Beatles sell 2 million tracks via iTunes already
Has it really been only a week since the day we would never forget? In that short amount of time, Apple has sold 2 million Beatles tracks and generated 45,000 album downloads via iTunes, Billboard magazine said today.
Not bad for a band that was pretty late to the digital music game -- and one that a good bit of commenters decried wouldn't do much for sales at all.
The top-selling album was 1969's Abbey Road. The top-selling track is "Here Comes the Sun" from the same album.
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The Beatles sucked. I don't know why people found this crap listenable. Excluding the St Peppers album, the cataloge is a pile of turds.
November 24 2010 at 4:10 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyInteresting the number one song isn't Lennon McCartney. George Harrison is the man.
November 23 2010 at 10:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI totally thought the same thing! My fave Beatles song is a George tune as well (Something!)
WAY TO GO GEORGE!!!
Frankly, I thought they'd sell a lot more. When more people are buying a Glee Christmas album instead of The Beatles it becomes pretty obvious that we've gone straight to hell in a handbasket.
November 23 2010 at 8:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI know where you're coming from. However, I must say that the Glee kids can really sing--which I can't say about most of today's artists.
November 24 2010 at 2:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyFrankly, I thought they'd sell a lot more. When more people are buying a Glee Christmas album instead of The Beatles it becomes pretty obvious that we've gone straight to hell in a handbasket.
November 23 2010 at 8:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyFrankly, I thought they'd sell a lot more. When more people are buying a Glee Christmas album instead of The Beatles it becomes pretty obvious that we've gone straight to hell in a handbasket.
November 23 2010 at 8:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyIt is actually 450,000 albums, not 45k...
Man, who's editing here?
Count me among those who were completely wrong. I'm a huge Beatles fan and I have an old-school multi-color Apple sticker on my car so I don't think I can be categorized as a troll, but I was sure that was a ho-hum announcement. I'm glad I'm just an Apple stockholder and not an Apple decision maker.
November 23 2010 at 6:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyCount me among those who was completely wrong. I'm a huge Beatles fan and I have an old-school multi-color Apple sticker on my car so I'd hardly consider myself a troll, but I was sure this was a ho-hum announcement. I'm glad I'm just an Apple stockholder and not an Apple decision maker.
November 23 2010 at 6:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySorry about the double-post. Please feel free to delete one.
November 23 2010 at 7:29 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyare those global numbers? i'd have expected WAY higher.
i'd love to see the segmentation of who's bought them, but i bet it skews older. your parents are the ones who dropped $150 on the digital box set, because they can't be bothered buying cds and ripping them, nor know where to find them "for free".
but that's it. there's no new material to discover. sales will only go down from here. kids who discover the beatles in the future will have better, cheaper ways of finding the tracks.
You'd have expected way higher? I wonder what your thinking behind that is. I guess you don't understand the market.
It's not a case of not being bothered. My dad can't be bothered building his own PC, upgrading his hard drive or fiddling with his BIOS.
He has better things to do. One day you will too.
Yeah, sales will go down. That's so obvious I don't even know why you thought you had to say it.
I didn't download any Beatles songs from iTunes as Amazon dropped the price on the Stereo and Mono Box sets to an incredible $129.00 each. I bought them both and must say, they sound spectacular. I thank Apple for creating such demand.
November 23 2010 at 5:21 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyTim, can you explain the lure of a "mono" set? I just don't get it... (this is a sincere question by the way). Thanks!
November 24 2010 at 2:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply@maxats Some of the Mono tracks sound way better than the Stereo versions, and vice-versa. The are actually a couple of really good reviews on Amazon that go into great detail over which tracks are better on each set, and yes there really is a difference, even for my "multiple third row Rush concert" ears.
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