The Beatles albums in order: Release dates, tracklists and singles

Leading the cast of the upcoming movies, slated for release from April 2028, are Paul Mescal playing McCartney, Harris Dickinson as Lennon, Barry Keoghan as Starr and Joseph Quinn as Harrison.

With an undefinable legacy in music, the mass hysteria that The Beatles created has rarely been replicated in the 60 years since they first appeared on radios.

With artists across all genres classing them as influences – from Ed Sheeran to Oasis, The Beach Boys to The Rolling Stones, and Bee Gees to Nirvana – their songs have stood the test of time, remaining classics that generations of musicians and listeners can appreciate.

Although they disbanded in 1970 after a 10-year reign on the music charts, to date they still maintain the record for most No.1 songs in Official Charts history.

Their new, and their final, song, Now and Then, was released in 2023, having been hidden in their vaults for decades. Once again, it topped the charts, confirming their unshakeable impact on the industry as a whole.

If you want to know where to start with The Beatles, then we're here to help – here are their era-defining albums in order, as well as their biggest songs.

The Beatles albums in release date order

The full list of albums the band released as a group is:

1. Please Please Me (1963)
2. With The Beatles (1963)
3. A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
4. Beatles For Sale (1964)
5. Help! (1965)
6. Rubber Soul (1965)
7. Revolver (1966)
8. Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
9. The Beatles (White Album) (1968)
10. Yellow Submarine (1969)
11. Abbey Road (1969)
12. Let It Be (1970)

This doesn't include the group's separate US releases, extensive efforts in solo projects and other bands, collaborations or Greatest Hits collections.

If we were to include them, that would total up to five extra studio albums, five live albums, 49 compilation albums, 36 EPs, and 37 box sets – that's 144 albums in total!

One collection, simply titled 1, is a collection of their number one singles, and has gone 13x Platinum alone.

• Buy The Beatles' 1 on vinyl via Amazon

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The Beatles albums: Tracklists and hit singles

Every album/LP The Beatles released during their run, with the exception of the Yellow Submarine soundtrack, peaked at number one in the charts. Yellow Submarine came in at a respectable three.

Here are the notable moments and songs that came with each release and era of the band:

Please Please Me (1963)

Tracklist:

1. I Saw Her Standing There
2. Misery
3. Anna (Go to Him)
4. Chains
5. Boys
6. Ask Me Why
7. Please Please Me (peaked at No. 2 on the UK Charts)
8. Love Me Do (peaked at No. 17 on the UK Charts)
9. P.S. I Love You
10. Baby It's You
11. Do You Want to Know a Secret
12. A Taste of Honey
13. There's a Place
14. Twist and Shout

• Buy Please Please Me on vinyl via Amazon

A-Side singles of note:

• From Me to You (peaked at No. 1 on the UK Charts for 6 weeks)
• I Want to Hold Your Hand (peaked at No. 1 on the UK Charts for 5 weeks)

Current Status: 1x Platinum in the UK

With The Beatles (1963)

Tracklist:

1. It Won't Be Long
2. All I've Got to Do
3. All My Loving
4. Don't Bother Me
5. Little Child
6. Till There Was You
7. Please Mister Postman
8. Roll Over Beethoven
9. Hold Me Tight
10. You Really Got a Hold on Me
11. I Wanna Be Your Man
12. Devil in Her Heart
13. Not a Second Time
14. Money (That's What I Want)

• Buy With The Beatles on vinyl via Amazon

A Hard Day’s Night (1964)

Tracklist:

1. A Hard Day's Night (peaked at No. 1 on the UK Charts for 3 weeks)
2. I Should Have Known Better
3. If I Fell
4. I'm Happy Just to Dance with You
5. And I Love Her
6. Tell Me Why
7. Can't Buy Me Love (peaked at No. 1 on the UK Charts for 3 weeks)
8. Any Time at All
9. I'll Cry Instead
10. Things We Said Today
11. When I Get Home
12. You Can't Do That
13. I'll Be Back

• Buy A Hard Day's Night on vinyl via Amazon

Non-Album releases of note:

• I Feel Fine (peaked at No. 1 on the UK Charts for 5 weeks)

Beatles For Sale (1964)

Tracklist:

1. No Reply
2. I'm a Loser
3. Baby's in Black
4. Rock and Roll Music
5. I'll Follow the Sun
6. Mr. Moonlight
7. Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!
8. Eight Days a Week
9. Words of Love
10. Honey Don't
11. Every Little Thing
12. I Don't Want to Spoil the Party
13. What You're Doing
14. Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby

• Buy Beatles For Sale on vinyl via Amazon

Help! (1965)

Tracklist:

1. Help! (peaked at No. 1 on the UK Charts for 3 weeks)
2. The Night Before
3. You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
4. I Need You
5. Another Girl
6. You're Going to Lose That Girl
7. Ticket to Ride (peaked at No. 1 on the UK Charts for 3 weeks)
8. Act Naturally
9. It's Only Love
10. You Like Me Too Much
11. Tell Me What You See
12. I've Just Seen a Face
13. Yesterday (peaked at No. 8 on the UK Charts)
14. Dizzy Miss Lizzy

• Buy Help! on vinyl via Amazon

Rubber Soul (1965)

Tracklist:

1. Drive My Car
2. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
3. You Won't See Me
4. Nowhere Man
5. Think for Yourself
6. The Word
7. Michelle
8. What Goes On
9. Girl
10. I'm Looking Through You
11. In My Life
12. Wait
13. If I Needed Someone
14. Run for Your Life

• Buy Rubber Soul on vinyl via Amazon

Non-Album releases of note:

• Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out (peaked at No. 1 on the UK Charts for 5 weeks)

Current Status: 2x Platinum in the UK

Revolver (1966)

Tracklist:

1. Taxman
2. Eleanor Rigby (peaked at No. 1 on the UK Charts for 2 weeks)
3. I'm Only Sleeping
4. Love You To
5. Here, There and Everywhere
6. Yellow Submarine (peaked at No. 1 on the UK Charts for 2 weeks)
7. She Said She Said
8. Good Day Sunshine
9. And Your Bird Can Sing
10. For No One
11. Doctor Robert
12. I Want to Tell You
13. Got to Get You into My Life
14. Tomorrow Never Knows

• Buy Revolver on vinyl via Amazon

Non-Album releases of note:

• Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever (peaked at No. 2 on the UK Charts)

Current Status: 2x Platinum in the UK

Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)

Tracklist:

1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
2. With a Little Help from My Friends
3. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
4. Getting Better
5. Fixing a Hole
6. She's Leaving Home
7. Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
8. Within You Without You
9. When I'm Sixty-Four
10. Lovely Rita
11. Good Morning Good Morning
12. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
13. A Day in the Life

• Buy Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on vinyl via Amazon

Non-Album releases of note:

• All You Need Is Love (peaked at No. 1 on the UK Charts for three weeks)
• Hello Goodbye (peaked at No. 1 on the UK Charts for seven weeks)

Current Status: 18x Platinum in the UK

The Beatles (White Album) (1968)

Tracklist:

1. Back in the U.S.S.R.
2. Dear Prudence
3. Glass Onion
4. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
5. Wild Honey Pie
6. The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill (Ft. Yoko Ono)
7. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
8. Happiness is a Warm Gun
9. Martha My Dear
10. I'm So Tired
11. Blackbird
12. Piggies
13. Rocky Raccoon
14. Don't Pass Me By
15. Why Don't We Do It in the Road?
16. I Will
17. Julia
18. Birthday
19. Yer Blues
20. Mother Nature's Son
21. Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
22. Sexy Sadie
23. Helter Skelter
24. Long, Long, Long
25. Revolution 1
26. Honey Pie
27. Savoy Truffle
28. Cry Baby Cry
29. Revolution 9
30. Good Night

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Non-Album releases of note:

• Lady Madonna (peaked at No. 1 on the UK Charts for two weeks)
• Hey Jude (peaked at No. 1 on the UK Charts for two weeks)

Yellow Submarine (1969)

Tracklist:

1. Yellow Submarine
2. Only a Northern Song
3. All Together Now
4. Hey Bulldog
5. It's All Too Much
6. All You Need Is Love
   Plus following orchestrated instrumentals by George Martin:
7. Pepperland
8. Sea of Time
9. Sea of Holes
10. Sea of Monsters
11. March of the Meanies
12. Pepperland Laid Waste
13. Yellow Submarine in Pepperland

• Buy Yellow Submarine on vinyl via Amazon

Abbey Road (1969)

Tracklist:

1. Come Together (peaked at No. 4 on the UK Charts)
2. Something (peaked at No. 4 on the UK Charts)
3. Maxwell's Silver Hammer
4. Oh! Darling
5. Octopus's Garden
6. I Want You (She's So Heavy)
7. Here Comes the Sun
8. Because
9. You Never Give Me Your Money
10. Sun King
11. Mean Mr. Mustard
12. Polythene Pam
13. She Came in Through the Bathroom Window
14. Golden Slumbers
15. Carry That Weight
16. The End
17. Her Majesty

• Buy Abbey Road: 50th Anniversary edition on vinyl

Non-Album releases of note:

• The Ballad of John and Yoko (peaked at No. 1 on the UK Charts for three weeks)

Current Status: 8x Platinum in the UK

Let It Be (1970)

Tracklist:

1. Two of Us
2. Dig a Pony
3. Across the Universe
4. I Me Mine
5. Dig It
6. Let It Be (peaked at No. 2 on the UK Charts)
7. Maggie Mae
8. I've Got a Feeling
9. One After 909
10. The Long and Winding Road
11. For You Blue
12. Get Back (peaked at No. 1 on the UK Charts for six weeks)

• Buy Let It Be on vinyl via Amazon

Let It Be was released in May 1970 – a month after the group officially announced they would be disbanding. A documentary on the release of their final album, also titled Let It Be, was released at the same time.

Recording the album was fraught, with George Harrison temporarily leaving the band during rehearsals and recording, and John Lennon later leaving the band before its completion as well.

To promote the album, they had one, solitary performance on the rooftop of their recording studio, Apple Studios, in January 1970, with John bidding farewell to their fans by declaring: "I'd like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves, and I hope we've passed the audition."

Their final single, Now & Then, was released in 2023 – and also went to Number One – although by this point half of the band had died. John Lennon was killed outside his New York home in December 1980, and George Harrison died from lung cancer at the age of 58 in November 2001.

Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr both continue to perform around the world.

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