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[egret]

 I was driving home from work on Thursday and BoRhap came on the radio. Of course I sang along. After it was over the DJ started chatting about Queen's new popularity in the wake of the film, which is about to make $1 BILLION. The songs are back on the top of the charts. And he furthermore believes that this film alone has brought more young people to appreciate Classic Rock and more listeners to the Classic Rock radio station from whence he spoke. 

Then he predicted that many young people are buying tickets to the new Queen tour fully expecting Rami Malek to come out on stage and they are going to be really confused when it's Adam Lambert. 

I was really struck like this because I don't think I've really taken on board the immense  popularity of the film. Are people excited for the new tour? 

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[ruuger]

The mug I have at work has the Queen logo on it, and as a result every single person at the office who's seen the movie has come to tell me how much they liked it and how it made them appreciate Queen's music so much more. And it's not just people who were fans of Queen before, it's also people who'd previously known a few Queen songs but went to see the movie because of the hype and are now asking me recs for which albums they should listen if they liked song X.

And honestly, in the last few months I don't think there has been a single day when I haven't heard a Queen song play somewhere, be it on radio or at some shop.

It's really amazing how popular Queen is right now.

As for the tour, I really hope they'll do some gigs in Europe this year because I've now seen Queen + AL three years in a row (Helsinki in 2016 and 2017, and London 2018) and I'd hate to break the streak ;)