Discovery With Eric Senich

On this week in 1975 Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" started a nine-week run at number one on the UK singles chart. In the US it eventually hit number nine. Freddie Mercury's rock operatic classic became a worldwide hit topping the charts in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and the Netherlands. Quite a feat for a song the band’s record label had little to no interest in releasing as a single. As if the initial success of the single in 1975 and '76 wasn’t enough to prove their doubters wrong, "Bohemian Rhapsody" would become an even bigger hit decades later. After Freddie's death in 1991, the song topped the UK charts for another five weeks. The following year it went back up the US charts reaching a new peak of number two on the Billboard Hot 100 after being used in the film "Wayne's World" in 1992. In 2018, the success of the Queen film 'Bohemian Rhapsody', the song re-entered the Billboard Hot 100, marking three separate decades the song has now charted.That same year, it became the most streamed song f