Bohemian Rhapsody is greatest number one
Not one song from the past 18 years makes it into the top 25 of the 100 greatest chart-toppers, voted for by pop fans.
The first 50 of the list, compiled to mark the 50th anniversary of the UK charts will be broadcast by Radio 2 tonight. It is headed by Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody.
The Official UK Charts Company, which compiles the weekly chart, gathered nearly 190,000 votes to draw up the list.
But contemporary stars barely get a look in, with only four records from the past decade making it into the top 100.
Just Kylie Minogue's Can't Get You Out Of My Head, Elvis's revamped A Little Less Conversation, Oasis's Don't Look Back In Anger and U2' s Beautiful Day represent the past 10 years.
The most contemporary record in the top 25 is Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas, from 1984.
John Lennon's Imagine was runnerup. His was one of three Beatlerelated tracks in the top five, with Hey Jude at three and George Harrison's My Sweet Lord at five.
Fourth place went to Simon and Garfunkel for Bridge Over Troubled Water, the highest non-British act in the list.
The Beatles as a group claim 14 of the top 100, way ahead of any other act.
The 50 highest will be counted down in a Radio 2 show The Greatest Number Ones Of All Time from 2pm today.
1. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody.
2. John Lennon - Imagine
3. Beatles - Hey Jude
4. Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
5. George Harrison - My Sweet Lord
6. Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale
7. Animals - The House Of The Rising Sun
8. Abba - Dancing Queen
9. Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
10. Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure
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