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For Americans in the full grip of Beatlemania, this was the first album they could buy. Now out of print, Meet took the Fabs' second British record, With the Beatles, dropped five covers and added three tracks, including the singles "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "I Saw Her Standing There." (This arguably made a hash of the Beatles' artistic intentions yet made for a much better record.) Although a great number of songs in the Lennon-McCartney catalog aren't collaborations, the two wrote "I Want to Hold Your Hand" together on a piano in the basement of Jane Asher, Paul McCartney's actress girlfriend -- as John Lennon put it, "eyeball to eyeball."
Total album sales: 5.7 million
Peak chart position: 1