Did Bohemian Rhapsody uniquely top UK Christmas No1 twice?

This was made clear in 1991, as it reached Christmas number one again after Freddie Mercury’s death and is the only song to have ever hit the top spot at Christmas twice. ... The original Band Aid recording, along with the Live Aid concert ...

Bohemian Rhapsody was the first single to reach No 1 twice in the same version - followed earlier this year by George Harrison’s My Sweet Lord. It is also the only song to have hit the Christmas top slot twice.

The biggest-selling Christmas number one is Band Aid’s 1984 release ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ which sold 3.2 million copies, followed by Bohemian Rhapsody which made it to the Christmas top spot twice (in 1975 and 1991).

With the Canadian record-buying ... ending 1 May 1976. In the US, "Bohemian Rhapsody" was re-released as a double A-side cassette single with "The Show Must Go On" in January 1992, two months after the death of Freddie Mercury, with proceeds going to the Magic Johnson Foundation for AIDS research. The song re-entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart after 16 years, reaching number two (behind Kris Kross's "Jump"), and spending 17 weeks on the chart. After the release of the Queen biopic named ...

"Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen, which reached the number-one spot at Christmas 1975 and 1991, was the only record to have reached the top twice, until "Last Christmas" by Wham!, which topped the charts in both 2023 and 2024, making it the first consecutive Christmas number one. "Mary's Boy Child" is the only song ...

The 2012 chart featured all three songs in the top four, with "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in third. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 Johnson, Andrew; Cooper, Claire; Richards, Victoria ...

Alongside this, there is notable attention on the songs that finish runner-up, the Christmas number twos, which also hold a special place in chart history and popular culture. The Christmas number one is a highly coveted prize in the United Kingdom,23 so much so that a coattail or slipstream effect occurs with all of the competing songs earning publicity, regardless of whether or not they succeed. On PRS for Music's 2010 list of the most popular Christmas songs of the year, the top three songs were all songs that had finished second on the chart: 1987's "Fairytale of New York" by The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl (beaten by the Pet Shop Boys' cover of "Always on My Mind"), 1984's "Last Christmas" by Wham!

The Queen classic is the only single to be a Christmas No.1 twice and the only one to top the UK charts in four different calendar years.

'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen is the only song in history to be Christmas Number One twice (1975 and 1991)