Help!
by The Beatles

Help! by The Beatles
(Soundtrack album)
Year: 1965
Release date: 1965-08-06
Overall rank: 234th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
81/100 (from 1,965 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 5 albums of 1965 (5th)
Award Top 50 albums of the 1960s (38th)
Award Top 500 albums of all time (234th)

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Help! is ranked 9th best out of 71 albums by The Beatles on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Beatles is Abbey Road which is ranked number 3 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 55,396.

The Beatles album bestography « Higher ranked (223rd)
A Hard Day's Night
This album (234th)
Help!
Lower ranked (432nd) »
Please Please Me

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  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Overall rank: 234th | 1960s rank: 38th | 1965 rank: 5th
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2026 junodog4Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s61/1008
2026adbrack1988Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s70/1006
2026 JMGL95Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s30/10014
2026 Patman360Top 50 Music Albums of 196543/501
2026 flamingyesdeptTop 100 Music Albums of the 1960s84/1003
2026 RomanelliTop 100 Music Albums of the 1960s20/10016
2026CjHubb117Top 28 Music Albums of the 1960s5/2817
2026fabm0List Zone 12 Europe British Isles 255/100 -
2026PavlossTop 50 Music Albums of the 1960s11/5016
2026 DaydreamerTop 26 Music Albums of 19654/264
2026saltysurpriseTop 18 Music Albums of 19655/184
2026gregthealienTop 100 Music Albums of the 1960s43/10012
2026GendjarTop 100 Greatest Music Albums10/10090
2026pinkfreud1981Top 55 Music Albums of the 1960s36/557
2026LittleM1971Greatest Music Albums: 501-60041/100 -
2026 JoaoMoreiraTop 43 Greatest Music Albums7/4383
2026stangetzawayTop 19 Music Albums of 19658/193
2026matterhornriderTop 100 Greatest Music Albums83/10018
2026SkernsTop 31 Music Albums of 196518/312
2026Garyf1972The Beatles Albums Rated8/12 -
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 991
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 6,756
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Average Rating: 
81/100 (from 1,965 votes)
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06/13/2026 23:03 classicjoe  Ratings distribution  47178/100
 
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06/06/2026 10:06 lvillela  Ratings distribution  12293/100
 
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05/28/2026 19:38 Leonard  Ratings distribution  6,59070/100
 
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05/10/2026 19:21 emnasut  Ratings distribution  15387/100
 
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05/08/2026 15:11 michelefarina  Ratings distribution  6586/100

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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 81.2/100, a mean average of 79.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 81.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.6.

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From 06/20/2025 23:37 | #309628
this is one of the greatest albums ever made.
the songs are incredibly good. except for the
last one. I didnt like that one
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75/100
From 02/06/2025 09:57 | #307423
This album was shortlisted at the 1966 Grammys for album of the year. The winner that year was September Of My Years by Frank Sinatra
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90/100
From 01/10/2025 10:12 | #306889
If there were possibly an underrated album release by The Beatles, it would probably be this one. A fun movie but a superb album containing a perfect mixture of great songs. There is perhaps one slightly weaker track which is compensated by Yesterday, still one of their best ever songs. A Hard Days Night was the better movie, this was the better soundtrack!
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45/100
From 10/20/2023 19:26 | #299572
Some classics on here. Help, Yesterday, Ticket To Ride, You've Got To Hide Your Love Away, You're Gonna Lose That Girl. Not as good as Abbey Road, Revolver, Let It Be or The White Album for me, but I personally prefer it to Sgt Peppers and Rubber Soul.
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75/100
From 04/16/2023 23:19 | #296141
Right now, not a bad album, but my least favorite. It's still very good, but I'm just not quite there with it.
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100/100
From 12/24/2022 17:35 | #292175
while the lyrics and george have yet to mature as seen in later albums, musically this album can compete with most other beatles' albums.
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Rating:  
80/100
From 08/06/2022 17:54 | #288181
Best Songs: Help, The Night Before, I Need You, Ticket to Ride, I've Just Seen a Face, and Yesterday.
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80/100
From 01/17/2022 19:36 | #279601
Second best Beatles album from pre-Rubber Soul era. Help, Yesterday, Ticket To Ride, The Night Before are the best ones and there are few more good tracks, but there is a couple of filler ones too.
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95/100
From 12/27/2021 08:39 | #278034
La mayoría considera Rubber Soul el disco del cambio, pero yo creo que es en este álbum donde se produce el punto de inflexión en canciones como Help, You've Got To Hide Your Love Away, Yesterday... Y se muestran pioneros del country rock con su versión de Act Naturally.
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75/100
From 11/15/2021 19:33 | #276315
This album is, for me, WAY above their other very early material, and features one of the greatest tracks of all time in Yesterday.
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