EMI's Parlophone label released "Rubber Soul" on 3 December 1965, with "If I Needed Someone" sequenced as the penultimate track. In the United States – where Capitol Records typically altered the content of the Beatles' albums, reducing the number of songs and using single A- and B-sides to create further album releases – the track instead appeared on the North American album "Yesterday and Today" in June 1966. The song was widely considered to be Harrison's best composition to date; according to music critic Richie Unterberger, "If I Needed Someone" and "Think for Yourself", which also appeared on the UK version of "Rubber Soul", were the first Harrison-written songs "to really make people sit up and notice". McCartney later said he considered "If I Needed Someone" to be the first of Harrison's "landmark" songs for the group.