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 - Abbey Road - UK - memorabilia - £75.00, $94.50, €90.75 (Back In Stock) (arrived 22-Feb-2025 17:00)on February 23, 2025 at 5:10 am
THE BEATLES Abbey Road (1995 UK limited edition, officially licenced hand-painted sculpture of The Beatles' famous album sleeve, approximately 5" in height. The Fab Four are intricately crafted in Tesori porcelain, chosen expressly to captureevery detail. Meticulously hand-painted in colours which are true to the original & preserved in a crystal-clear dome. Individually hand numbered, this work of art is a must for every true Beatles fan) **Complete With original Certificate of Authenticity from Franklin Mint**
- The Beatles - Love - Sealed - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £124.99, $157.49, €151.24 (New Item) (arrived 22-Feb-2025 10:22)on February 23, 2025 at 5:10 am
THE BEATLES Love (Sealed 2007 UK/EU Limited Edition 27-track double LP pressed on Heavyweight Vinyl, containing a generous seventy-eight minutes of stereo music issued in conjunction with the extravagant Cirque Du Soleil at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas. Features classic Beatles tracks reworked from the original sixties session masters by George Martin & his son Giles, complete with a deluxe full size twenty-eight page booket, artwork inners & high quality gatefold picture sleeve. This collector's copy remains factory sealed in its hype stickered shrinkwrap. The vinyl is Mint & unplayed)
- The Beatles - Abbey Road - UK - memorabilia - £75.00, $94.50, €90.75 (New Item) (arrived 21-Feb-2025 17:12)on February 23, 2025 at 5:10 am
THE BEATLES Abbey Road (1995 UK limited edition, officially licenced hand-painted sculpture of The Beatles' famous album sleeve, approximately 5" in height. The Fab Four are intricately crafted in Tesori porcelain, chosen expressly to captureevery detail. Meticulously hand-painted in colours which are true to the original & preserved in a crystal-clear dome. Individually hand numbered, this work of art is a must for every true Beatles fan) **Complete With original Certificate of Authenticity from Franklin Mint**
- The Beatles - Baby It's You - EX - UK - 7" vinyl - £20.00, $25.20, €24.20 (New Item) (arrived 21-Feb-2025 17:21)on February 23, 2025 at 5:10 am
THE BEATLES Baby It's You (1995 UK limited edition 4-track 7" mono EP, also including I'll Follow The Sun, Devil In Her Heart & Boys, all tracks recorded in 1963 for BBC broadcast, housed in a hype-stickered glossy retro style flipback card picture sleeve. The sleeve displays only light general wear and the vinyl shows only light signs of play R6406)
- The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane - RSD17 - UK - 7" vinyl - £24.99, $31.49, €30.24 (New Item) (arrived 21-Feb-2025 17:23)on February 23, 2025 at 5:10 am
THE BEATLES Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane (2017 UK limited edition 7" vinyl single, released exclusively for Record Store Day to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of one of the greatest singles ever recorded, housed in a hype stickered replica picture sleeve. Although not sealed, remains in a 'near mint' condition)
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