Just for reference: Beatles CD sales through early December

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• Quarryman 2 years ago

  For the person who asked about counting up the totals of albums sold if the albums from the two box sets were included by title, here it is (as of December 6th):

  Please Please Me – 224,272
  With The Beatles – 218,188
  A Hard Day's Night – 244,028
  Beatles For Sale – 215,156
  Help! – 257,351
  Rubber Soul – 311,425
  Revolver – 289,163
  Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band – 362,639
  Magical Mystery Tour – 246,864
  The Beatles White Album – 354,235
  Yellow Submarine – 159,024
  Abbey Road – 384,784
  Let It Be – 211,163

  We'll put down the Past Masters discs and Mono Masters disc totals as well from the number sold per box set. (Obviously, more were sold of the two stereo P.M. discs, but didn't see the numbers in Steve's post.)

  Past Masters 1 - 112,564
  Past Masters 2 - 112,564
  Mono Masters – 38,219

  [to be continued]

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• Quarryman 2 years ago

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  The grand total of the above individual albums is 3,741,639. If individual sales of the hit-packed Past Masters sets were factored in, the total would almost certainly exceed the four million mark (to say nothing of the other Beatles CDs sold over the same period, especially the continuously popular 'Beatles 1' CD.) That's one million per Fab over that time frame! Not a bad bit of sales for them and the industry...

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• Ronald 2 years ago

  Mono Masters - 38,219 - Hmmm, what happened to a limited edition of 10,000?

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• richard 2 years ago

  Steve: Soundscan, as is well known, counts the sale of a CD or box set as one unit, even if the CD is a double, like The White Album, or a box set, like the Stereo Box. If one calculates the actual sales, like the RIAA does, using your numbers above, the sales total 4,469,164. Soundscan's number is 1,894,737. That is a significant difference. If one uses the real numbers, the it would appear that the Fabs actually outsold Eminem in the 2000's.

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• Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay 2 years ago

  Dear Quarryman, perhaps you have overlooked Steve's mention of "Past Masters 111,184", which, taken together with the sale of the Stereo Box set, the figure for each of Past Masters 1 and 2 stands at 223,748.
  - Calcutta, India.

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• Jack Suslak 2 years ago

  I see these ads pop up on some sites advertising having the Stereo Box Set for under 90 bucks? Is anyone familiar with these sites? Or are these cheap imitations and not the real deal?

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• Mike Edsall 2 years ago

  Steve,
  Thanks for providing the remastered CD sales information. To better put things into context, here's the same information sorted by sales counts, from highest to lowest.
  Mike

  272,220 Abbey Road
  211,856 Sgt Pepper's
  203,452 The Beatles [White Album]
  160,642 Rubber Soul
  138,380 Revolver
  112,564 STEREO box set [16 CDs + DVD]
  111,184 Past Masters
  106,568 Help!
  98,599 Let It Be
  96,081 Magical Mystery Tour
  93,245 A Hard Day's Night
  73,489 Please Please Me
  67,405 With The Beatles
  64,373 Beatles For Sale
  46,460 Yellow Submarine
  38,219 MONO box set [13 CDs]

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• Sgt. Pecker 2 years ago

  The United World Chart has Abbey Road as #39 of the Top 40 selling albums of the world for 2009, selling 1.3 million copies.

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