CSPC: The Beatles Popularity Analysis
Physical Singles Sales – Part 4
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) – 75,000 equivalent albums
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – 250,000
Magical Mystery Tour (1967) – 3,345,000 equivalent albums
Hello, Goodbye – 4,300,000
Penny Lane – 3,200,000
All You Need Is Love – 3,650,000
The Beatles (White Album) (1968) – 450,000 equivalent albums
Back in the U.S.S.R. – 100,000
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da – 1,400,000
More albums, same pattern of singles getting rarer and rarer. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band single came out in 1978 only, Back in the U.S.S.R. in 1976 while Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da is the new Michelle selling exclusively in continental Europe.
As a Soundtrack and a record that wasn’t released everywhere upon release in LP format – it was a successful EP that we will met later, Magical Mystery Tour got three proper singles with once again massive results as each topped the 3 million mark.
I’m curious why their digital singles sales are so low compared to the likes of Queen and MJ?
I guess that one important reason is that they wait many years until put the catalogue there (2009), and 5 years later that market started to collapse, so they had few years to make sales. I mean, even Elvis have a little more digital sales, when the Beatles outstream him x2.
It’s explained on page 31 of this article.
I would love to see the sales of George Harrison. Both John Lennon and Paul Mccartney are updated while George and Ringo are missing. I assume Ringo hasn’t sold that well but George had string of succesful albums starting with All Things Must Pass. Maybe in the future when The Beatles sales are going to be updated you could also do George and Ringo, same as it was done with Neil Young, when both Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young were done at the same time. I’m sure a lot of people would love to see that. Thank… Read more »
An update on The Beatles would be great.
BFD on amount of records sold. Theres more people in the world. All these groups/people are playing because of the BEATLES. I bought my first guitar from a guys living room. I traded my flute in for an electric guitar, at Jacks Drum Shop, after Feb. 1964 when they were on Ed Sullivan. There was no Guitar Center, or anything like that. Since the BEATLES, everyone and their brother play guitar.