The Beatles Reach 5 Million Songs, 1 Million Albums Sold on iTunes

[MacRumors]

The Loop reports that despite a slowing from the initial surge, The Beatles continue to sell well on Apple's iTunes Store, with over 5 million songs and 1 million albums purchased in the two months since the group's music appeared in the store.

Apple has informed The Loop that the iTunes Store recently exceeded 5 millions Beatles songs and 1 million Beatles albums sold worldwide. "Abbey Road" is the current best-selling Beatles album in the U.S., while "Here Comes the Sun" is the currently best-selling Beatles song.

The Beatles sold over 2 million songs and 450,000 albums in their first week on the store, so the latest data reveals a significant decrease in sales volume after the initial push, although such performance is not unexpected.

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[Blue Velvet]

No-one's interested in that old hippy stuff, these days. Allegedly.

 

[rdowns]

Pretty impressive for a band that nobody cares about.

I'm sure the page 1 article will bring out all the fans.

 

[GenesisST]

Abbey Road, what a great album!

 

[Deepdale]

The Beatles will continue racking up healthy sales from both iTunes and other outlets as younger people are exposed to the music and mythology surrounding the best and most influential band. I already had many Beatles songs in my music library before they became available at the iTunes store, but I recently purchased my all-time favorite again - "I Saw Her Standing There" - because the sound quality had deteriorated somewhat over time. Nothing helps get me through the work day like the Fab Four.

 

[Gemütlichkeit]

I already forgot they were on the iTunes store.

 

[RichardI]

Interesting though. I would have guessed that all us old Beatles fans would already have had all the Beatles music we could ever want - I know I do.
What gets me though is "Here comes the sun" being the highest sold single song? Man, the Beatles had many, many #1 hits but that wasn't one of them...
And, it's a Harrison song to boot! Go figure.

 

[Mac-Mariachi]

No-one's interested in that old hippy stuff, these days. Allegedly.

I think a few million people are interested. 5,000,000 songs sold in over a month is not bad given their last record came out about 40 years ago.

 

[OllyW]

Abbey Road, what a great album!

True, they saved their best for last.

 

[JGowan]

No-one's interested in that old hippy stuff, these days. Allegedly.

how rude.

 

[Blue Velvet]

I think a few million people are interested. 5,000,000 songs sold in over a month is not bad given their last record came out about 40 years ago.

how rude.

Utterly failing to comprehend irony.

Anyone following the discussion over the Beatles and iTunes on MacRumors over the past few years was regaled with choruses of (younger) people claiming that no-one was interested in that old hippy stuff. Hence the 'allegedly' remark.

Baffled that I even have to explain it.

 

[rdowns]

Baffled that I even have to explain it.

I think the term the kids use today is facepalm.

 

[bobr1952]

Abbey Road, what a great album!

I love the Beatles--regardless--and that is indeed a great album. Just heard I Want You (She's So Heavy) on Pandora--one of my favorite songs from the album. I hope to get the iTunes boxed set one of these days and add one more sale for a band no one cares about.

 

[foiden]

I also plan to get the iTunes box set, as well. I do love the Beatles, and some of that might be because my elementary/middle schools kept teaching their stuff in music class even though I post-dated the Beatles. I have never bought a Beatles album though (unless you count Beatles Rock Band). So in a way, this is great to be able to get it all and then some, in one fell swoop.

 

[ddenney]

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I really could care less about the Beatles, Steve J.

 

[H. Flower]

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I really could care less about the Beatles, Steve J.

Nobody cares what you think.

 

[lifeinhd]

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I really could care less about the Beatles, Steve J.

Nobody cares what you think.

I do. It shows there are still sane people left in the world.

 

[H. Flower]

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I really could care less about the Beatles, Steve J.

Nobody cares what you think.

I do. It shows there are still sane people left in the world.

Maybe so, but what you two and a few others think has no affect on the band's immense profitability to be had by Apple

 

[obeygiant]

I'd buy some although I already have most of it in my iTunes.

 

[OllyW]

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I really could care less about the Beatles, Steve J.

So you do like them?

 

[wonderspark]

I already have just about every Beatles song ripped from CDs, but it's nice for all the old people who don't know how to rip music. Har har!

 

[JGowan]

Utterly failing to comprehend irony.

Anyone following the discussion over the Beatles and iTunes on MacRumors over the past few years was regaled with choruses of (younger) people claiming that no-one was interested in that old hippy stuff. Hence the 'allegedly' remark.

Baffled that I even have to explain it.

Didn't see the "allegedly". Use an emoticon and that'll help.

 

[OllyW]

Didn't see the "allegedly".

You quoted it.

 

[rdowns]

Didn't see the "allegedly". Use an emoticon and that'll help.

Emoticons.

 

[vvebsta]

hurray they sold a million! the system works, now can we stop talking about it