Did The Rolling Stones ever beat The Beatles in the charts?
The Beatles and the Rolling Stones are undoubtedly the two biggest groups from the 1960s and maybe even of all time. But did The Stones ever outdo the Fab Four?
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Sat 22 February 2025 18:45, UK
When The Beatles and The Rolling Stones first burst onto the scene in the early 1960s, few would have thought that theyâd still be among the biggest names in world music when they were 64. Now, the surviving members of each group are all much closer to 84, and theyâre still selling out stadiums and arenas around the world, captivating fans from America to Australia and everywhere in between.Â
In fact, they both even recently picked up a Grammy award each, The Beatles winning âBest Rock Performanceâ for âNow and Thenâ, and The Rolling Stones securing the gong for âBest Rock Albumâ for Hackney Diamondsâan album that even features a guest spot from none other than Paul McCartney.
They werenât competing with each other on the night in the same categories, but much has been made over the years of the friendly rivalry that exists between the two bands. Behind closed doors, Kohn Lennon, Paul McCartney and Co were friends with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and the rest of the Stones, but the press loved nothing more than to pit the charming mop tops against the British badboys to sell papers, stories, and, in the process, music.
While the bands were known to fraternise, jam, share songs and pass lyrics between each other, there was a sense of competition between the two biggest groups the British Isles have ever had to offer. They both shared a love of American rock and roll and rhythm and blues, and both infused their own music with the songs that so enthused them (McCartney has even playfully said before that the Stones were just a âa blues cover bandâ, adding that âour net was cast a bit wider than theirsâ), but as tears and the years went by, both bands started pushing the edges and the limits of what could be done with a popular song. Both bands pushed each other on to further frontiers, higher heights and more outrageous arrangements, and in doing so, pushed the whole of modern music forward at the same time.Â
It could be argued that the Stones are the better band, but the Beatles were a bigger phenomenon. It could be argued that the Beatles knew how to better work the studio and the Stones knew how to better work a crowd. In the end, youâre splitting hairsâand whether those hairs come from a Fab Four mop-top or a Jagger and Richards style mullet, it doesnât really matter much.Â
One place where you can more tangibly quantify the successes of the two groups, though, is in the charts. Like Elvis before them, The Beatles dominated the upper echelons of the charts on both sides of the pond. With 17 number-one singles in the UK in the 1960s, nobody hit the top of the pops more than they did. Add to that 10 number-one albums, and you canât deny them the title of the most successful band of all time.
But they werenât without their competition, and, of course, their main rivals for total chart domination came from The Rolling Stones themselves. From May 5th, 1963, up until April 26th, 1964, The Beatles spent a mammoth 51 weeks at the summit of the UK album chartâfirst with Please Please Me (30 weeks) and then With the Beatles (21 weeks)âuntil they were knocked from their perch by the Stonesâ eponymous debut.
Over the course of the next year and a half, only Bob Dylan would interrupt the back-and-forth successes of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, as both his Freewheelinâ and Bringing It All Back Home albums joined A Hard Dayâs Night, Beatles for Sale, and The Rolling Stones No. 2 with stints at the top. Throughout the rest of the decade, the trio would each return to that rarified air with albums like Rubber Soul (Beatles), Aftermath (Stones), Revolver (Beatles), John Wesley Harding (Dylan), as well as Sgt. Pepperâs Lonely Hearts Club Band, Let It Bleed, and Abbey Road.
And their competition spilled over into the singles charts, too, with the Stones knocking Yesterday from the top spot when they released Get Off of My Cloud. The Beatles had the last laugh, though. No other band has had more number ones or sold as many records as they have.
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