Single Statistics

This page includes various statistics and lists regarding Queen and solo singles, including chart performance, entry and dropout positions, length and writers. The data focuses on UK singles and considers Queen and solo singles combined, unless specified; Brian's tracks with Kerry Ellis are excluded as they are collaborations rather than solo tracks. It includes all singles upto and including the 2021 'Back To The Light' reissue, although this is excluded from most sections as it failed to chart. Downloads are not included in all sections.

General Statistics and Chart Performance
Singles Facts & Feats
Highest Charting Singles
Most Weeks On Chart
Best Worldwide Singles
Single Positions Summary
Chart Entry & Dropout Positions
The #1 Singles
Singles That Held Queen Off The Top
Charts With Multiple Queen Singles In

Other Singles Statistics
Single Length
Singles Not Released As 7"
Double-A Sided Singles
Queen Chart Performance By A-Side Author
Queen Singles Writer Couplings
UK Singles Without Promo Videos

• Queen are the second biggest selling group of all time in Britain, with 12.8 million sales - behind The Beatles (22.1 million), and ahead of Abba (11.3 million), The Rolling Stones (10.1 million) and Oasis (9.1 million)
• Only two artists have had number one singles in four different decades - Cliff Richard (50's-90's), and Queen (70's-00's)
• The Beatles are the only act to have had more top 10's than Queen - Queen have 25 while The Beatles have 27.
• 'Bohemian Rhapsody' has spent 14 weeks at number one, giving it the fourth longest stay at the top of the charts, behind 'I Believe' (18), '(Everything I Do) I Do It For You' (16), and 'Love Is All Around' (15).
• 'Bohemian Rhapsody' is also the only song to have been the Christmas number one twice, and a number one in four different years (1975-6 and 1991-2).
• 'Innuendo' is joint second in a list of number one singles with fewest weeks on chart, with just six weeks.
• Queen are 5th in a list of most top 20 hits, behind Cliff Richard, Elvis Presley, Madonna and Michael Jackson
• Queen are the most successful chart act never to have had a transatlantic number one hit. The nearest was 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love', which reached #2 in the UK and #1 in the USA.
• After 'Living On My Own' reached number one in 1993, Freddie became the first artist to have recorded, written, and produced a number one single both pre and post-humously.
• 'Bohemian Rhapsody' is third in a list of the all time best sellers, with 2.36 million copies sold, behind 'Do They Know It's Christmas' (Band Aid) with 3.69 million and 'Candle In The Wind 1997' (Elton John) with 4.9 million copies.
• In September 2005 it was announced that in a global poll of 700,000 people, 'We Are The Champions' was voted the world's favourite song, beating Toxic (Britney Spears), Billie Jean (Michael Jackson), Hotel California (The Eagles), La Tortura (Shakira), Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana), Yesterday (The Beatles), One (U2), Imagine (John Lennon) and Sultans Of Swing (Dire Straits).
• As part of the same poll, 'Bohemian Rhapsody' was voted Britain's third favourite song, behind 'Billie Jean' and 'Thriller', both by Michael Jackson. However, this poll seems rather bizarre as the top 10 has 'Bohemian Rhapsody', 'Angels' by Robbie Williams, 'Welcome To The Jungle' by Guns 'n' Roses, and seven Michael Jackson songs (two of which I've never heard of), which goes against every other poll that I've seen.
• In December 2005 it was announced that Queen had overtaken The Beatles to become the third best-selling chart act of all time, in terms of combined album and single weeks on chart. The list features Elvis Presley at no. 1 (2,574 weeks), Cliff Richard second (1,982), Queen third (1,755) and The Beatles fourth (1,749).
• In 2012, music licensing company PPL revealed the top 10 most played Queen tracks on TV and Radio:
  1. A Kind Of Magic
  2. Don't Stop Me Now
  3. Under Pressure
  4. I Want To Break Free
  5. Bohemian Rhapsody
  6. Killer Queen
  7. Somebody To Love
  8. Radio Ga Ga
  9. We Will Rock You
  10. You're My Best Friend
• Also in 2012, 'Bohemian Rhapsody' was voted as the second greatest rock song of all time in a Planet Rock poll (second behind 'Stairway To Heaven' by Led Zeppelin) and no 7 in a Classic Rock poll.
• In 2015, a study scientifically proved that 'Don't Stop Me Now' was the best "feel good" song from the past 50 years.

1. Bohemian Rhapsody (1)
2. Under Pressure (1)
3. Innuendo (1)
4. Bohemian Rhapsody / These Are The Days Of Our Lives (1)
5. The Five Live EP (1)
6. We Will Rock You (with Five) (1)
7. Living On My Own (reissue) (1)
8. Killer Queen (2)
9. Somebody To Love (2)
10. We Are The Champions (2)
11. Crazy Little Thing Called Love (2)
12. Radio Ga Ga (2)
13. Heaven For Everyone (2)
14. Barcelona (Reissue) (2)
15. I Want To Break Free (3)
16. A Kind Of Magic (3)
17. I Want It All (3)

1. Bohemian Rhapsody (17)
2. I Want To Break Free (15)
3. Crazy Little Thing Called Love (14)
4. Bohemian Rhapsody / These Are The Days Of Our Lives (14)
5. Flash (13)
6. Living On My Own (reissue) (13)
7. We Will Rock You (with Five) (13)
8. Killer Queen (12)
9. Bicycle Race (12)
10. Don't Stop Me Now (12)
11. Heaven For Everyone (12)
12. The Five Live EP (12)
13. We Are The Champions (11)
14. Under Pressure (11)
15. A Kind Of Magic (11)

1. Killer Queen (14)
2. Bohemian Rhapsody (1975 issue) (20)
3. Somebody To Love (22)
4. Crazy Little Thing Called Love (22)
5. We Are The Champions (26)

1. Crazy Little Thing Called Love (2)
2. We Are The Champions (3)
3. Another One Bites The Dust (4)
4. Bohemian Rhapsody (1975 issue) (5)
5. Killer Queen (7)

1. Killer Queen (15)
2. Foreign Sand (Roger Taylor) (20)
3. Bohemian Rhapsody (1975 issue) (25)
4. Somebody To Love (27)
5. Crazy Little Thing Called Love (33)
6. I Was Born To Love You (Freddie Mercury) (33)

1. Killer Queen (20)
2. Bohemian Rhapsody (1975 issue) (29)
3. Somebody To Love (32)
4. Crazy Little Thing Called Love (33)
5. We Are The Champions (38)

1. Bohemian Rhapsody (1)
2. Under Pressure (1)
3. Innuendo (1)
4. Bohemian Rhapsody / These Are The Days Of Our Lives (1)
5. The Five Live EP (1)
6. Living On My Own (Freddie Mercury) (1)
7. We Will Rock You (with Five) (1)

1. Crazy Little Thing Called Love (1)
2. Another One Bites The Dust (1)
3. The Show Must Go On (1992 reissue) (2)
4. We Are The Champions (4)
5. Bohemian Rhapsody (1975 issue) (9)
6. Body Language (11)

1. I Was Born To Love You (Queen) (1)
2. Foreign Sand (Roger Taylor) (13)
3. Killer Queen (27)
4. Teo Torriatte (49)
5. Somebody To Love (51)

1. Innuendo (1)
2. Bohemian Rhapsody / These Are The Days Of Our Lives (1)
3. The Five Live EP (1)
4. We Will Rock You (with Five) (1)
5. Heaven For Everyone (2)
6. I Want It All (3)
7. Somebody To Love (4)
8. Radio Ga Ga (4)
9. Another One Bites The Dust (Small Soldiers) (5)
10. Barcelona (reissue) (5)
11. Living On My Own (reissue) (5)

1. Back Chat (40)
2. Spread Your Wings (39)
3. Time (39)
4. Tie Your Mother Down (38)
5. Don't Stop Me Now (38)
6. Surrender (38)
7. The Amazing Spider-Man (37)
8. The First EP (36)
9. Thank God It's Christmas (36)
10. Now I'm Here (35)
11. Body Language (35)

1. Back To The Light (19)
2. A Winter's Tale (21)
3. Breakthru' (21)
4. The First EP (22)
5. Nazis 1994 (22)
6. Resurrection (23)
7. Save Me (24)
8. Flash (24)
9. Headlong (24)
10. Barcelona (reissue) (24)

1. Spread Your Wings (40)
2. Back Chat (40)
3. The Show Must Go On (40)
4. The Great Pretender (40)
5. Killer Queen (39)
6. Friends Will Be Friends (39)
7. Time (39)
8. Living On My Own (Reissue) (39)
9. Now I'm Here (38)
10. Under Pressure (38)
11. One Vision (38)
12. Who Wants To Live Forever (38)
13. Surrender (38)

1. 16 and 23 November 1974: 'Killer Queen' held off by 'Gonna Make You A Star' by David Essex, which spent 3 weeks at #1.
2. 11 December 1976: 'Somebody To Love' held off by 'Under The Moon Of Love' by Showaddywaddy, which spent 3 weeks at #1.
3. 19 and 26 November 1977: 'We Are The Champions' held off by 'Name Of The Game' by Abba, which spent 4 weeks at #1.
   3 December 1977: 'We Are The Champions' held off by 'Mull Of Kintyre' by Wings, which spent 9 weeks at #1.
4. 24 November and 1 December 1979: 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love' was held off by 'When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman' by Dr Hook, which spent 4 weeks at #1.
5. 11 and 18 February 1984: 'Radio Ga Ga' held off by 'Relax' by Frankie Goes To Hollywood, which spent 5 weeks at #1
6. 15 and 22 August 1992: 'Barcelona' held off by 'Rhythm Is A Dancer' by Snap!, which spent 6 weeks at #1.
7. 4 November 1995: 'Heaven For Everyone' held off by 'Gangsta's Paradise' by Coolio, which spent 2 weeks at #1.

1. Save The Badger Badger Badger (1:08)
2. One Night In Hell (2:01)
3. Nazis 1994 (2:36)
4. Crazy Little Thing Called Love (2:43)
5. Flash (2:46)
6. Seven Seas Of Rhye (2:48)
7. You're My Best Friend (2:50)
8. Good Old Fashioned Loverboy (2:53)
9. Killer Queen (2:59)
10. We Are The Champions (3:00)

1. Journey's End (6:56)
2. Let Me In Your Heart Again (William Orbit Mix) (6:42)
3. Innuendo (6:30)
4. The Unblinking Eye (Everything Is Broken) (6:10)
5. Bohemian Rhapsody (5:53)
6. Radio Ga Ga (5:47)
7. You Don't Fool Me (5:24)
8. Why Don't We Try Again (5:22)
9. The Golden Boy (5:14)
10. Heaven For Everyone (5:08)

1. A Winter's Tale
2. Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen + The Muppets)
3. Bohemian Rhapsody (2015 reissue)
4. Dear Mr Murdoch (2011 version)
5. Flash (Vanguard Remix)
6. Gangsters Are Running This World (although it was included as a 7" vinyl as part of an extremely limited edition boxed set)
7. Heaven For Everyone
8. Isolation
9. Journey's End
10. Let Me In Your Heart Again (William Orbit Mix)
11. New Horizons
12. One Night In Hell
13. Resurrection
14. Save The Badger Badger Badger
15. Say It's Not True
16. The Unblinking Eye (Everything Is Broken)
17. We Will Rock You (with Five)
18. We Will Rock You Vonlichten
19. You Don't Fool Me

• A: Killer Queen
  B: Flick Of The Wrist
• A: Bohemian Rhapsody
  B: I'm In Love With My Car
• A: We Are The Champions
  B: We Will Rock You
• A: Bicycle Race
  B: Fat Bottomed Girls
• A : Bohemian Rhapsody
  AA : These Are The Days Of Our Lives
• A: No-One But You
  B: Tie Your Mother Down

The other writing combinations are:

• Freddie Mercury and John Deacon
  One single - 'Friends Will Be Friends' - highest position 14, weeks on chart 8
• Brian May and Roger Taylor
  One single - 'Thank God It's Christmas' - highest position 21, weeks on chart 6
• Queen and David Bowie
  Two singles - 'Under Pressure' (original and Rah remix) - highest position 1, average position 7, total weeks on chart 18, average weeks on chart 9.
• Queen and Paul Rodgers
  One single - 'C-lebrity' - highest position 33, weeks on chart 1

The other writing combinations are:

• A Winter's Tale (Queen / Brian & Roger)
• C-lebrity (Queen & Paul Rodgers / Paul Rodgers)
• Friends Will Be Friends (Freddie & John / Freddie)
• Headlong (Queen / Queen & Mike Moran)
• It's A Hard Life (Freddie / Brian & Roger)
• I Want To Break Free (John / Brian & Roger)
• Las Palabras De Amor (Brian / Freddie & John)
• Say It's Not True (Roger / no B-Side)
• Somebody To Love (with George Michael) (Freddie / other writer)
• Thank God It's Christmas (Brian & Roger / Freddie)
• Too Much Love Will Kill You (Brian, Elizabeth Lamers & Frank Musker / Brian)
• Under Pressure (Queen & David Bowie / Queen)
• Under Pressure (Rah Remix) (Queen & David Bowie / Freddie)
• We Will Rock You (with Five) (Brian / other writer)

• Love Kills (Freddie Mercury)
• Love Me Like There's No Tomorrow (Freddie Mercury)
• Manipulator (The Cross)
• My Country (Roger Taylor)
• Pressure On (Roger Taylor)
• Thank God It's Christmas (Queen)
• The Amazing Spider-Man (Brian May)
• The Business (Brian May)

An additional single is Roger's 2011 re-recording of 'Dear Mr Murdoch' - the track appeared on Youtube, posted by the QueenOfficial account, with a video comprising various still photos of Roger, Queen, and other members. While it was posted by an official Queen account it's very unlikely that a promo video for a solo track would have pictures of the other band members in it.

For six of the singles, it is understandable why a promo video was not made, as previous singles fared badly in the charts, but for two of the tracks it is quite surprising:

• Love Kills (no 10 for Freddie in 1984) - after the track became a fairly big hit, it is surprising that they did not rush-produce a promo video to promote it, in a similar way to 'Time', which only reached no 32.
• Thank God It's Christmas (no 21 in 1984) - recorded specially for a single release, so the band or record company were surely hoping it would be a hit. No promo video was made, and the track was never performed live, not even mimed, so there is no footage at all which could be considered a promo video. This is the only proper Queen single not to have any kind of video, even including their debut 'Keep Yourself Alive' back in 1973.

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