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Rubber Soul by The Beatles
Rubber Soul is an album by The Beatles, released in 1965. 7 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 107 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “In My Life”, on 45 lists with a best position of #4.
Rubber Soul, the Beatles' sixth album, hit British shops on Parlophone on 3 December 1965, and it's the record where the Fab Four stopped cranking out product and started making albums. For the first time they had no tours, radio dates or films to squeeze in around the sessions, and in four weeks in London from October 1965, with George Martin producing, they cut a set of songs that mixed pop, soul and folk with brighter guitar tones, sitar, harmonium and fuzz bass. The title nods to "plastic soul", their joke about how inauthentic they sounded next to the African-American soul artists they loved. "In My Life" aches gently, "Norwegian Wood" drifts on that sitar, "Drive My Car" bounces with a cheeky grin and "Nowhere Man" chimes. It topped the charts in Britain and America for weeks, and the rest of pop was soon chasing the idea of an album with no filler.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Rubber Soul on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In My Life | 45 | #4 | – | 1991–2026 | |
| 2 | Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) | 23 | #44 | – | 1982–2026 | |
| 3 | Nowhere Man | 18 | #10 | – | 1997–2025 | |
| 4 | Drive My Car | 10 | #26 | – | 1982–2024 | |
| 5 | Michelle | 7 | #227 | – | 1982–2026 | |
| 6 | I'm Looking Through You | 3 | #723 | – | 2001–2004 | |
| 7 | If I Needed Someone | 1 | #742 | – | 2004 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.