If, as they are saying, imitation is the best type of flattery, then the Beatles needs to be exceptionally honored. Over the course of years, their songs have been lined by a whole bunch upon a whole bunch of artists hailing from every kind of musical genres.

In the beneath checklist, we’re looking on the 20 Most-Covered Beatles Songs, utilizing knowledge from secondhandsongs.com. Of course, these numbers are prone to shift with the passage of time, and it is frankly unattainable to account for each single Beatles cowl in existence when they’re recorded so constantly, however as of Oct. 23, 2024, these are the highest 20, with every entry accompanied by one cowl instance.

20. “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da”
From: The White Album (1968)
Number of Covers: 323

Pretty a lot instantly after the Beatles launched the White Album in November of 1968, its songs began to be lined by different artists, together with Paul McCartney’s “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da.” Some acts had minor hits with their covers — for instance the Bedrocks, a West Indian band from the U.Ok., had theirs go to No. 20 on the Record Retailer chart.

19. “Help!”
From: Help! (1965)
Number of Covers: 325

The British lady group Bananarama determined to take the title “Help!” fairly actually once they recorded a canopy of the music in 1989 with the comedians French & Saunders and Kathy Burke. The cowl was used that 12 months as a Red Nose Day single to boost cash for Comic Relief and wound up a No. 3 hit within the U.Ok.

18. “Can’t Buy Me Love”
From: A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
Number of Covers: 360

There’s one thing slightly present business-y about “Can’t Buy Me Love.” Ella Fitzgerald acknowledged this and introduced that feeling to her cowl of it, which was included on her 1964 album Hello, Dolly. It reached the No. 34 spot on the U.Ok. singles chart.

17. “A Hard Day’s Night”
From: A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
Number of Covers: 366

Peter Sellers’ 1965 model of “A Hard Day’s Night” isn’t your atypical rock ‘n’ roll cowl. It’s in spoken phrase type, however however, it was a Top 20 hit in England that 12 months.

16. “The Long and Winding Road”
From: Let It Be (1970)
Number of Covers: 367

When McCartney wrote “The Long and Winding Road,” he had a selected particular person in thoughts. “I just sat down at my piano in Scotland, started playing and came up with that song, imagining it was going to be done by someone like Ray Charles,” he mentioned to the Sunday Herald in 2003. Charles did certainly file the music for his 1971 album Volcanic Action of My Soul.

15. (*20*)
From: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
Number of Covers: 419

You could already be conversant in Joe Cocker’s blistering model of “With a Little Help From My Friends,” however would possibly we direct your consideration to Santana’s rendition, which surfaced on the 2012 field set The Anthology ’68-’69 – The Early San Francisco Years.

14. “The Fool on the Hill”
From: Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
Number of Covers: 430

Sergio Mendes helped to carry bossa nova music to wider audiences within the late ’60s and into the early ’70s, partly by recording songs like “The Fool on the Hill.” With a lead vocal by Lani Hall, this 1968 model went to No. 6 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.

13. “In My Life”
From: Rubber Soul (1965)
Number of Covers: 435

Judy Collins at all times had a knack for decoding the work of others — typically even earlier than the unique author dedicated the music to tape. And not solely did she file the Beatles’ “In My Life,” she additionally titled the album it appeared on after the music. “[The Beatles’ songs] were spellbinding,” Collins instructed Salon in 2020. “Enchanting, singable, accessible, beautiful and harmonic.”

12. “Here Comes the Sun”
From: Abbey Road (1969)
Number of Covers: 462

George Harrison’s “Here Comes the Sun” has the excellence of being not solely one of many most-covered Beatles songs, but in addition the most-streamed Beatles music on Spotify. Below is Nina Simone’s 1971 model of the music, a young recording with a fragile string association.

11. “Come Together”
From: Abbey Road (1969)
Number of Covers: 497

When Tina Turner will get a maintain of your music, be careful — it can by no means be heard the identical once more. She and then-husband Ike Turner first began performing the music reside within the fall of 1969, not very lengthy after the Beatles launched it on Abbey Road. Their interpretation was so well-received {that a} studio model was rush-released in December of that 12 months.

10. “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)”
From: Rubber Soul (1965)
Number of Covers: 510

Ever surprise what “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)” would possibly sound like if a rustic singer put their spin on it? Look no additional than Waylon Jennings’ 1966 model. “You would have thought that John Lennon and Paul McCartney had custom-written the song to be sung by a wanderlust character like Waylon,” Jennings’ spouse, Jessi Colter, wrote in her 2017 autobiography, An Outlaw and a Lady.

9. “And I Love Her”
From: A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
Number of Covers: 574

For some cause, Beatles songs work awfully nicely for reggae bands. Take, for instance, Bob Marley and the Wailers’ 1965 cowl of “And I Love Her.” At that time, the Wailers had been nonetheless very a lot within the early levels of their profession, nonetheless a couple of years away from changing into worldwide stars.

8. “Here, There and Everywhere”
From: Revolver (1966)
Number of Covers: 579

If you’ll be able to look previous the tacky, basic ’80s vibe to Billy Preston’s cowl of “Here, There and Everywhere” — and we actually encourage you to take action — you may discover it is really fairly an trustworthy rendition. And who higher to present a Beatles music a go than Preston, who was usually thought of a fifth member of the band?

7. “Blackbird”
From: The White Album (1968)
Number of Covers: 588

Crosby, Stills & Nash first tried their collective hand at “Blackbird” in February of 1969 throughout periods for his or her debut album, however it was not formally launched till the 1991 field set CSN. The Beatles, naturally, had been an infinite affect on every of the members of CSN. Or as Graham Nash put it within the 2012 ebook 101 Essential Rock Records: The Golden Age of Vinyl, From the Beatles to the Sex Pistols: “The Beatles opened up the door and we all ran through it.”

6. “Michelle”
From: Rubber Soul (1965)
Number of Covers: 592

Often occasions, covers of Beatles songs would pop up inside the similar 12 months the unique recording was launched – name it the Beatles impact, an effort to capitalize on the world’s most well-known band’s success. And many of those covers, together with the beneath model of “Michelle” by the British duo David and Jonathan, had been additionally hits. Theirs went to No. 1 in Canada, and the Top 20 in each the U.S. and U.Ok.

5. “Hey Jude”
From: 1968 Single
Number of Covers: 595

How becoming that after inspiring the Beatles within the first place, Elvis Presley would cowl one in every of their most well-known songs, “Hey Jude.” This model was included on his 1972 album Elvis Now. (An honorable point out ought to actually go to Wilson Pickett’s 1968 model of the music, which featured a younger Duane Allman on guitar.)

4. “Something”
From: Abbey Road (1969)
Number of Covers: 597

You know you have written a mighty effective music when the likes of Tony Bennett, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson and plenty of a whole bunch extra cowl it. Harrison’s “Something” has that honor, a composition Sinatra himself referred to as “one of the best love songs I believe to be written in 50 or 100 years.”

3. “Let It Be”
From: Let It Be (1970)
Number of Covers: 611

If you are enthusiastic about extra, we’ve got an entire checklist of “Let It Be” covers, however for now, here is Bill Withers’ surprisingly upbeat model. This appeared on Withers’ 1971 debut album, Just As I Am. McCartney later returned the favor when he lined “Ain’t No Sunshine” for his 1991 reside album Unplugged (The Official Bootleg).

2. “Eleanor Rigby”
From: Revolver (1966)
Number of Covers: 752

The cool factor about covers of “Eleanor Rigby” is that they honestly run the gamut of musical types. You’ve received artists like Joan Baez and John Denver on the one hand, however then Joe Jackson and the Jerry Garcia Band on the opposite.

1. “Yesterday”
From: Help! (1965)
Number of Covers: 1,170

Where does one even start when there are over 1,000 cowl variations of a music? Such is the case with “Yesterday.” Among the checklist of those that have taken a stab on the iconic quantity: The Supremes, Willie Nelson, Tom Jones, Marvin Gaye, Dionne Warwick, Dr. John, Michael Bolton, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan and so many extra.