The Beatles
I Want to Hold Your Hand





Release Year: 1963

Rankings:
All-Time #84 / 1960s #32 / 1963 #3

Genres: Merseybeat
Parent Genres: Beat Music, Pop, Pop Rock, Rock


Best of All-time Lists, Best of Decade Lists, etc.
Barnes & Noble.com (USA) - The Best Music of the 20th Century (1999) No Order
Bruce Pollock (USA) - The 7,500 Most Important Songs of 1944-2000 (2005) No Order
CMT (USA) - Impact: Songs That Changed the World (2002) No Order
Dave Marsh & Kevin Stein (USA) - The 40 Best of the Top 40 Singles by Year (1981) 8
Entertainment Weekly (USA) - The Beatles' 50 Best Songs (2009) 43
Grammy Hall of Fame Albums and Songs (USA) No Order
Greil Marcus (USA) - STRANDED: "Treasure Island" Singles (1979) No Order
Jim Beviglia (USA) - Counting Down The Beatles: Their 100 Finest Songs (2017) 34
Paste (USA) - The 50 Best Beatles Songs (2015) 42
Paste Magazine (USA) - The 100 Best Songs of the 1960s (2016) 42
Pause & Play (USA) - 10 Songs of the 60's (2003) No Order
Pitchfork (USA) - Top 200 Songs of the 60s (2006) 58
RIAA and NEA (USA) - 365 Songs of the Century (2001) 28
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (USA) - 500 Songs That Shaped Rock (1995) No Order
Rolling Stone & MTV (USA) - The 100 Greatest Pop Songs Since the Beatles (2000) 6
Rolling Stone (USA) - 40 Songs That Changed the World (2007) No Order
Rolling Stone (USA) - The 100 Best Singles of the Last 25 Years (1988) 3
Rolling Stone (USA) - The 100 Greatest Beatles Songs (2010) 2
Rolling Stone (USA) - The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (2004) 16
Rolling Stone (USA) - The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (Updated 2010) 16
San Antonio Express-News (USA) - Rock 'n' roll timeline (2004) No Order
Stephen Spignesi and Michael Lewis (USA) - The 100 Best Beatles Songs (2004) 20
Steve Sullivan (USA) - Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings Volumes 1-4 (2013, 2017) 101-200
TIME (USA) - The All-Time 100 Songs (2011) No Order
Time-Life (USA) - Rock & Roll: The Stories Behind the Songs (2017) No Order
Ultimate Classic Rock (USA) - Top 50 Beatles Songs (2014) 9
VH1 (USA) - The 100 Greatest Songs of All Time (2000) 23
Charlie Gillett (UK) - Sound Of The City: Playlist 1946-1971 (1983) No Order
HarperCollins GEM (UK) - Single of the Year 1949-99 (1999) No Order
Mark Ellingham (USA) - The Rough Guide Book of Playlists: 5,000 Songs You Must Download (2007) No Order
Mojo (UK) - The 100 Greatest Singles of All Time (1997) 14
Mojo (UK) - The 100 Records That Changed the World (2007) 2
Mojo (UK) - The 101 Greatest Tracks by The Beatles (2006) 14
NME (UK) - Classic Singles (magazine feature 2006-2007) No Order
NME (UK) - The 100 Greatest Beatles Songs (2015) 3
NME (UK) - The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (2014) 156
NME (UK) - The Top 100 Singles of All Time (2002) 96
NME (UK) - The Top 150 Singles of All Time (1987) 85
Q (UK) - 100 Songs That Changed the World (2003) 2
The Guardian (UK) - 1000 Songs Everyone Must Hear (2009) No Order
Uncut (UK) - The 50 Greatest Beatles Tracks (2001) 17
Zig Zag (UK) - Gillett & Frith's Hot 100 Singles (1975) No Order
Gary Pig Gold (Canada) - The 40 Most Influental Records of the 20th Century (1999) No Order
Now & Then (Sweden) - The Beatles' 50 Best Songs (1992) 46
Berlin Media (Germany) - The 100 Best Singles of All Time (1998) 25
Hartbeat! (Germany) - Top 100 Singles by 15 Critics (1997) 225
Rolling Stone (Germany) - The 100 Greatest Beatles Songs (2009) 55
Rolling Stone (Germany) - The 500 Best Songs of All Time (2004) 37
Zounds (Germany) - The Top 30 Songs of All Time + Top 10 by Decade (1992) 24
Gilles Verlant and Thomas Caussé (France) - 3000 Rock Classics (2009, update 2013) No Order
Hervé Bourhis (France) - Le Petit Livre Rock: The Juke Box Singles 1950-2012 No Order
Rolling Stone (France) - The 100 Best Singles of the Last 25 Years (1988) 14
El Pais (Spain) - 100 Musicians Choose 100 Songs That Changed Their Lives (2009) 92
Rocks Musiczine (Spain) - The 100 Best Rock Songs in History (1995) 79
Toby Creswell (Australia) - 1001 Songs (2005) No Order
Toby Creswell (Australia) - Rockwiz Decades: The Greatest Songs of Our Time (2015) No Order
Giannis Petridis (Greece) - 2004 of the Best Songs of the Century (2003) No Order
End of Year Lists
Grammy Awards (USA) - Record of the Year Nominee