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You are arguing apples and oranges. Two different styles of R&R:

As of 2005, according to The Guinness Book of World Records, Queen albums have spent a total of 1,322 weeks or twenty-seven years on the United Kingdom album charts; more time than any other musical act including The Beatles and Elvis Presley. Also in 2005, with the release of their live album with Paul Rodgers, Queen moved into third place on the list of acts with the most aggregate time spent on the British record charts.

In 2006, the Greatest Hits album was found to be the United Kingdom's all-time best selling album, with sales upwards of 5,407,587 copies, over 604,295 more copies than its nearest competitor, The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Their Greatest Hits II album came in seventh with sales upwards of 3,631,321 copies.

One of rock's most successful, influential and popular acts, the band has released a total of eighteen number one albums, eighteen number one singles, and ten number one DVDs worldwide making them one of the world's best-selling music artists. Their total album sales have been estimated at over 300 million worldwide including 32.5 million in the United States alone as of 2004. The band is also the only group in which every member has composed more than one chart-topping single.

Also, on January 2007, it was announced that Queen's Greatest Hits I & II was the most downloaded album on iTunes in the US.
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Zepplin - My favorite, Close to 30 years after disbanding following Bonham's death in 1980, the band continues to be held in high regard for their artistic achievements, commercial success and broad influence. The band has sold an estimated 200 million albums worldwide, including 111.5 million certified units in the United States and they have had all of their original studio albums reach the top 10 of the Billboard album chart in the U.S., with six reaching the number one spot. Led Zeppelin are ranked #1 on VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock. Rolling Stone magazine has described Led Zeppelin as "the heaviest band of all time" and "the biggest band of the '70s"....Show more

I'd say that Queen was more successful and has a larger fan base. Consider how many of their songs are well known to most of the public. Led Zeppelin is more talented considering Jimmy Page's amazing guitar playing, Freddie Mercury was more of a show man though. As for overall... I'd say Led Zeppelin but it's close and debatable....Show more

If you're judging by commercial success, probably Led Zeppelin. Their music has been around a lot longer than Queen's. But as far as vocal talent, Freddy Mercury's voice was so much more incredible than Robert Plant's ever was. Guarantee that Robert Plant would agree. He isn't terribly impressed with the body of work that Led Zeppelin produced....Show more

Well, a lot of songs by Queen are very well known, and are in movies, tv shows , etc...
But, fan base wise I'd say it's led zeppelin. it's all up to success :b...Show more

Wow... this question is totally subjective (someone already said that), but you could also get all the technical information off Wiki, like record sales, for instance.

They're both huge bands, they both played sold out massive arenas... One was more classical rock, the other more classic rock...

I love Queen, huge fan here. Never heard much Zeppelin, except for Stairway. I would have to say Zeppelin though. I mean, if my dad owns Zeppelin vinyl, then they must have been beyond huge....Show more