# The Beatles — Every Record We Rank

The Beatles appears 8 times in our Merseybeat, Psychedelic Rock, Musique Concrète, and Twice Over lists, placing as high as No. 1. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.

- **Ranked entries:** 8
- **Appears on:** Merseybeat, Psychedelic Rock, Musique Concrète, and Twice Over
- **Years:** 1963–1968
- **Highest placing:** No. 1 in Merseybeat
- **Updated:** 2026-08-31
- **Canonical page:** https://waxonia.com/artist/the-beatles/

## Appears on

### [She Loves You](https://waxonia.com/track/the-beatles--she-loves-you/)

*1963 · Parlophone · No. 1 in [Merseybeat](https://waxonia.com/genre/merseybeat/)*

The best-selling British single of the sixties, and structurally strange — it opens on the chorus and ends on a sixth chord George Martin thought was corny. Two years from Hamburg to this.

Also on: [Twice Over](https://waxonia.com/theme/twice-over/).

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/The%20Beatles%20She%20Loves%20You) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=S302kF8MJ-I)

### [Tomorrow Never Knows](https://waxonia.com/track/the-beatles--tomorrow-never-knows/)

*1966 · Parlophone · No. 1 in [Psychedelic Rock](https://waxonia.com/genre/psychedelic-rock/)*

One chord, five tape loops, a drum pattern lifted from nowhere and a vocal sent through a rotating speaker. The most radical thing on any pop record of the decade, at the end of side two.

Also on: [Twice Over](https://waxonia.com/theme/twice-over/).

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/The%20Beatles%20Tomorrow%20Never%20Knows) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=m4BuziKGMy4)

### [Please Please Me](https://waxonia.com/track/the-beatles--please-please-me/)

*1963 · Parlophone · No. 2 in [Merseybeat](https://waxonia.com/genre/merseybeat/)*

Originally a Roy Orbison-style ballad, sped up at Martin's suggestion until it became something else. The harmonica and the shared vocal are the whole Merseybeat formula in two minutes.

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/The%20Beatles%20Please%20Please%20Me) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=czw8eqepir8)

### [Twist and Shout](https://waxonia.com/track/the-beatles--twist-and-shout/)

*1963 · Parlophone · No. 7 in [Merseybeat](https://waxonia.com/genre/merseybeat/)*

Recorded last on the final take of a fourteen-hour day with Lennon's voice already gone. The damage is the performance, and it could not be repeated.

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/The%20Beatles%20Twist%20and%20Shout) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=xcdwr9RCg2A)

### [Revolution 9](https://waxonia.com/track/the-beatles--revolution-9/)

*1968 · Apple · No. 8 in [Musique Concrète](https://waxonia.com/genre/musique-concrete/)*

Tape loops and a repeated announcement, on the best-selling record in the world. However you rate it, it put twenty years of studio experiment into millions of houses at once.

Also on: [Twice Over](https://waxonia.com/theme/twice-over/).

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/The%20Beatles%20Revolution%209) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=SNdcFPjGsm8)

### [She Loves You](https://waxonia.com/track/the-beatles--she-loves-you/)

*1963 · Parlophone · Picked by [Twice Over](https://waxonia.com/theme/twice-over/)*

The most efficient two minutes in the ranking it sits in — a band still young enough to think the job was to make somebody scream. Nothing here predicts either of the next two entries, which is precisely why they are worth putting beside it.

Also on: [Merseybeat](https://waxonia.com/genre/merseybeat/).

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/The%20Beatles%20She%20Loves%20You) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=S302kF8MJ-I)

### [Tomorrow Never Knows](https://waxonia.com/track/the-beatles--tomorrow-never-knows/)

*1966 · Parlophone · Picked by [Twice Over](https://waxonia.com/theme/twice-over/)*

Three years on from a handclap-and-harmony single: one chord, a tape loop orchestra and a vocal fed through a rotating speaker. The gap between this and the entry above is the shortest distance any artist here travels between two of our rankings.

Also on: [Psychedelic Rock](https://waxonia.com/genre/psychedelic-rock/).

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/The%20Beatles%20Tomorrow%20Never%20Knows) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=m4BuziKGMy4)

### [Revolution 9](https://waxonia.com/track/the-beatles--revolution-9/)

*1968 · Apple · Picked by [Twice Over](https://waxonia.com/theme/twice-over/)*

A tape collage on the best-selling record of its decade, sitting in our musique concrète ranking beside people who spent their lives in institutional studios. Whether it is good is genuinely arguable. That it is the thing itself, in the charts, is not.

Also on: [Musique Concrète](https://waxonia.com/genre/musique-concrete/).

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/The%20Beatles%20Revolution%209) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=SNdcFPjGsm8)

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