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She Loves You named as best selling Beatles track

It was only the band’s second number one, issued as Beatlemania was in its infancy, but newly compiled figures show She Loves You to be the biggest-selling Fab Four track released in the UK.

The 1963 single topped a chart of the act’s greatest sales tallies pushing its follow-up, I Want To Hold Your Hand, into second spot.

The Official Chart Company — which puts together the weekly Top 40 — has trawled its records to pull together an all-time bestseller list of the band’s singles, including the many re-releases over the years.

Despite the later acclaim for the band’s innovations and experimentation during the studio-bound years, the list is dominated by tracks up to and including 1965...
Read entire article at Times (UK)