The Musical Express and Accordion Weekly reports:

"Hey Jude is the most popular Beatles song"

http://www.nme.com/news/the-beatles/53928

They mean it's the most purchased Beatles song from iTunes this week following the thrilling announcement that the HJHs back catalogue can now be purchased on iTunes (for more than it costs to buy the CDs on Amazon).

I would guess this might be helped by the fact that it's one of the non-album tracks that people might cherry pick.
However the list of chart entries is quite curious and I wonder if it has been influenced by the songs chosen for the X Factor tonight (which I didn't see). It's also skewed by the fact that iTunes will chart songs according to which LP they were picked from, so Let it Be might be the most popular song but its sales were split between purchases from Let it Be and the Blue LP.

Either way it isn't a resounding success for the big iTunes launch and no doubt partly due to the ridiculous pricing. Ellie Goulding (me neither), JLS and Take That are way bigger than The Beatles this week.

I note Happy Mondays are also back in the chart at 67 with Step On which is presumably down to Shaun Ryder being in the jungle . Quite interesting to see how music sales can be immediately influenced by whatever is happening on the TV, a far cry from the days of Gallup and 'chart return' forms in record shops...

Here are the other HJH chart entries in full: (cue 'Yellow Pearl' by Phil Lynott and adopts the voice of Peeder Powell)

23. Hey Jude
29. Let it Be (from the Let it Be album)
31. Twist and Shout (from the Red album)
54. Here Comes the Sun.
58. Let it Be (from the Blue Album)
61. Come Together
66. Twist & Shout (from Please Please Me)
67. Hey Jude (from Past Masters)
82. In My Life
91. Blackbird
92. Yesterday
93. I Saw Her Standing There