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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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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 (4,442 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Composer: John Lennon[3], Paul McCartney[4]
  • Genre: popular music[5]
  • Performer: The Beatles[6], The Supremes[7]
  • Collection: British Library[8]
  • Commons category: I Want To Hold Your Hand (song)[9]
  • Language of work or name: English[10]
  • Publication date: 1963[11]
  • Lyricist: John Lennon[12], Paul McCartney[13]
  • Title: I Want to Hold Your Hand[14]
  • Different from: I Want to Hold Your Hand[15]
  • Form of creative work: song[16]

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[17]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 14f552db-5921-3699-a807-a0b944d9f725[18]

Why It Matters

I Want to Hold Your Hand has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[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] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . searcharchives.bl.uk. Retrieved . searcharchives.bl.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). I Want to Hold Your Hand. Retrieved October 22, 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, 22 Oct. 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: 2026-10-22}}
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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 12w ago · IanTEB · 2026-07-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image → I Want to Hold Your Hand Record Store Day 2024.jpg
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|1 */ Image: I Want to Hold Your Hand Record Store Day 2024.jpg"
  2. 24w 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| */ Iswc: T9000391968, см. / see [[Template:Autofix|autofix]] на / on [[Property talk:P1827]]"
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