenge Of The Dreamers III – Various Artists
2. Hotel Diablo – Machine Gun Kelly
3. When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? – Billie Eilish
4. Let’s Rock – The Black Keys
5. Stranger Things 3:  Music From The Netflix Original Series
6. Map Of The Soul:  PERSONA – BTS
7. Western Stars – Bruce Springsteen
8. Help Us Stranger – The Raconteurs
9. Bohemian Rhapsody (Soundtrack) – Queen
10. Ride Me Back Home – Willie Nelson

#Dreamville #JCole #MachineGunKelly #BillieEilish #TheBlackKeys #BTS #BruceSpringsteen #TheRaconteurs #Queen #WillieNelson

These are the events that happened on June 27th

*1970 – The newly formed Queen featuring Freddie Mercury (possibly still known as Freddie Bulsara) on vocals, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and Mike Grose on bass played their first gig at Truro City Hall, Cornwall, England. They were billed as Smile, Brian and Roger’s previous band, for whom the booking had been made originally. Original material at this time included an early version of ‘Stone Cold Crazy’.

*1981 – Motorhead scored their only UK No.1 album with ‘No Sleep Til Hammersmith’. The live album was recorded at Leeds and Newcastle shows during their Short, Sharp Pain In The Neck tour in 1981. The name of the tour was a reference to the injury sustained by Phil Taylor when he was dropped on his head during some after-show horseplay. Despite the title of the album, the London venue the Hammersmith Odeon was not played on the tour.

*1987 – Whitney Houston became the first women in US history to enter the album chart at No.1 with ‘Whitney’ she also became the first woman to top the singles chart with four consecutive releases when ‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody’ hit No.1.

Here are the top 20 Album sales for week ending June 8, 2019

*NCT #127 We Are Superhuman: The 4 Mini Album (EP)
*Aladdin Soundtrack
*When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? – Billie Eilish
*Map Of The Soul: Persona – BTS
*40 – Stray Cats
*Rocketman: Music from the Motion Picture – Soundtrack
*California Son – Morrissey
*Father of Asahd – DJ Khaled
*Flamagra – Flying Lotus
*Escape From New York – Beast Coast
*IGOR – Tyler, The Creator
*My Songs – Sting
*Rammstein – Rammstein
*Cuz I love You – Lizzo
*I Am Easy To Find – The National
*Hurts 2B Human – P!nk
*43VA Heartless – Moneybagg Yo
*A Star Is Born (Soundtrack) – Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
*Bohemian Rhapsody (Soundtrack) – Queen
*Diamonds – Elton John

You can find the rest of the top 100 Album Sales here:

Top 100 Album Sales – June 8

In a recent interview with Rob Halford of Judas Priest, he states that a straight man couldn’t do his job. Here’s his entire quote:

“I love Priest more than anything, so while always in my mind — I have to be careful how I say this — it’s not important to the music. Though I will say, a straight man can’t do my job [laughs]. That’s the way I view it. Freddie [Mercury] said it wasn’t important, but if Freddie hadn’t have been gay, Queen would’ve been a totally different band. But that’s a really important part of my life that I have to get down on paper at some point.”

Thanks to Billboard.com for making this list of Top Album Sales This Week. For the week of May 25, 2019, here’s the top 10:

*Space Between – Sammy Hagar & The Circle
*Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind – Logic
*Here Comes The Cowboy – Mac DeMarco
*United – newsboys
*Map Of The Soul: PERSONA – BTS
*When We All Fall Asleep – Billie Eilish
*Beautiful Trauma – P!nk
*Father of the Bride – Vampire Weekend
*Greatest Hits I, II & III: The Platinum Collection – Queen

It’s nice to see Queen on this list. Freddie Mercury would be proud!

It was 1981 when Queen were recording their album ‘Hot Space’ in Switzerland and David Bowie was recording music for the movie Cat People that the great song ‘Under Pressure’ came about. Bowie stopped by to visit Queen with the intention of adding vocals to the song Cool Cat. Freddie Mercury and Bowie were messing around with some songs when Bowie said, let’s just write a song. 24 hours of wine and cocaine brought on these vocals for Under Pressure. The scene is described in the book “Is This the Real Life?”

“We felt our way through a backing track all together as an ensemble,’ recalled Brian May. ‘When the backing track was done, David said, “Okay, let’s each of us go in the vocal booth and sing how we think the melody should go–just off the top of our heads–and we’ll compile a vocal out of that.” And that’s what we did.’ Some of these improvisations, including Mercury’s memorable introductory scatting vocal, would endure on the finished track. Bowie also insisted that he and Mercury shouldn’t hear what the other had sung, swapping verses blind, which helped give the song its cut-and-paste feel.

Here are the amazing vocals!

The BBC documentary ‘Queen: Days Of Our Lives’ is going to air on the A&E Channel on June 27th at 8:00pm est.

Freddie Mercury is finally getting a movie made about his incredible life. I don’t know what to think of when hearing that Sacha Baron Cohen is going to star in the movie. Queen guitarist Brian May said they will begin shooting later this year with a release date in the autumn of 2012.

It’s been 40 years that Queen has been with EMI but now the have ended their relationship and moved over to Universal Music Group. Moving to Universal will bring remastered versions of all of Queens albums sometime next year.

Brian May of Queen says “We are very excited after all this time to be embarking on a new phase of our career.

Its seems that after the 2007 purchase of EMI by Terra Firma they have been losing big acts such as Radiohead, Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney.

Queen is releasing ‘Absolute Greatest’ on November 16 and will be available in multiple formats.  Either a 20 track CD, a double CD with bonus disc of Brian May and Roger Taylor discussing the tracks, or with both the above CD’s, 52-page book, unseen photos and access to streaming live performances or and LP box set with three 180g vinyl records, softback photo book and access to the streadming live performances.  Damn they are going all out.