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A Day at the Races by Queen
A Day at the Races is an album by Queen, released in 1976. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 126 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Somebody to Love”, on 99 lists with a best position of #28.
A Day at the Races, Queen's fifth album, arrived on EMI in December 1976 as the flashy twin to A Night at the Opera: another Marx Brothers title, matching packaging and the same everything-in-the-pot ambition. This time Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon produced it themselves, their first record made without Roy Thomas Baker, with Mike Stone engineering the sessions at The Manor, Sarm East and Wessex.
"Somebody to Love" is the grand gesture, big, pleading and operatic, and "Tie Your Mother Down" is May's guitar kicking the door off its hinges. In between, the band hops from style to style like kids let loose in a costume shop. It topped the charts at home, in Japan and in the Netherlands, climbed to number five in America and went platinum there.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from A Day at the Races on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somebody to Love#176 of all time | 99 | #28 | – | 1994–2026 | |
| 2 | Tie Your Mother Down | 27 | #326 | – | 1991–2025 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.