As evan927 says above, the Beatles' album releases were different in the United Kingdom and the United States until Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Usually, the British albums were two or three songs longer and often did not contain the band's hit singles; the group thought at first that it was cheating their fans to make them buy the same song on a single and an album. The American versions had the hits, and periodically there would be a compilation album containing all the songs that had been removed from the shorter American releases. The original British vinyl releases are the basis for the CD releases now available everywhere. In order, the British releases from the period when they were different are:


After Revolver, the albums are the same, except that the compilation Hey Jude was not released in Great Britain and the Magical Mystery Tour soundtrack in the U.S. contained songs that were only singles in Britain.