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Ranking all of Queen's studio albums from worst to best selling

Queen released 15 studio albums over the years. Some of those were huge sellers, others less so. Find out which sold the most and the least and see what surprises you about that order.

By StevieMac

Queen - John Deacon, Freddie Mercury, Brian May And Roger Taylor
Queen - John Deacon, Freddie Mercury, Brian May And Roger Taylor / Brian Rasic/GettyImages
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5 - The Game - 4.6 million

We’re now in the top five best-selling studio albums from Queen. In fifth place comes The Game released in 1980. The band had spent the previous two years touring extensively in North America and then Europe. They also released their first live album Live Killers in 1979 to huge success. 

That continued with The Game Tour which in early 1981 took the band to South America to break a few records. Queen played huge stadiums there, a first for a rock band. One night in Buenos Aires, Argentina had a stunning audience of 300,000. That tour will have driven sales of the album even higher.

As befitting of a top-five Queen ranked record The Game is another great blast of music. It also soared high in the US becoming their top-selling studio album there and the only one to make number 1 in the US album charts. There are several top tracks on The Game as you’d expect. Standouts being “Another One Bites The Dust” (Deacon), “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, and “Play The Game( both Mercury), and “Save Me” (May). 

4 - News Of The World - 5.3 million

Fourth place goes to the band's sixth album, News Of The World, released in 1977. A personal favorite for the superb songs and seeing Queen live on their tour for it. Once again a great mix of different types of songs make up this album. It does take a different direction from the two quite grandiose records before in A Night At The Opera and A Day At The Races. The songs take a simpler approach but there is plenty of rock, pop, and anthems in there still.

Lots of Queen’s songs are well-known and almost instantly recognizable from the opening notes. There are two of their best-known ones on the album, “We Are The Champions” (Mercury) and “We Will Rock You” (May). Amazingly they were released on the same single with the latter as the B side. What a release that was! Another top track is one of their early funk-style songs, the earthy “Get Down, Make Love” (Mercury) with Mercury adding a variety of sensual moans and groans to his lyrics.

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