Video: 'Meet the Beatles! (Full Album)' (12 clips)

(Saturday, February 1, 1964) — Meet the Beatles! by The Beatles debuted at #92 on Billboard‘s 200 album charts.

It was the first album by the rock band from Liverpool, England, to appear on Billboard‘s top albums chart.

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The cover featured Robert Freeman’s iconic portrait of the Beatles used in the United Kingdom for With the Beatles, with a blue tint added to the original stark black-and-white photograph.

Despite the “first album” claim on the Meet the Beatles! cover, ten days prior to its release, Vee-Jay Records of Chicago beat Capitol to the punch with the release on Jan. 10, 1964 of The Beatles’ American debut album Introducing… The Beatles, which had been delayed for release for various reasons since the previous summer.