The best thing to ever come out of England

The Beatles, obviously.
Nation doesn't matter. Genre doesn't matter.

One band to rule them all.
The Beatles shit on everyone. This question is only interesting if we're asking who is second place.

These were all charting hits. Twenty of them were #1's (a standing record).
  1. A Day in the Life
  2. A Hard Day’s Night
  3. Act Naturally
  4. Ain't She Sweet
  5. All You Need Is Love
  6. And I Love Her
  7. Baby's in Black
  8. Baby, You're a Rich Man
  9. Back in the USSR
  10. Blackbird
  11. Can't Buy Me Love
  12. Come Together
  13. Day Tripper
  14. Dear Prudence
  15. Do You Want to Know a Secret
  16. Don't Let Me Down
  17. Drive My Car
  18. Eight Days a Week
  19. Eleanor Rigby
  20. Free as a Bird
  21. From Me to You
  22. Get Back
  23. Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight
  24. Got to Get You Into My Life
  25. Hello Goodbye
  26. Help!
  27. Here Comes the Sun
  28. Hey Jude
  29. I Am the Walrus
  30. I Call Your Name
  31. I Don't Want to Spoil the Party
  32. I Feel Fine
  33. I Saw Her Standing There
  34. I Wanna Be Your Man
  35. I Want to Hold Your Hand
  36. I'll Cry Instead
  37. I'll Follow the Sun
  38. I'm a Loser
  39. I'm Only Sleeping
  40. In My Life
  41. Lady Madonna
  42. Let It Be
  43. Long Tall Sally
  44. Love Me Do
  45. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
  46. Magical Mystery Tour
  47. Matchbox
  48. Maxwell's Silver Hammer
  49. Michelle
  50. My Bonnie
  51. Norwegian Wood
  52. Nowhere Man
  53. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
  54. Octopus's Garden
  55. P.S. I Love You
  56. Paperback Writer
  57. Penny Lane
  58. Please Please Me
  59. Rain
  60. Real Love
  61. Revolution
  62. Roll Over Beethoven
  63. Rocky Raccoon
  64. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band
  65. She's a Woman
  66. She Loves You
  67. She Said She Said
  68. Slow Down
  69. Something
  70. Strawberry Fields
  71. Taxman
  72. Thank You Girl
  73. The Ballad of John and Yoko
  74. The Long and Winding Road
  75. Ticket To Ride
  76. Twist and Shout
  77. Yellow Submarine
  78. Yesterday
  79. We Can Work It Out
  80. When I'm Sixty-Four
  81. (I Get High) With a Little Help from my Friends

That's not counting hits by them so big by them as solo artists they've become cultural landmarks like "Imagine" or "Across the Universe" by John Lennon, "My Guitar Gently Weeps" by George Harrison, or "Maybe I'm Amazed", "Band on the Run", and "Live and Let Die" (for the Bond film) by Paul McCartney.
 
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