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The Beatles

Now And Then

 

 

1st single from 1967–1970 (Super Deluxe)

Released: 2nd November 2023

Label: Calderstone Productions

 

In the mid-’70s, long after The Beatles had officially parted ways, John Lennon recorded a series of demos straight to cassette tape in his home in New York City. After his death in 1980, his wife, Yoko Ono, passed the tapes to the remaining Beatles, and in 1995, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison began work on a trio of new Beatles songs born from Lennon’s sketches. You’ve heard a couple of them before—“Real Love” and “Free as a Bird”—but one of them never came to fruition during those sessions. “When we started ‘Now and Then,’ it was very difficult because John was sort of hidden in a way,” said Starr in a documentary about how The Beatles’ final song came together. “In John’s demo tape, the piano was a little hard to hear,” said McCartney. They put together some of the song’s building blocks, including having Harrison record guitar parts for the song. But they couldn’t properly isolate Lennon’s vocals from his piano. So “‘Now and Then’ just kind of languished in a cupboard,” McCartney said.

 

Fast-forward to 2022. Using machine-learning technology that director Peter Jackson’s team had developed for the 2021 Beatles documentary Get Back, engineers were able to separate Lennon’s voice from his original demo of “Now and Then,” finally allowing the remaining Beatles to finish the track. “It's like John’s there,” said Ringo of the now-crystalline vocal track. “It’s far out.” Paul and producer Giles Martin (son of Beatles producer George Martin) were then able to assemble John’s 1970s vocals with George’s 1995 guitar lines and Paul and Ringo's new vocal and instrumental parts, as well as a string arrangement, to complete the song. Bearing the signatures of all four Beatles, it’s a doleful ballad and a poignant good-bye, with lyrics—“And if you go away, I’ll know you’re there”—that resonate far beyond their initial intentions. Hear The Beatles’ last song alongside their very first—1962’s “Love Me Do”—and watch the trailer for the documentary about how “Now and Then” was made. - Apple Music

 

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One thing you have to remember about The Beatles is that there was no Beatles before The Beatles. No model for a white band that credibly mixed early rock with real R&B. No model for performers who wrote their own material instead of vocalizing others’. No model for a band that could be both popular and truly progressive, whose new releases weren’t just products but evolutionary leaps in what the form was capable of. Before The Beatles, you had pop music and you had art; after The Beatles, the idea that you could get both in a single three-minute shot—a mirror of a similar shift in painting and visual art—became commonplace, even expected. If “I Want to Hold Your Hand” and “Please Please Me” made the competition look quaint, “Strawberry Fields Forever” and “Tomorrow Never Knows” made it look obsolete, stone bowls in an era of cupped hands. They were around for 10 years, and the culture has been reeling ever since.

 

Formed in Liverpool, England, in 1960, the band—John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr (the replacement for Pete Best)—didn’t have big plans at first. In 1962, they were still ducking beer bottles at late-night shows in Hamburg; six months later, “Beatlemania“ was a safety concern. How the band found time to grow is hard to fathom: Listen back to that opening chord on “A Hard Day’s Night” or the proto-psychedelic vibe of “Ticket to Ride,” and you can already hear them pushing against the confines of pop’s sound and form.

 

By the mid-’60s, they’d become ambassadors for the counterculture, tackling subjects—drugs, Eastern spirituality, the limits of consciousness—nobody had bothered thinking about in the mainstream before. In the hands of producer George Martin, they also became one of the first bands to use the studio as an instrument, creating works whose density and complexity (revisit anything from 1966’s Revolver to 1968’s “The White Album”) couldn’t be replicated onstage—innovations that, incidentally, coincided with the band’s retirement from touring.

 

Late Beatles albums—Abbey Road and the “posthumous” Let It Be—were lived-in, almost folksy affairs, the loose victory laps of a band with nothing left to prove. Given the pressure and intensity that surrounded them, it’s almost amazing they lasted as long as they did. They played their final show on the rooftop of the building for their multimedia company, Apple Corps, in January 1969, ending with Lennon’s famous parting words: “I’d like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves, and I hope we’ve passed the audition.” - apple Music

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

1962 04 Love Me Do -1-

1963 02 Please Please Me -2-

1963 01 From Me To You -NAS-

1963 48 My Bonnie (Tony Sheridan & The Beatles)

1963 01 She Loves You -NAS- MILLION SELLER

1963 01 I Want To Hold Your Hand -NAS- MILLION SELLER

1964 01 Can't Buy Me Love -1- MILLION SELLER

1964 29 Ain't She Sweet -NAS-

1964 01 A Hard Day's Night -2-

1964 01 I Feel Fine -NAS- MILLION SELLER

1965 01 Ticket To Ride -1^-

1965 01 Help! -2^- MILLIONAIRE

1965 01 Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out -NAS- MILLION SELLER

1966 01 Paperback Writer -NAS-

1966 01 Yellow Submarine / Eleanor Rigby -1- MILLIONAIRE

1967 02 Penny Lane / Strawberry Fields Forever -NAS-

1967 01 All You Need Is Love -1- MILLIONAIRE

1967 01 Hello Goodbye -NAS-

1967 02 Magical Mystery Tour -EP-

1968 01 Lady Madonna -NAS-

1968 01 Hey Jude -NAS- MILLION SELLER

1969 01 Get Back (feat. Billy Preston) -1*-

1969 01 The Ballad Of John And Yoko -NAS-

1969 04 Something / Come Together -1-

1970 02 Let It Be -2*- MILLIONAIRE

1976 08 Yesterday -3^-

1976 32 Strawberry Fields Forever

1976 19 Back In The USSR -1-

1978 63 Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band / With A Little Help From My Friends -1-

1982 10 The Beatles Movie Medley -NAS-

1995 07 Baby It's You -1-

1995 02 Free As A Bird -1-

1996 04 Real Love -1-

2010 78 In My Life -AT-

2010 90 I Saw Her Standing There -AT-

2010 48 Twist And Shout -AT-

2010 81 Come Together

2010 58 Here Comes The Sun -AT- MILLIONAIRE

2010 94 Eleanor Rigby

2023 00 Now And Then -1-

 

17 x #1 | 25 x Top 5 | 28 x Top 10 | 29 x Top 20 | 31 x Top 40 | 39 x Top 100

 

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Olivia Rodrigo

Can't Catch Me Now

 

 

Soundtrack single from The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

Released: 3rd November 2023

Label: Lions Gate Entertainment

 

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A few weeks after Olivia Rodrigo’s “drivers license” became the biggest song in the world, Saturday Night Live ran a sketch that featured a bunch of middle-aged guys shooting pool in a dive bar. One puts “drivers license” on the jukebox. Another complains that it just sounds like a teenage girl sitting alone at a piano. By the end of their discourse, they’re all in tears, singing along. “I was driving around my neighborhood listening to really sad songs, like, crying in the car,” Rodrigo told Apple Music. “And I got home and I was like, ‘Maybe I’ll write a song about this: crying in the car.’” Rodrigo had tapped into a universal experience: The middle-aged guys weren’t teenage girls, but they’d also driven around listening to sad songs.

 

Rodrigo was just 17 when the song came out, but she had been getting ready for years. Born in Temecula, California, in 2003, she started lessons in piano, voice, and acting as a child, and went on to star in Disney+’s High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. But, really, what could prepare you for breaking the global single-week streaming record for a female artist? Especially on your first single? And getting a nod from Taylor Swift in the meantime? (Along with “drivers license” winning the Apple Music Award for Top Song of the Year in 2021, Rodrigo’s debut LP, SOUR, was the Top Album of the Year and Rodrigo herself was named Breakthrough Artist of the Year.)

 

Like Swift—and Lorde, too—Rodrigo has a knack for conjuring big feelings through small details: an ex singing along to their Billy Joel with his new love (“deja vu”), reading his self-help books “so you’d think that I was smart” (“enough for you”). Her content is all-caps, but her delivery is lowercase, lacing bedroom pop with a vulnerability and anger rare for teen pop: “Where’s my f***ing teenage dream?” she wonders on “brutal.” “I’m the biggest emo drama queen,” Rodrigo tells Apple Music. Maybe. But the key to letting it out is keeping it together. - Apple Music

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

2020 32 All I Want -OST-

2021 01 drivers license -1- MILLIONAIRE

2021 04 deja vu -2-

2021 01 good 4 u -3- MILLIONAIRE

2021 05 traitor -4-

2021 17 favorite crime -AT-

2021 36 jealousy, jealousy -AT-

2023 01 vampire -1-

2023 03 bad idea right? -2-

2023 07 get him back! -3-

2023 45 the grudge -AT-

2023 00 Can't Catch Me Now -OST-

 

3 x #1 | 6 x Top 5 | 7 x Top 10 | 8 x Top 20 | 10 x Top 40 | 11 x Top 100

 

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Is It Over Now? :cheeseblock: A fantastic addition to Taylor's #1s and I cannot get enough of it, its like 'Out of the Woods' part 2 so obviously I'm obsessed :wub:

I've enjoyed all 3 of these Taylor songs but 'Is It Over Now?' is definitely my fave of the 3 so happy this is the one that's taken off the most - instantly my favourite of her #1s to date!

 

('Now That We Don't Talk' is my least fave of the 3 but still good and could probably be a grower x)

Very poorly presented chart with so many records cut too short (Halloween, the second Taylor one) and yes that 'Pledge your allegiance' being said after virtually every song got effing annoying.

Beatles #42 :o

Beatles #42 :o

 

Wow I expected top 75 but not this high! :o

The Beatles would presumably have been #40 and had a shot at going 40-1 if not for the spurious resets for The Citizens Of Halloween and Wheatus then...

 

(I'm mad)

New entries and new peaks outside the top 40:

 

42. The Beatles - Now And Then (NEW)

43. Kak Hatt & K.A.D. - Just How You Like It (+7)

51. Hannah Laing & HVRR - Party All The Time (+2)

52. Paul Russell - Lil Boo Thang (+13)

55. Andrew Gold - Spooky, Scary Skeletons (RE)

73. Elley Duhé & Whethan - Money On The Dash (NEW)

74. Nathan Dawe & Bebe Rexha - Heart Still Beating (NEW)

78. Chase & Status ft. Clementine Douglas - Say The Word (NEW)

82. Jax Jones, D.O.D. & Ina Wroldsen - Won't Forget You (+13)

90. Unknown T ft. Digga D - Adolescence (NEW)

 

I also did the full certifications list for 3rd November 2023 if anyone wants to look at it.

Edited November 3, 20232 yr by DanielSwift

I notice Rockwell is also listed as a new entry on the OCC website for whatever reason but he clearly didn't get the reset - so they know it's charted in the last 3 years yet haven't correctly attributed its re-entry to that same chart run. Make it make sense xx

Would be really interesting to know whether the Beatles’ #42 placing is based on a 0 from Spotiple or a hastily concocted estimate.

I see the version of Somebody’s Watching Me charting this week is a third different version according to the OCC (in addition to the one that charted last year and the one that charted on release)

Oh that's very impressive for Beatles to be at 42 already officially today :o

 

I think I like both of the Taylor top 2 songs more than 'Slut' but Taylor domination still in full force *.*

This is the first time all the songs charying from a Taylor’s version alvim are new! All the others have had songs from the original album!

This is the first time all the songs from a Taylor’s version alvim are new! All the others have had songs from the original album!

 

Don't think Red TV had any tbf

Don't think Red TV had any tbf

 

Both state of Grace and title track red were from the original album. All too well was from the vault (I mean the 10 min v was and that’s what was the most popular version)

'Is It Over Now?' is a great addition to Taylor's surprisingly short #1 collection! Very happy that Noah Kahan also stayed in the top 10.

 

I'm really hoping The Beatles can get #1 next week, it would certainly be a very memorable chart moment.

Could The Beatles be number one in the singles charts next week and The Rolling Stones be number one on the albums

zero chance of Rolling Stones returning to #1 in the albums, it'll probably be a second week for Taylor Swift with her streaming holding up well enough

Still possible we might have The Beatles and Cliff Richard at #1 simultaneously though.