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The Beatles
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The Beatles were a British rock band consisting of John Lennon, Paul
McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. The group, sold about
1.3 billion CDs so far, and is one of the commercially successful
bands of the 20 Century.
The Beatles have established during their musical career, a remarkable number of records, some of which endure to this day. Although they only made recordings over a period of eight years, the Beatles are the group with the most albums sold in the world. According to their record company EMI, the amount of units sold is around 1.3 billion. The Beatles have received more multi-platinum awards than any other artist (13 in the U.S.). The Beatles had more number 1 singles than any other groups or singers (22 in the U.S., 23 in Australia, 23 in the Netherlands, 22 in Canada, 21 in Norway, 18 in Sweden, 12 in Germany). Another No. 1 hit prevented by the Beatles themselves, as they released Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever together as a double A-single. This meant that the sales figures and radio links between the two songs were shared. So they missed the top spot in the UK charts. The Beatles had more number 1 albums than any other individual artists and groups (19 in the U.S. and 15 in the UK). The Beatles spent the most weeks at number one counted in the album charts (132 in the U.S. and 174 in Great Britain). The most successful first week of sales for a double album was reached with The Beatles Anthology Volume 1 During the period of November 21 to November 28 1995, the album sold 855 797 times in the U.S. Lennon and McCartney are the most successful composers of pop history with 28 No. 1 singles in the U.S. for McCartney and 21 for Lennon (19 tracks were written together). (18 tracks were written jointly) Lennon was responsible for 21 No. 1 singles in the UK, and McCartney had 23 successes there. During the first week of April 1964 the Beatles held the top five spots on the Billboard Hot 100, which nobody else had previously ever succeeded to. The five titles were Don't Buy Me Love, Twist and Shout, She Loves You, I Want to Hold Your Hand and Please Please Me In the week of April 11 1964 the Beatles held fourteen places on the Billboard Hot 100. Before the Beatles nine was the highest number of titles by an artist in the Hot 100 at once (Elvis Presley, December 19, 1956). The Beatles were the only ones who switched themselves twice in the first place on the Billboard Hot 100. They managed that in the beginning of 1964. I Want to Hold Your Hand was followed by She Loves You , and came to Can't Buy Me Love to number 1. The Beatles were the first to have recorded a song for a worldwide television broadcast. This took place with the participation of 26 countries held on June 25 1967 and had 600 million viewers worldwide. Each country made a contribution, so people were able to experience a birth in Mexico. In England, the Beatles song All You Need Is Love was recorded live, in the Studio 1 at Abbey Road Studios, where they recorded from 1962 to 1970, most of their titles. Many friends of the Beatles sang at the end of the song when it was slowly vanishing, for example, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Marianne Faithfull, Eric Clapton and Keith Moon. In the U.S. they were rewarded on June 14 2005 for the sixth time with a Diamond Award, which the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) awards for more than ten million albums sold in the United States. Which in 2000 released a Greatest Hits compilation had exceeded that impressive statistic recently. The US's best-selling Beatles album is still published in 1968 The Beatles ("White Album"). Total amount of sales of recorded music of the Beatles in the U.S. to 170 million albums as of 2008.
By Melanie Bradley
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