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“Birthday” by The Beatles

Released 1968

“Birthday” by The Beatles appears on 26 radio countdowns from 12 stations between 1982 and 2025. It was first released in 1968. Its best result is #173 on the KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #7,965 indie & aaa song of all time.

26countdowns
12stations
#173best position
0#1 finishes
0top 10 finishes
1982–2025years charted

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Birthday (Remastered 2009)

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"Birthday" kicks off the third side of the Beatles' 1968 double album, the one the world calls the White Album, and it sounds like what it was: a riff the band invented on the spot at EMI Studios one September night in 1968 and had on tape before the evening was over. The credit reads Lennon and McCartney, mostly Paul's doing, and the two of them holler the lead together.

Midway through, everybody trooped round the corner to McCartney's house to catch The Girl Can't Help It, the 1956 rock and roll picture, on its first British TV airing. With George Martin away, his assistant Chris Thomas ran the date, Ken Scott engineered, and the handclaps pulled in half the room, Yoko Ono, Pattie Boyd and Mal Evans included. McCartney and Ringo Starr dusted it off in 2010 for Starr's 70th birthday at Radio City Music Hall.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

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All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1982 297 95.5 KLOS KLOS Memorial Day 500 (1982) 499
1994 173 KISW KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994) 1000
1997 592 102.3 WBAB WBAB Top 1,023 Rock and Roll Songs of All Time (1997) 1023
1997 274 100.7 WZLX WZLX Memorial 500 (1997) 499
2001 1854 WFPK WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time 2000
2002 259 100.7 WZLX WZLX Memorial 500 (2002) 500
2002 562 92.3 KGON KGON Top 923 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2002) 923
2004 554 92.3 KGON KGON Top 923 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2004) 923
2012 235 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Top 1200 Countdown (2012) 1200
2013 290 Big 100 BIG 500 Labor Day Countdown (2013) 500
2013 501 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Grand Jam 1000 (2013) 1000
2013 285 Big 100 BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2013) 500
2014 903 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX 1K Countdown (2014) 1000
2014 769 Big 100 BIG 1000 New Year's Countdown (2014) 1000
2015 502 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Classic Rock Countdown (2015) 1007
2015 438 I-95 I-95 Memorial Day Weekend Top 500 (2015) 500
2016 296 Big 100 BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2016) 500
2016 967 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Countdown for 2016 1007
2021 283 102.5 WDVE DVE Memorial Day 500 (2021) 500
2021 900 Q104.3 Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2021) 1043
2022 222 WMGK WMGK Philly 500 (2022) 500
2022 735 Q104.3 Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2022) 1043
2023 794 101.5 WPDH WPDH Top 1015 (2023) 1015
2023 949 Q104.3 Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2023) 1043
2024 836 Q104.3 Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2024) 1043
2025 877 Q104.3 Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2025) 1043

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