Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Queen

Charting Feb 8, 1975 → Dec 1, 2018 · 315 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 315 wk (3 crowns), UK Singles Chart 521 wk (16 crowns)

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Image credits

Photo: Koh Hasebe; Distributed by Elektra Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Year: 1980

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
3 crowns
Longest reign 3 weeks (Mar 1980) · First crown Mar 1980
UK Singles Chart
16 crowns
19742025
Longest reign 8 weeks (Nov 1975 – Jan 1976) · First crown Nov 1975

Billboard Hot 100 · 315 wk UK Singles Chart · 521 wk Global Music Power · 653 wk

All songs Without holiday songs New music only

Peak Power: 3.00%; week of Dec 20, 1980
Career Power: 388; share-weeks
Crowns: 3; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 115; January 1980 – January 1981
Peak Five Years: 255; February 1976 – January 1981
Top-five weeks: 29; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 315; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.70%; week of Dec 13, 1980
Comebacks: 3; Feb 1980 · Jun 1982 · Apr 1992, after 10 quiet years

Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the chart's own positions. How it works →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

Songs on the Billboard Hot 100

24 records · 388 share-weeks of Career Power

Power contributed is what each song earned this artist: their weekly Power Share, split across their songs (a featured credit takes its reduced share). Record Power is the song's own figure, the same for every artist on it. Bar length compares songs within this list.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
Bohemian RhapsodyApple Music	#2May 1992	44	January 1976 – December 2018	72.5	71.6
Another One Bites The DustApple Music	#1October 1980	31	August 1980 – March 1981	63.7	62.7
Crazy Little Thing Called LoveApple Music	#1February 1980	22	December 1979 – May 1980	49.6	49.0
We Are The ChampionsApple Music	#4February 1978	41	October 1977 – October 1992	46.6	45.8
Somebody To LoveApple Music	#13January 1977	15	November 1976 – March 1977	23.4	23.3
You're My Best FriendApple Music	#16July 1976	16	May 1976 – September 1976	21.1	21.2
Killer QueenApple Music	#12May 1975	19	February 1975 – June 1975	20.8	20.8
Body LanguageApple Music	#11June 1982	14	May 1982 – July 1982	17.3	17.2
Radio Ga GaApple Music	#16April 1984	13	February 1984 – May 1984	14.1	14.1
Bicycle Race/Fat Bottomed GirlsApple Music	#24January 1979	12	November 1978 – January 1979	12.0	11.9
Under Pressurewith David BowieApple Music	#29January 1982	16	November 1981 – January 2016	7.0	13.8
A Kind Of MagicApple Music	#42August 1986	11	June 1986 – August 1986	5.4	5.4
Play The GameApple Music	#42July 1980	9	June 1980 – August 1980	5.1	5.2
Flash's Theme Aka Flash	#42February 1981	10	January 1981 – March 1981	4.9	5.1
I Want To Break FreeApple Music	#45May 1984	8	April 1984 – June 1984	4.0	4.0
Need Your Loving TonightApple Music	#44December 1980	11	November 1980 – February 1981	3.5	5.5
Somebody To Lovewith George MichaelApple Music	#30May 1993	9	May 1993 – July 1993	3.5	6.8
I Want It AllApple Music	#50June 1989	10	May 1989 – July 1989	3.3	3.3
One VisionApple Music	#61January 1986	10	December 1985 – February 1986	3.2	3.2
Tie Your Mother DownApple Music	#49April 1977	6	March 1977 – April 1977	2.7	2.7
Calling All GirlsApple Music	#60August 1982	6	July 1982 – September 1982	1.9	1.9
It's LateApple Music	#74May 1978	5	May 1978 – June 1978	1.1	1.1
It's A Hard LifeApple Music	#72August 1984	4	July 1984 – August 1984	1.0	1.0
Don't Stop Me NowApple Music	#86March 1979	4	February 1979 – March 1979	0.7	0.7

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At their peak

1980 in music →

Queen's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from January 1980 to January 1981. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s.