One of the Beatles’ earliest hits has been revealed as the group’s biggest-ever selling song.

She Loves You was released in 1963 and became the band’s second number one hit.

But now in a new chart commissioned by BBC Radio 2, it has been shown that the song was, in fact, the band’s best-ever selling hit in the UK.

The Official Chart Company - which compiles the weekly top 40 - trawled its records to pull together an all-time best-seller list of the band’s singles, including the many re-releases over the years.

The list is dominated by tracks up to and including 1965 including I Want To Hold Your Hand, which came in at number two.

As well as She Loves You and I Want To Hold Your Hand, the top five is made up of Can’t Buy Me Love, I Feel Fine and the double A-side Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out.

The figures also show that Love Me Do, the band’s first chart hit, which only reached number 17 on its initial release, went on to outsell the number two hit that followed it, Please Please Me, as well as later number ones such as The Ballad Of John And Yoko.

And despite its enduring popularity, Yesterday - often cited as the most covered song of all time - charted only at number 24 as the track was never issued as a single in the UK during the band’s lifetime. It was not released until 1976 and made only number eight in the chart.