The Beatles

Spotify 20 Years – TURN UP THE VOLUME’s History Results

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18 May 2026

Spotify was founded on April 23, 2006 by two Swedish bussinesmen.

To mark their 20th anniversary, all listeners got a special, fully personalised look
recently, at their entire music history, since their first stream. You can discover the
total number of unique songs you have listened to, the first song you ever streamed
and your all-time most-streamed artist.

All listeners also received their very own All-Time Top Songs Playlist, a collection
of their top 120 tracks, complete with play counts shown, and ready to save to
their library.

You can find more info on Spotify 20.

TURN UP THE VOLUME
History Results

First streamed song
On 12 December 2014
‘Twist It‘ by indie punks MING CITY ROCKERS (Birmingham, UK)


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Number of Streamed Songs.

49, 474

Most Streamed Song

‘Ode To The Meds’ by THE STROKES.
From their 2020 album The New Abnormal.

253 listens in 6 years.


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Most-streamed artist

6,749 minutes, that’s about 112 hours

Amazing Album Artwork – The Red, White And Black LPs

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– THE RED ALBUM –

NINE INCH NAILS NOIZE is the title of the 2nd collaborative full-length by NIN‘s
mastermind Trent Reznor and multi-instrumentalist Atticus Ross and German
electro musician/DJ/producer Boys Noize. It’s out this Friday.

– THE WHITE ALBUM –

The 1968 LP’s was actually named The Beatles but globally named The White Album.

– THE BLACK ALBUM –

Just like The Beatles one, Metallica‘s 1991 LP was titled after the group’s name
Metallica. For obvious reasons, of course, it’s referred to as The Black Album.

JOHN LENNON Said In An Interview 60 Years Ago Today: “THE BEATLES ARE MORE POPULAR THAN JESUS NOW” (Which They Were)

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4 March 2026

60 years ago today, on 4 March 1966, JOHN LENNON‘s said in an interview with British newspaper The London Evening Standard that The Beatles were “more popular than Jesus“.

This quote drew no attention in the UK, but when republished in the US a few months later, angry reactions flared up in Christian communities. Extensive protests broke
out with some radio stations banning Beatles songs, and their records were publicly burned.

Years later…

“Christ, you know it ain’t easy
You know how hard it can be
The way things are going
They’re gonna crucify me”

THE BEATLES Released Hit Single ‘NOWHERE MAN’ Today 60 Years Ago

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Top singles from the past

21 February 2026

THE BEATLES (1960-1970) released NOWHERE MAN, one of the many highlights
of their game-changing LP Rubber Soul as a single in America and Canada, this
day 60 years ago, on 21 February 1966.

The song was written by John Lennon and credited to the Lennon–McCartney
partnership. Both in the US and Canada the song topped the charts.

Lennon reflected in a 1980 Playboy interview: “I’d spent five hours that morning
trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay
down. Then ‘Nowhere Man’ came, words and music, the whole damn thing as I lay
down.

The song is generally credited as being among the first
Beatles ones, not pertaining to themes of romance or love.

“He’s a real nowhere man
Sitting in his nowhere land
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody

Doesn’t have a point of view
Knows not where he’s going to
Isn’t he a bit like you and me?””

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THE BEATLES – Their First Gig Under That Iconic Name Happened Today 65 Years Ago

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9 February 2026

On 9 February 1961, today 65 years ago a band named The Silver Beatles (and before that The Quarrymen) dropped the ‘silver‘ part and played their first ever gig as THE BEATLES.

The historic show was at the legendary basement named
The Cavern Club in their hometown of Liverpool.

While George Harrison was nearly denied admission after arriving in blue jeans, the group performed a lunchtime set, for which they were paid £5. They would play the Liverpool club nearly 300 more times over the following years.

It all happened yesterday.

PAUL MCCARTNEY – New Docu ‘MAN ON THE RUN’ Coming Up

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16 January 2026

MAN ON THE RUN is a new documentary featuring rare unreleased music and footage from PAUL MCCARTNEY. It premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado last August.

Now it’ll get its premiere on streaming TV, on Prime Video, on February 27th.

Man on the Run takes viewers on an intimate journey through Paul McCartney‘s extraordinary life following the break-up of The Beatles and the formation of
Wings with his wife, Linda.

Through unprecedented access to previously unseen footage and rare archival
materials, the documentary captures Paul’s transformative post-Beatles era
through a uniquely vulnerable lens.

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THE BEATLES – Masterpiece ‘RUBBER SOUL’ Came Out 60 Years Ago Today

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Significant longplayers from yesteryear

3 December 2025

THE BEATLES released one of their masterpiece LPs,
with their 6th one RUBBER SOUL, on 3 December 1965,
today 60 years ago.

Pitchfork said: “It’s arguably the most important artistic leap in the Beatles’ career,
the signpost that signalled a shift away from Beatlemania and the heavy demands
of teen pop, toward more introspective, adult subject matter.

It’s also the record that started them on their path toward the valuation of creating
studio records over live performance. If nothing else, it’s the record on which their
desire for artistic rather than commercial ambition took center stage.

A radical idea at a time when the success of popular music
was measured in sales and quantity rather than quality.”

John Lennon: “Rubber Soul was the pot album, and Revolver was acid. I mean, we
weren’t all stoned making Rubber Soul, because in those days we couldn’t work on pot.”

George Harrison: “We all think it’s just about our best LP. I can’t wait for it to
come out. The sleeve’s finished too, and the picture on the front is pretty good!”

Paul McCartney: “The effect was to stretch the perspective and elongate the faces.
We excitedly asked photographer Robert Freeman if it was possible to print the photo
this way. Being Bob, he said, ‘Yes,’ and the cover to our album Rubber Soul was decided.”

Turn Up The Volume: Every note, every chord, every hook, every vocal, every harmony
is spot-on, proving once again they were and still are the world champions of perfect pop gems. All killers, no fillers.

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QUEEN ELIZABETH Honored THE BEATLES With ‘MBE’ Medal Today 60 Years Ago

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26 October 2025

Queen Elizabeth II honored The Beatles with their MBE‘s medals
(Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) – at Buckingham Palace.

According to an account by John Lennon the group smoked marijuana in one of the palace bathrooms to calm their nerves. Many former recipients gave their MBE’s back in protest, to which John Lennon responded: “Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war, for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I’d say we deserve ours more.”