Glee Sings the Beatles

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Glee Sings the Beatles
Glee Cast
ReleasedSeptember 24, 2013 (2013-09-24)
Recorded2013
Genre
  • Pop
  • rock
Length40:13
51:04 (Japanese edition)
Glee Cast
chronology
Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album Volume 3
(2012) 		Glee Sings the Beatles
(2013) 		Glee: The Quarterback
(2013)

Glee Sings the Beatles is the fifteenth soundtrack album by the cast of the American musical television show

Love Love Love" and "Tina in the Sky with Diamonds".[2]

Background

This is not the first time the cast of Glee pays tribute to famous artists. Recurring guest star Demi Lovato is also featured in one of the tracks of the album. Back on August 3, 2010, Paul McCartney, reportedly a fan of the show, sent a mixtape featuring his music to Glee creator Ryan Murphy in an attempt to convince Murphy to include some of the songs in the upcoming season. "I received some fantastic mixtapes from Paul McCartney a couple of weeks ago. I thought I was being punked!" Murphy said at 2010's Television Critics Association panel in Los Angeles.[3] However, The Beatles' tribute episode was never planned to be aired on season two, three or four of the show.

The two-part premiere episodes of the tribute featured glee club director

Love Love Love") and by the late Beatles (on "Tina in the Sky with Diamonds
").

Glee has covered Beatles' songs before like "

Hello Goodbye", "I Want to Hold Your Hand", "Blackbird" and "In My Life".[4]
However, these songs were not part of this album.

Reception

Critical response

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic
[5]
PopCrush[6]

The album has received generally positive reviews from professional critics. Heather Phares of

Yesterday" and "Let It Be" were "bookended versions of the Fab Four's cheerier fare with subdued renditions of two of the band's most poignant songs". Phares also commented positively on how "[the album] could have left the cast's women stuck on the sidelines as screaming Beatlemaniacs, [but instead] it had the ladies front and center [on songs] like the sweet rendition of "Here Comes the Sun" and the playful take on "A Hard Day's Night". In other words the Allmusic review calls the album as "a promising start to season five's music".[7]

Commercial performance

The album debuted at number 38 on the US Billboard 200.[8]

Track listing

All tracks are written by

Yesterday"2:332."Drive My Car"2:323."Got to Get You into My Life"2:294."You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"2:435."Help"2:186."A Hard Day's Night"2:277."I Saw Her Standing There"2:408."All You Need Is Love"3:169."Get Back"2:2610."Here Comes the Sun" (featuring Demi Lovato)3:0011."Something"3:0112."Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"1:5413."Hey Jude"4:5114."Let It Be
"4:03Total length:40:13
Japanese bonus tracks[9]
No.TitleLength
15."Hello, Goodbye"3:29
16."I Want to Hold Your Hand"2:38
17."Blackbird"2:20
18."In My Life"2:24
Total length:51:04

Personnel

Charts

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