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Beatles' Achievements
Throughout their relatively short time recording and performing together,
The Beatles set a number of world records - most of which have yet to be
broken.
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The following is a partial list of the Beatles' Achivements.
- The Beatles are the best selling musical group of all time, estimated by
EMI to be over one billion discs and tapes sold worldwide.
- The most multi-platinum selling albums for any artist or musical group
(13 in the U.S. alone)
- The Beatles have had more number one singles than any other artist or
musical group (22 in the U.S., 23 in Australia, 23 in The Netherlands, 22
in Canada, 21 in Norway, 18 in Sweden). Ironically, the Beatles could
easily have had even more number ones, because they were often competing
with their own singles. For example, The Beatles' "Penny Lane"
and "Strawberry Fields Forever" were released as a "double
A" sided single, which caused sales and airplay to be divided between
the two songs instead of being counted collectively. Even so, they reached
number two with the singles.
- The Beatles have had more number one albums than any other act (19 in
the U.S., 15 in the U.K.)
- The Beatles spent the highest number of weeks at number one in the
albums chart (132 in the U.S. and 174 in the U.K.)
- The most successful first week of sales for a double album (The
Beatles Anthology Volume 1), which sold 855,473 copies in the U.S.
from November 21 to November 28, 1995).
- In terms of charting positions, Lennon and McCartney are the most
successful songwriters in history, with 32 number one singles in the U.S.
for McCartney, and 26 for Lennon (23 of which were written together).
Lennon was responsible for 29 number one singles in the U.K., and
McCartney was responsible for 28 (25 of which were written together).
- During the week of April 4, 1964, The Beatles held the top 5 positions
on the Billboard singles chart. No one had ever done anything like this
before, and it is doubtful that the conditions will ever exist for anyone
to do it again. The songs were "Can't Buy Me Love", "Twist
and Shout", "She Loves You", "I Want to Hold Your
Hand", and "Please Please Me".
- The next week, April 11, 1964, the Beatles held 14 positions on the
Billboard Hot 100. Before the Beatles, the highest number of concurrent
singles by one artist on the Hot 100 was nine (by Elvis Presley, December
19, 1956).
- The Beatles are the only artist to have back-to-back-to-back number one
singles on Billboard's Hot 100. Boyz II Men and Elvis Presley have
succeeded themselves on the chart, but the Beatles are the only artist to
three-peat.
- The Beatles' "Yesterday" is the most covered song in history,
appearing in the Guinness Book of Records with over 3000 recorded
versions.
- The Beatles had the fastest selling single of all time with "I Want
To Hold Your Hand". The song sold 250,000 units within 3 days in the
U.S., one million in 2 weeks. (10,000 copies per hour in New York City
alone for the first 20 days)
- The Beatles have the fastest selling CD of all time with "1".
It sold over 13 million copies in 4 weeks.
- The largest number of advance orders for a single, at 2.1 million copies
in the U.S. for "Can't Buy Me Love" (it sold 940,225 copies on
its first day of release in the U.S. alone)
- "Sgt. Pepper`s Lonely Hearts Club Band" is the best selling
album of all time in the U.K. (over 4.5 million copies sold)
- With their performance at Shea Stadium in 1965, The Beatles set new
world records for concert attendance (55,600+) and revenue.
- The Beatles broke television ratings records in the U.S. with their
first appearance on the Ed Sullivan
show.
- On June 12, 1965, The Beatles were awarded the order of Member of the
British Empire (MBE) by the Queen.
- On July 2, 1966, The Beatles became the first musical group to perform
at the Nippon Budokan Hall in Tokyo.
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