Video: 'I Want To Hold Your Hand (2023 Mix)'

(Friday, November 29, 1963) — The Beatles released their fifth single “I Want to Hold Your Hand“/”This Boy” today in Britain on Parlophone.

Video: 'This Boy (2023 Mix)'

Within a week of its release, “I Want To Hold Your Hand” had reached the number one spot in the singles chart, displacing “She Loves You.”

At that point The Beatles held numbers one and two in both the album and singles chart (the band’s second studio album With The Beatles was released one week ago today).

In 2004, it was ranked number 16 on Rolling Stone‘s list of “The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.”

The song would be released on Capitol in the U.S. on Dec. 26, 1963.