The Beatles: All US Number Ones Ranked Worst To Best

13. Eight Days a Week

7th Number One, 1965 - Written by John Lennon & Paul McCartney

While I Feel Fine was the first recorded song to feature guitar feedback, Eight Days a Week was the first to start on a fade-in technique, building up to the sung portion. The title, yet another malapropism that has entered the English lexicon, came from something Paul heard a chauffeur saying.

While the song starts with the cool fade-in, it stays on the same level from there on out, never amounting to anything bigger, and the repetitive lyrics get old after a while. But it is one of their catchiest tunes.

Fun Fact: Eight Days a Week may have been the band's seventh number one on Billboard, but it was the eighth in its competitors at the time, Cash Box and Record World, since Twist and Shout had also topped those charts, but placed in the runner-up spot on Billboard. Eight Days a Week being the eighth number one has a better ring to it.

Contributor

Renato hails from Portugal but is obsessed with the US and UK charts, because why not? He also writes books with dozens of protagonists and will be remiss if you can't remember every single one of their names.