Editing Hello, Goodbye (section)

==Release==
{{quote box|quote=That's another McCartney. Smells a mile away, doesn't it? An attempt to write a single. It wasn't a great piece.{{sfn|Sheff|2010|p=198}}|source= – John Lennon, 1980|width=25%|align=right|style=padding:8px;}}
"Hello, Goodbye" was selected as the Beatles' single for the 1967 Christmas season,{{sfn|Everett|1999|p=142}} their first release since Epstein's death.{{sfn|Ingham|2006|pp=44, 48}} Lennon pushed for his composition "[[I Am the Walrus]]" to be the [[A-side and B-side|A-side]] instead, but then ceded to McCartney and Martin's insistence that "Hello, Goodbye" was the more commercial of the two tracks.{{sfn|Womack|2014|p=372}} Lennon remained dismissive of the song;{{sfn|Schaffner|1978|p=144}} he later said: {{"'}}Hello, Goodbye' beat out 'I Am the Walrus' ... Can you believe that? I began to submerge."{{sfn|Stark|2005|p=220}} Everett writes that, had "I Am the Walrus" been the A-side, "[it] would probably have encouraged Lennon to lead the Beatles to new heights", whereas the decision to choose "Hello, Goodbye" was "one more nail in the Beatles coffin".{{sfn|Everett|1999|p=144}}{{refn|group=nb|Similarly unimpressed with the song, Bill Turner, a friend from the band's years in [[Liverpool]], told McCartney, "Well to be honest with you, I thought it was a bit repetitious really, and not one of your best records."{{sfn|Ingham|2006|p=46}}}}

In Britain, [[Parlophone]] issued "Hello, Goodbye" backed by "I Am the Walrus" on 24 November 1967,{{sfn|Miles|2001|pp=283–84}} with the catalogue number R 5655.{{sfn|Castleman|Podrazik|1976|p=63}} Within a day of its release, the record had sold over 300,000 copies there.{{sfn|Everett|1999|p=144}} It went on to top the national chart compiled by ''[[Record Retailer]]'' (later the [[UK Singles Chart]])<ref name="OfficialChartsHistory">{{cite web|title=Key Dates in the History of the Official UK Charts|url=http://www.theofficialcharts.com/company_history.php|publisher=[[Official Charts Company]]|access-date=15 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080110032725/http://www.theofficialcharts.com/company_history.php|archive-date=10 January 2008}}</ref> for seven weeks, through to 23 January 1968,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/19680117/7501/|title=Official Singles Chart Top 50: 17 January 1968&nbsp;– 23 January 1968|publisher=[[Official Charts Company]]|access-date=25 June 2015}}</ref> giving the Beatles their longest run at number 1 on that chart since "[[She Loves You]]" in 1963.{{sfn|MacDonald|1998|p=239}} In the process, the song became the group's fourth [[List of UK Singles Chart Christmas number ones|Christmas number 1 single]] in five years.{{sfn|Lewisohn|2005|p=131}} For three weeks from 27 December 1967, the band held the top two positions in the UK, with the ''[[Magical Mystery Tour]]'' soundtrack [[Extended play|EP]] trailing "Hello, Goodbye".{{sfn|MacDonald|1998|p=396}}

The single was released on 27 November in the United States, as [[Capitol Records|Capitol]] 2056,{{sfn|Castleman|Podrazik|1976|p=63}} and in the issue dated 30 December replaced the [[The Monkees|Monkees]]' "[[Daydream Believer]]" at number one on [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'''s Hot 100]], where it remained for three weeks,{{sfn|Castleman|Podrazik|1976|p=350}} becoming the band's fifteenth American chart-topper.<ref name="billboard 50 chart hits" /> The single was certified [[RIAA certification#Singles|gold]] by the [[Recording Industry Association of America]] on 15 December 1967.<ref>{{cite web|title=RIAA – Gold & Platinum Searchable Database > 'Hello Goodbye'|publisher=[[Recording Industry Association of America]]|url=https://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?artist=%22Hello+Goodbye%22|access-date= 28 June 2015}}</ref> It was later listed by ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' magazine as the band's seventh biggest US chart hit.<ref name="billboard 50 chart hits">{{cite web|last1=Billboard Staff|title=The Beatles' 50 Biggest Billboard Hits: 10–1|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/list/5893869/the-beatles-top-50-songs-biggest-billboard-hot-100-hits?list_page=4|publisher=[[Billboard (magazine)|billboard.com]]|date=7 February 2014|access-date=22 June 2015}}</ref> The single was successful in many other countries, topping charts in Australia,<ref name="AUS charts" /> Canada,<ref name="rpm canada weekly">{{cite web|title=''RPM'' Top Singles – Volume 8, No. 18 Dec 30, 1967|date = 17 July 2013|url=http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=837&|publisher=[[Library and Archives Canada]]|access-date=30 May 2015}}</ref> West Germany, Holland and Norway.<ref name="dutch chart">{{cite web|url=http://dutchcharts.nl/showitem.asp?interpret=The+Beatles&titel=Hello%2C+Good+Bye&cat=s|title=The Beatles – Hello, Good Bye|publisher=dutchcharts.nl|access-date=26 June 2015}}</ref> It also peaked at number 2 in Ireland,<ref name="IrishSingles">{{cite web|url=http://irishcharts.ie/search/placement?page=1&placement%5Btitle%5D=Hello+Goodbye|title=Search: 'Hello Goodbye'|publisher=irishcharts.ie|access-date=26 June 2015|archive-date=26 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626172212/http://irishcharts.ie/search/placement?page=1&placement%5Btitle%5D=Hello+Goodbye|url-status=dead}}</ref> Austria, Belgium and Switzerland.<ref name="dutch chart" />

"Hello, Goodbye" was included on the American ''Magical Mystery Tour'' album,{{sfn|Carr|Tyler|1978|pp=69–70}} which Capitol Records compiled by adding five non-album singles tracks from 1967 to the six songs issued in most other countries on the double EP.{{sfn|Lewisohn|2005|p=131}}{{sfn|Schaffner|1978|p=92}} In the ''Magical Mystery Tour'' film, which aired on British television on 26 December 1967,{{sfn|Miles|2001|p=287}} the song's coda plays over the end credits.{{sfn|Turner|1999|p=140}} "Hello, Goodbye" subsequently appeared on Beatles compilation albums such as ''[[1967–1970]]'' and ''[[1 (Beatles album)|1]]''.{{sfn|Ingham|2006|pp=46, 69}} As part of [[EMI]]'s policy of celebrating the 20th anniversary of each Beatles single, "Hello, Goodbye" was reissued in the UK in November 1987{{sfn|Badman|2001|pp=306, 397}} and peaked at number 63 on the UK Singles Chart.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/10363/beatles/|title=The Beatles" > "Singles|publisher=[[Official Charts Company]]|access-date=9 July 2017}}</ref>