Solo Chart Positions Week By Week

The table below shows the chart positions of each solo single, and selected collaborations, within the UK top 40, week by week.

Week 1 is always the first time that the single appeared in the top 40. Chart positions continue onto the next line if the single spent more than 9 weeks in the top 40.

HCP = Highest Chart Position
WOC = Weeks On Chart (top 75)

Roger Taylor
Brian May
Freddie Mercury
The Cross
Collaborations


Roger Taylor

Single Release Date HCP WOC 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
1. I Wanna Testify Fri 26/08/1977 - - - - - - - - - - -
2. Future Management Mon 30/03/1981 49 4 - - - - - - - - -
3. My Country Mon 29/06/1981 - - - - - - - - - - -
4. Man On Fire Mon 04/06/1984 66 2 - - - - - - - - -
5. Strange Frontier Mon 30/07/1984 98 - - - - - - - - - -
6. Nazis 1994 Tues 03/05/1994 22 2 22 - - - - - - - -
7. Foreign Sand Mon 19/09/1994 26 2 26 - - - - - - - -
8. Happiness Mon 14/11/1994 32 2 32 - - - - - - - -
9. Pressure On Mon 28/09/1998 45 1 - - - - - - - - -
10. Surrender Mon 29/03/1999 38 2 38 - - - - - - - -
11. The Unblinking Eye (Everything Is Broken) Mon 23/11/2009 - - - - - - - - - - -
12. Dear Mr Murdoch Wed 20/07/2011 - - - - - - - - - - -
13. Journey's End Fri 02/06/2017 - - - - - - - - - - -
14. Two Sharp Pencils (remix) Tue 25/07/2017 - - - - - - - - - - -
15. Gangsters Are Running This World Mon 08/04/2019 - - - - - - - - - - -
16. Isolation Mon 22/06/2020 - - - - - - - - - - -

Although the audio download of 'Journey's End' did not chart, the video download reached no. 1 in the iTunes video chart.

Brian May

Single Release Date HCP WOC 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
1. Starfleet Mon 24/10/1983 65 3 - - - - - - - - -
2. Driven By You Mon 25/11/1991 6 9 14 6 6 8 10 12 36 - -
3. Too Much Love Will Kill You Mon 24/08/1992 5 9 9 6 5 5 8 17 31 - -
4. Back To The Light Mon 09/11/1992 19 4 - 19 - - - - - - -
5. Resurrection Mon 07/06/1993 23 3 32 23 - - - - - - -
6. Last Horizon Mon 06/12/1993 51 2 - - - - - - - - -
7. The Amazing Spider-Man Mon 04/03/1995 37 2 37 - - - - - - - -
8. The Business Mon 25/05/1998 51 1 - - - - - - - - -
9. Why Don't We Try Again? Mon 31/08/1998 44 1 - - - - - - - - -
10. Save The Badger Badger Badger Sun 19/05/2013 79 - - - - - - - - - -
11. One Night In Hell Mon 03/11/2014 - - - - - - - - - - -
12. New Horizons Tue 01/01/2019 - - - - - - - - - - -
13. Back To The Light (reissue) Fri 22/10/2021 - - - - - - - - - - -

 

Freddie Mercury

Single Release Date HCP WOC 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
1. Love Kills Mon 10/09/1984 10 8 27 12 10 14 18 28 - - -
2. I Was Born To Love You Tues 09/04/1985 11 10 23 14 11 11 12 18 31 36 -
3. Made In Heaven Mon 01/07/1985 57 4 - - - - - - - - -
4. Living On My Own Mon 02/09/1985 50 3 - - - - - - - - -
5. Love Me Like There's No Tomorrow Mon 18/11/1985 76 - - - - - - - - - -
6. Time Tue 06/05/1986 32 5 39 33 32 39 - - - - -
7. The Great Pretender Mon 23/02/1987 4 9 9 4 4 5 10 20 27 40 -
8. Barcelona Mon 26/10/1987 8 9 12 8 10 17 32 - - - -
9. The Golden Boy Mon 24/10/1988 83 - - - - - - - - - -
10. How Can I Go On Mon 23/01/1989 85 - - - - - - - - - -
11. Barcelona (reissue) Mon 27/07/1992 2 8 5 2 2 7 12 24 - - -
12. How Can I Go On (reissue) Mon 12/10/1992 95 - - - - - - - - - -
13. In My Defence Mon 30/11/1992 8 7 11 8 13 15 34 - - - -
14. The Great Pretender (reissue) Mon 25/01/1993 29 3 29 35 - - - - - - -
15. Living On My Own (reissue) Mon 19/07/1993 1 13 5
28
2
39
1
-
1
-
2
-
4
-
6
-
11
-
17
-


The Cross

Single Release Date HCP WOC 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
1. Cowboys And Indians Mon 21/09/1987 74 1 - - - - - - - - -
2. Shove It Mon 03/01/1988 82 - - - - - - - - - -
3. Heaven For Everyone Mon 28/03/1988 83 - - - - - - - - - -
4. Manipulator Mon 04/07/1988 - - - - - - - - - - -
5. Power To Love Mon 23/04/1990 85 - - - - - - - - - -


Collaborations

Artist & Single First Chart Date HCP WOC 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Jeffrey Osbourne - Stay With Me Tonight (with Brian) 07/04/1984 18 11 38 24 18 19 25 38 - - -
Jimmy Nail - Love Don't Live Here Anymore (with Roger) 27/04/1985 3 11 39 20 8 3 3 7 18 25 -
Fergal Sharkey - Loving You (with Roger) 29/06/1985 26 10 36 31 30 27 26 34 - - -
Holly Johnson - Love Train (with Brian) 14/01/1989 4 11 21 10 5 4 5 8 13 26 40
Living In A Box - Blow The House Down (with Brian) 18/02/1989 10 9 31 17 10 10 14 23 36 - -
Rock Aid Armenia - Smoke On The Water (with Brian and Roger) 09/12/1989 39 5 39 - - - - - - - -
Hale & Pace & The Stonkers - The Stonk (with Brian and Roger) 09/03/1991 1 7 10 2 1 2 9 26 - - -
Shaky - Radio (with Roger) 10/10/1992 37 3 37 37              
Robbie Williams - Eternity (with Brian) 21/07/2001 1 16 1
32
1
44
3
-
2
-
5
-
11
-
12
-
20
-
26
-
Lady Gaga - YoĆ¼ And I (with Brian) 18/09/2011 23 11 70
66
55
42
38
33
33
24
23
39
Dappy - Rockstar (with Brian) 26/02/2012 2 6 2 13 25 36 56 69      
Brian Wilson & Various Artists - God Only Knows (with Brian) 07/10/2014 20 5 20 38 60     39 69    
Band Aid 30 - Do They Know It's Christmas? (with Roger) 17/11/2014 1 6 1 2 12 3 17 40      
Artists For Grenfell - Bridge Over Troubled Water (with Brian) 29/06/2017 1 5 1 3 18 48 75 94      

This table includes only the singles which entered the top 40, as there are too many to list which did not, and the dates in this table are generally when the single first charted in the top 100.