CSPC: The Beatles Popularity Analysis
Physical Singles Sales – Part 5
Yellow Submarine (1969) – 30,000 equivalent albums
All Together Now – 100,000
Abbey Road (1969) – 1,185,000 equivalent albums
Something / Come Together – 3,950,000
Let It Be (1970) – 2,085,000 equivalent albums
Let It Be – 4,750,000
The Long and Winding Road – 2,200,000
Reaching the latter part of their career, the most striking conclusion is that the band never did it wrong. Their singles continued to be gigantic smashes until the end as shown with their last 3 album singles moving nearly 11 million copies.
In total, physical singles from the band 13 studio albums sold a combined 63,8 million units, which in itself is enough to put the Beatles into the very biggest selling singles act of all-time. It is far from being over as the Orphan Album is coming strong…