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Hey Jude

original song written and composed by Lennon-McCartney; first recorded by The Beatles
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Hey Jude
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Summary

Hey Jude is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 0.5% of musical work composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (10,368 views/month, #97 of 19,375).[2]

Key Facts

  • Composer: John Lennon[3], Paul McCartney[4]
  • Genre: pop music[5], soft rock[6]
  • Performer: The Beatles[7], Wilson Pickett[8], Mina[9]
  • Part of: Hey Jude – The Beatles Again[10]
  • Commons category: Hey Jude (song)[11]
  • Language of work or name: English[12]
  • Publication date: 1968[13]
  • Lyricist: John Lennon[14], Paul McCartney[15]
  • Tonality: F major[16]
  • Title: Hey Jude[17]
  • Different from: Hey Jude[18]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject The Beatles[19], WikiProject Songs[20], WikiProject Pop music[21], WikiProject Rock music[22]
  • Form of creative work: song[23]

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[24]

  • Genre(s): rock[25]

  • Community tags: rock[26]

  • MusicBrainz ID: eac0d507-46ed-3ed7-80d5-e4ac31719221[27]

Why It Matters

Hey Jude has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Related Entities

John Lennon Mina Paul McCartney The Beatles Wilson Pickett

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [24] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [27] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 24w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Language of work or name → English
    Performer → The Beatles, Wilson Pickett, Mina
    Form of creative work → song
    + 15 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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