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

Apple did a one page spread for any iTunes artist along with total domination of every single iTunes page for a week plus adverts being run in the UK during prime time on the main stations for 2 weeks.

Thats the only reason for the stupidly high numbers...they promoted the hell out of it. We even had it all over the bus stops (billboards) in our town!

Do that with any iTunes based artist and they will get the same results.
 
rmwebs said:
Apple did a one page spread for any iTunes artist along with total domination of every single iTunes page for a week plus adverts being run in the UK during prime time on the main stations for 2 weeks.

Thats the only reason for the stupidly high numbers...they promoted the hell out of it. We even had it all over the bus stops (billboards) in our town!

Do that with any iTunes based artist and they will get the same results.
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Such anger. Some of the artists on the iTunes top 100 charts won't sell this many albums in their entire careers.
 
rdowns said:
Such anger. Some of the artists on the iTunes top 100 charts won't sell this many albums in their entire careers.
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Not really anger - just sayin' :cool:

I'll admit that The Beatles arent my cuppa tea, but completely understand why a majority of people love em'

But the amount of promo Apple did for the launch does question the results. Its not like every other artist where they slapped their albums online, they pretty much converted it to the BeatleStore for a week!
 
rmwebs said:
Not really anger - just sayin' :cool:

I'll admit that The Beatles arent my cuppa tea, but completely understand why a majority of people love em'

But the amount of promo Apple did for the launch does question the results. Its not like every other artist where they slapped their albums online, they pretty much converted it to the BeatleStore for a week!
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I'd bet all the promotion was a contractual requirement wanted by Apple Corps. in exchange for the exclusive. And I bet the costs for the ads came out of Apple Inc.'s pocket.
 
It's a mutual benefit. Apple is also advertising the iTune Store.
 
Probably not. If people still buy music created by classical, baroque, and romantic era composers; why should any world-famous group not continue to see sales?
 
rmwebs said:
Apple did a one page spread for any iTunes artist along with total domination of every single iTunes page for a week plus adverts being run in the UK during prime time on the main stations for 2 weeks.

Thats the only reason for the stupidly high numbers...they promoted the hell out of it. We even had it all over the bus stops (billboards) in our town!

Do that with any iTunes based artist and they will get the same results.
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doubtful.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_music_artists

There's a reason the Beatles are #1 on that list.
 
What I don't get in all the comments is why the heat in the attitude. You may not like the Beatles but no one is asking you to buy it. Steve Jobs is a huge fan and as CEO of Apple is in a perfect position to blast off about a band he likes finally getting onto itunes.

Strangely enough I went out and bought the last two CDs I didn't have. It was cheaper and I got to rip the CD at the rate I wanted.:)

Whether you like the Beatles or not, they did change the face of popular music in the UK.
 
How about some context?

Does this make them the highest-selling iTunes band this week / this year / ever?

How many did they sell in their launch week compared to the highest-selling this week?

I genuinely have no idea how high iTunes sales are... so don't know whether 5m is actually a big number.
 
foiden said:
Probably not. If people still buy music created by classical, baroque, and romantic era composers; why should any world-famous group not continue to see sales?
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The scenarios aren't quite the same.

No-one is buying recording by Mozart, J.S. Bach or Handel, let alone people like Scarlatti... for the simple reason that recording technology didn't exist 300 years ago :)

People ARE buying modern recordings of music written by them.

However, they are not buying, in any great numbers, 1960s recordings of such....


In the case of the Beatles, as I understand it, the original recordings by the composers still outsell all the subsequent versions recorded by other people.

(For the record, if you'll pardon the pun, I have Bach, Handel, Mozart AND The Beatles in my collection.)
 
rmwebs said:
Apple did a one page spread for any iTunes artist along with total domination of every single iTunes page for a week plus adverts being run in the UK during prime time on the main stations for 2 weeks.

Thats the only reason for the stupidly high numbers...they promoted the hell out of it. We even had it all over the bus stops (billboards) in our town!

Do that with any iTunes based artist and they will get the same results.
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Yeah sure. Do a similar promotion for (*picks a random artist in iTunes*) Kamelot, and they would sell similar numbers?
 
Sankersizzle said:
because old people don't know how to use PirateBay? :)
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Nice try, and while I'm not very old, I don't steal.

I work in hi-tech and get paid well. I don't expect others to work for free.

It's those who feel so special, so entitled, that will be hit HARD by the slap of reality at some point in their lives. Think you can escape it? Think again.
 
Aatos.1 said:
How typical of the Apple woshipping disciples arrogance.
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Huh? What on Earth are you blathering about? And looking at your comment, what are you doing in a forum that is all about Apple? Just want to annoy people?

EDIT: to satisfy my curiosity, I went and checked some of your previous posts. And sure enough, they were quite rude:

https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=11739054&#post11739054
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=11739013&#post11739013
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=11738994&#post11738994
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=11738957&#post11738957
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=11733738&#post11733738

Do you hope to make a positive contribution to this forum? Seriously?
 
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Some says that SJ wanted to stick around at the office long enough to see the iPad success, I say he wanted to make sure The Beatles were to make it to the iTMS... ;)
 
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