Queen released 14 studio albums during Freddie Mercury’s lifetime.
The run began with *Queen* in 1973 and continued through *Innuendo*, released in February 1991. Mercury died on 24 November 1991, so *Innuendo* was the final Queen studio album released while he was alive. The sequence includes landmark records such as *A Night at the Opera*, *News of the World*, *The Game*, *A Kind of Magic*, and *The Miracle*.
The most common source of confusion is Queen’s total studio-album count. The band’s fifteenth studio album, *Made in Heaven*, was released in 1995, four years after Mercury’s death. It was assembled from vocal and instrumental material he had recorded before his death, alongside later work completed by Brian May, Roger Taylor, and John Deacon.
Thus, 14 is correct when the question specifies albums released during Mercury’s lifetime. The answer is not 15, even though Queen’s overall discography is commonly listed as containing 15 studio albums. Nor should live albums, compilations, or the *Flash Gordon* soundtrack be added to the studio-album tally.