Queen Albums & Singles Timeline

This page shows a Queen 'timeline', and lists every Queen album and single, in approximate chronological order. It includes every worldwide single release, but omits some of the more obscure overseas compilation albums. Where no precise release date is known, the release is listed in it's estimated position (though this could well be inaccurate). Albums are listed on the left and singles are on the right.

July 1973	13th : Queen	6th : Keep Yourself Alive
February 1974		14th : Liar (USA) 23rd : Seven Seas Of Rhye
March 1974	8th : Queen II
October 1974		11th : Killer Queen
November 1974	8th : Sheer Heart Attack
January 1975		17th : Now I'm Here
July 1975		15th : Keep Yourself Alive (reissue) (USA)
October 1975		31st : Bohemian Rhapsody
November 1975	21st : A Night At The Opera
April 1976		Bohemian Rhapsody (reissue) (USA) Now I'm Here (reissue) (Japan) Killer Queen (reissue) (USA/Japan)
June 1976		18th : You're My Best Friend
1976		39 (Thailand)
November 1976		12th : Somebody To Love
December 1976	10th : A Day At The Races
March 1977		4th : Tie Your Mother Down 25th : Teo Torriatte (Japan)
May 1977		20th : Queen's First EP
June 1977		7th : Long Away
1977		Good Old Fashioned Loverboy (Thailand)
October 1977	28th : News Of The World	7th : We Are The Champions
1978+		We Are The Champions (reissue) (USA)
January 1978		We Will Rock You (France)
February 1978		10th : Spread Your Wings
April 1978		It's Late (USA/Japan)
October 1978		13th : Bicycle Race
November 1978	10th : Jazz
January 1979		26th : Don't Stop Me Now
April 1979		Jealousy (USA)
May 1979		Mustapha (Europe)
June 1979	22nd : Live Killers	29th : Love Of My Life (live)
August 1979		We Will Rock You (live) (USA/Japan)
October 1979		5th : Crazy Little Thing Called Love
1980+		Crazy Little Thing Called Love (reissue) (USA)
January 1980		25th : Save Me
May 1980		30th : Play The Game
June 1980	30th : The Game
August 1980		22nd : Another One Bites The Dust
November 1980		Need Your Loving Tonight (USA/Japan) 24th : Flash
December 1980	8th : Flash Gordon
1980		Another One Bites The Dust (reissue) (USA)
1981		Killer Queen (reissue) (Venezuela) Crazy Little Thing Called Love (reissue) (Venezuela)
October 1981		26th : Under Pressure
November 1981	2nd : Greatest Hits
April 1982		29th : Body Language
May 1982	21st : Hot Space
June 1982		1st : Las Palabras De Amor
July 1982		Calling All Girls (USA) Staying Power (USA)
August 1982		9th : Back Chat
November 1982		Staying Power (USA)
1982+		Body Language (reissue) (USA)
1984	15 Of The Best (USA)	You're My Best Friend (reissue)
January 1984		23rd : Radio Ga Ga
February 1984	27th : The Works
April 1984		2nd : I Want To Break Free
July 1984		16th : It's A Hard Life
September 1984		10th : Hammer To Fall
November 1984		16th : Thank God It's Christmas
1985	Queen Live (Japan)
November 1985		4th : One Vision
March 1986		17th : A Kind Of Magic
April 1986		Princes Of The Universe (USA)
June 1986	2nd : A Kind Of Magic	9th : Friends Will Be Friends
August 1986		26th Pain Is So Close To Pleasure (USA)
September 1986		15th : Who Wants To Live Forever One Year Of Love (France/Spain)
October 1986		Princes Of The Universe (Japan)
December 1986	1st : Live Magic
May 1989	22nd : The Miracle	2nd : I Want It All
June 1989		19th : Breakthru'
August 1989		7th : The Invisible Man
October 1989		9th : Scandal
November 1989		27th : The Miracle
December 1989	4th : Queen At The Beeb
January 1991		13th : Innuendo
February 1991	4th : Innuendo
March 1991		4th : I'm Going Slightly Mad
May 1991		13th : Headlong
September 1991		5th : These Are The Days Of Our Lives (USA)
October 1991	28th : Greatest Hits II	14th : The Show Must Go On
December 1991		2nd : Bohemian Rhapsody (reissue)
February 1992		6th: The Show Must Go On (USA)
March 1992	2nd : Classic Queen (USA)
May 1992	26th : Live At Wembley 1986
September 1992	15th : Greatest Hits (USA)
1992		Who Wants To Live Forever (reissue) (Holland) We Are The Champions (reissue) (USA) We Will Rock You (Rick Rubin) (USA)
May 1992		We Will Rock You (live) (Europe)
April 1993		19th : The Five Live EP
1994		Don't Stop Me Now (reissue) (France) We Are The Champions (reissue) (Holland/Belgium)
1995	Queen At The BBC (USA)
October 1995		23rd : Heaven For Everyone
November 1995	6th : Made In Heaven
December 1995		11th : A Winter's Tale
February 1996		26th : Too Much Love Will Kill You I Was Born To Love You (Japan)
June 1996		17th : Let Me Live
November 1996		18th : You Don't Fool Me Don't Stop Me Now (reissue) (Japan)
1996		We Are The Champions (reissue) (Holland)
November 1997	3rd : Queen Rocks
July 1998		We Are The Champions (reissue) (France)
1998	Greatest Karaoke Hits (Japan)
January 1998		5th : No-One But You
November 1998		14th : Another One Bites The Dust (Small Soldiers remix)
November 1999	7th : Greatest Hits III
December 1999		6th : Under Pressure (Rah remix)
1999		Bohemian Rhapsody (reissue) (Japan)
2000	In Vision (Japan)	Princes Of The Universe (reissue) (Holland)
July 2000		17th : We Will Rock You (with Five)
2002		Heineken 'Queens Day' CD-Rom (Holland)
October 2002		We Will Rock You (newspaper freebie)
November 2002	11th : We Will Rock You (cast album)
March 2003		17th : Flash (Vanguard remixes)
June 2003		We Will Rock You (reissue) (France/Germany)
December 2003		Another One Bites The Dust (with Annie Crummer) (New Zealand)
January 2004	18th : Jewels (Japan)	I Was Born To Love You (reissue) (Japan) Another One Bites The Dust (reissue) (France)
April/May 2004		Solo Por Ti (No One But You) (with Eva Maria) (Spain)
August 2004	17th : Greatest Hits - We Will Rock You (USA)
October 2004	25th : Queen On Fire: Live At The Bowl
January 2005	26th : Jewels II (Japan)
March 2005		21st : One Vision (reissue) (France)
May 2005		46664 : One Year On EP (Spain)
June 2005		1st : We Will Rock You (reissue) (Japan)
August 2005		29th : Reaching Out / Tie Your Mother Down (live) (Japan/Europe)
September 2005	19th : Return Of The Champions
April 2006	11th : Stone Cold Classics (USA)
December 2006		11th : Another One Bites The Dust (The Miami Project)
October 2007	29th : Queen Rock Montreal
December 2007		31st : Say It's Not True
February 2008	27th : In Vision 2008 (Japan)
September 2008	15th : The Cosmos Rocks	8th : C-lebrity
2008		We Will Rock You (live) (reissue) (Germany)
April 2009	26th : Queen Rock You (newspaper freebie)	18th : Queen's First EP (USA)
June 2009	15th : Live In Ukraine
November 2009	16th : Absolute Greatest
January 2011	5th : Greatest Hits and Greatest Hits II reissues
February 2011		27th : Stormtroopers In Stilettos (download)
March 2011	14th : Deep Cuts Volume 1 and 40th Anniversary reissues of Queen, Queen II, Sheer Heart Attack, A Night At The Opera and A Day At The Races
April 2011		16th: Stormtroopers In Stilettos (vinyl)
June 2011	27th : Deep Cuts Volume 2 and 40th Anniversary reissues of News Of The World, Jazz, The Game, Flash Gordon and Hot Space
September 2011	5th : Deep Cuts Volume 3 and 40th Anniversary reissues of The Works, A Kind Of Magic, The Miracle, Innuendo and Made In Heaven