![Album cover of Please Please Me, with the four Beatles looking over a modern stairway railing](/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/please-please-me-album-cover-photo-730x727.jpg)
Please Please Me, the debut album of The Beatles, was released 50 years ago — on March 22, 1963.
Our friends at InfoPlease have put together a handsome feature, complete with Beatles by the Numbers (1.6 billion singles sold in the U.S. alone) and a ranking of their most influential songs (“A Day in the Life” comes in at a surprising #2).