The Beatles on iTunes: 5m Songs, 1m Albums Sold

From The Online Reporter   

 

Despite some initial concerns over successes, the Beatles are continuing to set the bar as high as can be on iTunes, selling more than five million songs in less than two months. In the same time period, the group also sold more than one million full-length digital albums.

Hudson Square Research analyst Daniel Ernst said “It’s a good number [though it] does not impact Apple’s numbers in any way that’s measurable, but still a nice print.”

Each of the Beatles’ 13 albums was remastered for digital release and, along with the recordings, Apple designed a new, full-album experience featuring images, lyrics, photos, video features and a mini-documentary about the birth of each album.

The most popular song download is “Here Comes the Sun,” from 1969’s “Abbey Road,” which is also the band’s top-selling album on iTunes.

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