Yellow Balloon was not on the recording, having been in a recent near-fatal car accident. The week of May 20, 1967, the Yellow Balloon's version placed at #25 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, while Jan & Dean's version placed at #111. This was due largely to the fact that many disc jockeys around the United States played only the Yellow Balloon version of the song. The B-side was the song played backwards, entitled "Noollab Wolley". However, several radio stations banned the song in fear that the song was about yellow hallucinogenic pills for a drug trip, just like the Donovan song "Mellow
Yellow (Coldplay song) rock band Tonight Alive performed a version of the song on Annie Mac's BBC Radio 1 show on 20 March 2018. Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias performed a little acoustic cover version of "Yellow" with his band on 22 October 2018 at his show in Dublin, Northern Ireland. A Chinese cover of "Yellow" became the last song in the 2018 movie, "Crazy Rich Asians". Warner Bros. and Coldplay were initially both opposed to using the song, but Director Jon M. Chu convinced them otherwise, adding that "a white director couldn't do it," but he could. Coldplay was convinced after Chu wrote