{"id":309154,"date":"2026-07-29T21:09:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/309154\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T21:09:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:09:41","slug":"queens-dont-stop-me-now-reaches-1-billion-views-on-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/309154\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen\u2019s \u2018Don\u2019t Stop Me Now\u2019 reaches 1 billion views on YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n Roger Taylor, Freddie Mercury, Brian May and John Deacon of Queen (Photo by Richard E. Aaron\/Redferns)\n<\/p>\n<p>Queen has had another video reach\u00a01 billion views on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>The latest is the performance video for the track \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HgzGwKwLmgM&amp;list=RDHgzGwKwLmgM&amp;start_radio=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Don\u2019t Stop Me Now<\/a>,\u201d from their 1978 album Jazz. The song, written by frontman Freddie Mercury, also appeared on the band\u2019s 1981 Greatest Hits compilation.<\/p>\n<p>The clip is Queen\u2019s second video to join the Billion Views Club. The first was 1975\u2019s \u201cBohemian Rhapsody,\u201d which went on to reach 2 billion views back in December 2025, making it the oldest song to ever reach such a milestone.<\/p>\n<p>In other Queen news \u2026 The new Freddy Mercury book\u00a0A Life in Lyrics: The Official Creative Legacy of Freddy Mercury\u00a0is now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alifeinlyrics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">available for preorder<\/a>. The book is described as \u201cthe definitive creative record of one of the greatest songwriters of all time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Life in Lyrics\u00a0features material from Mercury\u2019s notebooks, some of which has never been published before. It will be released Sept. 1, four days ahead of what would have been\u00a0the late Queen frontman\u2019s 80th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roger Taylor, Freddie Mercury, Brian May and John Deacon of Queen (Photo by Richard E. Aaron\/Redferns) Queen has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-309154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}