The Beatles top singles? Highest ranked albums? Top streamed songs? Top songs played by musicians? Biggest selling albums?
First we’ll look at the rankings the Muse Group put together showing which songs musicians are looking up online. To no one’s surprise, songs by The Beatles are looked up the most. But which ones? Here’s a chart showing the songs being checked out by guitarists and by pianists (click to enlarge).
You can see “Let It Be” is the top song with both guitarists and keyboardists. In fact, eight of the songs are on both lists. The change from the guitar tabs list to the piano score list is that “Come Together” and “And I Love Her” drop off, and “Eleanor Rigby” and “Penny Lane” are added. Songs written primarily by Paul McCartney show up with five on the guitar list and six on the piano list. George Harrison has his three best songs on both lists. John Lennon has two on the guitar list and one on the piano list. John’s great strength as a lyricist is less likely to show up in this type of ranking.
The above list inspired me to gather a bunch of other rankings, and put them in easy forms that can be saved with screenshots. Here’s the streaming ranking.
The above list shows the overall popularity of Beatles songs on Spotify streaming as of last year. The top five songs being streamed in 2025 are the same, but in a slightly different order… 1. “Here Comes The Sun”, 2. “Let It Be”, 3. “Come Together”, 4. “Hey Jude”, and 5. “Yesterday”. It’s amazing that the most listened to song wasn’t even a single, just an album track. Other non-singles are “In My Life”, “Norwegian Wood”, and “Ob-la-di Ob-la-da”.
This list shows how The Beatles’ singles performed on the Hot 100 chart. We can see the surge of Beatlemania in early 1964 with the high rankings of “I Want To Hold Your Hand” and “She Loves You”. The top 10 songs include two songs from Let It Be, two songs from Abbey Road, and two songs from A Hard Day’s Night.
There are a couple of real anomalies. “Twist And Shout” only made it to #2 (held out of #1 by “Can’t Buy Me Love”), and “Please Please Me” only made it to #3. The stats for #1 “Penny Lane” and #1 “Eight Days A Week” look better. They had about the same number of weeks in the Top-40, and were ranked higher. They should have been on the list. Billboard’s formula must need to give more weight to #1’s.
Moving from songs to albums…which Beatles LP’s hit #1 on the Billboard 200 chart?
And which of their albums sold the most?
These are The Beatles’ 12 regular studio albums ranked by their official sales (collections are not included). Two American albums, “Meet The Beatles” & “Beatles ‘65”, are shown because they were the biggest part of the sales combined with the British versions, “With The Beatles” & “Beatles For Sale”.
There you have it…the top Beatles songs musicians look up to play, the top Beatles songs people stream, The Beatles’ top singles, The Beatles’ #1 albums, and The Beatles’ best selling albums. Those guys were good!!