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I Want to Hold Your Hand

original song written and composed by Lennon-McCartney; first recorded by The Beatles
VisualArtwork musical_work_composition Q609104
I Want to Hold Your Hand
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I Want to Hold Your Hand

Summary

I Want to Hold Your Hand is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,777 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • I Want to Hold Your Hand's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • I Want to Hold Your Hand's composer is recorded as John Lennon[4].
  • I Want to Hold Your Hand's composer is recorded as Paul McCartney[5].
  • I Want to Hold Your Hand's genre is popular music[6].
  • I Want to Hold Your Hand was performed by The Beatles[7].
  • Among the performers on I Want to Hold Your Hand was The Supremes[8].
  • I Want to Hold Your Hand's collection is recorded as British Library[9].
  • I Want to Hold Your Hand's Commons category is recorded as I Want To Hold Your Hand (song)[10].
  • I Want to Hold Your Hand's language of work or name is recorded as English[11].
  • I Want to Hold Your Hand was published on 1963[12].
  • I Want to Hold Your Hand's lyricist is recorded as John Lennon[13].
  • I Want to Hold Your Hand's lyricist is recorded as Paul McCartney[14].
  • I Want to Hold Your Hand's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'I Want to Hold Your Hand'}[15].
  • I Want to Hold Your Hand's different from is recorded as I Want to Hold Your Hand[16].
  • I Want to Hold Your Hand's form of creative work is recorded as song[17].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Song[18]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 14f552db-5921-3699-a807-a0b944d9f725[19]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Performers include The Beatles[7] and The Supremes[8].

Publication

I Want to Hold Your Hand was released on 1963[12]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[11]. Its genre is popular music[6].

Why It Matters

I Want to Hold Your Hand ranks in the top 2% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,777 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20]

Related Entities

John Lennon Paul McCartney The Beatles

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . searcharchives.bl.uk. Retrieved . searcharchives.bl.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [18] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). I Want to Hold Your Hand. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/i-want-to-hold-your-hand
MLA “I Want to Hold Your Hand.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/i-want-to-hold-your-hand.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_i-want-to-hold-your-hand_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{I Want to Hold Your Hand}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/i-want-to-hold-your-hand}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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  1. 8w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Language of work or name → English
    Performer → The Beatles, The Supremes
    Form of creative work → song
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ [[Property:P1827]]: T9000391968, см. / see [[Template:Autofix|autofix]] на / on [[Property talk:P1827]]"
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