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This month marks 50 years since the release of Beatles' Abbey Road album; the last album they recorded together – though not the last one they released.

To mark the occasion, we've teamed up with BBC Radio 2 to reveal which of The Beatles' songs are being listened to most in the digital era of downloads and streaming.

The Fab Four's Official UK Chart history takes in 38 Top 40 hits, of which 28 went Top 10, with 17 of those going to Number 1. Six of their songs are million-sellers, but when it comes to the digital age, how do those hits hold up? Brilliantly, there's a HUGE shock at the top.

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The most popular Beatles' song on streaming services is not your typical Fab Four track – Paul McCartney isn't on lead vocals, John Lennon doesn't appear on the track at all, neither of them wrote it, and it wasn't even a hit! The honour goes to the uplifting Here Comes The Sun, written and sung by George Harrison, and a staple of any summer playlist.

It's amassed 50.3 million streams, way ahead of its nearest rival, plus 164,000 downloads. Here Comes The Sun is an album track – featuring on Abbey Road – and was never an official single, but it did finally get to chart in 2010, when the Beatles' back catalogue was finally made available to download, peaking at 58.

In second is the band's last single from their main period of success, Let it Be, with 26 million plays and 159,000 downloads.

Placing third is singalong classic Hey Jude, one of the band's later Number 1s, spending two weeks at the top in September 1968. Fourth is another Beatles song to miss the top, the much-covered Come Together, originally released as a double-A side with fellow Abbey Road track Something (15th place), which, like Here Comes the Sun, was penned by George Harrison. It peaked at Number 4 in November 1969.

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Taking fifth place is Twist and Shout, a cover that appeared on their first album Please Please Me that was first made chart hit as a single by the Isley Brothers.

Elsewhere, Yesterday makes it into the Top 10 at Number 9, boosted by the release of Beatles-themed film Yesterday earlier this year. I Want to Hold Your hand just misses out on the Top 10 in 11th place and, perhaps surprisingly, the band's first ever Number 1 – From Me To You – falls close to the bottom of the Top 60 in 54th place. View the bestselling singles of all time on the UK chart.

The Beatles' Official Top 40 most streamed songs:

POS TITLE ARTIST 1 HERE COMES THE SUN BEATLES 2 LET IT BE BEATLES 3 HEY JUDE BEATLES 4 COME TOGETHER BEATLES 5 TWIST AND SHOUT BEATLES 6 HELP BEATLES 7 BLACKBIRD BEATLES 8 IN MY LIFE BEATLES 9 YESTERDAY BEATLES 10 ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE BEATLES 11 I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND BEATLES 12 ELEANOR RIGBY BEATLES 13 WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS BEATLES 14 LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS BEATLES 15 SOMETHING BEATLES 16 SGT PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND BEATLES 17 LOVE ME DO BEATLES 18 YELLOW SUBMARINE BEATLES 19 PENNY LANE BEATLES 20 WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS BEATLES 21 A HARD DAYS NIGHT BEATLES 22 STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER BEATLES 23 A DAY IN THE LIFE BEATLES 24 SHE LOVES YOU BEATLES 25 I SAW HER STANDING THERE BEATLES 26 TICKET TO RIDE BEATLES 27 NORWEGIAN WOOD (THIS BIRD HAS FLOWN) BEATLES 28 CAN'T BUY ME LOVE BEATLES 29 GET BACK BEATLES 30 DAY TRIPPER BEATLES 31 I AM THE WALRUS BEATLES 32 EIGHT DAYS A WEEK BEATLES 33 BACK IN THE USSR BEATLES 34 OB LA DI OB LA DA BEATLES 35 HELLO GOODBYE BEATLES 36 WHEN IM SIXTY FOUR BEATLES 37 THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD BEATLES 38 REVOLUTION BEATLES 39 WE CAN WORK IT OUT BEATLES 40 AND I LOVE HER BEATLES 41 ACROSS THE UNIVERSE BEATLES 42 DRIVE MY CAR BEATLES 43 I FEEL FINE BEATLES 44 PAPERBACK WRITER BEATLES 45 OCTOPUSS GARDEN BEATLES 46 YOU'VE GOT TO HIDE YOUR LOVE AWAY BEATLES 47 GOLDEN SLUMBERS BEATLES 48 ALL MY LOVING BEATLES 49 SHES LEAVING HOME BEATLES 50 MICHELLE BEATLES 51 LADY MADONNA BEATLES 52 HERE THERE AND EVERYWHERE BEATLES 53 DONT LET ME DOWN BEATLES WITH BILLY PRESTON 54 FROM ME TO YOU BEATLES 55 NOWHERE MAN BEATLES 56 HELTER SKELTER BEATLES 57 DEAR PRUDENCE BEATLES 58 THE BALLAD OF JOHN AND YOKO BEATLES 59 THE FOOL ON THE HILL BEATLES 60 OH DARLING BEATLES

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