I have had it up to here waiting for the Beatles catalogue to be remastered

> Did any one album hit the million mark worldwide,

wikipedia page about the red album has some stats for germany - 2M sold.

Another good mono test is headphones.

The space before the count in and Lennon's 'Bye' on the Sgt Pepper reprise is noticably longer on the mono version, if that helps.

Interesting spiel on that Red and Blue reissues page says the reissues 'broke chart records'. Anyone know how the mono and stereo boxes and reissued albums actually sold? It felt that they kinda quietly underperformed in the end. Did any one album hit the million mark worldwide, or was that never gonna happen? I wonder which particular chart record they broke.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_albums_in_the_United_States

1973	The Beatles	1967–1970	Capitol		16× platinum 
1973	The Beatles	1962–1966	Capitol		15× platinum

Both sold less than Led Zep IV (23* platinum) which came out before them so I don't know what records they broke - maybe for compilations?

oh wait I read that as the Red and Blue albums breaking records, sorry.

mm yeah i was talking about da remasterz / boxes from last year. it'd be interesting to find out what say the top 3 reissues were saleswise for the individual albums. we've become used to the beatles breaking all sorts of records by now so i'm wondering what 'broke chart records' means in the context of that press spiel linked above.

Mine is mono - no blisters. It looks like it's a genuine set with one annoying flaw then - no bootleg's ever been put together as well as this.

“Okay - this is fine - any Beatles release is better than none. BUT: Magical Mystery Tour DVD? Let It Be DVD? Hollywood Bowl CD? Final Capitol Albums Box Set? I know that you need a release every christmas bit the 'Let It Be' movie hasn't been available since before I was born!”

Cosign.

And "The Beatles Christmas Album" (on Apple records, back in the day) as the final coda.

Found some reissues sales stats here: http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/ever-so-quick-beatles-question

UK:

Mono Box

Week one...........3,305

Weeks one - four...4,896

Total for 09.......7,534

Total to date......7,781

Stereo Box

Week one...........7,671

Weeks one - four...11,804

Total for 09.......27,524

Total to date......28,611

Please Please Me

Week one...........5,107

Weeks one - four...11,989

Total for 09.......27,395

Total to date......29,922

With the Beatles

Week one...........3,909

Weeks one - four...8,863

Total for 09.......22,360

Total to date......24,329

A Hard Day's Night

Week one...........5,529

Weeks one - four...13,502

Total for 09.......29,518

Total to date......31,758

Beatles for Sale

Week one...........3,390

Weeks one - four...8,323

Total for 09.......20,384

Total to date......22,378

Help!

Week one...........6,152

Weeks one - four...15,492

Total for 09.......31,180

Total to date......33,491

Rubber Soul

Week one...........13,202

Weeks one - four...30,884

Total for 09.......60,035

Total to date......63,676

Revolver
Week one...........14,567

Weeks one - four...32,700

Total for 09.......62,601

Total to date......67,171

Pepper

Week one...........17,830

Weeks one - four...40,027

Total for 09.......80,768

Total to date......86,530

The Beatles

Week one...........8,553

Weeks one - four...19,899

Total for 09.......50,431

Total to date......54,175

Magical Mystery Tour

Week one...........5,567

Weeks one - four...13,407

Total for 09.......29,269

Total to date......31,914

Yellow Submarine

Week one...........2,044

Weeks one - four...5,240

Total for 09.......12,437

Total to date......13,571

Abbey Road

Week one...........16,507

Weeks one - four...37,372

Total for 09.......72,791

Total to date......79,849

Let it Be

Week one...........3,992

Weeks one - four...9,452

Total for 09.......24,653

Total to date......27,065

Past Masters

Week one...........5,748

Weeks one - four...13,407

Total for 09.......21,832

Total to date......27,065

US:

1. Abbey Road, 272,220

2 Sgt Peppers: 211,856

3 The Beatles (White Album): 203,452

4 Rubber Soul: 160,642

5 Revolver: 138,380

6 Past Masters: 111,184

7 Help!: 106,568

8 Let It Be: 98,599

9 Magical Mystery Tour: 96,081

10 A Hard Day's Night: 93,245

11 Please Please Me: 73,489

12 With The Beatles: 67,405

13 Beatles For Sale: 64,373

14 Yellow Submarine: 46,460
'The Beatles' stereo box set (16 CDs + DVD) 112,564

'The Beatles in Mono' mono box set (13 CDs) 38,219

Abbey road considerably outselling Pepper in the US, but not in the UK.

pseudo limited edition blurring the figures for the Mono box.

Good to see they kept the plastic apple USB sales out of this

anyone know if the Mono really is limited or was that just the initial idea before Apple inc realised how much money could be made off it.

cause if it is limited, HMV have no right putting that in a clearance sale.

White Album is also considerably less popular with Britishers than Americans it seems.

MMT needs more love, IMO

listen to "Flying", "Blue Jay Way"

I missed this when it was on the BBC a year ago. The Maysles' 'Making Of...' film of their 'First US Visit' film. Some fascinating stuff in here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1V1K_NwF-M&feature=related

White Album is also considerably less popular with Britishers than Americans it seems.

Nah, it's the one that has sold well during the Britpop years, sowe all got one already (the limited edition LP facsimile version, forexample)

"Sweeping Catalogue Initiative Overseen by Yoko Ono and EMI Music Commemorates Lennon's 70th Birthday"

Lennon's solo stuff also getting remastered....probably mentioned elsewhere, but didn't come across it. Hope these sound as good as the Beatles stuff:

http://www.thebeatles.com/#/news/Tracklisting_and_artwork/

The Beatles on iTunes at last?

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/11/the-beatles-on-itunes-at-last.html

An agreement for legal downloading of the group’s cherished catalog of more than 200 songs recorded from 1962-1970 is about to be announced by Steve Jobs’ Apple Inc., the Beatles’ Apple Corps and EMI/Capitol Records, the Journal reports... A spokesman for Apple Inc. said Monday that the company had no comment on the report. The company is making what it claims will be an "exciting" announcement on Tuesday morning.

hey dude, we've been chatting about that a bit over here

New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

But...isn't this the Beatles thread?

it's about time this gets done.

still have yet to buy a download but i still buy CD's...

I'd be interested who would forgo the 24bit FLACs within the plastic apple, but once it's on itunes would pay the £150 for the aacs in the boxset.

This is just for people making best ofs.... I'd be surpised if there were many album sales.

I'd be surpised if there were many album sales.

lol they'll be in Billboard next week as the first band to make the chart on 100% digital sales

Nah, people will go out and buy CDs as well. Even if only one person does...

it's gonna be a drag when the Beatles knock Dolphins Into the Future out of the #1 spot

Man aerosmith I could use you in the other thread. People keep insisting this will be a massive failure and they won't sell at all.

But, yes, the true tragedy is Dolphins of the Future.

lol they'll be in Billboard next week as the first band to make the chart on 100% digital sales

otm

Amazon selling the single-disc CDs (2009 remasters) today for $7.99. Wonder for how long.

People keep insisting this will be a massive failure and they won't sell at all.

People talk out their asses about this kinda stuff, no point in trying to stop them, when they're wrong next week they'll shift the ground to "I had no idea there were so many old people in the world!" or something

meanwhile my 12-year-old niece & all her friends will be going totally apeshit today pestering their parents to buy these for them

yeah, its the kids/pre-teens who are gonna drive these sales

who knows, but honestly like that whole beatles number 1s CD thing blew my mind, like who needs that at this point? but i guess like 8 zillion ppl did...

w/ that Number 1 disc wasn't there some hype around the digital remastering?

No, apart from that there wasn't any.

yeah, its the kids/pre-teens who are gonna drive these sales

"Woah, those guys from Beatles Rock Band! I really liked those songs!"

Also: no Carnival of Light/22-minute Helter Skelter = FAIL

Didn't Wu-Tang just cover or sample the Beatles like in the past few months?

dunno if this is true or not, but wiki says: " Another reason for the high sales of 1 was the clarity of new remastered versions of the songs, which offered a brighter and clearer sound in comparison of the poor quality of the original 1987 CD masters of The Beatles recordings."

Well, what I believe PMac said at the time was they went for the original masters as those were the ones that had been the "hits" back in the day, and that this would be the last time they'd be newly available.

Yes, the first CDs were such poor quality that they only CHANGED MY LIFE. I only listened to them 3000 times before throwing them away for sounding so bad.

Didn't Wu-Tang just cover or sample the Beatles like in the past few months?

the My Guitar Gently Weeps "cover" was like 3 years ago

and on the leak it was called "Beatles," which ruled

it must be different from what ended up on 8 Diagrams then cuz ugh does that song suck

haha, I'm always on top of things.

yeah there was a version with an actual sample i think but they couldn't get it cleared so the album version was re-played cover style

hey bulldog get

Australia's getting ripped for these. One album costs $21.00 which is exactly US$20.52/GBP£12.91 atm. Apple and Mafartney can go to hell.

paaarp! the boys are back
http://stereogum.com/577602/the-15-beatles-songs-that-charted-on-itunes-today/top-stories/lead-story/

yeah there was a version with an actual sample i think but they couldn't get it cleared so the album version was re-played cover style

and the original original version was Ghost Weeps, which was six or seven years ago

are they ever gonna put out the vinyl remasters?