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APPENDIX C:
'Yesterday' on the Charts
Britain: Singles
By Matt Monro
Entered the Record Retailer Top 50 on 21 October 1965 and peaked at number 8, leaving the chart after twelve weeks. It peaked at 6 on the NME chart.
By Marianne Faithfull
Entered the Record Retailer Top 50 on 4 November 1965 and peaked at number 36, leaving the chart after four weeks.
By Ray Charles
Entered the Record Retailer Top 50 on 20 December 1967 and peaked at number 44, leaving the chart after four weeks.
By the Beatles
Entered the Music Week Top 50 on 13 March 1976 and peaked at number 8, leaving the chart after seven weeks. Positions were 41, 17, 10, 8, 9, 13, 18. It peaked at 5 on the NME chart and 4 on the Melody Maker chart.
Britain: EPs
By the Beatles
Entered the Record Retailer Top 20 on 10 March 1966 and peaked at number 1, staying at number 1 for eight weeks and leaving the chart after thirteen weeks (by which point the chart had been reduced in size to a Top 10).
The USA: Singles
By the Beatles
Entered the Billboard Hot 100 on 25 September 1965 and peaked at number 1, staying at number 1 for four weeks and leaving the chart after eleven weeks. Positions were 45, 3, 1 (it displaced 'Hang On Sloopy' by the McCoys), 1, 1, 1, 3 (it was displaced by 'Get off of My Cloud' by the Rolling Stones), 11, 13, 26, 45, and then out. It also peaked at 1 on the Cashbox (for 3 weeks), Variety (for 3 weeks) and Record World (for 2 weeks) charts.
By Ray Charles
Entered the Billboard Hot 100 on 11 November 1967 and peaked at number 25, leaving the chart after seven weeks. Positions were 62, 51, 41, 25, 25, 25, 54, and then out.
As an Album Track: 'Yesterday' on the Charts
Britain
By the Beatles
The album Help! entered the Record Retailer Top 20 on 14 August 1965 and peaked at number 1, staying at number 1 for nine weeks (it was displaced by the soundtrack for The Sound of Music, enjoying its second spell at the top; this, in turn, was displaced by the Beatles' next album, Rubber Soul) and leaving the chart after thirty-seven weeks. It subsequently re-entered the by-now-renamed Music Week chart for two weeks in 1971, and two more in 1987, making forty-one weeks in total. It also peaked at 1 on the Melody Maker and NME charts.
The album A Collection of Beatles Oldies entered the Record Retailer Top 40 on 10 December 1966 and peaked at number 7, leaving the chart after thirty-four weeks. It peaked at 4 on the Melody Maker chart and 6 on the NME chart.
The album 1962-1966 entered the Music Week Top 50 on 5 May 1973 and peaked at 3, leaving the chart after 148 weeks (by which time the chart had become a Top 75). It re-entered when the title was reissued on CD in 1993 and peaked at 3. The original issue peaked at 1 on the Melody Maker and NME charts.
The album Love Songs entered the Music Week Top 60 on 17 December 1977 and peaked at number 7, leaving the chart after seventeen weeks. It peaked at 12 on the NME chart.
The album The Beatles Ballads entered the Music Week Top 75 on 15 November 1980 and peaked at 17, leaving the chart after sixteen weeks. It peaked at 21 on the NME chart.
By Paul McCartney
The album Wings Over America entered the Music Week Top 60 on 15 January 1977 and peaked at 8, leaving the chart after twenty-two weeks. It also peaked at 8 on the Melody Maker and NME charts.
The album Give My Regards to Broad Street entered the Music Week Top 100 on 3 November 1984 and peaked at number 1, staying at number 1 for one week (it was displaced by Welcome to the Pleasure Dome by Frankie Goes to Hollywood) and leaving the chart after twenty-one weeks. It peaked at 3 on the NME chart.
The album Tripping the Live Fantastic entered the Music Week Top 75 on 17 November 1990 and peaked at number 17, leaving the chart after eleven weeks. It peaked at 10 on the NME chart.
The USA
The album Yesterday . . . And Today entered the Billboard Top 200 on 9 July 1966 and peaked at number 1, staying at number 1 for five weeks and leaving the chart after thirty-one weeks. Positions were 120, 18, 2, 1 (it displaced Strangers in the Night by Frank Sinatra), 1, 1, 1, 1, 2 (it was displaced by the Beatles' next album, Revolver), 7, 8, 15, 19, 30, 39, 39, 42, 48, 45, 49, 51, 56, 63, 72, 108, 118, 130, 132, 134, 138, 136 and then out. It also peaked at 1 on the Cashbox and Record World charts.
The album 1962-1966 entered the Billboard Top 200 on 14 April 1973 and peaked at number 3, leaving the chart after seventy-seven weeks. Positions were 94, 23, 9, 6, 4, 3, 3, 5, 5, 5, 11, 13, 17, 17, 20, 21, 24, 29, 39, 49, 47, 49, 52, 57, 60, 64, 68, 72, 84, 86, 88, 111, 111, 110, 124, 123, 120, 115, 113, 109, 108, 119, 122, 124, 126, 129, 129, 134, 137, 131, 125, 119, 111, 116, 123, 120, 128, 144, 140, 132, 134, 130, 126, 128, 124, 118, 123, 132, 136, 129, 126, 137, 147, 154, 181, 193, 200 then out. It peaked at 1 on the Cashbox chart and 4 on the Record World chart.
The album Love Songs peaked at number 24 on the Billboard Top 200 chart. It peaked at 28 on the Cashbox and 36 on the Record World charts.
By Paul McCartney
The album Wings Over America peaked at number 1 on the Billboard Top 200 (it displaced Hotel California by the Eagles and was displaced by the Barbra Streisand soundtrack for A Star Is Born), staying at number 1 for just 1 week. It peaked at 2 on the Cashbox and 3 on the Record World charts.
The album Give My Regards to Broad Street peaked at number 21 on the Billboard Top 200 chart.
The album Tripping the Live Fantastic peaked at number 26 on the Billboard Top 200 chart.
Reports compiled by Mark Lewisohn.
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