Bohemian Rhapsody

Queen’s 1975 six-minute operatic rock epic was unprecedented — no radio format accommodated it, no promotional budget could explain its success, and no musical genre could claim it. It reached UK #1 twice: in 1975 on release and again in 1991 after Freddie Mercury’s death, accumulating over 1 billion streams on Spotify to become the most-streamed song of the 20th century.