The song is the group\u2019s second to join the club<\/p>\n
Queen\u2019s official video for \u201cDon\u2019t Stop Me Now\u201d has passed one billion views on YouTube. The clip marks the iconic group\u2019s second entry into the coveted club, following \u201cBohemian Rhapsody,\u201d which reached the mark in July 2019, becoming the first-ever pre-1990s music video to achieve this feat on the platform.<\/p>\n
Written by Freddie Mercury for Queen\u2019s 1978 album Jazz, the track was released as a single in January 1979. At the time, its performance was surprisingly modest compared to Queen\u2019s usual hits. It reached No. 9 on the UK Singles Chart. It was a minor hit in the US, only peaking at No. 86 on the Billboard Hot 100.<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t Stop Me Now\u201d steadily gained momentum through TV, film and ad placements. Its iconic use during the bar fight scene in the 2004 cult classic Shaun of the Dead introduced the track to a new generation. It subsequently featured in Glee, Doctor Who, Skins, and Hardcore Henry.<\/p>\n
In 2005, viewers of BBC\u2019s Top Gear voted it the \u201cGreatest Driving Song Ever.\u201d<\/p>\n
The song has earned over two billion streams on Spotify, ranking among Queen\u2019s top three overall tracks alongside \u201cBohemian Rhapsody\u201d and \u201cAnother One Bites the Dust.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 2015, cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Jacob Jolij analyzed popular music using a mathematical formula assessing tempo, key, and lyrics. \u201cDon\u2019t Stop Me Now\u201d was rated as the top feel-good song of all time, thanks to its fast pace of 150 BPM, major key structure, and relentlessly positive, buoyant lyrics.<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t Stop Me Now\u201d has achieved five-times platinum status in the UK and quadruple platinum in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The song is the group\u2019s second to join the club Queen\u2019s official video for \u201cDon\u2019t Stop Me Now\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,666,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-312697","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\/312697","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=312697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}