CSPC: The Beatles Popularity Analysis
Remaining Long Format Part 11 – Minor Compilations #2
Pursuing with minor compilations we get three ones that would be rated as major for most other acts – those sets sold more than 12 million units combined.
The pattern already identified is confirmed one more time with the Orphan Album, mostly boosted by the legendary Hey Jude, along with Help! creating most of the value. It gets more and more clear that this latter album is severely underrated among the band catalog.
If you are wondering how many units sold of compilations it generated, a little more patience, everything is combined together in final results and we are getting close!
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.