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Consecutive Beatles albums, sales over 2 million, uk. Source UkMix With The Beatles 3.5m A Hard Day's Night 2.7m Beatles for sale 2.8m Sgt Pepper 5m White album 2.2m Abbey Road 3.2m The Beatles 1962-1966 3.4m The Beatles 1967-1970 3.3m In those days , albums cost the equivalent now of around £40 each as a proportion of national average wage.

The Beatles single 'Cant buy me love' had 1.2 million pre orders(customer orders) in 1964. But it was not possible in those days to deliver that number of physical singles in a week(not many motorways in those days), the actual sales in the first week are unknown. Singles in those days were much more expensive anyway, a single would cost the equivalent of £15 these days, albums £60! as a proportion of national average wage.

The Beatles 'Run for your life' : A jaunty up tempo song with lyrics of psychotic jealousy. Abba 'Does your mother know' : Underage sex. The Tremeloes 'Suddenly you love me' : A tale of female narcissistic personality disorder.

Currently they have 16 entries in the Itunes top 100 and over fifty in the top 200 altogether.

I think this holds the record for the worst top 75 run. 07/06/1980 Angelwitch Sweet Danger 75 {75}->1 (source polyhex)

Assuming we mean singles by the band and not cover versions by other acts...then The following UK Beatles albums had no UK singles on them at any time. 'With the Beatles' 'Beatles for sale' 'Rubber soul' Singles released after the break up of the band. 'Sgt Peppers' (splhcb was a single in 1978) 'The White Album' (Back in the USSR was a single in 1976) Beatles albums with just one single at album release time. 'Please Please me' (Please please me) 'Revolver' (Yellow submarine/Eleanor Rigby) 'Abbey road' (Something/Come together)

It's nice that one of the first music stars of the post-war era is represented this way. :)

The 10 billionth download was... Johnny Cash - Guess things happen that way.

Note apple says the 10 billionth download COULD win, not WILL win. So I assume it just gets entered into a draw along with all the free online entries(no purchase required).

Females certainly doing well, 13 of the top 20 either female acts or female singer in the band.

Is that it...well, thats the most exciting thing thats happened to me all...day. :)

thats it 10 billion!

oh, mine after refreshing is still 25K to go

30,000!

I bet nothing happens..lol. Hope somethings does though :) 50,000 to go

Not sure...just keep refreshing when the last 6 digits hit 990000 or thereabouts.

Remember to refresh regularly, as the counter is just an estimate, based on current sales volume(it still counts when disconnected from the internet). Refreshing gets the latest actual figure. 140,000 to go. 60,000 in 9 mins. So, just over 20 mins to go?? edit 100,000 to go now. that last 40K was quick!

It does update when you leave the page and then come back again. So it must be getting some info from the apple site. I suspect it gives you the true number when you go to the page and then is just a simple counter, so refreshing the page every now will get the true number.

Now on around 9,996,270,000. 3 3/4 million to go. I'll go for 2pm our time :)

This will be reached very soon. Here's the counter. http://www.apple.com/itunes/10-billion-song-countdown/ I wonder what song it will be?...

Does a cover of a mash-up count? Original mashup Strokes V Christina Aguilera. 'A stoke of genius' by Freelance hellraiser. Cover by Speedway. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZG-Z8ENChw

Here's a 2000/2009 comparison for yearly figures. (Second figure is % compared to previous year) 2000 Singles 55,695,507 -21.56% Albums 134,264,458 +10.48% 2009 Singles 152 million +32.7% (Downloads 98% ) Albums 128.9 million -3.5% (Downloads 12.5% +56.1%) Sources Zobol and BBC.

Here's a really old one. didn't make UK top 20. Released 1968, one of the earliest recordings of Rap. How would it do today?. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZY6qW2Aktk

Abba. I hated them with a vengeance in the seventies, I was into hard rock and metal and they seemed to be everything I didnt like about music at the time. Now I love them!, I realise I didnt really listen to them at the time, just dismissed them because of the eurovision connection and the 'silly' outfits. I started to enjoy them round about the mid eighties and now they are one of my fav all time bands..great songs!.

Yes..I remember a time when UK acts dominated the charts world wide. I wonder what happened?. I also remember when Rock was king, now there are only 6 rock acts(I think) in the top 30. I suppose music has it's cycles,like everything else.