Queen:
Bohemian Rhapsody
Somebody to Love
Seven Seas of Rhye
I Want To Break Free
Another One Bites The Dust
Under Pressure
One Vision
A Kind Of Magic
Flash (aa-aaaah!)
The Show Must Go On
Radio Ga-Ga
Fat Bottomed Girls
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions
Killer Queen
I Want It All
Who Wants To Live Forever
You're My Best Friend
Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy
Hammer to Fall
Save Me
...
that's just what I can think of off the top of my head

MJ:
Thriller
Billy Jean
Smooth Criminal (only really aware of that one because of Alien Ant Farm)
...
I got nothin' else.

No one can deny that MJ was a popular artist or that he had significant influence on pop music in general, but popular does not always equal good or talented (Lady Gaga, Ke$ha, Justin Bieber, etc.), it just means the artist had great marketing. Queen, on the other hand, had comparatively terrible marketing, but each individual member had arguably more talent than MJ could have ever hoped to have, with Freddie leading them all in that regard.

Freddie
Jackson was good but not that good

Freddie hands down

It should me said that Freddie deserves a few points deducted for being the ispiration behind the moniker "Lady GaGa". It wasn't intentional on his part, but that doesn't make it any less painfull.

Fred for me. As others have pointed out, more versatility. I cant imagine MJ doing a duet with an opera singer

Freddie Mercury.

Freddie Mercury, of course! :)

Jackson is great showman,but Freddie by faaaaaaaaaaar

I hear Sasha Baron Cohen is up to play Freddie in an upcoming movie. Anyone else hear that?

Michael Jackson was good but this is an easy one - it could only be Freddie Mercury!!!!


Heard that but wish I hadn't :D

The 2 are 2 of my favourites. Can't really pick one.

You're including a ton of tracks that don't get any play as far as I can tell and even the friends from whom I heard about Queen didn't know about more than 5 or 6 of those tracks.

This is why this is largely a pointless argument to make. I've personally never heard of more than like 4 Queen tracks, I can't recall ever having heard more than that and that's even when you include my days of nautical mischief where friends who are more musically inclined than I am would have tons of obscure tracks, I don't recall ever having seen more than about 5 or so Queen tracks in any collection and it's always the same 5 or so tracks.

Also, I'm not sure you're really average if you've somehow managed to avoid damn near all of MJ's hits and somehow rack up a list that long for Queen.

Have to go with Freddie Mercury as my choice. Sorry for the following long post, I got carried away :|

Just based on what songs are in movies I think it gives a big lead too Freddie and Queen. I think alot of people like Queen songs and don't even know they are Queen songs.

From http://www.queenpedia.com/index.php?title=Queen_Songs_in_Movies
Queen Songs
1978 - FM - We Will Rock You ,1980 - Flash Gordon - Flash Gordon Soundtrack, 1984 - Revenge Of The Nerds - We Are The Champions , 1986 - Highlander - Princes Of The Universe, Gimme The Prize (Kurgan's Theme), One Year Of Love, Who Wants To Live Forever, Hammer To Fall, Don't Lose Your Head, New York, New York, A Kind Of Magic ,1986 - Iron Eagle - One Vision ,1991 - Highlander II: The Quickening - A Kind Of Magic, 1992 - Breaking The Rules - Crazy Little Thing Called Love ,1992 - Encino Man - Stone Cold Crazy, Keep Yourself Alive
1992 - Gladiator - We Will Rock You (cover by Warrant) ,1992 - Peter's Friends - You're My Best Friend
1992 - Wayne's World - Bohemian Rhapsody ,1993 - National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 - Bohemian Rhapsody ,1993 - Son In Law - Crazy Little Thing Called Love ,1993 - Super Mario Bros. (on soundtrack, but not in movie) - Tie Your Mother Down ,1994 - D2: The Mighty Ducks - We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions
1996 - Mr. Wrong - Crazy Little Thing Called Love ,1997 - The Big One - We Will Rock You
1997 - Grosse Pointe Blank - Under Pressure ,1998 - Small Soldiers - Another One Bites The Dust (Remix w/ Wyclef Jean) ,1998 - Stepmom - Under Pressure ,1999 - 200 Cigarettes - Another One Bites The Dust
1999 - Any Given Sunday - We Will Rock You ,1999 - Mickey Blue Eyes - We Are The Champions
2000 - High Fidelity - We Are The Champions, 2000 - The Replacements - We Will Rock You
2001 - How High - Bicycle Race (cover version), 2001 - A Knight's Tale - We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions (Queen + Robbie Williams) , 2001 - Moulin Rouge! - The Show Must Go On (cover by Nicole Kidman & Jim Broadbent) , 2003 - Blackball - Don't Stop Me Now ,2004 - Ella Enchanted - Somebody To Love (cover by Anne Hathaway) ,2004 - The Girl Next Door - Under Pressure ,2004 - Shaun Of The Dead - Don't Stop Me Now, You're My Best Friend ,2004 - Super Size Me - Fat Bottomed Girls ,2005 - Cheaper By The Dozen 2 - Under Pressure ,2005 - Chicken Little - We Are The Champions (cover by Zach Braff) ,2005 - Kicking & Screaming - We Are The Champions ,2005 - The Pacifier - We Will Rock You ,2006 - About A Son - It's Late ,2006 - Failure to Launch - Crazy Little Thing Called Love (cover version) , 2006 - Happy Feet - Somebody To Love (cover by Brittany Murphy) ,2006 - The Break-Up - You're My Best Friend, Crazy Little Thing Called Love (cover by Dwight Yoakam)
2006 - Zoom - Under Pressure (cover by Smash Mouth) ,2007 - Blades Of Glory - Flash's Theme ,2007 - The Heartbreak Kid - Under Pressure , 2007 - I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry - You're My Best Friend, Under Pressure , 2008 - What Happens In Vegas - We Are The Champions (cover version) ,2009 - Observe And Report - The Hero, It's Late ,2009 - World's Greatest Dad - Under Pressure ,2010 - Iron Man 2 - Another One Bites The Dust
2011 - Foo Fighters: Back And Forth - You're My Best Friend ,2011 - Crazy, Stupid, Love. - Crazy Little Thing Called Love ,

Freddie Mercury Songs
1984 - Metropolis - Love Kills ,1984 - Teachers - Foolin' Around ,1987 - Zabou - Hold On ,1992 - Night And The City - The Great Pretender ,1993 - National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 - Love Kills

On the other hand, I can only find a few movies for MJ and I've never seen any of them.
MJ
Get On The Bus: "On The Line"
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home:"Childhood (Theme from 'Free Willy 2')"
Free Willy: "Will You Be There?"
Ben :theme song 'Ben'

You forgot The Wiz.

Just trying to be helpfull. :)

How is this even a fair contest? Freddie and MJ were completely different kinds of music. One was The King Of Pop, and the other was the Queen of Rock :) I think they are both amazing in their own right.