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All Beatles albums are Billboard 200 eligible so we'll know a week from Thursday how successful this was.

Posted by Tim (aka othertim) Nov 16 '10, 13:27

At this moment, the highest album on their album chart is Abbey Road at #14 so it's not exactly setting the world on fire (though the box set that appears to be the whole shebang is #18 so I wonder if they'd count as individual album sales).

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It will be successful in the short term because top advertising on iTunes moves the needle on anything - stewie Nov 16, 13:38 15
- Yes, this. But the huge fanfare is understandable, given the sour apple records relationship that has persisted for years. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 16, 13:47 4
  - (And in my opinion, short term - in this case - means a huge spike in the next two months, and then very respectable numbers for about 8 months) - Beryllium Nov 16, 13:48 3
    - Now what are your calculations if Paul and Ringo die together in a horrible money fire? -- nm - con_carne Nov 16, 13:51 2
      - money would have to be printed to keep up with sales. -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 13:52
      - the spike would be shaped like a dollar sign -- nm - Beryllium Nov 16, 13:51
- prepare for incoming loosi and mara. -- nm - Reagen Nov 16, 13:39 9
  - I'm not making a judgement of the artist at all... it'd have to music people have never heard to matter in the way Apple is pretending it does -- nm - stewie Nov 16, 13:47 1
    - I quite like The Beatles, myself. -- nm - Reagen Nov 16, 13:50
  - Why? He hasn't said anything I disagree with. You may be misunderstanding my position. -- nm - mara Nov 16, 13:43 6
    - If you don't disagree with anything he said, you don't disagree with anything I said. -- nm - Reagen Nov 16, 13:44 5
      - Amazing. -- nm - mara Nov 16, 13:47 4
        
        Then you truly didn't understand what I was saying. -- nm - Reagen Nov 16, 13:49 3
        
        I understood you as saying no one would buy the music, because it's already been boughten. -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 13:53 1
        
        This is what I thought, too. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 16, 13:54
        
        Of course. :-) -- nm - mara Nov 16, 13:50
and I bet the Red and Blue compilations top the lists -- nm - Remlik Nov 16, 13:30 1
- #23 and #25 on iTunes at the moment. -- nm - Tim Nov 16, 13:31
I'm sure it will be successful, but I'll bet more older people will be buying them than younger. -- nm - Roger More Nov 16, 13:29 5
- My 21 year old bro discovered them a couple of years ago. He discovered them hard. -- nm - con_carne Nov 16, 13:44 2
  - But how could have done that?! They weren't on iTunes for Jeebus' sake! -- nm - Reagen Nov 16, 13:45 1
    - I'm saying he's probably glad they are on iTunes, and may even be buying some albums as we type this -- nm - con_carne Nov 16, 13:49
- Heh. There's always the folks who'd rather pay again than bother with ripping and transfering files, maybe? -- nm - mara Nov 16, 13:32 1
  - Or that think the remasters add something new. We'll see though - on the other side of the coin, people over 60 are a lot less likely to use iTunes -- nm - Roger More Nov 16, 13:38
How are they all Billboard Eligible? MJ's weren't last year. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 16, 13:28 4
- Rule changes. -- nm - Spawn Nov 16, 13:30 2
  - Rules......for counting. What morons. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 16, 13:31 1
    - The plural of chad is chad. -- nm - Max Nov 16, 13:41
- They changed the rule a couple months later because of that. - Tim Nov 16, 13:29

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