Updating the "1" Album, Eh???

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Updating the "1" Album, Eh???

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Because a Number One anywhere is a Number One to me....

A Complete(?) List of Beatles Number Ones (v1?)
(US or UK unless noted):

Love Me Do
Please Please Me (UK Melody Maker)
I Saw Her Standing There (Australia)
From Me To You
She Loves You
I Want to Hold Your Hand
All My Loving (Sweden)
Long Tall Sally (Sweden)
Komm, gib mir deine Hand (Germany)
Can't Buy Me Love
A Hard Day's Night
I Should Have Known Better (Sweden)
I Feel Fine
Eight Days a Week
Rock and Roll Music (Australia/ Sweden)
Ticket to Ride
Help!
Yesterday
Day Tripper
We Can Work It Out
Nowhere Man (Canada)
Michelle (Sweden)
Paperback Writer
Yellow Submarine
Eleanor Rigby
Got to Get You Into My Life (Canada, 1976)
Penny Lane
Strawberry Fields Forever (UK Melody Maker)
All You Need is Love
Hello Goodbye
Lady Madonna
Hey Jude
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (Australia/ Germany)
Get Back
The Ballad of John and Yoko
Something
Come Together
Let It Be
The Long and Winding Road
For You Blue (US / Canada)
Free as a Bird (Scotland)
Now And Then
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BONUS ROUND - Solo Number 1's (UK or US unless noted):

Give Peace a Chance (Netherlands)
My Sweet Lord
What Is Life (Australian Go-Set National Top 60 / Switzerland)
Another Day
Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey
Imagine (Canada / US)
It Don't Come Easy (Canada / US Cash Box)
My Love
Live and Let Die (US Cashbox / US Record World)
Give Ireland Back to the Irish (Ireland / Spain)
Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)
Band on the Run
Photograph
You're Sixteen (You're Beautiful and You're Mine)
Only You (and You Alone) (Canada RPM AC / US Billboard AC)
No No Song (Canada RPM / US Cash Box)
Whatever Gets You Through The Night
Listen to What the Man Said
Silly Love Songs
Let 'Em In (US Cashbox / US Billboard Adult Contemporary)
Mull of Kintyre
With a Little Luck
Goodnight Tonight (Canada RPM Adult Contemporary)
Coming Up (Canada)
Coming Up (live) (US)
(Just Like) Starting Over
Woman
All Those Years Ago (Canada RPM / US Billboard Adult Contemporary)
Ebony and Ivory
Say Say Say
Pipes of Peace (Ireland)
Got My Mind Set On You
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (live, feat. U2) (UK Billboard Downloads)
I Want to Come Home (Russia)
FourFiveSeconds (feat. Rihanna, Kanye Worst)
Come On To Me (Japan Hot Overseas / Croatia HRT)

Solo No. 1's Tally:
John - 5
Paul - 21
George - 5
Ringo - 5
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And 'This Boy' was a number one in Canada, the other side of 'All My Loving'.. both sides charted in their own right. Have a look at the Wikipedia page.

So, here's ANOTHER number one :)
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Swedish No 1's

She Loves You
I Want To Hold Your Hand
All My Loving/I Saw Her Standing There
Can't Buy Me Love
Long Tall Sally/I Call Your Name
Ain't She Sweet/If You Love Me, Baby
A Hard Day's Night
I Should Have Known Better/You Really Got A Hold On Me
I Feel Fine
Rock And Roll Music/If I Fell
Ticket To Ride
I'll Follow The Sun/I Don't Want To Spoil The Party
Help!
Yesterday/Dizzy Miss Lizzy
Day Tripper
We Can Work It Out
Michelle/Girl
Paperback Writer
Yellow Submarine
Penny Lane
Strawberry Fields Forever
All You Need Is Love
Hello Goodbye
Lady Madonna
Hey Jude
Get Back

39 singles (The first, Please Please Me/Ask Me Why was withdrawn) and some 28 EP's (one shared with The Fourmost) were issued in Sweden between 1963-1972, all but one (I'll Follow The Sun/I Don't Want To Spoil The Party) came with picture sleeves
Sweden also had one album called 'The Beatles' Greatest Hits'. The same album was issued in Denmark (with a different sleeve) as 'The Beatles Hottest Hits'.

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