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Mammaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa,oooo Many Dutch music lovers will end the year once again with these words. Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen is traditionally number 1 in NPO Radio 2’s Top 2000.
It is the 19th time that the British band’s most successful song has topped the music chart, first compiled in 1999. Only five times has the nearly six-minute song been toppled from the throne: twice California hotels of the Eagles, once crossed To imagine by John Lennon, once finished Evening by Boudewijn de Groot and by 2020 Roller coaster Van Danny Vera.
Music-loving Holland could vote for the ‘list of lists’ until 3pm this afternoon. The top 10 was announced a few hours later. Roller coaster ranking number two, California hotels out of three. Coldplay reach their highest position ever with the song Fix youwhich occupies the fifth place.
For the first time, another Queen song hit the top 10. Love of my life ranking ten.
Ruud de Wild announced the top-5;
Announcement of the top 5 of the Top 2000
“The classics in the higher regions of the Top 2000 form the familiar New Year’s soundtrack for many voters,” says NPO Radio 2 channel manager Peter de Vries. , champagne and fireworks.
From Christmas day until midnight on December 31, the two thousand songs will be played. The Top 2000 Café in Hilversum is for the first time 24 hours a day open to public. During the two corona years, the public was only able to watch the broadcast virtually via TV screens.
“Young people conquer the Top 2000”
Although the music list has been composed largely of songs from the last century since its inception — the average age of a Top 2000 song was 31 last year — that’s starting to change, according to the Radio statistician. 2 Tom Goris. “Young people are busy conquering the Top 2000”, he tells Radio 2. According to Goris, people under 30 vote en masse as much as “traditional 50-year-olds”.
