Re: Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody!! -- American Top 40: The Countdown of the Century

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Date Posted: 22:44:00 04/15/02 Mon
Author: Jeff Case
Subject: Re: Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody!!
In reply to: Chris 's message, "Re: Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody!!" on 08:54:22 04/15/02 Mon

>>Has anyone noticed this? When Queen's Hit "Bohemian
>>Rhapsody" was released, thanks to "Wayne's World" in
>>1992. Billboard pushed it to #2 on the Charts. Radio
>>and Records, well the song bareleymade the Top 10. I
>>know these are 2 Different Charts. At the end of the
>>year. Casey's Top 40 Yearender Queen made it. On AT 40
>>with Shadoe Stevens, The song never made the yearend
>>Countdown. Now thats what I call a lopsided situation.
>>Any Comments on this. Love to hear from you.
>
>Actually, "Bohemian Rhapsody" made it well into the
>Top Ten on R&R (I'm assuming you're talking about the
>CHR chart). It peaked at number three. It did,
>however, zip up and down the chart, spending only nine
>weeks on, four or five of those in the top ten. It
>had more success in its original run, despite peaking
>five spots lower in 1976. How was it more successful?
> It spent twenty-one weeks on the chart and ranked in
>the Top Twenty on the year end chart. In 1992, I
>forget where it was, but it was in the lower half of
>the Top 100.

My friend in 1992 the song never made the BillBoard Yearend Chart. Yes it made R & R, But not BillBoard. It peaked @ # 2. It never made the yearend Countdown.

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Re: Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody!! -- Andrew Craner, 07:03:03 04/16/02 Tue
Re: Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody!! -- Jeffster, 22:55:22 04/16/02 Tue
- Re: Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody!! -- Lee Alexander Scott, 00:34:56 04/17/02 Wed