Editing John Lennon (section)

===Accolades===
{{See also|List of awards and nominations received by the Beatles}}
The Lennon–McCartney songwriting partnership is regarded as one of the most influential and successful of the 20th century. As performer, writer or co-writer, Lennon had 25 number one singles in the US Hot 100 chart.{{refn|group=nb|Lennon was responsible for 25 ''Billboard'' Hot 100 number-one singles as performer, writer or co-writer.
* Solo (2): "[[Whatever Gets You thru the Night]]", "[[(Just Like) Starting Over]]".{{sfn|Allmusic|2010a}}
* With the Beatles (20): "[[Can't Buy Me Love]]", "[[I Feel Fine]]", "[[I Want to Hold Your Hand]]", "[[Love Me Do]]", "[[She Loves You]]", "[[A Hard Day's Night (song)|A Hard Day's Night]]", "[[Eight Days a Week]]", "[[Help! (song)|Help!]]", "[[Ticket to Ride (song)|Ticket to Ride]]", "[[Yesterday (Beatles song)|Yesterday]]", "[[Paperback Writer]]", "[[We Can Work It Out]]", "[[All You Need Is Love]]", "[[Hello, Goodbye]]", "[[Penny Lane]]", "[[Hey Jude]]", "[[Something (Beatles song)|Something]]"/"[[Come Together]]", "[[Get Back]]", "[[Let It Be (song)|Let It Be]]", "[[The Long and Winding Road]]"/"[[For You Blue]]".<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1044523/hot-100-anniversary-most-no-1s-by-artist |title=Most No. 1s By Artist (All-Time) |magazine=Billboard|access-date=18 December 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222231708/http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1044523/hot-100-anniversary-most-no-1s-by-artist|archive-date=22 February 2014}}</ref>
* As co-writer of and performer on releases by another artist (2): "[[Fame (David Bowie song)|Fame]]" (David Bowie),{{sfn|Allmusic|2010e}} "[[Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds]]" (Elton John).{{sfn|Allmusic|2010c}}
* As co-writer of releases by other artists (1): "[[A World Without Love]]" ([[Peter and Gordon]]){{sfn|Allmusic|2010d}}}} His album sales in the US stand at 14&nbsp;million units.{{sfn|RIAA|2010b}} ''[[Double Fantasy]]'' was his best-selling album,{{sfn|Greenberg|2010|p=202}} at three million shipments in the US.{{sfn|RIAA|2010a}} Released shortly before his death, it won the 1981 [[Grammy Award for Album of the Year]].<ref name="auto1" /> That year, the [[BRIT Awards|BRIT Award]] for Outstanding Contribution to Music was given to Lennon.{{sfn|Brit Awards|1982}}[[File:Streetart Bild von John Lennon (Prag).jpg|alt=Lennon Wall in Prague|thumb|upright=0.7|Street art image of Lennon on the [[Lennon Wall]] in [[Prague]]]]Participants in a 2002 BBC poll voted him eighth of "[[100 Greatest Britons]]".{{sfn|BBC News|2002}} Between 2003 and 2008, ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' recognised Lennon in several reviews of artists and music, ranking him fifth of "100 Greatest Singers of All Time"{{sfn|Browne|2008}} and 38th of "100 Greatest Artists of All Time",{{sfn|Rolling Stone|2008}} and his albums ''[[John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band]]'' and ''Imagine'', 22nd and 76th respectively of "[[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]]".{{sfn|Rolling Stone|2008}}{{sfn|Rolling Stone|2003}} He was appointed [[Order of the British Empire|Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)]] with the other Beatles in 1965, but returned his medal in 1969 because of "[[Nigerian Civil War|Britain's involvement in the Nigeria-Biafra thing]], against our support of [[United States in the Vietnam War|America in Vietnam]], and against [[Cold Turkey]] slipping down the charts".<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-16736495 |title=Queen's honours: People who have turned them down named |newspaper=BBC News|access-date=27 September 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150512201145/http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-16736495|archive-date=12 May 2015 |date=26 January 2012}}</ref>{{sfn|London Gazette|1965|p=5488}} Lennon was posthumously inducted into the [[Songwriters Hall of Fame]] in 1987{{sfn|Songwriters Hall of Fame|2015}} and into the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] in 1994.{{sfn|The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum|1994}}