Title

Name: The Beatles Tag Database
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Properties of the song title

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340

total uses

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7% of Beatles songs with lyrics never speak their own title (16 of 217).

Title not in lyrics

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All Values(21)

#	Value	Songs	% of total
1	Pronoun in title The title contains a personal pronoun (I, You, She, We, etc.)	90	26.5%
2	Person in title The song's title is or includes a person's name.	29	8.5%
3	Title in chorus	27	7.9%
4	Long title An unusually long song title relative to Beatles norms	23	6.8%
5	One-word title The title is a single word, before any parenthetical subtitle.	19	5.6%
6	Title not in lyrics The song's title does not appear anywhere within its own lyrics	16	4.7%
7	Negation in title The title turns on a negation: no, not, never, or a contracted don't, won't or can't.	16	4.7%
8	Woman in title The title names a woman or points at one with a female pronoun.	15	4.4%
9	Title is a person The title is the name of a real or fictional person	14	4.1%
10	Imperative in title The title is or includes an imperative – a direct command to do something.	13	3.8%
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11	Love in title The word love, in any of its forms, appears in the song's title.	12	3.5%
12	Title in refrain	11	3.2%
13	Get in title The title uses get or got.	10	2.9%
14	Two titles The song is widely known by two different titles	4	1.2%
15	Title is album title The song shares its exact title with the album it appears on	8	2.4%
16	Day or night in title The title names a day or a night.	7	2.1%
17	Number in title The title contains a number.	7	2.1%
18	Color in title The title names a colour.	7	2.1%
19	Exclamation in title The title contains or ends with an exclamation mark	6	1.8%
20	Ringoism Title coined from a Ringo Starr malapropism or spontaneous invented phrase (e.g. 'A Hard Day's Night')	3	0.9%
21	Title in outro	3	0.9%

Title

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