Editing A Hard Day's Night (album) (section)

==Critical reception and legacy==
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name="Erlewine AllMusic">{{cite web |last1=Erlewine |first1=Stephen Thomas |author-link1=Stephen Thomas Erlewine |title=''A Hard Day's Night'' – The Beatles |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/a-hard-days-night-mw0001948685 |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=18 May 2020 |archive-date=30 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120530233822/http://www.allmusic.com/album/a-hard-days-night-mw0001948685 |url-status=live}}</ref>
| rev2      = ''[[The A.V. Club]]''
| rev2Score = A<ref name="Klosterman">{{cite news |last=Klosterman |first=Chuck |author-link=Chuck Klosterman |date=8 September 2009 |url=https://www.avclub.com/chuck-klosterman-repeats-the-beatles-1798217828 |title=Chuck Klosterman Repeats The Beatles |newspaper=[[The A.V. Club]] |location=Chicago |access-date=26 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130522154556/http://www.avclub.com/articles/chuck-klosterman-repeats-the-beatles%2C32560/ |archive-date=22 May 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]''
| rev3Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.blender.com/guide/back-catalogue/53036/hard-days-night.html |title=Maxim |work=blender.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090909135956/http://www.blender.com/guide/back-catalogue/53036/hard-days-night.html |archive-date=9 September 2009}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[Consequence of Sound]]''
| rev4Score = A−<ref>{{cite web |last=Young |first=Alex |url=http://consequenceofsound.net/2009/09/album-review-the-beatles-a-hard-days-night-remastered/ |title=Album Review: The Beatles – ''A Hard Day's Night'' [Remastered] |website=[[Consequence of Sound]] |date=16 September 2009|access-date=2 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140404195105/http://consequenceofsound.net/2009/09/album-review-the-beatles-a-hard-days-night-remastered/|archive-date=4 April 2014}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]''
| rev5Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/the-beatles/6138984/The-Beatles-A-Hard-Days-Night-review.html |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |first=Neil |last=McCormick |title=The Beatles – A Hard Day's Night, review |date=4 September 2009| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121006013248/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/the-beatles/6138984/The-Beatles-A-Hard-Days-Night-review.html | archive-date=6 October 2012}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev6Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite book |last=Larkin |first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin (writer) |year=2006 |publisher=[[Muze]] |title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music]] |volume=1 |pages=487–489 |isbn=978-0-19-531373-4}}</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[Paste (magazine)|Paste]]''
| rev7Score = 100/100<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2009/09/the-beatles-the-long-and-winding-repertoire.html |title=The Beatles: The Long and Winding Repertiore |journal=[[Paste (magazine)|Paste]]|date=5 August 2009 |access-date=5 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023065059/http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2009/09/the-beatles-the-long-and-winding-repertoire.html|archive-date=23 October 2013}}</ref>
| rev8 = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
| rev8Score = 9.7/10<ref name="pitchfork">{{cite web |first=Tom |last=Ewing |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13422-a-hard-days-night/ |title=The Beatles ''A Hard Day's Night'' Album Review |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |date=8 September 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131210144313/http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13422-a-hard-days-night/ |archive-date=10 December 2013}}</ref>
| rev9 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev9Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/the-beatles/albumguide |title=The Beatles – Album Guide – Rolling Stone Music |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140404194100/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/the-beatles/albumguide |archive-date=4 April 2014}}</ref>
| rev10 = Sputnikmusic
| rev10Score = 4.5/5<ref name="sputnikmusic">{{cite web |first=Dave |last=de Sylvia |url=http://sputnikmusic.com/review/3713/The-Beatles-A-Hard-Days-Night/ |title=The Beatles' ''A Hard Day's Night'' Sputnik Music review |website=Sputnik Music |date=24 September 2005 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120715042813/http://sputnikmusic.com/review/3713/The-Beatles-A-Hard-Days-Night/ |archive-date=15 July 2012}}</ref>
}}
According to music critic [[Richie Unterberger]], writing for [[AllMusic]]:
<blockquote>George Harrison's resonant 12-string electric guitar leads [on ''A Hard's Day's Night''] were hugely influential; the movie helped persuade [[the Byrds]], then folksingers, to plunge all out into rock & roll, and the Beatles would be hugely influential on the folk-rock explosion of 1965. The Beatles' success, too, had begun to open the US market for fellow English bands like [[the Rolling Stones]], [[the Animals]], and [[the Kinks]], and inspired young American groups like [[the Beau Brummels]], [[Lovin' Spoonful]], and others to mount a challenge of their own with self-penned material that owed a great debt to Lennon–McCartney.<ref name="Unterberger AllMusic">{{cite web |last=Unterberger |first=Richie |year=2009| author-link=Richie Unterberger |title=The Beatles Biography |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-beatles-mn0000754032/biography| access-date=25 September 2009| archive-date=3 November 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191103055952/https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-beatles-mn0000754032/biography| url-status=live}}</ref></blockquote>

In his book ''Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!: The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé'', [[Bob Stanley (musician)|Bob Stanley]] identifies ''A Hard Day's Night'' as the album that best captures the band's early-career appeal. He writes:
<blockquote>If you had to explain the Beatles' impact to a stranger, you'd play them the soundtrack to ''A Hard Day's Night''. The songs, conceived in a hotel room in a spare couple of weeks between up-ending the British class system and conquering America, were full of bite and speed. There was adventure, knowingness, love, and abundant charm.{{sfn|Stanley|2014|p=79}}</blockquote>

''A Hard Day's Night'' was included in the list of "100 Essential Rock Albums" compiled by musicologists [[Charlie Gillett]] and [[Simon Frith]] for ''[[ZigZag (magazine)|ZigZag]]'' magazine in 1975, and is one of the "Treasure Island albums" featured in [[Greil Marcus]]'s 1979 book ''Stranded''.{{CN|date=December 2023}} In 2000, ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]'' magazine placed ''A Hard Day's Night'' at number 5 on its list "The 100 Greatest British Albums Ever".<ref>{{cite news |first=Paul |last=Kelso |title=Beatles still rule the rockers' roost |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/02/paulkelso |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=2 May 2000|access-date=21 March 2020|archive-date=19 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200319065849/https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/02/paulkelso|url-status=live}}</ref> That same year, it appeared at number 22 in [[Colin Larkin]]'s book ''[[All Time Top 1000 Albums]]''.<ref>{{cite news |first=Paul |last=Kelso |title=Radiohead challenge Fab Four as Bends leaves Sgt Pepper in the cold |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/sep/04/paulkelso1 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=4 September 2000|access-date=11 November 2019|archive-date=30 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191030124916/https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/sep/04/paulkelso1|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2012, ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' ranked it 307th on the magazine's list of the [[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|500 Greatest Albums of All Time]].<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-20120531/the-beatles-a-hard-days-night-19691231 |title=500 Greatest Albums of All Time: The Beatles, 'A Hard Day's Night' |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=12 June 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120714014221/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-20120531/the-beatles-a-hard-days-night-19691231|archive-date=14 July 2012}}</ref> In the 2020 revision, it rose to number 263.<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=2020-09-22 |title=The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/|access-date=2021-08-19 |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US}}</ref> In 2000, the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.<ref>[https://www.grammy.com/awards/hall-of-fame-award#h Grammy Hall of Fame Award]</ref>

''A Hard Day's Night'' has also appeared in critics' lists of the best albums of all time published by the ''[[NME]]'', in 1974 (at number 33), 1985 (number 73) and 2013 (number 195); ''[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]'', in 1995 (number 81); and ''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]'', in 2016 (number 149).{{CN|date=December 2023}} It was a featured album in ''[[The Mojo Collection|The Mojo Collection: The Greatest Albums of All Time]]'', [[Tom Moon]]'s book ''[[1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die]]'' and Robert Dimery's ''[[1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die]]'', and was selected as one of the "Most Significant Rock Albums" in the ''Greenwood Encyclopedia of Rock History''.{{CN|date=December 2023}}