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Post by - `J0EL™ on Sept 9, 2009 9:19:20 GMT -5
It's the big day today!!!
Index
Part One - USA Albums - chart peak/riaa and soundscan figures.
Part Two - UK Albums - chart peak/BPI figures/Top 200 weeks in chart.
Part Three - Chart Feats
Part Four - Canadian Albums
Part Five - Worldwide Sales Figures
Part Six - UK Album Sales 1984-2004 - annual sales from 1984
Part Seven - UK Albums Sales 1963-2004
Part Eight - Soundtracks
Part Nine - UK Singles - chart peak/sales
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Post by Bri.I.Am on Sept 9, 2009 9:22:31 GMT -5
I don't get it..
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Post by - `J0EL™ on Sept 9, 2009 9:39:10 GMT -5
Key
year of release
year of latest certification
title
riaa shipment
soundscan figure where available with date
weeks on catalogue chart 1982-2005
PartOne - USA Albums
UK titles (CD only)
1987 1997 Please Please Me - 1,000,000 - 882,000 jan 2007 - 1 week
1987 1997 With the Beatles - 500,000 - 651,000 jan 2007
1987 2001 Beatles For Sale - 1,000,000 - 673,000 jan 2007
USA only titles (not on CD)
1965 1997 Early Beatles - 1,000,000 - 19,000 jan 2007
1964 1991 Meet the Beatles - 5,000,000 - 50,000 jan 2007
1964 1997 Second Album - 2,000,000 - 20,000 jan 2007
1964 1997 Something New - 2,000,000 - 11,000 jan 2007
1965 1997 Beatles '65 - 3,000,000 - 24,000 jan 2007
1965 1997 Beatles VI - 1,000,000 - 10,000 jan 2007
1966 1997 Yesterday and Today - 2,000,000 - 26,000 jan 2007
1970 1991 Hey Jude - 3,000,000 - 68,000 jan 2007
Soundtrack Related
1964 2000 A Hard Day's Night - 4,000,000 - 1,188,000 dec 2007 - 2 weeks
1965 1997 Help - 3,000,000 - 1,251,000 dec 2007 - 8 weeks
1967 2000 Magical Mystery Tour - 6,000,000 - 1,565,000 dec 2007 - 20 weeks
1969 1991 Yellow Submarine - 1,000,000 - 469,000 jan 2007
1970 2000 Let It Be - 4,000,000 - 1,182,000 dec 2007 - 3 weeks
1999 1999 Yellow Submarine Songtrack - 500,000 - 756,000 jan 2007
2003 2003 Let It Be - Naked - 1,000,000 - 1,147,000 jan 2007
UK/US titles
1965 1997 Rubber Soul - 6,000,000 - 2,365,000 nov 2008 - 34 weeks
1966 2000 Revolver - 5,000,000 - 1,889,000 dec 2007 - 25 weeks
1967 1997 Sgt Pepper - 11,000,000 - 3,825,000 jan 2008 - 187 weeks
1968 2001 The Beatles - 9,500,000 - 3,212,000 nov 2008 - 98 weeks
1969 2001 Abbey Road - 12,000,000 - 4,008,000 nov 2008 - 195weeks
Primary Compilations
1973 2001 1962-1966 - 7,500,000 - 2,214,000 jan 2007 - 63 weeks
1973 2001 1967-1970 - 8,000,000 - 2,568,000 jan 2007 - 88 weeks
2000 2005 One - 10,000,000 - 11,305,000 nov 2008 - 179 weeks
CD Era Compilations
1988 1997 Past Masters Vol 1 - 1,000,000 - 826,000 jan 2007 - 1 week
1988 1997 Past Masters Vol 2 - 1,000,000 - 1,164,000 jan 2007 - 2 weeks
1988 2001 Studio Box (15 CD's) - 67,000
1994 1995 At the Beeb - 2,000,000 - 1,518,000 jan 2007
1995 1996 Anthology 1 - 4,000,000 - 3,666,000 jan 2007
1996 1998 Anthology 2 - 2,000,000 - 1,739,000 jan 2007
1996 1997 Anthology 3 - 1,500,000 - 1,363,000 jan 2007
2004 2004 Capitol Box Vol 1 - 250,000 - 230,000 jan 2007
2006 2006 Capitol Box Vol 2 - 125,000 - 78,000 jan 2007
2006 2006 Love - 1,000,000 - 1,844,000 nov 2008
Non CD Compilations/Exploitation
1964 1964 Beatles Story - 500,000 - 3,000 jan 2007
1976 1976 Rock n Roll Music - 1,000,000 - 216,000 jan 2007
1980 1997 Rock n Roll Music Vol 1 - 1,000,000
1980 1997 Rock n Roll Music Vol 2 - 1,000,000
1977 1977 At the Hollywood Bowl - 1,000,000 - 11,000 jan 2007
1977 2000 Love Songs - 1,500,000 - 94,000 jan 2007
1980 1997 Rarities - 500,000 - 10,000 jan 2007
1982 1982 Reel Music - 500,000 - 16,000 jan 2007
1982 1997 20 Greatest Hits - 2,000,000 - 821,000 jan 2007
All of the above are the official Capitol/Apple Albums.
Many more albums were released in the US on other labels.
Introducing the Beatles was a cut-down version of their UK debut. It sold 1,346,226 by the end of 1964. The other Vee-Jay albums sold 465,557 in total.
Total riaa shipment for The Beatles is 130,850,000. They are the only artists to ship more than 100m albums.
Soundscan began more than 20 years after the band broke-up, but their total of 51.3m (june 2006) is way ahead of any other band.
The following 4 titles
A Hard Day's Night
Help
Rubber Soul
Revolver
shared the same titles in the UK and US, but their contents were very different until the CD re-issues.
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Post by - `J0EL™ on Sept 9, 2009 9:47:17 GMT -5
The UK catalogue became the official worldwide catalogue in 1987. It's listed here with chart peaks, and - for what they're worth! - BPI shipments
Key
year of release
title
chart peak
BPI shipment
( ) weeks spent on Top 200 album chart since 1994
Part Two UK Albums
1963 Please Please Me - 1 - (15w)
1963 With the Beatles - 1 - (12w)
1964 A Hard Day's Night - 1 - (15w)
1964 Beatles For Sale - 1 - (5w)
1965 Help - 1 - (18w)
1965 Rubber Soul - 1 - (40w)
1966 Revolver - 1 - (116w)
1967 Sgt Pepper - 1 - (274w)
1967 Magical Mystery Tour - 31 - 100,000 - (31w)
1968 The Beatles - 1 - (18w)
1969 Yellow Submarine - 3 - (5w)
1969 Abbey Road - 1 - (104w)
1970 Let It Be - 1 - (16w)
1973 1962-1966 - 3 - 300,000 - (90w)
1973 1967-1970 - 2 - 300,000 - (93w)
2000 One - 1 - 2,400,000 - (200w)
1988 Past Masters Vol 1 - 49 - (1w)
1988 Past Masters Vol 2 - 46 - (6w)
1988 Studio Box - dnc
1994 At the Beeb - 1 - 600,000 - (28w)
1995 Anthology 1 - 2 - 600,000 - (17w)
1996 Anthology 2 - 1 - 300,000 - (39w)
1996 Anthology 3 - 4 - 100,000 - (17w)
1999 Yellow Submarine Songtrack - 8 - 100,000 - (18w)
2003 Let It Be Naked - 7 - 100,000 - (11w)
2004 Capitol Box 1 - dnc
Non-CD Compilations
1966 Collection of Oldies - 7
1976 Rock n Roll Music - 11 - 100,000
1977 At the Hollywood Bowl - 1 - 100,000
1977 Love Songs - 7 - 100,000
1980 Rarities - 71 - 60,000
1980 Ballads - 17 - 100,000
1982 20 Greatest Hits - 10 - 300,000
So Sgt Pepper has spent more than half of the past 10 years lurking on the Top 200 albums chart. Not bad for a 38 year old album. UK sales are now around the 5m mark. I report 3.2m for Abbey Road in feb 1997. All their major albums are likely past the 1m or even 2m mark in the UK.
We know that shop sales of The Beatles from 1984 to 2004 were between 10,766,000 and 11,427,000.
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Post by - `J0EL™ on Sept 9, 2009 9:48:57 GMT -5
Part Three - Some Beatles Chart Feats
The Beatles entered EMI studios in late summer 1962 and their last session was in late summer 1969.
In just 7 years they wrote and produced over 200 top quality songs. These days some artists take 7 years to produce one album.
Such was their output that many tracks were never on albums - just singles. When their album catalogue was released on CD in 1987/8, it took 2 full length CD's to round-up all these non-album tracks.
Of their chart feats around the world, some of the USA ones are the most astonishing.
In April 1964, they occupied the Top Five positions in the singles chart.
Also in April 1964, they had fourteen singles in the billboard Top 100 singles.
Further to this, in 1964 they had a mind-blowing 30 Hits on the Top 100 singles chart.
Here are their 30 1964 Hits, with chart peak
She Loves You - 1
I Want to Hold Your Hand - 1
Love Me Do - 1
A Hard Day's Night - 1
I Feel Fine - 1
Can't Buy Me Love - 1
Do You Want to Know A Secret - 2
Twist and Shout - 2
Please Please Me - 3
She's A Woman - 4
PS I Love You - 10
And I Love Her - 12
I Saw Her Standing There - 14
Matchbox - 17
Ain't She Sweet - 19
I'll Cry Instead - 25
Slow Down - 25
My Bonnie - 26
Thank You Girl - 35
From Me To You - 41
All My Loving - 45
You Can't Do That - 48
If I Fell - 53
I Should Have Known Better - 53
Roll Over Beethoven - 68
There's A Place - 74
Why - 88
Four By the Beatles EP - 92
I'm Happy Just ot Dance With You - 95
Sie Liebt Dich - 97
In the USA, they have more Multi-Platinum Album Awards than any other artist - 24.
They have also more 5,000,000 selling albums than any other artist - 11
They are the only artists in the USA to actually ship more than 100,000,000 albums.
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Post by - `J0EL™ on Sept 9, 2009 11:13:25 GMT -5
Offical Beatles US/UK releases
Sales in millions
(world sales, RIAA certified level, title, year of releae)
06.0 01.0 Please Please Me (1963)
06.0 00.5 With The Beatles (1963)
09.0 05.0 Meet The Beatles (1964)
02.0 01.4 Introducing The Beatles (1964)
04.0 02.0 Second Album (1964)
11.0 04.0 A Hard Day's Night (1964)
04.0 02.0 Something New (1964)
02.0 00.5 Story Of The Beatles (1964)
06.0 01.0 Beatles For Sale (1964)
05.0 03.0 Beatles '65 (1965)
04.0 02.0 Beatles VI (1965)
10.0 03.0 Help! (1965)
12.0 06.0 Rubber Soul (1965)
04.0 02.0 Yesterday And Today (1966)
12.0 05.0 Revolver (1966)
05.0 00.0 Collection Of Oldies (1966)
32.5 11.0 Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
12.0 06.0 Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
06.0 01.0 Yellow Submarine (1968)
18.5 09.5 The Beatles (White Album) (Double) (1968)
29.5 12.0 Abbey Road (1969)
05.0 03.0 Hey Jude (1970)
01.0 01.0 The Early Beatles (1970)
10.0 04.0 Let It Be (1970)
20.0 07.5 1962-1966 (Double) (1973)
21.0 08.0 1967-1970 (Double) (1973)
04.0 01.0 Rock & Roll Music (1976)
04.0 01.0 Live At The Hollywood Bowl (1977)
06.0 01.5 Love Songs (Double) (1977)
01.0 00.5 Beatles Rarities (1979)
03.0 00.0 Beatles Ballads-20 Original Tracks (1980)
01.0 01.0 Rock & Roll Music, Vol.1 (1980)
01.0 01.0 Rock & Roll Music, Vol.2 (1980)
01.0 01.0 The Beatles Box (12 LP's) (1981)
02.0 00.5 Reel Music (1982)
05.0 02.0 20 Greatest Hits (1982)
02.0 01.0 Past Masters, Vol. 1 (1988)
02.0 01.0 Past Masters, Vol. 2 (1988)
08.0 02.0 Live At The BBC (Double) (1994)
10.0 04.0 Anthology 1 (Double) (1995)
06.0 02.0 Anthology 2 (Double) (1996)
04.0 01.5 Anthology 3 (Double) (1996)
01.0 00.5 Yellow Submarine Sondtrack (1999)
28.0 10.0 1 (2000)
01.5 01.0 Let It Be - Naked (2003)
00.3 00.3 Capitol Box Volume 1 (2004)
Total world sales official US/UK releases: 348.3 million
Total US certified: 134.2 million (170 m. counting double albums)
Apart from the UK and US releases, which were released all over the world,
most countries issued their own specific Beatles releases, especially before Apple came into being in 1968.
There are at least 50 albums, which were released by record companies like Capitol Canada, Odeon, Electrola, etc.
Total world sales official US/UK releases: 348 million
Total world sales foreign releases: 15 million
Grand total: 363 million.
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Post by DJ 7.0 on Sept 9, 2009 16:09:32 GMT -5
oh dear lordx
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Post by BRiTNASTY on Sept 9, 2009 16:25:26 GMT -5
Their entire catalog was released today, REMASTERED IN Both MONO AND STEREO!!!!
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Post by DJ 7.0 on Sept 9, 2009 16:35:40 GMT -5
Eh, not that interested. I downloaded some songs, and didn't really care to replace my collection.
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Post by Late Winter on Sept 9, 2009 17:32:49 GMT -5
Thanks for doing this Joel. I saw they have some new video singles out from their version of Rock Band Future H2H candidates  |
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Post by BRiTNASTY on Sept 9, 2009 20:08:29 GMT -5
The MTV hits ones? |
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Post by Late Winter on Sept 12, 2009 6:34:58 GMT -5
I've been seeing it on VH1 |
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Post by BRiTNASTY on Sept 12, 2009 16:00:54 GMT -5
OOO. MTV hits was playin hour blocks all day |
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I have something that i think i can spend time posting here. IvanHoe Artists and Songs Chart is gonna be my main purpose here. not expecting people to read. Just me posting my ranking on all the artists i heard in my life. From famous 