From Loudersound.
The Beatles are continuing to break records in the UK, some 53 years after disbanding.
The Liverpool band scored their 18th UK number one single last week with their final song, Now And Then, extending their run as the British act with the most number one singles in chart history: only Elvis Presley has landed more chart-topping songs, with 21 UK number ones.
Now And Then racked up 78,200 combined chart units, including 48,600 sales (physical and download), making it the fastest selling single of 2023 in the UK. Its 38,000 physical sales are the most by any single in almost a decade, and having sold 19,400 copies on vinyl, it’s the fastest-selling vinyl single of the century.
The song, built up from a John Lennon cassette recording, was streamed over five million times in its first week of release, and its Peter Jackson-directed video was played 2.15 million times.
The band are now on course to score another UK number one success tomorrow, November 17, as their re-released ‘Red’ and ‘Blue’ compilations are set to chart at number one and two, with the ‘Blue’ album, 1967-1970 currently outselling the ‘Red’ album, 1962-1966. The box set version of the two LPs is also destined to chart in the Top 10. The new charts will be announced tomorrow.
Last night, November 15, Giles Martin, the son of legendary Beatles producer George Martin, and conductor Ben Foster, introduced a 58-piece orchestra at Abbey Road Studios, as they performed original and new arrangements of 10 Beatles classics taken from the two compilation albums.
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- The Beatles - The Beatles [White Album] - EMI - EX - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £125.00, $161.25, €150.00 (New Item) (arrived 02-Apr-2025 13:39)on April 2, 2025 at 4:30 pm
THE BEATLES The Beatles (Circa 1978 UK issue of the 1968 30-track stereo double LP with 'An EMI Recording' text on the labels, housed in an unnumbered, embossed & side-loading glossy gatefold sleeve complete with the fold-out/lyric poster & four portrait prints. The sleeve is Excellent with minor shelf wear [the open edge has a small knick and there is some minor cornerwear on the top of the opening edge]. The vinyl shows just a single cosmeitc scuff on side one, not felt to the touch and should not have any real impact on play PCS7067-8) #Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time
- The Beatles - The Beatles / 1962-1966 - 1st - VG - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £25.00, $32.25, €30.00 (Back In Stock) (arrived 29-Mar-2025 17:00)on April 2, 2025 at 4:30 pm
THE BEATLES The Beatles / 1962-1966 (1973 UK first issue 26-track double compilation LP, front laminated gatefold picture sleeve with matching red bevelled corner lyric inners. The sleeve shows only light signs of wear and the inners has splits to the bottom of the seams with tape repair and wear to the opening edge. The vinyl shows just a few light surface scuffs to show for its fifty+ years PCSP717)
- The Beatles - The Beatles Ballads - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £30.00, $38.70, €36.00 (New Item) (arrived 27-Mar-2025 17:00)on April 2, 2025 at 4:30 pm
THE BEATLES The Beatles Ballads (1980 UK 20-track LP compilation including Yesterday, Hey Jude, Let It Be & more, picture sleeve displaying John Patrick Byrne's painting. The sleeve is Excellent with a minor spot of edge wear to the back mainly whilst the vinyl is clean & in Excellent condition just light signs of play PCS7214)
- The Beatles - The Beatles / 1967-1970 - 1st - EX - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £40.00, $51.60, €48.00 (New Item) (arrived 27-Mar-2025 17:00)on April 2, 2025 at 4:30 pm
THE BEATLES The Beatles / 1967-1970 (1973 UK 28-track double LP compilation, complete with matching blue lyric inners, front laminated gatefold picture sleeve. The sleeve is Excellent with a little corner/edge wear and small residual sticker wear to front, the inners have a small split and the vinyl is clean & in Excellent condition with light play PCSP718)
- The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's - 2 Box - EMI - laminated - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £30.00, $38.70, €36.00 (New Item) (arrived 28-Mar-2025 08:48)on April 2, 2025 at 4:30 pm
THE BEATLES Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1980 UK issue of the 1967 13-track stereo LP on the two boxed EMI logo label with 'EMI Records' perimeter text, fully laminated gatefold picture sleeve with cut-out sheet. The sleeve shows minor edge wear and slight laminate lifting, whilst the vinyl is Excellent with just the odd light sign of play PCS7027)
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