Streaming Part 6 – The Long and Winning Road
From Abbey Road, you can forget about Her Majesty which runs under 30 seconds and thus doesn’t trigger a count when playing it. Just like all those interludes, there is a few streams still displayed, possibly from users with a specific account or with some calculation involved.
Back to proper comments, Abbey Road blockbuster is home of absolutely massive hits, Come Together and Here Comes The Sun. The latter is the most streamed Beatles song. Combined, they account for 115 million Spotify plays. The album as a whole is fairly huge with its weakest songs on their way to break the 5 million mark soon. One more time, we can’t elude from commenting on songs length. The last six songs pre-Her Majesty total the minuscule 9 minutes 28 seconds – average of 1:34 – which boosts considerably album tracks. Nevermind, at 240,000 equivalent album sales, its results are pretty healthy.
The lead track of Let It Be is massive on its own too, up to 50 million. An additional 3 more hits are over 10 million while tracks all top 3 million. This puts Let It Be on 133,000 equivalent album sales from streaming, the 3rd highest total of the band.
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No wonder they are not considered one of the best groups ever, BUT THE BEST:)
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Is it true that data from other markets such as USSR/Russia and Philippines are still needed to be added in The Beatles sales? And will you pls confirm if Long Tall Sally sales were already included in your analysis or is that part still missing?
Thank you!
MARTIN!!!!!!!! 😍😍
or MJD
No, data from those markets has been accounted for. When an update is performed, we will look to see if any additional information/knowledge has come to light, which certainly has with regards to the USSR and adjusted numbers accordingly.
Not sure what you mean, with regards to LTS.
Martin, thank you 😍 🤗
Hi Sonique! I checked now the case of LTS, we have both the album (Canadian release from the 60s) and the single/EP merged. Back then we often put together these formats when the single tracklist was included in the EP, playing then with the factor. That being said, when I see the breakdown of our 350k figure, we definitely overlooked a large chunk of the EP sales. For example, the UK sales cell is blank. In all likelyhood we treated countries where the song had charted on standard rankings and forgot to return to it to complete the data! About… Read more »
What do you mean by it will probably downgrade their traditional albums? Can you please elaborate on this? Will it not increase their CSPS since sales were missing from these countries?
Thank you, MJD 😍
If we knew that the Beatles shipped 300,000 albums upon release in late 80s in USSR, with no further info, we will assume these sales have been managed by the usual suspects like Abbey Road or Pepper, so we distribute these sales to them. Then, if with Discogs we end up learning that these 300,000 units were all sold by a local compilation, updating their article will mean reducing pure sales of the original albums, and add that compilation to their remaining LPs. Ultimately, the totals won’t differ much, but how the sales were assigned will vary. It’s a bit… Read more »
So the missing data would not increase their sales but to allocate them properly?