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Polls

In a 2001 poll of more than 50,000 readers of The Observer newspaper and viewers of British TV's Channel 4 for the 100 best number-one singles of all time, the song came second to John Lennon 's " Imagine ". In a 2002 poll of more than 31,000 people conducted for Guinness World Records ' British Hit Singles, "Bohemian Rhapsody" was voted Britain's favourite single, beating Lennon's "Imagine" to the top spot. In 2002, it came in 10th in a BBC World Service poll to find the world's favourite song.

In the Netherlands, Bohemian Rhapsody has been in the top five of the annual year's end "Top 100 Aller Tijden" ("All-Time Top 100 ") since 1977, topping the list eight times, more than any other artists. Since 1999, the Dutch " Top 2000 " pop music poll supplanted the Top-100, to list and play the 2,000 all-time greatest songs annually in December, and the song has been ranked first in all but five years (2005, 2010, 2014, 2015 and 2020, when it was runner up).

In a 2012 readers poll conducted by Rolling Stone magazine, "Bohemian Rhapsody" was voted the best vocal performance in rock history. In 2010, the song ranked at 166 on Rolling Stone ' s "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list, and was re-ranked at number 17 in 2021.

In 2012, the song topped an ITV poll in the UK to find "The Nation's Favourite Number One" over 60 years of music, ahead of Michael Jackson 's " Billie Jean " (number two), Adele 's " Someone like You " (number three), Oasis ' " Don't Look Back in Anger " (number four) and The Beatles ' " Hey Jude " (number five). The song was also ranked number five in RadioMafia's list of "Top 500 Songs".