Autograph Live's first Band-Signed Beatles Album Census was in 2011.

Our second was in 2016. (A few were added to it since then.)

It's 2025—time to update it!

Let's add what we know has been discovered since 2016, and make sure nothing was missed or duplicated in the 2011 and 2016 ones. 

We'll start a separate price census too.

Once we're comfortable with the information we have, we'll formalize the census so collectors and dealers worldwide cab make better decisions on Beatles album sales and purchases.

These are the results of the 2016 census:

US Release Band-Signed Beatles Albums

  • 0 Introducing the Beatles
  • 6-7 “Meet the Beatles”
  • 2 “Help”
  • 1 “Beatles 65”
  • 1 “Beatles VI”
  • 0 “Rubber Soul”
  • 2 “Revolver”
  • 0 “Magical Mystery Tour”
  • 0 “Abbey Road” +1 offered by Autographs for Sale on eBay starting Mar. 16, 2019
  • 0 “Yellow Submarine”
  • 3 “White Album”
  • 1 “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”
  • 0 “Let it Be”

17 US Albums Known 

UK Release Band-Signed Beatles Albums

  • Roughly 75 “Please Please Me” (Their first album, signed in three 1963 UK promotional tours)
  • 17-22 “With the Beatles” (The tail end of their easier accessibility)
  • 8-10 “Hard Day’s Night”
  • 3 “Beatles for Sale”
  • 2 “Help”
  • 2 “Rubber Soul”
  • 1 “Revolver”
  • 6 “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”
  • 0 “Magical Mystery Tour” (All reissues from the 1980s and up.)
  • 2 “White Album”
  • 0 “Yellow Submarine”
  • 2 “Abbey Road”
  • 0 “Let it Be”

Roughly 113-120 UK Albums Known

Let's go!

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It's sad so many fakes are out there. It makes collector's stop collecting.   

It makes others seek education and more education. That is one reason we now know who Mal Evans, Neil Aspinall (those were not malicious), Joe Long, Billy Smith,  even "Andy Peters" are. And who they are not. 

Getting opinions and education before you buy really helps. 

+100 That allows one to select the first of these and avoid the last.

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