"A Hard Day's Night" was first released to the United States on June 26, 1964, on the film soundtrack of the same name. The song's title originated from something said by Ringo Starr, he described it this way in an interview with disc jockey Dave Hull in 1964: "We went to do a job, and we'd worked all day and we happended to work all night. I came up still thinking it was day I suppose, and i said, 'it's been a hard day... and I looked around and saw it was dark so I said, ...night!' So we came to 'A Hard Day's Night." The song catapulted atop the hitlist in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Ireland, and New Zealand.