On this day in 1967, The Beatles announced their song “Yesterday” was one of the most covered song in history

“Yesterday”, originally recorded in June of 1965 and then released in August on the album Help! The song was written by Paul McCartney and had been worked on for almost year before its release. It became an immediate hit and soon rose to number one on the Billboard charts.

Within two years, the band made the statement that “Yesterday” had been covered over 446 times since its release. Numerous other artists had claimed they wished they wrote the song, such as Chuck Berry. On the other hand, Bob Dylan notoriously dislike the song, claiming “If you go into the Library of Congress, you can find a lot better than that.” 

“Yesterday” was then entered into the book of Guiness World Records stating that the song had been covered over 1,600 times by January of 1986. The current number of covers is unknown but is estimated to be over 4,000.