In Which Xmastime Blows Your Mind About Rubber Soul, but Only a Little Bit

One of the many charms of Rubber Soul is that it positively REEKS of "this is 1965", with the rock-but-with-acoustic-guitars sound/title that looks like a warm pillow to curl up in/the obvious influence of marijuana but not the scary LSD of the-future/even their jackets on the cover are like "can you believe how cozy it is here in 1965?" & on & on & on.

BUT.

The album was released on December 3, 1965, so I'm guessing that even though it sold 1.2 million copies in the first 9 days & was the #1 Christmas present going that year (why is why they were scrambling to complete the album so quickly), based on the fact that it remained stayed at #1 on the charts for more than 3 months & presumably was on the radio just about every minute of the day, can we assume that the first time the majority of people actually heard Rubber Soul was in fact in...1966? 🤔🤯