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- Career Resurrection: While the popular wisdom is that Queen wouldn't recover their popularity in America until after Freddie Mercury's death, the album reached 24 on the Billboard charts and "I Want It All" was a hit on rock radio, reaching no. 3 on the Mainstream Rock chart.
- Channel Hop: The album's release saw Queen move from EMI to the Parlophone Records sublabel. Parlophone would also inherit the distribution rights to Queen's back-catalog outside of North America until 2011, when the band moved again to Island Records (whose parent company also distributes the band's current US label, Hollywood Records).
- Limited Special Collector's Ultimate Edition: The album received a collector's edition Boxed Set in 2022 containing a repressing of the 2011 remaster on both LP and CD, bonus CDs containing demos, outtakes, remixes, and radio interviews, and a Blu-ray featuring the album's music videos, TV interviews, and behind-the-scenes documentaries depicting the making of the music videos and the album cover. One of these outtakes, "Face It All Alone", would be released as a single to promote the reissue. The set marked Queen's first release on the revived EMI, following the band's move to Island Records in 2011 and the original EMI's dissolution in 2012.
- Nominal Coauthor: One of the changes that Queen made following Freddie Mercury's HIV diagnosis was crediting each song to the full band rather than individual writers. Despite this, the album's material wasn't actually written by all four members across the board; the only songs on the record to hold that distinction are "Party" and "Kashoggi's Ship" (plus "Hang On in There", a B-side included as a bonus track on most CD releases).
- Reality Subtext: The title refers to the fact that Freddie Mercury had lasted long enough to make the album. At the time, AIDS patients weren't expected to last long after being diagnosed.
- Referenced by...: "The Invisible Man" received a Cover Version by Scatman John in 1996.
- Working Title: The album was originally going to be called The Invisible Men; according to Roger Taylor, the decision to rename the album The Miracle came just three weeks before it was due for release.
