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The Official Top 50 biggest selling Beatles singles revealed
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This month marks the 50th anniversary marks the meeting of two rock n roll titans: when Elvis and The Beatles met for the first and only time.
To celebrate, BBC Radio 2 has revealed each acts Top 50 best sellers, as compiled by The Official Charts Company. The countdown kicked off with Sara Cox today (August 31) at 6.30am and culminated with the Number 1 songs being revealed during Simon Mayo’s Drivetime show at 7pm.
The radio special is immediately followed by BBC2 show When Elvis Met The Beatles; a unique drama about their elusive meeting in Beverly Hills in 1965.
MORE: The Official Top 50 biggest selling Elvis Presley singles revealed
At Number 1 on The Beatles' Official Top 50 is, of course, She Loves You. Released in 1963, the track - written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney - logged six non-consecutive weeks at Number 1 is the best selling single of the 1960s in the UK. To date, its sales stand at 1.92 million.
MORE: See The Beatles' full Official Charts history
Elsewhere in the Top 10, five other songs by the Fab Four have passed the million sales mark: I Want To Hold Your Hand (1.78m), Can't Buy Me Love (1.54m), I Feel Fine (1.42m), Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out (1.41m) and Hey Jude (1.11m).
The Official Top 50 Best Selling The Beatles singles and tracks appears below:
(Note: the chart is based on all-time sales of all Elvis digital track and physical single releases up to the end of June 2015)
| POS. | TITLE | DATE | ARTIST |
| 1 | She Loves You | Aug-63 | Beatles |
| 2 | I Want To Hold Your Hand | Dec-63 | Beatles |
| 3 | Can't Buy Me Love | Mar-64 | Beatles |
| 4 | I Feel Fine | Dec-64 | Beatles |
| 5 | Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out* | Dec-65 | Beatles |
| 6 | Hey Jude | Sep-68 | Beatles |
| 7 | Help! | Jul-65 | Beatles |
| 8 | From Me To You | Apr-63 | Beatles |
| 9 | Hello Goodbye | Nov-67 | Beatles |
| 10 | Get Back | Apr-69 | Beatles |
| 11 | All You Need Is Love | Jul-67 | Beatles |
| 12 | Yellow Submarine / Eleanor Rigby* | Aug-66 | Beatles |
| 13 | Paperback Writer | Jun-66 | Beatles |
| 14 | Magical Mystery Tour EP** | Dec-67 | Beatles |
| 15 | Penny Lane / Strawberry Fields Forever* | Feb-67 | Beatles |
| 16 | Ticket To Ride | Apr-65 | Beatles |
| 17 | A Hard Day's Night | Jul-64 | Beatles |
| 18 | Lady Madonna | Mar-68 | Beatles |
| 19 | Love Me Do | Oct-62 | Beatles |
| 20 | Let It Be | Mar-70 | Beatles |
| 21 | Please Please Me | Jan-63 | Beatles |
| 22 | Something / Come Together* | Nov-69 | Beatles |
| 23 | Ballad Of John And Yoko | Jun-69 | Beatles |
| 24 | Free As A Bird | Dec-95 | Beatles |
| 25 | Beatles Movie Medley**** | Jun-82 | Beatles |
| 26 | Yesterday | Mar-76 | Beatles |
| 27 | Here Comes The Sun*** | Nov-10 | Beatles |
| 28 | Real Love | Mar-96 | Beatles |
| 29 | Twist & Shout*** | Nov-10 | Beatles |
| 30 | Baby It's You | Apr-95 | Beatles |
| 31 | Back In The USSR | Jul-76 | Beatles |
| 32 | In My Life*** | Nov-10 | Beatles |
| 33 | Blackbird*** | Nov-10 | Beatles |
| 34 | Ain't She Sweet | Jun-64 | Beatles |
| 35 | I Saw Her Standing There*** | Nov-10 | Beatles |
| 36 | Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds*** | Nov-10 | Beatles |
| 37 | With A Little Help From My Friends*** | Nov-10 | Beatles |
| 38 | While My Guitar Gently Weeps*** | Nov-10 | Beatles |
| 39 | A Day In The Life*** | Nov-10 | Beatles |
| 40 | The Long And Winding Road*** | Nov-10 | Beatles |
| 41 | When I'm Sixty Four*** | Nov-10 | Beatles |
| 42 | Norwegian Wood*** | Nov-10 | Beatles |
| 43 | And I Love Her*** | Nov-10 | Beatles |
| 44 | All My Loving*** | Nov-10 | Beatles |
| 45 | Sgt Pepper's Lonley Hearts Club Band*** | Nov-10 | Beatles |
| 46 | Revolution*** | Nov-10 | Beatles |
| 47 | Eight Days A Week*** | Nov-10 | Beatles |
| 48 | You've Got To Hide Your Love Away*** | Nov-10 | Beatles |
| 49 | Ob La Di Ob La Da*** | Nov-10 | Beatles |
| 50 | Drive My Car | Nov-10 | Beatles |
| * - Double A Side Releases included digital track sales | |||
| ** - Digital Track sales added to EP's. | |||
| *** - Not official singles - track sales from Nov 10 | |||
| **** Possibly deleted |
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Jay Dove
In My Life.. #1 without a doubt... It's on my list and I just went through the whole catalog the other day... posted here https://www.crowdsens.com/DetailTop/285 In My Life is also number 1 according to public consensus.. where it should stay.
Bengy
* - Double A Side Releases included digital track sales
Does this mean that both sides digital sales are added to the original physical sales?
Sgt Pepper's Lonley Hearts Club Band and With A Little Help From My Friends were issued as a single in October 1978 reaching no. 63. OCC are not combining digital sales with this physical single as it is listed Nov-10.