It was only the band’s second number one, issued as Beatlemania was in its infancy, but newly compiled figures show She Loves You to be the biggest-selling Fab Four track released in the UK. The 1963 single topped a chart of the act’s greatest sales tallies pushing its follow-up, I Want To Hold Your Hand, into second spot.
The Official Chart Company — which puts together the weekly Top 40 — has trawled its records to pull together an all-time bestseller list of the band’s singles, including the many re-releases over the years.
Despite the later acclaim for the band’s innovations and experimentation during the studio-bound years, the list is dominated by tracks up to and including 1965.
As well as She Loves You and I Want To Hold Your Hand, the Top 5 is made up of Can’t Buy Me Love, I Feel Fine and the double A-side Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out.
The figures show that Love Me Do, the band’s first chart hit that reached No 17 on its initial release, went on to outsell the No 2 hit that followed it, Please Please Me, as well as later No 1s such as The Ballad of John and Yoko, the figures reveal.
Despite its enduring popularity, Yesterday — often cited as the most-covered song of all time — figures at No 24, even though the track was never issued as a single in the UK during the band’s existence. It was not released until 1976 and only made No 8 in the chart.
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