Paul McCartney

Achievements & World Records!

• Paul McCartney Appears in the Guinness Book Of Records several times.
  • "Yesterday" listed as the most covered song in history with over 3000 versions existing
  • The most successful popular-music composer and recording artist ever with sales of 100 million singles and 60 gold discs
  • The largest stadium audience in history when 184,000 paid to see him perform at Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro on April 1990
  • The fastest ticket sales in history, which took place in 1993 when 20,000 tickets for 2 shows in Sydney,Australia sold out in eight minutes
• The only artist to have UK number one singles as a soloist, and part of a duo, trio, quartet, quintet and sextet (Pipes of Peace, Ebony and Ivory with Stevie Wonder, Mull of Kintyre Wings, She loves You The Beatles, Get Back The Beatles with Billy Preston, Let It Be Ferry Aid)
• "Yesterday" was confirmed as world's most popular song with over 6,000,000 airplays in the USA alone.
• Received an honoraryDocorate of Music from the Uninversity of Sussex.
• The first rock musician ever to receive Chile'sOrder of Merit for "services to music, peace, and human understanding".
• First recipient of the Swedish Polar Music Award ("Nobel prize for music").