This year Queen is at the top of the Top 2000 of NPO Radio 2 for the nineteenth time with Bohemian Rhapsody. Danny Vera, still number 1 in 2020, can be found in second place with Roller Coaster, just like last year. The top three is completed by the Eagles with Hotel California. This was revealed this afternoon by Ruud de Wild in the Top 2000 Café in Sound & Vision in Hilversum. Coldplay has risen from eleventh to fifth place with Fix You.

Procol Harum has completely disappeared from the top 10. The band rose from 153rd to third place last year with A whiter shade of pale. People had voted en masse for the favorite song of Peter R. de Vries, who was shot earlier that year. Golden Earring, last year in sixth place with Radar Love, is also no longer among the top ten numbers.

Queen was not at the top of the Top 2000 five times. For Danny Vera, John Lennon (2015), the Eagles (2014 and 2010) and Boudewijn de Groot (2005) managed to score a first place.

Listeners could vote for their favorite records until this afternoon. The full list will be revealed next Thursday. The broadcast of the Top 2000 starts on Christmas Day at midnight. The number 1 is played just before the turn of the year.