Top 100 Albumes in Spain Week 16: 16/04/2012 - 22/04/2012
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The Beatles :: Charts & Sales History
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by stevieb » Fri Apr 27, 2012 6:06 pm
Any news on sales figures? And is it just me being stupid, but I can't find the total for the week when it was at No. 58, I'm sure it was posted on here. Thanks.stollar wrote:Uk singles chart: Here Comes The Sun-This Week 100
Last week 58 Week on chart 6
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by stollar » Fri Apr 27, 2012 7:39 pm
It sold 5,270 that week.stevieb wrote:Any news on sales figures? And is it just me being stupid, but I can't find the total for the week when it was at No. 58, I'm sure it was posted on here. Thanks.stollar wrote:Uk singles chart: Here Comes The Sun-This Week 100
Last week 58 Week on chart 6
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by bigred » Fri Apr 27, 2012 11:14 pm
This was mentioned today in the newspaper and is being nicely promoted.Its being shown at 8 theatres twice a week in my county alone, and of course is being shown nationwide.Should be good to see on the big screen.blackbird wrote:'Lost' Beatles concert to be screened in America
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by blackbird » Sat Apr 28, 2012 6:54 am
Top Catalog Albums 05/05/2012: Week Ending April 22, 2012
No | Artist | Title | TW | % | LW | RTD
116 BEATLES 1 1,963 -3 2,026 12,046,918
118 BEATLES Abbey Road 1,953 13 1,728 4,824,658
No | Artist | Title | TW | % | LW | RTD
116 BEATLES 1 1,963 -3 2,026 12,046,918
118 BEATLES Abbey Road 1,953 13 1,728 4,824,658
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by blackbird » Sat Apr 28, 2012 7:05 am
Top Soundtracks 05/05/2012: Week Ending April 22, 2012
No | Artist | Title | TW | % | LW | RTD
84 BEATLES Let It Be 385 -9 423 1,497,868
86 BEATLES Magical Mystery Tour 365 15 317 1,869,173
96 BEATLES Help! 337 30 259 1,545,597
No | Artist | Title | TW | % | LW | RTD
84 BEATLES Let It Be 385 -9 423 1,497,868
86 BEATLES Magical Mystery Tour 365 15 317 1,869,173
96 BEATLES Help! 337 30 259 1,545,597
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by blackbird » Wed May 02, 2012 10:49 am
Beatles’ ‘Yellow Submarine’ Coming to Disc June 5
Home Media Magazine: Erik Gruenwedel
The Beatles’ 1968 animated feature film Yellow Submarine is coming to DVD and Blu-ray Disc June 5, following a limited theatrical re-release beginning May 5.
D&E Entertainment has teamed with EMI and Apple Corps. to digitally restore the original theatrical film. Based on a song by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, it is a fantastic tale about peace, love and hope, propelled by Beatles songs, including “Eleanor Rigby,” “When I’m Sixty-Four,” “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds,” “All You Need Is Love,” and “It’s All Too Much.”
The film was digitally (in 4K resolution) restored frame-by-frame by hand, since no software could be used to clean up the delicate hand-drawn images. The original theatrical included melding live-action photography with animation, three-dimensional sequences and kaleidoscopic “rotoscoping” where film is traced frame-by-frame into drawings. Due to the technological limits of the time, Submarine took nearly two years, 14 different scripts, 40 animators and 140 technical artists to complete.
Indeed, John Lasseter, chief creative officer with Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios, hailed the film’s re-release in an essay accompanying the disc releases.
“As a fan of animation and as a filmmaker, I tip my hat to the artists of Yellow Submarine, whose revolutionary work helped pave the way for the fantastically diverse world of animation that we all enjoy today,” Lasseter wrote.
Directed by George Dunning and written by Lee Minoff, Al Brodax, Jack Mendelsohn and Erich Segal, Yellow Submarine came to the big screen in 1968 after Brodax, which had produced nearly 40 episodes of ABC’s animated Beatles TV series, approached Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein with the idea for a full-length animated feature.
Home Media Magazine: Erik Gruenwedel
The Beatles’ 1968 animated feature film Yellow Submarine is coming to DVD and Blu-ray Disc June 5, following a limited theatrical re-release beginning May 5.
D&E Entertainment has teamed with EMI and Apple Corps. to digitally restore the original theatrical film. Based on a song by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, it is a fantastic tale about peace, love and hope, propelled by Beatles songs, including “Eleanor Rigby,” “When I’m Sixty-Four,” “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds,” “All You Need Is Love,” and “It’s All Too Much.”
The film was digitally (in 4K resolution) restored frame-by-frame by hand, since no software could be used to clean up the delicate hand-drawn images. The original theatrical included melding live-action photography with animation, three-dimensional sequences and kaleidoscopic “rotoscoping” where film is traced frame-by-frame into drawings. Due to the technological limits of the time, Submarine took nearly two years, 14 different scripts, 40 animators and 140 technical artists to complete.
Indeed, John Lasseter, chief creative officer with Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios, hailed the film’s re-release in an essay accompanying the disc releases.
“As a fan of animation and as a filmmaker, I tip my hat to the artists of Yellow Submarine, whose revolutionary work helped pave the way for the fantastically diverse world of animation that we all enjoy today,” Lasseter wrote.
Directed by George Dunning and written by Lee Minoff, Al Brodax, Jack Mendelsohn and Erich Segal, Yellow Submarine came to the big screen in 1968 after Brodax, which had produced nearly 40 episodes of ABC’s animated Beatles TV series, approached Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein with the idea for a full-length animated feature.
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by brian05 » Fri May 04, 2012 7:48 pm
There is an interesting article in this month's Record Collector magazine by Nick Farmer about the various editions of The Beatles Please please me album from 1963.
He lists differences in the style, colour and wording in the mono version of the album. He gives details of the different stampers used to produce the album at various dates throughout the 60s in the UK. He assumes that each stamper produced 1,000 albums (or a maximum of 1,200). From this figure he was able to arrive at a production figure (not necessarily sold) for each edition/variation of the album.
He gives production figures of,
25,000
12,000
5,000
25,000
184,000
giving a total of 251,000 mono albums for 1963.
He remarks that he finds that total rather low! (could be 20% out).
He claims that no albums were produced in 1964 and that the total for the years from 1965 to 1969 were a further 250,000 albums.
However, in The Million Sellers of the 60s by Murrells and Coryton it is stated that 600,000 copies of the Please please me album were sold by the end of 1965. They give figures of 30,715 in stereo and 24,442 on reel-to-reel tape (figures to September 1965).
[BTW they also state that Twist & Shout EP sold over 800,000 by that date].
So don't believe everything you read in books.
He lists differences in the style, colour and wording in the mono version of the album. He gives details of the different stampers used to produce the album at various dates throughout the 60s in the UK. He assumes that each stamper produced 1,000 albums (or a maximum of 1,200). From this figure he was able to arrive at a production figure (not necessarily sold) for each edition/variation of the album.
He gives production figures of,
25,000
12,000
5,000
25,000
184,000
giving a total of 251,000 mono albums for 1963.
He remarks that he finds that total rather low! (could be 20% out).
He claims that no albums were produced in 1964 and that the total for the years from 1965 to 1969 were a further 250,000 albums.
However, in The Million Sellers of the 60s by Murrells and Coryton it is stated that 600,000 copies of the Please please me album were sold by the end of 1965. They give figures of 30,715 in stereo and 24,442 on reel-to-reel tape (figures to September 1965).
[BTW they also state that Twist & Shout EP sold over 800,000 by that date].
So don't believe everything you read in books.
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by bigred » Fri May 04, 2012 10:09 pm
"A history of the beatles on record" by Neville Stannard,published in 1982,says this about the Please Please Me album:
"Please Please Me, released march 22 1963, held down the number 1 spot for a record 30 weeks,selling 175,000 by august 13th 1963,and 250,000 by october 11th,eventually selling over 500,000 copies in Britain".
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by blackbird » Sat May 05, 2012 11:22 am
Top Catalog Albums 12/05/2012: Week Ending April 29, 2012
No | Artist | Title | TW | % | LW | RTD
105 BEATLES 1 1,902 -3 1,963 12,048,820
114 BEATLES Abbey Road 1,843 -6 1,953 4,826,501
Lowest sales for 1 since the release on iTunes.
No | Artist | Title | TW | % | LW | RTD
105 BEATLES 1 1,902 -3 1,963 12,048,820
114 BEATLES Abbey Road 1,843 -6 1,953 4,826,501
Lowest sales for 1 since the release on iTunes.
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by blackbird » Sat May 05, 2012 11:40 am
Top Soundtracks 12/05/2012: Week Ending April 29, 2012
No | Artist | Title | TW | % | LW | RTD
83 BEATLES Magical Mystery Tour 385 5 365 1,869,558
94 BEATLES Let It Be 345 -10 385 1,498,213
No | Artist | Title | TW | % | LW | RTD
83 BEATLES Magical Mystery Tour 385 5 365 1,869,558
94 BEATLES Let It Be 345 -10 385 1,498,213
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by brian05 » Mon May 07, 2012 3:54 pm
To illustrate how two music papers interpreted the same EMI press release in 1968. They disagree on the sales of IWTHYH.
From Disc and Music Echo 26th October 1968,
UK Sales for SLY and IWTHYH from Beatles Authorised Biography which had just been released.
From NME 26th October 1968,
They use Hunter Davies figures of 3m US and 1.5m UK but forgot about the rest of the world.
From Disc and Music Echo 26th October 1968,
UK Sales for SLY and IWTHYH from Beatles Authorised Biography which had just been released.
From NME 26th October 1968,
They use Hunter Davies figures of 3m US and 1.5m UK but forgot about the rest of the world.
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