Beatles Songs By Original UK Release Date

Beatles songs by original UK release date

Tracks that appeared on an album are shaded in grey.
Double A-side singles are linked with a hyphen.

The I Want To Hold Your Hand single was released just one week after the With The Beatles album.

The only EPs to feature new tracks were Long Tall Sally and Magical Mystery Tour.

The We Can Work It Out / Day Tripper single was released on the same day as Rubber Soul.

The longest gap between any new Beatles music being available to buy in the UK was six months one week between the Rubber Soul album and the Paperback Writer single.

The Yellow Submarine / Eleanor Rigby single was released on the same day as the parent album Revolver.

Bad Boy was released on the compilation album A Collection Of Beatles Oldies.

The All You Need Is Love single was released closer to Sgt Pepper than to the Magical Mystery Tour EP.

Magical Mystery Tour was a two-disc EP in the UK, the album was released in the USA.

The Get Back single was released closer to The White Album than to Abbey Road, and over a year before the Let It Be album.

Come Together / Something was the only Beatles single to be released after the tracks were already available on an album, out on 31.10.69, over a month after Abbey Road.

Across The Universe was the only Beatles track not to have been released originally on the Parlophone or Apple record labels, appearing on World Wildlife Fund charity album No-One's Gonna Change Our World on the Regal Zonophone Records label.

The only four double A-sided singles were:
We Can Work It Out / Day Tripper
Yellow Submarine / Eleanor Rigby
Penny Lane / Strawberry Fields Forever
Come Together / Something

For the first three years (1963-65) the Beatles released two albums per year.
Number of new songs released per year:
1962 02
1963 32
1964 33
1965 32
1966 17
1968 34
1969 26
1970 11

Notes about Beatles songs by original UK release date