DEFINITIVE BEATLES SONG RANKINGS
I'm not sure what I want this page to look like yet, hence the nothingness of this page.
'definitive' is an exaggeration, deepest apologies for clickbaiting you. this is my personal song ranking for all beatles' songs as of April 25, 2025. Results are subject to change
but for now, my list:
legend:
songs I think are underrated
some of my most favorite songs ever :)
songs I actively do not enjoy
not personal favorites, but I could not bring myself to rate them any lower
- DONT PASS ME BY
- rock and roll music
- birthday
- dig it
- matchbox
- what goes on
- love me do
- her majesty
- good night
- run for your life
- bad boy
- honey don't
- devil in her heart
- little child
- yellow submarine
- roll over beethoven
- money (that's what i want)
- tell me what you see
- i should have known better
- she's a woman
- i wanna be your man
- i'm a loser
- revolution 1
- mr. moonlight
- dizzy miss lizzy
- i'm down
- one after 909
- come together
- the night before
- i want to tell you
- slow down
- eight days a week
- wild honey pie
- maggie mae
- flying
- savoy truffle
- i feel fine
- i saw her standing there
- there's a place
- ob-la-di, ob-la-da
- can't buy me love
- i'll get you
- boys
- getting better
- revolution 9
- the word
- all together now
- act naturally
- things we said today
- i'll cry instead
- wait
- why don't we do it in the road
- words of love
- any time at all
- i call your name
- day tripper
- everybody's trying to be my baby
- the end
- anna (go to him)
- i want to hold your hand
- don't bother me
- another girl
- thank you girl
- not a second time
- only a northern song
- from me to you
- chains
- maxwell's silver hammer
- here comes the sun
- glass onion
- ask me why
- sun king
- piggies
- yes it is
- i'll be back
- all you need is love
- it's only love
- doctor robert
- lucy in the sky with diamonds
- twist and shout
- mean mr. mustard
- a hard day's night
- think for yourself
- your mother should know
- till there was you
- misery
- sgt. pepper's lonely hearts club band reprise
- i'm so tired
- love you to
- what you're doing
- octopus's garden
- please mr.postman
- baby it's you
- carry that weight
- a taste of honey
- hello, goodbye
- michelle
- drive my car
- all i've got to do
- baby, you're a rich man
- do you want to know a secret?
- she loves you
- hold me tight
- two of us
- girl
- good day sunshine
- it won't be long
- the fool on the hill
- kansas city / hey, hey, hey, hey
- please please me
- p.s. i love you
- hey jude
- get back
- the long and winding road
- the ballad of john and yoko
- polythene pam
- cry baby cry
- with a little help from my friends
- she's leaving home
- baby's in black
- you won't see me
- fixing a hole
- i will
- got to get you into my life
- in my life
- julia
- because
- golden slumbers
- tell me why
- you like me too much
- all my loving
- blackbird
- i'll follow the sun
- yesterday
- penny lane
- i don't want to spoil the party
- revolution
- yer blues
- good morning good morning
- long tall sally
- back in the u.s.s.r.
- martha my dear
- you really got a hold on me
- you know my name (look up the number)
- every little thing
- it's all too much
- i'm happy just to dance with you
- no reply
- if i needed someone
- the continuing story of bungalow bill
- rain
- everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey
- sgt. pepper's lonely hearts club band
- rocky raccoon
- if i fell
- and i love her
- help!
- this boy
- you can't do that
- sexy sadie
- when i'm sixty-four
- magical mystery tour
- free as a bird
- taxman
- i want you (she's so heavy)
- across the universe
- lady madonna
- she said she said
- the inner light
- eleanor rigby
- mother nature's son
- you're going to lose that girl
- being for the benefit of mr. kite
- when i get home
- paperback writer
- here, there, and everywhere
- hey bulldog
- dig a pony
- happiness is a warm gun
- for you blue
- for no one
- i me mine
- oh! darling
- real love
- nowhere man
- don't let me down
- i've got a feeling
- i am the walrus
- you've got to hide your love away
- we can work it out
- tomorrow never knows
- dear prudence
- within you without you
- norwegian wood (this bird has flown)
- she came in through the bathroom window
- i've just seen a face
- and your bird can sing
- lovely rita
- let it be
- ticket to ride
- i'm looking through you
- old brown shoe
- something
- long, long, long
- while my guitar gently weeps
- honey pie
- you never give me your money
- i need you
- i'm only sleeping
- helter skelter
- blue jay way
- a day in the life
- strawberry fields forever
so statistically speaking, my favorite album would be sgt. pepper's lonely hearts club band, with an average score of 76!
sgt. pepper is followed by revolver (average score of 78), magical mystery tour (86), let it be (90), abbey road (94), help! (97), the beatles (white album) (102), rubber soul (109), a hard day's night (115), beatles for sale (137), please please me (143), and lastly with the beatles (145).
**note: the average score listed for abbey road was calculated slightly differently than all the others, as I decided to score the medley as one song rather than by its individual parts. the average score, when using the scores listed in the ranking above, came to 103.
based on the standard deviation and range of each album, please please me is the most consistently ranked, with 0 songs breaking the top 100 (this is very surprising to me. I love please please me, I think it is so charming and holds up very well! but I guess it just didn't compare to later songs). help! has the most inconsistency, along with let it be and the beatles.
I am not very good at statistics anymore, so this is a pretty basic analysis of my list. I calculated z-scores for everything, but I didn't really know what to do with those!
the white album is my favorite beatles album btw. no matter what the rankings imply.