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The Beatles disbanded over 30 years ago & it's been over 40 years since they formed & they still rule to this day because there's nothing happening today so it doesn't surprise me.
I want you, I want you so bad babe. I want you, I want you so bad. It's driving me mad, it's driving me mad.
Heh, I sent in this info to AbbeyRd's Beatles News Site well over a week ago, but they haven't done any updates......heh.
Here's all of the RIAA stats:
In Print:
Abbey Road - 12 Million Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - 11 Million The Beatles - 9.5 Million (for a total of 19 million units) 1 - 9 Million 1967-1970 - 8 Million (for a total of 16 million units) 1962-1966 - 7.5 million (for a total of 15 million units) Magical Mystery Tour - 6 Million Rubber Soul - 6 Million Revolver - 5 million A Hard Day's Night - 4 Million Let It Be - 4 Million Anthology 1 - 4 Million (for a total of 8 million units) Help! - 3 Million Live At The BBC - 2 Million (for a total of 4 million units) Anthology 2 - 2 Million (for a total of 4 million units) Anthology 3 - 1.5 Million (for a total of 3 million units) Please Please Me - 1 Million Beatles For Sale - 1 Million Past Masters, Volume 1 - 1 Million Past Masters, Volume 2 - 1 Million Yellow Submarine - 1 Million Let It Be....Naked - 1 Million With The Beatles - 500,000 Yellow Submarine Songtrack - 500,000 The Capitol Albums, Volume 1 - 250,000 (for a total of 1 million units) Albums Boxed Set - 1 Million Units (16 disc set)
Total: 148 million
Out of Print:
Meet The Beatles - 5 Million The Beatles' Second Album - 2 Million The Beatles' Story - 500,000 Something New - 2 Million Beatles '65 - 3 Million Early Beatles - 1 Million Beatles VI - 1 Million Yesterday and Today - 2 Million Hey Jude - 1 Million The Beatles At The Hollywood Bowl - 1 Million Rarities - 500,000 Rock and Roll Music - 500,000 (for a total of 1 Million units) Rock and Roll Music, Volume 1 - 1 Million Rock and Roll Music, Volume 2 - 1 Million Love Songs - 1.5 million (for a total of 3 million units) 20 Greatest Hits - 2 Million Reel Music - 500,000
Total of Out of Print Albums: 27.5 Million
Albums Total: 175.5 Million Albums!
Singles:
Hey Jude - 4 Million Get Back - 2 Million Something - 2 Million Let It Be - 2 Million Lady Madonna - 1 Million Long And Winding Road - 1 Million A Hard Day's Night - 500,000 All You Need Is Love - 500,000 Ballad of John and Yoko - 500,000 Can't Buy Me Love - 500,000 Eight Days A Week - 500,000 Free As A Bird - 500,000 Got To Get You Into My Life - 500,000 Hello Goodbye - 500,000 Help! - 500,000 I Feel Fine - 500,000 I Want To Hold Your Hand - 500,000 Nowhere Man - 500,000 Paperback Writer - 500,000 Penny Lane - 500,000 Real Love - 500,000 We Can Work It Out - 500,000 Yellow Submarine - 500,000 Yesterday - 500,000
21 Million singles!
Total: 196.5 million albums and singles!
Here's the band's video certifications, counting these they have over 200 platinum certifications. Note that a Platinum award for a video is awarded when it has sold 100,000 copies.
The Beatles Live: Ready, Set, Go! - Platinum (100,000 copies sold) Anthology DVD - 13x Platinum (over 250,000 of the 5 disc sets) The First Us Visit - 2x Platinum (200,000 copies sold)
Uncertified:
Introducing The Beatles - 1 Million Songs Pictures and Stories of the Fabulous Beatles - (Nearly a half million.......a rerelease of Introducing The Beatles) She Loves You - 1 Million+ From Me To You - 500,000+ Please Please Me - 1 Million+ Twist And Shout - 1 Million + Love Me Do - 1 Million +
The uncertified stats are all releases that weren't on Capitol, so the label never bothered to recertify those sales. Also, gold was pretty much the one and only standard in certifying singles in the early 60's.....so while "I Want To Hold Your Hand" is only certified for 500,000, we know that it has actually sold over 4 Million copies in the US.....counting uncertified album sales and singles that need recertifications and such, I'd say they've sold over 250,000,000 albums and singles in the United States.
"Only people know just how to talk to people. Only people know just how to change the world."
Hey Jude - 4 Million Get Back - 2 Million Something - 2 Million Let It Be - 2 Million Lady Madonna - 1 Million Long And Winding Road - 1 Million A Hard Day's Night - 500,000 All You Need Is Love - 500,000 Ballad of John and Yoko - 500,000 Can't Buy Me Love - 500,000 Eight Days A Week - 500,000 Free As A Bird - 500,000 Got To Get You Into My Life - 500,000 Hello Goodbye - 500,000 Help! - 500,000 I Feel Fine - 500,000 I Want To Hold Your Hand - 500,000 Nowhere Man - 500,000 Paperback Writer - 500,000 Penny Lane - 500,000 Real Love - 500,000 We Can Work It Out - 500,000 Yellow Submarine - 500,000 Yesterday - 500,000
21 Million singles!
I have just browsed thru this (due to being in a hurry), but I would like to comment on this. A single that was certified "Gold" from 1958 (the start of the RIAA handing out awards) up to December 1988 is equal to 1 million of sales, not 0.5 million!
In January 1989, the RIAA lowered the level of gold awards from 1m to 0.5m, but all the singles that got certified "gold" prior to that date are still million sellers.
I have indicated these occasions:
Hey Jude - 4 Million Get Back - 2 Million Something - 2 Million Let It Be - 2 Million Lady Madonna - 1 Million Long And Winding Road - 1 Million A Hard Day's Night - 500,000 -> 1 million (certified in 1964) All You Need Is Love - 500,000 -> 1 million (certified in 1967) Ballad of John and Yoko - 500,000 -> 1 million (certified in 1969) Can't Buy Me Love - 500,000 -> 1 million (certified in 1964) Eight Days A Week - 500,000 -> 1 million (certified in 1965) Free As A Bird - 500,000, correct (certified in 1996) Got To Get You Into My Life - 500,000, correct (certified after 1988, as far as I remember) Hello Goodbye - 500,000 -> 1 million (certified in 1967) Help! - 500,000 -> 1 million (certified in 1965) I Feel Fine - 500,000 -> 1 million (certified in 1964) I Want To Hold Your Hand - 500,000 -> 1 million (certified in 1964) Nowhere Man - 500,000 -> 1 million (certified in 1966) Paperback Writer - 500,000 -> 1 million (certified in 1966) Penny Lane - 500,000 -> 1 million (certified in 1967) Real Love - 500,000, correct (certified in 1996) We Can Work It Out - 500,000 -> 1 million (certified in 1966) Yellow Submarine - 500,000 -> 1 million (certified in 1966) Yesterday - 500,000 -> 1 million (certified in 1966)
It is lamentable that the RIAA is not automatically upgrading pre-1989 "Gold" singles to "platinum" level, as they are proven and certified million sellers! Record companies have to ask them to do it, and I`m not sure if they demand a fee to be paid, which would be a scandal, as the comps already paid fees for the original certifications (in the 1960s). Capitol has not yet bothered to upgrade these old Gold awards to platinum level, I hope they will someday do this.
I will get back to this topic soon. I have more to add!
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i dont know though Apps .. you could probably go anywhere in the world and ask .. hey do you know who Elvis is ? and i can bet that they would say YES also the same goes for the Beatles
Rowdy, I have looked at your compilation of Beatles/RIAA stats once more. Excellent stuff!
There are some cases I`d like to comment on:
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Albums Boxed Set - 1 Million Units (16 disc set)
Or: 62,500 sets with each 16 CDs have been shipped, giving a total of 1 million single CDs.
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Hey Jude - 1 Million
This LP is certified for sales of 3 million (upgraded in 1991).
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Rock and Roll Music - 500,000 (for a total of 1 Million units)
I am not sure about this selling 0.5m, since this double-LP was certified platinum already in 1976, and I don`t know if the RIAA already counted double LPs twice back then. I tend to think not. I know they introduced the counting of multiple CDs within a set in the early 1990s. So it could be this set actually sold 1 million double LPs (or 2 million single LPs). But don`t quote me on that.
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Can't Buy Me Love
This single sold over 3 million copies in 1964.
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I Want To Hold Your Hand - 500,000
According to Capitol, roughly 5 million copies were sold by 1968.
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Yesterday - 500,000
This sold 1.8 million during 1965 and has probably sold over 2 million by the end of the 1960s.
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She Loves You - 1 Million+
This 45 sold over 3 million copies in 1964.
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From Me To You - 500,000+ Please Please Me - 1 Million+
I`m not sure about From Me To You. It was the flip side of Please Please Me in 1964, so if you`re listing From Me To You separately, you are referring to the 1963 "bubbling-under" release? Would be a surprise if it moved half a million.
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The uncertified stats are all releases that weren't on Capitol, so the label never bothered to recertify those sales. Also, gold was pretty much the one and only standard in certifying singles in the early 60's.....so while "I Want To Hold Your Hand" is only certified for 500,000, we know that it has actually sold over 4 Million copies in the US.....counting uncertified album sales and singles that need recertifications and such, I'd say they've sold over 250,000,000 albums and singles in the United States.
These uncertified sales by record companies other than Capitol are quite annoying. Look at "A Hard Day`s Night". This was released and distributed by United Artists from 1964 to 1978. None of these sales ever got certified. Only the sales that took place since Capitol took over the distribution in 1978 are certified by the RIAA. Vee Jay sold over 7 million Beatles records during 1964 - none of which are certified (and they will never get certified). Or take the countless 1960-1962 releases by Polydor or other companies. These racked up a couple of millions during the years - none are certified.
But what is more annoying is that Capitol just doesn`t seem to be caring for upgrading any of the 1964-1967 Capitol singles! The Beatles sold over 50 million singles in the U.S., yet only 29 million are certified. Capitol did upgrade all of the singles from 1968 to 1970, I wonder why they didn`t do the same with the pre-1968 singles. All of them would be upgraded from gold to platinum (as they were all million sellers, except Slow Down/Matchbox, which however has chances becoming a gold single under the new cert levels). And some of them would qualify for multi platinum (I Want to Hold Your Hand, Can`t Buy Me Love, Yesterday for certain, possibly also I Feel Fine, We Can Work It Out, Hello Goodbye and some others).
I hope Capitol will someday get their act together and upgrade the complete Beatles singles catalogue. Just like they did with the albums (they did a marvellous job there).
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