Studio Album · No. 8
The Game Songwriting Credits by Queen
Produced by Queen, Reinhold Mack · Engineered by Reinhold Mack
Queen wrote 10 of 10 documented tracks
Authorship Breakdown 10 / 10 documented
Scored across the 10 tracks with documented writers, by whether Queen carries a lyricist or composer credit.
Share of the 10 tracks where a band member is credited, by role.
By the Numbers
Awards & Recognition 1
The Game is Queen's commercial peak in America, their only US No. 1 album, and it shows the payoff of the band's four-writer model: two members deliver chart-topping singles. John Deacon's funk-disco "Another One Bites the Dust" and Freddie Mercury's rockabilly "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" both hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. It is also their first album to use a synthesizer, and every track is still an individual member's credit.
Queen's eighth studio album, released June 30, 1980, produced by Queen and Reinhold Mack, the beginning of a productive partnership with the German producer that would continue through Hot Space and The Works. The Game became Queen's first US number one album and spent thirteen weeks at the top of the Billboard 200. It contains two of John Deacon's most commercially successful compositions: 'Another One Bites the Dust,' which reached number one in the US and was one of the best-selling singles of 1980, and 'Need Your Loving Tonight.' Freddie Mercury contributes 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love,' written and recorded in under an hour and distinguished by its rockabilly arrangement, a deliberate departure from Queen's usual complexity. Roger Taylor contributes 'Rock It (Prime Jive)' and 'Coming Soon.' The album was also Queen's first to use synthesizers, which they had previously excluded from their sound.