Please Please Me was one of the four Beatle songs in the top four positions in the Cashbox survey on March 13th 1964. In a way, the song deserves more airplay than the other three songs, I Want to Hold Your Hand, Twist and Shout and She Loves You, here's why: Almost a year earlier, Please Please Me the song, was the title track of Please Please Me the album in England. The album hit the top of the UK album charts in May 1963 and remained there for thirty weeks before being replaced by With The Beatles. This was an amazing feat because the UK album charts at the time were normally dominated by film soundtracks and easy listening vocalists. The album's amazing success kept the Beatles on the radar eventually gaining the notice of American record execs and leading to the British Invasion.
In 2012, Please Please Me was voted 39th on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". It was ranked first among the Beatles' early albums, and sixth of all of the Beatles' albums, with Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Revolver, Rubber Soul, The Beatles (The White Album) and Abbey Road ranked higher.
Rolling Stone also placed two songs from the album on its list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time: No. 139, "I Saw Her Standing There", and No. 184, "Please Please Me". I consider Please Please Me the greatest forgotten oldie of all time.
