A Day At The Races
by Queen
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A Day At The Races is ranked 4th best out of 52 albums by Queen on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Queen is A Night At The Opera which is ranked number 109 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 11,273.
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A Day At The Races track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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A Day At The Races rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 3 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | blueandthemoon | Top 31 Music Albums of 1976 | 20/31 | 2 |
| 2026 | bonnequestion | Best albums from '75 to '84 | 55/100 | - |
| 2026 |  RockyRaccoon | Top 100 Music Albums of 1976 | 40/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | Simon_bramhall | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 80/100 | 21 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum year 1976 | 23/70 | - |
| 2026 | DaveH68 | Top 60 Greatest Music Albums | 15/60 | 72 |
| 2026 | juanr1096 | Top 52 Music Albums of 1976 | 36/52 | 2 |
| 2026 | xhitmanx | Top 16 Music Albums of 1976 | 5/16 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Glitterboiii | Top 50 Music Albums of 1976 | 47/50 | 0 |
| 2026 |  Liedzeit | Top 97 Music Albums of 1976 | 29/97 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 405 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,895 | |||
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A Day At The Races ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 10/21/2026 08:32 | kinginsomniac12 | 625 | 99/100 |
| ! | 10/17/2026 18:13 | PMV | 31 | 96/100 |
| ! | 10/10/2026 12:28 | Artem | 872 | 77/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.1/100, a mean average of 75.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.7.
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A Day At The Races forum mentions
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I do love Queen and enjoy the odd mix of songs that they throw into their albums but those wee dafties also stop the individuals albums from excelling. Think what a single album you could have gotten from this and A Night At The Opera combined without the dafties? Somebody To Love the standout here for me. (Edited)
The follow up to, a night at the opera, and also it's companion album. It's similar in content to it's predecessor, in which it contains rockers, ballads, vaudeville and sweet pop. It opens with one of the band's finest rock anthems, tie your mother down. Brian May also contributes another rocker in, white man, which features some fantastic guitar. Freddie Mercury also contributes three of his best with, the glorious gospel rock of, somebody to love, the high camp of, good old fashioned lover boy, and his beautiful ballad, you take my breath away, which I think is even better than love of my life from the last album. Elsewhere Roger Taylor's, drowse, is an underrated gem. The closing, teo torriate, is a lovely singalong . I still feel that, the millionaire waltz, is a lesser version of bo rhap, and same goes for John Deacon's, you and I, in comparison with, you're my best friend. All in all, not quite as good as a night at the opera, but still a very good album.
InsanityPrawnBoy 08/30/2016 08:08 | #173793 | TOP COMMENT
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Often compared to A Night At The Opera, but stands up just fine on its own. An excellent album.
Opera is overrated because of "Bo raps" and shadowed this great record, take my breath away", "Somebody t love", "Drowse" Millionaire" "Long away" etc, great songs and less pretentious as Opera was
Queen was always a band that had great singles but when it came to making great albums, they often failed. With a few exceptions. This album isn't one of those exceptions.
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