40 years after the Beatles broke up, the fab four are storming the charts once again.Thanks to the massive reissuing of their entire catalog, along with the hype of the Beatles: Rock Band video game, the band have sold a combined 626,000 copies of all their albums since the 9th.
The highest charting record was 1969's Abbey Road which sold 89,000 units and earned a debut of #3 on the Billboard charts following only Jay-Z's The Blueprint 3 and Miley Cyrus.
The Beatles have never sold less than a million records a year since 1991 when Nielsen Soundscan first began tracking album sales. The foursome were the highest selling group of the 1960s and are only a little over 4 million copies away from out selling Eminem to become the highest selling artist this decade as well.
Sales figures for the rest of the Beatles albums are as follows: (all figures from Billboard.com)
- Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band -74,000
- The White Album - 60,000
- Rubber Soul - 58,000
- Revolver - 46,000
- Help! - 39,000
- Let It Be - 32,000
- Past Masters Vols. I and II - 31,000
- Magical Mystery Tour - 30,000
- A Hard Day's Night - 29,000
- The Beatles In Stereo - 26,000
- Please Please Me - 23,000
- With The Beatles - 22,000
- Beatles For Sale - 21,000
- Yellow Submarine - 14,000
- The Beatles In Mono -12,000
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