Editing Please Please Me (section)

==Release==
{{quote box|quote=This album was one of the main ambitions in our lives. We felt that it would be a showcase for the group, and it was tremendously important for us that it sounded bang on the button. As it happened, we were pleased. If not, sore throats or not, we'd have done it all over again. That was the mood we were in. It was break or bust for us.{{sfn|Badman|2009|loc=chap. 4}}|source=—Paul McCartney|width=30%|align=right|style=padding:8px;}}
Parlophone released ''Please Please Me'' in the UK on 22 March 1963.{{sfn|Castleman|Podrazik|1976|pp=15–16}}{{sfn|Womack|2009|p=287}} As was typical for the time,{{sfn|Miles|2001|p=89}} the LP was initially released in [[monaural|mono]], with a [[Stereophonic sound|stereo]] release following on 26 April.{{sfn|Lewisohn|1988|p=32}}{{refn|group=nb|Before 1968, stereo was a small proportion of the music market.{{sfn|Miles|2001|p=89}} The album mixing process focused on the mono version, while the stereo version was comparatively rudimentary,{{sfn|Miles|2001|p=89}} displaying a major left-right separation between the rhythm and vocal tracks.{{sfn|Lewisohn|1988|p=28}}}} Singles remained the dominant format for pop music, made up mostly of teenage buyers, while more expensive LPs were typically reserved for genres like classical music and jazz, whose listeners could more easily afford the format.{{sfn|Miles|2001|p=89}}{{sfn|Gould|2007|pp=146–147}} Author [[Barry Miles]] suggested the album's cover design, promising "Please Please Me", "Love Me Do" and "12 Other Songs", indicated EMI's desire to promote the album towards "die-hard supporters" excited by the two earlier singles.{{sfn|Miles|2001|p=89}}

''Please Please Me'' hit the top of the UK album charts in May 1963 and remained there for 30 weeks before being replaced by ''[[With the Beatles]]''. This was an unprecedented achievement for a pop album.<ref name="Record Retailer Chart2">{{cite web |last1=White |first1=Jack |title=Albums with the most weeks at Number 1 |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/albums-with-the-most-weeks-at-number-1-on-the-official-albums-chart__23234/ |publisher=[[Official Charts Company]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211210214430/https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/albums-with-the-most-weeks-at-number-1-on-the-official-albums-chart__23234/ |archive-date=10 December 2021 |language=en |date=4 October 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> At the time, the UK album charts tended to be dominated by film soundtracks and easy listening vocalists.<ref>{{cite web|title=Please Please Me – The Beatles|publisher=[[Apple Corps]]|url=http://www.thebeatles.com/album/please-please-me|access-date=4 November 2016|ref={{SfnRef|Apple Corps|2016}}|archive-date=3 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161103080748/http://www.thebeatles.com/album/please-please-me|url-status=live}}</ref> ''Please Please Me'' was the first non-soundtrack album to spend more than one year (62 weeks) consecutively inside the top ten of what became the Official UK Albums Chart.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/albums-that-have-spent-a-year-or-longer-consecutively-inside-the-official-albums-chart-top-10__29837/|title=Lewis Capaldi makes chart history: Albums with the most consecutive weeks in the Top 10|website=www.officialcharts.com|access-date=15 June 2020|archive-date=15 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200615052708/https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/albums-that-have-spent-a-year-or-longer-consecutively-inside-the-official-albums-chart-top-10__29837/|url-status=live}}</ref> This record run of consecutive weeks in the top ten for a debut album stood until April 2013, when [[Emeli Sandé]]'s ''[[Our Version of Events]]'' achieved a 63rd consecutive week.<ref>{{cite web|title=Week Ending April 28, 2013. Albums: Snoop Lamb Is More Like It |url=http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart-watch/week-ending-april-28-2013-albums-snoop-lamb-145455807.html|last=Grein|first=Paul|date=1 May 2013|publisher= music.yahoo.com|access-date=9 July 2013|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104215903/http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart-watch/week-ending-april-28-2013-albums-snoop-lamb-145455807.html |archive-date=4 November 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

In the 30 March 1963 issue of ''[[Record Mirror]]'', Norman Jopling reviewed the album in depth, providing track-by-track reviews for the ten songs that had not been previously released. He concludes that, for a debut, the LP is "surprisingly good and up to standard", and contained many tracks that could have been released as singles, such as "I Saw Her Standing There" and "Misery". Jopling further highlighted the LP's packaging, writing that its cover image and [[liner notes|sleeve notes]] provided extra value.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Jopling|first=Norman|title=Guess What! The Beatles L.P. is called 'Please Please Me!' – Here's a review in depth{{nbsp}}...|magazine=[[Record Mirror]]|date=30 March 1963|page=12|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/60s/63/record-mirror-1963-03-30-s-ocr.pdf}}</ref> Author Jonathan Gould suggests in retrospect that the album's packaging majorly contributed to its success, promising fans "glossy cover art" and a greater companion to the music than the plain paper packaging then offered by singles.{{sfn|Gould|2007|p=147}}

===International and CD releases===
In addition to the UK, ''Please Please Me'' was released, un- or lightly-modified, in India, continental Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. In New Zealand, the album first appeared only in mono on the black Parlophone label. The following year (1964) EMI (NZ) changed from black to a blue Parlophone label and the album was again available only in mono. Due to constant demand, it was finally made available in stereo, first through the [[World Record Club]] on their ''Young World'' label in both mono and stereo,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.yokono.co.uk/collection/beatles/nz/lp/nz_lp_wrc.html|title=The Beatles N.Z. LP: Original Released|website=www.yokono.co.uk|access-date=5 March 2020|archive-date=27 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227125933/http://www.yokono.co.uk/collection/beatles/nz/lp/nz_lp_wrc.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and finally on the blue Parlophone label. The album was released in Japan in 1969 with a different cover and a significantly shuffled tracklist.{{cn|date=March 2023}}

EMI's American subsidiary [[Capitol Records]] had been offered the opportunity to release Beatles material since the 1962 release of "Love Me Do", but turned it down.{{sfn|Wallgren|1982|p=16|ps=none}} [[Vee-Jay Records]], a smaller label unaffiliated with EMI, took the initiative of bringing the Beatles to the United States, releasing the "Please Please Me" single on 25 February 1963. Despite its success in Britain, "Please Please Me" failed to chart in the US, and the May release of "[[From Me to You]]" was similarly lacklustre, leading Vee-Jay to lose interest in the Beatles.{{sfn|Wallgren|1982|pp=16&ndash;18|ps=none}} Originally planning on releasing the ''Please Please Me'' album unaltered in July, it ended up trimming "Please Please Me" and "Ask Me Why" to fit the standard American album length and releasing it as ''[[Introducing... The Beatles]]'' in January 1964.<ref name="Introducing">{{cite web |last1=Ruhlmann |first1=William |title=Introducing...The Beatles |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/introducing-the-beatles-mw0000889073 |website=AllMusic.com |access-date=3 March 2023}}</ref> Capitol remained unimpressed with the group until the rapid success of "[[I Want to Hold Your Hand]]" in Christmas 1963. Buoyed by the resultant [[Beatlemania]] and aware of their previous rejection of the Beatles, Capitol released a modified version of the group's second album ''With the Beatles'', coming out with ''[[Meet the Beatles!]]'' shortly after Vee-Jay had released ''Introducing... The Beatles''. ''Meet the Beatles!'' contains "I Saw Her Standing There", which Capitol released as the American B-side of "I Want to Hold Your Hand".{{sfn|Russell|1982|p=163|ps=none}} Finally acquiring the rights to early Beatles recordings back from Vee-Jay in late 1964, Capitol released most of the other tracks from ''Please Please Me'' on ''[[The Early Beatles]]'' in March 1965, although "Misery" and "There's a Place" remained unreleased by Capitol until 1980's ''[[Rarities (Beatles compilations)#1980 US album|Rarities]]''.{{sfn|Russell|1982|pp=175 & 187|ps=none}}

In Canada, the majority of the album's songs were included upon the Canadian-exclusive release ''[[Twist and Shout (album)|Twist and Shout]]'', which featured "[[From Me to You]]" and "[[She Loves You]]" in place of "I Saw Her Standing There" and "Misery".{{Citation needed|date=April 2022}}

The album was released on CD on 26 February 1987, in mono, as were their three subsequent albums, ''With the Beatles'', ''[[A Hard Day's Night (album)|A Hard Day's Night]]'' and ''[[Beatles for Sale]]''. It was not released on vinyl or tape in the US until five months later when it was issued for the first time in the US on LP and cassette on 21 July 1987.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thebeatles.com/album/please-please-me|title=Please Please Me|website=The Beatles|language=en|access-date=5 March 2020|archive-date=21 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200421091552/https://www.thebeatles.com/album/please-please-me|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="UCR" />

''Please Please Me'' was remastered and re-released on CD in stereo, along with all the other original UK studio albums, on 9 September 2009.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSTRE5363RN20090407|title=Original Beatles digitally remastered|work=Reuters|date=7 April 2009|access-date=14 September 2009|first=Mike|last=Collett-White|archive-date=30 November 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091130032253/https://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSTRE5363RN20090407|url-status=live}}</ref> The 2009 remasters replaced the 1987 remasters. A remastered mono CD was also available as part of ''[[The Beatles in Mono]]'' box set.<ref>{{cite news|last=Aughton|first=Simon|agency=Reuters|title=Remastered Beatles on iTunes in 2008|date=4 June 2007|url=http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/114590/remastered-beatles-on-itunes-in-2008.html|work=PC Pro|access-date=2 October 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108124352/http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/114590/remastered-beatles-on-itunes-in-2008.html|archive-date=8 November 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>