Meet The Beatles!
by The Beatles

Album
Meet The Beatles! by The Beatles
Year: 1964
Release date: 1964-01-20
Overall rank: 2,495th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 491 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 1964 (16th)
Award Top albums of the 1960s (224th)
Award Best albums of all time (2,495th)

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Meet The Beatles! is ranked 15th 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 55,617.

The Beatles album bestography « Higher ranked (2,180th)
1967-1970 This album (2,495th)
Meet The Beatles! Lower ranked (2,934th) »
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Meet The Beatles! track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Track pick (870 - 143 votes)
I Want To Hold Your Hand
Average Rating: 87 (143 votes)Comments: View 0
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I Saw Her Standing There
Average Rating: 87 (115 votes)Comments: View 0
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This Boy
Average Rating: 78 (56 votes)Comments: View 0
4.
It Won't Be Long
Average Rating: 81 (66 votes)Comments: View 0
5.
All I've Got To Do
Average Rating: 78 (56 votes)Comments: View 1
6.
All My Loving
Average Rating: 85 (102 votes)Comments: View 1
7.
Don't Bother Me
Average Rating: 75 (56 votes)Comments: View 1
8.
Little Child
Average Rating: 71 (57 votes)Comments: View 1
9.
Till There Was You
Average Rating: 77 (58 votes)Comments: View 1
10.
Hold Me Tight
Average Rating: 75 (57 votes)Comments: View 0
11.
I Wanna Be Your Man
Average Rating: 76 (63 votes)Comments: View 0
12.
Not A Second Time
Average Rating: 73 (56 votes)Comments: View 0

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Meet The Beatles! rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 2,495th | 1960s rank: 224th | 1964 rank: 16th

Meet The Beatles! collection

Meet The Beatles! ratings

Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 491 votes)
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65/100
 		03/31/2026 14:32 hunterdietz37  Ratings distribution  6980/100
 
70/100
 		02/20/2026 16:27 LebowskiRams  Ratings distribution  1,41878/100
 
75/100
 		02/12/2026 17:22 Jakor  Ratings distribution  5,38770/100
 
70/100
 		12/20/2025 04:51 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  9,79170/100
 
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 		11/08/2025 04:11 pranafilms  Ratings distribution  23890/100

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This album is rated in the top 5% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.2/100, a mean average of 74.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.8.

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From 01/21/2024 06:05 | #301353
A complete synthesis of Beatlemania. Out of all the albums Capitol messed with between 1964 to 1966, this is just one that works, what with the inclusion of "I Want to Hold Your Hand", "I Saw Her Standing There" and the gorgeous "This Boy". And by including 11 of the boy's original songs, it highlights their early skills as pop writers.
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85/100
From 08/03/2022 14:28 | #288099
Biitles...
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70/100
From 12/03/2020 18:28 | #261898
This would be close to top-tier if the second half was half as strong as the A side.
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85/100
From 09/11/2020 17:02 | #258059
Entrando com os dois pés no peito da América!
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85/100
From 06/13/2020 02:17 | #253402
Good solid album not the best work but representative. Best songs: I Want To Hold Your Hand, I Saw Her Standing There, Don´t Bother Me.
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From 05/10/2020 10:02 | #251186
The weakest? I tend to think so, and rarely listen to the album the whole way through. Love I'm a Loser though and I'll Follow the Sun is early McCartney magic.
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75/100
From 02/22/2020 06:05 | #248124
least best beatles album
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From 07/28/2019 16:31 | #240467
American Beatles albums aren't proper Beatles albums, so I'll skip rating this one.
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Rating:  
90/100
From 04/15/2014 14:51 | #109299
The overwhelming impact in America of "I Want to Hold Your Hand" backed by the superb joyful rocker "I Saw Her Standing There" cannot be disputed. The Beatles new revolution of modernizing rock & roll begins here. But this record is much more than the power of that double-sided single.
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75/100
From 12/26/2013 02:03 | #98781
The album that made british music popular in america
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