Charts and Live Performance
| Country | Peak position |
Period | Total weeks |
Peak position |
Period | Total weeks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 42 | 16–23 Aug 1992 | 2 | |||
| France | 6 | 29 Aug – 5 Sep 1992 | 9 | |||
| Germany | 47 | 25–31 Jan 1988 | 5 | |||
| Ireland | 8 | 3 | 8 | 3 | ||
| The Netherlands | 37 | 28 Nov – 5 Dec 1987 | 9 | 2 | 29 Aug – 12 Sep 1992 | 16 |
| New Zealand | 2 | 9–16 Aug 1992 | 7 | |||
| Sweden | 15 | 20 Jan – 3 Feb 1988 | 3 | 12 | 19 Aug – 2 Sep 1992 | 4 |
| Switzerland | 8 | 30 Aug – 6 Sep 1992 | 13 | |||
| UK | 8 | 14–21 Nov 1987 | 9 | 2 | 15–29 Aug 1992 | 8 |
The song was performed live for the first time in May 1987, at the Ibiza festival, held at the Ku nightclub (now Privilege Ibiza, the "world's largest nightclub"). Its next important performance occurred on 8 October 1988, at the open air La Nit festival in Barcelona, which was staged on the occasion of the arrival of the Olympic Flag from Seoul. Together, Mercury and Caballé sang three tracks from the forthcoming album Barcelona, namely "Barcelona", "How Can I Go On" and "The Golden Boy". This was the last live performance of Mercury who was already beginning to suffer from AIDS. Mercury died in 1991, and the recording of the song was played over a travelogue of the city at the start of the international broadcast of the 1992 Olympics opening ceremony. Prior to the start of the 1999 UEFA Champions League Final between Manchester United and Bayern Munich held at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Caballé performed "Barcelona" live, accompanied with a recording by Mercury who also appeared on the stadium's electronic screen.
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