{"id":309865,"date":"2026-07-30T15:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T15:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/309865\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T15:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T15:22:07","slug":"queen-enters-youtubes-billion-views-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/309865\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Enters YouTube\u2019s Billion Views Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

Queen has reached another major digital milestone as the band’s iconic hit \u201cDon\u2019t Stop Me Now\u201d has officially surpassed\u00a01 billion views on YouTube.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The achievement makes the song the second Queen video to join YouTube’s Billion Views Club, following \u201cBohemian Rhapsody.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t Stop Me Now\u201d Reaches 1\u00a0Billion\u00a0Views\u00a0<\/p>\n

Written by Freddie Mercury, the track was originally released in 1979\u00a0and\u00a0included in the band\u2019s seventh studio album,\u00a0Jazz\u00a0<\/p>\n

Although it wasn’t initially one of Queen’s biggest chart hits, its reputation and popularity have grown significantly over the decades\u00a0and became\u00a0a staple of classic rock playlists, sporting events, movies\u00a0(Shaun\u00a0Of\u00a0The\u00a0Dead), television shows\u00a0(it was used for a trailer for the popular singing competition\u00a0American Idol)\u00a0and countless\u00a0commercials including ads for Toyota, Amazon, L\u2019oreal, and Pfizer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A Timeless Queen Classic\u00a0<\/p>\n

The song’s journey from a late-1970s album track to a billion-view YouTube sensation illustrates the remarkable longevity of Queen’s catalog.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Aside from this latest accomplishment, the song was also voted\u00a0the third favorite\u00a0Queen song by Rolling Stones\u00a0readers in 2014.\u00a0The TV show\u00a0Top Gear\u00a0also declared the\u00a0track\u00a0the \u201cGreatest Driving Song of All Time.\u201d\u00a0It might have been one of the lesser songs in Queen\u2019s catalog, but after Adam Lambert reintroduced it to their live set, \u201cDon\u2019t Stop Me Now\u201d became a popular\u00a0live performance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Guitarist Brian May admitted he was not initially a fan of the song since it\u00a0seemed to celebrate\u00a0original frontman Freddie Mercury\u2019s lifestyle. He added that the song was released during\u00a0a\u00a0difficult period<\/a>\u00a0in Mercury\u2019s life when he was \u201ctaking lots of drugs and having sex with lots of men.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

May is now totally on board with the\u00a0song,\u00a0especially after finding out\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0given a lot of listeners\u00a0great joy<\/a>. \u201cI had to give in.\u00a0It\u2019s\u00a0a great song \u2013\u00a0there\u2019s\u00a0no way around it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Watch the music video below.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Queen – Don’t Stop Me Now (Official Video)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queen has reached another major digital milestone as the band’s iconic hit \u201cDon\u2019t Stop Me Now\u201d has officially…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,666,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-309865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queen","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309865","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=309865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}