The album includes eight songs from the original British release of A Hard Day's Night, as well as the tracks "Slow Down" and "Matchbox" from the Long Tall Sally EP and the German-language version of "I Want to Hold Your Hand".

All mono mixes of the five songs duplicated from the United Artists soundtrack album are identical on both releases.

This album was also released on the Parlophone label for sale only on American Armed Forces bases in Europe.

[4] In 2004, Something New was released for the first time on CD as part of The Capitol Albums, Volume 1 box set (catalogue number CDP 7243 8 66876 2 3) containing the US mixes for both mono and stereo.

2 on the Billboard Top LPs chart in 1964, behind the United Artists A Hard Day's Night album.