The latest news to confound the naysayers is that The Beatles have sold 5 million songs, and a million albums, through iTunes in just 2 months.
Apple Insider reports that Apple revealed to The Loop on Friday that the current best-selling album is "Abbey Road," priced at $12.99, while the most popular song is "Here Comes the Sun" from the same album, which costs $1.29 individually.
The numbers show that the pace of sales has slowed since the first week of availability, when 450,000 albums were sold, along with 2 million songs. Then again, the best-selling album and song were "Abbey Road" and "Here Comes the Sun," respectively.
The Beatles catalog came to iTunes in mid-November, after a wait of more than 7 years since when the iTunes Store opened and began selling music. Apple and the Beatles' parent company, Apple Corps, were involved in a trademark dispute for years, before it was finally settled in 2007.
More info at Apple Insider here
Here is the Beatles iTunes catalogue, in order of release:
Please Please Me - The Beatles
With The Beatles - The Beatles
A Hard Day's Night - The Beatles
Beatles For Sale - The Beatles
Help! - The Beatles
Rubber Soul - The Beatles
Revolver - The Beatles
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
Magical Mystery Tour - The Beatles
The Beatles (White Album) - The Beatles
Yellow Submarine - The Beatles
Abbey Road - The Beatles
Let It Be - The Beatles
Compilations:
The Beatles 1962–1966 (The Red Album) - The Beatles
The Beatles 1967–1970 (The Blue Album) - The Beatles
Past Masters, Vols. 1 & 2 - The Beatles
George Harrison – Here Comes The Sun
The Princes Trust – Wembley Arena – London, UK – June 6, 1987
See also:
The Beatles dominate 2010 vinyl sales
The Beatles: John Lennon’s Abbey Road suit sells for 46K at auction
Yoko Ono: “I didn’t break up The Beatles”
The Beatles: Abbey Road crossing earns U.K. heritage status
4 comments:
Either a whole new generation of Beatles fans have just discovered their music or another generation is too lazy to convert their cd's to MP3 files.
Who's the REAL kings of pop!!!
thev beatles are the greates musicians of all time!
In 8 years The Beatles did something no one has done and over 40 years after their breakup The Beatles are still doing what no one else has ever done..The had it all..Til this day every new star is compared to The Beatles and every new star is later forgotten..But The Beatles remain.
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