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Play this bracketThe Queen Song You Name First
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| # | Preview | Candidate | Win rate | Match win rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — |  | Keep Yourself AliveQueen, 1973. The opening track of the first album, and the first thing anyone ever heard them play | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | LiarQueen, 1973. Six minutes that change shape four times before the ending | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Seven Seas of RhyeQueen II, 1974. The piano figure that became the band's first chart entry in Britain | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Killer QueenSheer Heart Attack, 1974. Multitracked harmonies and a guitar solo built one note at a time | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Now I'm HereSheer Heart Attack, 1974. Written after May recovered from the illness that cancelled a tour | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Bohemian RhapsodyA Night at the Opera, 1975. Ballad, opera and hard rock glued into six minutes with no chorus | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | You're My Best FriendA Night at the Opera, 1975. Deacon wrote it on an electric piano he had only just learned | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Somebody to LoveA Day at the Races, 1976. Three voices layered into something meant to sound like a gospel choir | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Tie Your Mother DownA Day at the Races, 1976. The riff May wrote as a student in Tenerife and nearly threw away | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Teo TorriatteA Day at the Races, 1976. Two verses sung in Japanese, written for the audience that got there first | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Good Old-Fashioned Lover BoyA Day at the Races, 1976. Music hall piano with a wink in every line | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Long AwayA Day at the Races, 1976. May on twelve-string and lead vocal, the album's quiet corner | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | We Are the ChampionsNews of the World, 1977. Written to be sung back by a crowd, and it has been ever since | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | We Will Rock YouNews of the World, 1977. Two stomps and a clap, no drum kit until the solo | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Spread Your WingsNews of the World, 1977. Deacon's song about a man being told he will never amount to much | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | It's LateNews of the World, 1977. Three acts in six and a half minutes, with tapping on the guitar | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Bicycle RaceJazz, 1978. Bells, a key change every few bars, and a chorus that argues with itself | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Fat Bottomed GirlsJazz, 1978. May's riff in dropped tuning, paired with Bicycle Race on the same single | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Don't Stop Me NowJazz, 1978. A piano runaway that became the band's most streamed song decades later | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | JealousyJazz, 1978. Mercury at the piano with the strings muted by tape | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | MustaphaJazz, 1978. Opens with an unaccompanied vocal in Arabic and Persian | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Love of My LifeA Night at the Opera, 1975. Harp and piano on record, an entire stadium singing it live | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Crazy Little Thing Called LoveThe Game, 1980. Mercury wrote it in the bath and played rhythm guitar on it himself | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Save MeThe Game, 1980. A piano ballad that turns into a wall of guitars in the last minute | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Play the GameThe Game, 1980. The first Queen record with a synthesiser on it | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Another One Bites the DustThe Game, 1980. Deacon's bass line, borrowed from disco and played straight | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Need Your Loving TonightThe Game, 1980. Straight power pop, in and out in three minutes | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | FlashFlash Gordon, 1980. Dialogue from the film cut into the track between the riffs | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Under Pressure1981. Written with David Bowie in a Montreux studio over a single session | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Body LanguageHot Space, 1982. Almost no guitar, built on bass and a drum machine | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Las Palabras de AmorHot Space, 1982. A chorus written in Spanish for the audiences in South America | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Calling All GirlsHot Space, 1982. Taylor's song, the first he had released as a Queen A-side | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Staying PowerHot Space, 1982. Horn arrangement by Arif Mardin over a programmed beat | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Back ChatHot Space, 1982. Deacon's funk workout, with a guitar solo May had to argue for | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Radio Ga GaThe Works, 1984. Taylor wrote it about radio losing to television | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | I Want to Break FreeThe Works, 1984. The video that got the band banned from American television for a while | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | It's a Hard LifeThe Works, 1984. Opens by quoting an aria from Leoncavallo's Pagliacci | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Hammer to FallThe Works, 1984. The straightest rock song on the record, and the one they closed with | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Thank God It's Christmasnon-album single, 1984. A Christmas record with no sleigh bells in it | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | One VisionA Kind of Magic, 1986. Started as a tribute to Live Aid and ended as a joke about fried chicken | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | A Kind of MagicA Kind of Magic, 1986. Taylor's song, rearranged by Mercury until it was barely recognisable | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Princes of the UniverseA Kind of Magic, 1986. Written for Highlander, with the film's title in the lyric | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Friends Will Be FriendsA Kind of Magic, 1986. Mercury and Deacon writing an anthem on purpose | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Who Wants to Live ForeverA Kind of Magic, 1986. May wrote it in a car on the way home from seeing the film footage | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | One Year of LoveA Kind of Magic, 1986. Deacon's ballad, with a saxophone solo instead of a guitar one | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | I Want It AllThe Miracle, 1989. May's riff and a title taken from something his wife used to say | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | BreakthruThe Miracle, 1989. A slow a cappella opening spliced onto a completely different song | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The Invisible ManThe Miracle, 1989. Each member is named out loud in the verses | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | ScandalThe Miracle, 1989. May writing about what the press did to him and to Mercury | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The MiracleThe Miracle, 1989. The title track, listing things it would take a miracle to see | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | InnuendoInnuendo, 1991. Six and a half minutes with a flamenco guitar section in the middle | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | I'm Going Slightly MadInnuendo, 1991. Mercury turning his own decline into a run of nonsense jokes | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | HeadlongInnuendo, 1991. Started as a May solo track and ended up here | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The Show Must Go OnInnuendo, 1991. May wrote it knowing Mercury might not be able to sing it | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | These Are the Days of Our LivesInnuendo, 1991. Taylor's lyric, and the last video Mercury filmed | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Heaven for EveryoneMade in Heaven, 1995. Recorded first by Taylor's other band, The Cross, with Mercury guesting | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Too Much Love Will Kill YouMade in Heaven, 1995. May had already released his own version of it | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | A Winter's TaleMade in Heaven, 1995. The last song Mercury wrote, written looking at Lake Geneva | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | You Don't Fool MeMade in Heaven, 1995. Assembled by the producer from vocal takes that were never a song | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | I Was Born to Love YouMade in Heaven, 1995. A Mercury solo track rebuilt with the band playing on it | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Let Me LiveMade in Heaven, 1995. Three lead vocals traded verse by verse | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | No-One but YouQueen Rocks, 1997. Written after Mercury's death, the first new Queen song without him | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Let Me in Your Heart AgainQueen Forever, 2014. Cut during The Works and left unfinished for thirty years | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Face It Alone2022. A vocal from the 1989 sessions, finished and released thirty-three years later | — win | — match wins |