From Mariah Carey and Taylor Swift to legendary icons like the Rolling Stones and Elvis Presley, countless artists have topped the Billboard charts—but only one holds the record for the most No. 1 singles and albums.

Billboard released its list of which music acts have the most Billboard 200 and Hot 100 No.1s in history combined, with the winner at the very top, none other than the Beatles. Based on the charts to July 18, 2026, they concluded that the legendary rock band has surpassed other hit icons like Michael Jackson, Madonna, and even band memberPaul McCartney/Wings.

Since their start in Liverpool in 1960, the Beatles have been reported to have had 20 No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart during their career. As well as 19 No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 chart. In retrospect, the band released 12-13 albums during their run, with Billboard including a few hit soundtracks in their list.

Their list of No. 1 albums includes the very beginning with Meet the Beatles! and all the way up until Anthology 3. The last album was released in 1996 as a compilation and catalogs tracks from the final two years of the band, from the initial sessions for The White Album to sessions from Let It Be and Abbey Road in the late '60s to the start of 1970.

Their hit albums also include soundtracks to what many consider to be some of the best rock movies of all time, like A Hard Day's Night and Help! The soundtracks for the TV film Magical Mystery Tour and the documentary Let It Be are also included.

Source: yahoo.com/Gabriela Silva

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When Philip Norman was working on “Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation,” his landmark 1981 biography of the Beatles, writing about pop music was seen as a little disreputable. “I was told I was mad,” he said. “I didn’t like to mention the word ‘Beatles.’ I was embarrassed.” Today, it’s a much different landscape, and books about pop music are big business.

Books about the Beatles are still best sellers, even more than 50 years since the band broke up. There are scholarly, sober books such as Mark Lewisohn’s “All These Years,” whose first, nearly 800-page volume takes the story only up to 1962, the cleaned-up, bowdlerized history in Hunter Davies’ authorized 1968 “The Beatles” and sordid, sensationalist tripe like Albert Goldman’s “The Lives of John Lennon.” Wikipedia currently lists 43 books about the band, and that doesn’t include books by people who worked with the Beatles, such as “All You Need Is Ears,” by George Martin.

One figure that has been left behind is Brian Epstein, the Beatles’ gay, Jewish manager. With “Mr. Moonlight: Brian Epstein and the Making of the Beatles,” Norman aims to redress the omission. Even though he was responsible for much of the Beatles’ career from 1962 until his death at the age of 32 in 1967, there hasn’t been a substantial biography of Epstein since Ray Coleman’s 1989 book.

Source: jewishjournal.com/Steven Mirkin

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Paul McCartney performed a surprise show on the Ed Sullivan Theater marquee in New York.

McCartney was at the theater to appear on The Late Show with David Letterman. His appearance took place 45 years after The Beatles made their debut at the same theater on The Ed Sullivan Show.

McCartney treated the crowd gathered on the streets of New York to seven songs, including “Get Back,” “Sing The Changes,” “Coming Up,” “Band On The Run,” “Let Me Roll It,” “Helter Skelter” and “Back In The U.S.S.R.”

McCartney returned to the Ed Sullivan Theater in May for the final episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Source: 977theriver.com

Sometimes rock stars are going to geek out just like we do, and with an event as big as this one, it makes sense someone like Paul McCartney would have to see it. Of course, I'm talking about Bon Jovi's return to the stage after lead singer Jon Bon Jovi's massive vocal surgery.

The band haven't been active since 2022, when Bon Jovi needed to undergo a major vocal surgery after his voice was beginning to decay. The recent set of shows at Madison Square Garden have been the band's first shows in a long time, and fans have been absolutely delighted.  As it turns out, "fans" includes former Beatle Paul McCartney, who was spotted in attendance at one of the recent Bon Jovi shows in New York.

Not only is he there, but he looks pretty into it! Pointing on beat with the song while also singing along with the crowd is super relatable. It's awesome to see that such a legend can let go and enjoy himself at a show like this.  Fans felt similarly, being super charmed by seeing McCartney let go and just be a fan in the crowd like the rest of us. Taking to the comments, they shared their thoughts.

"That's a big compliment having Sir Paul McCartney at your concert, and his wife is totally jamming along to what ever song is being played."  "You don't even know how lovely and important this is to me. I grew up absolutely loving the Beatles, especially Paul McCartney along with Bon Jovi right next to them. This is amazing!"

"And he's actually watching the concert instead of watching it through the lens of his phone."  Bon Jovi's return has been a musical event for all, and the celebration shows no signs of stopping. We're lucky to have such an iconic group back in action.

Source: yahoo.com/Rylan Fischer

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr recently recorded their first duet on the song “Home to Us,” which appears on Mr. McCartney’s new album “The Boys of Dungeon Lane,” news outlets report.

Mr. Starr initially joined Mr. McCartney to play drums on his album but ended up sharing full vocal credits with Mr. McCartney for the first time in their more than 50-year solo careers after The Beatles’ breakup in 1970.

Mr. Starr told People magazine at his 86th birthday event that although they’d sung on each other’s tracks before as fellow bandmates, this was the first time they’d done a song together “like a couple.”

The song reflects on their working-class Liverpool roots, with Mr. McCartney referencing Mr. Starr’s upbringing in England’s rough Dingle neighborhood.

In a statement, Mr. McCartney said the song reflects the theme of rising up from humble beginnings, recalling that Mr. Starr “used to get mugged coming home,” because he worked.

“Home to Us” is the second single released from the album, following “Days We Left Behind.”

Source: washingtontimes.com/Juliet La Sala

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Mick Jagger: I stupidly took John Lennon’s advice not to meet Elvis

Stones singer says Beatle put him off speaking to Presley after being disappointed by ‘the King’. It was the great rock and roll encounter that never happened.

The two hip-swivelling singers – one British, one American – could have talked for hours about their musical influences, rabid fans and, of course, colourful love lives.

Yet when Sir Mick Jagger had the chance to meet Elvis Presley, he did the unthinkable and turned it down, after “stupidly” taking advice from another music legend: John Lennon. The Rolling Stones singer has revealed that the Beatle had warned him not to meet his hero after his own disappointing encounter with Presley.

Sir Mick, 82, said the Beatles had been introduced to Presley in Los Angeles, and Lennon had been so underwhelmed he told him more than once he should avoid meeting the King.

Sir Mick said he did not want to shatter his illusion of what Elvis would be like, but admitted he had made the wrong decision.

He said on the Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast: “No, I never met Elvis. You know why? I’ll tell you why. There was a showbiz journalist, I can’t remember his name, but he was famous at the time, and he took the Beatles in Los Angeles to visit Elvis. And there’s pictures of this.

“So they went up to Elvis’s house and his pool. They don’t remember anything. But I remember John telling me: ‘You know you should never meet your heroes, I would never meet Elvis, Mick, if I were you.’ And so I didn’t.”

Source: telegraph.co.uk/Telegraph Reporters

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