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According to the 2013 Guinness Book of World Records the top selling world-wide albums are, 1] 65m THRILLER Michael Jackson (1983) 2] 50m THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON Pink Floyd (1973) 3] 49m BACK IN BLACK AC/DC (1980) 4] 44m THE BODYGUARD Soundtrack (1992) 5] 43m BAT OUT OF HELL Meat Loaf (1978) 6] 42m GREATEST HITS 1971-75 The Eagles (1976) 7] 42m DIRTY DANCING Soundtrack (1987) 8] 40m SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER Soundtrack (1978) 9] 40m RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac (1977) 10] 40m COME ON OVER Shania Twain (1997) Don’t know how accurate this list is. Also this year Guinness claim that the artist with the most simultaneous hit singles in the Top 75 is the Jam with 13 tracks in February 1983. Did Elvis or Michael Jackson not have more entries at the time of their deaths? I know that The Beatles had 17 singles in the Top 75 for week ending 20th March 1976. 10 Yesterday 45 Hey Jude 46 Paperback Writer 53 Strawberry Fields Forever 55 Get Back 59 She loves you 61 Help! 62 Love Me Do 63 Yellow Submarine 64 Let It Be 66 A hard day's night 68 Can't buy me love 69 I Want To Hold Your Hand 71 All you need is love 72 From me to you 74 Hello goodbye 75 Please please me

Can you please estimate sales of Beatles 1 in 2011? Thank you.

iTunes US Store: Top 100 Rock Songs 1. Secrets - OneRepublic 2. Here Comes the Sun - The Beatles 3. Let It Be - The Beatles 4. Blackbird - The Beatles 5. In My Life - The Beatles 6. Come Together - The Beatles 7. With a Little Help From My Friends - The Beatles 8. Hey Jude - The Beatles 9. September - Daughtry 10. Twist and Shout - The Beatles 11. Porn Star Dancing (feat. Ludacris) [bonus Track] - My Darkest Days & Ludacris 12. Let It Be - The Beatles 13. While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles 14. Twist and Shout - The Beatles 15. I Saw Her Standing There - The Beatles 16. Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles 17. A Day In the Life - The Beatles 18. Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds - The Beatles 19. Yesterday - The Beatles 20. Help! - The Beatles 21. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da - The Beatles 22. Yesterday - The Beatles 23. Something - The Beatles 24. A Hard Day's Night - The Beatles 25. Maybe - Sick Puppies 26. Here Comes the Sun - The Beatles 27. Hey Jude - The Beatles 28. Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones 29. Can't Buy Me Love - The Beatles 30. I Am the Walrus - The Beatles 31. Dear Prudence - The Beatles 32. Don't Stop Believin' - Journey 33. Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles 34. I Saw Her Standing There - The Beatles 35. Livin' On a Prayer - Bon Jovi 36. All My Loving - The Beatles 37. When I'm Sixty-Four - The Beatles 38. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles 39. Revolution - The Beatles 40. What It's Like - Everlast 41. You've Got to Hide Your Love Away - The Beatles 42. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) - The Beatles 43. Penny Lane - The Beatles 44. Let Her Cry - Hootie & The Blowfish 45. All You Need Is Love - The Beatles 46. You Be Tails, I'll Be Sonic - A Day to Remember 47. Across the Universe - The Beatles 48. The Long and Winding Road - The Beatles 49. I Should Have Known Better - The Beatles 50. Bad Company - Five Finger Death Punch 51. I'll Follow the Sun - The Beatles 52. Come Together - The Beatles 53. While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles 54. Hey Jude - The Beatles 55. Back In the U.S.S.R. - The Beatles 56. Hello, Goodbye - The Beatles 57. Do You Want to Know a Secret - The Beatles 58. If I Fell - The Beatles 59. I Want to Hold Your Hand - The Beatles 60. Walking In Memphis - Marc Cohn 61. Rocky Raccoon - The Beatles 62. Get Back - The Beatles 63. Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones 64. Yellow Submarine - The Beatles 65. Ticket to Ride - The Beatles 66. And I Love Her - The Beatles 67. All You Need Is Love - The Beatles 68. All My Loving - The Beatles 69. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da - The Beatles 70. Nowhere Man - The Beatles 71. Hey Bulldog - The Beatles 72. Drive My Car - The Beatles 73. Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles 74. Revolution - The Beatles 75. Breakeven (Falling to Pieces) - The Script 76. 2nd Sucks - A Day to Remember 77. Love Me Do - The Beatles 78. Got to Get You Into My Life - The Beatles 79. In My Life - The Beatles 80. Michelle - The Beatles 81. Good Day Sunshine - The Beatles 82. All the Right Moves - OneRepublic 83. Magical Mystery Tour - The Beatles 84. Eight Days a Week - The Beatles 85. Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles 86. In My Life - The Beatles 87. Fly - Sugar Ray 88. Back In the U.S.S.R. - The Beatles 89. Help! - The Beatles 90. I Want You (She's So Heavy) - The Beatles 91. Fade Into You - Mazzy Star 92. The Fool On the Hill - The Beatles 93. Helter Skelter - The Beatles 94. It's My Life - Bon Jovi 95. Sticks & Bricks - A Day to Remember 96. Half of My Heart - John Mayer 97. Life's Been Good - Joe Walsh 98. With a Little Help From My Friends - The Beatles 99. Bring Me to Life - Evanescence 100. Yesterday - The Beatles Beatles albums now £7.99 at Amazon.

From today's Financial Times, EMI has shipped 5m remastered CD recordings by The Beatles to retail stores as it looks to the band that helped define the rock and roll album to stem the format's decline in the age of the single track download. Pre-sales indicated that today's re-release of all 13 UK Beatles albums was on track to be "the biggest catalogue reissue ever conducted in the history of the music business", Ernesto Schmitt, head of EMI's global catalogue business, told the Financial Times. The first 50,000 box sets of mono versions of the recordings have sold out, at a price of £170. "That's a pretty courageous price point at a time when everybody wants music to be free," Mr Schmitt said.

They are definently selling them in my local Tesco store. They also sold out within 3 hours in my Sainsbury's store. They are also leaking out in Wall-Mart in US. But not on sale yet in HMV.

Some record companies gave their artists gold discs for one million UK sales of their singles. The first award was probably to Paul Anka for Diana. EMI gave 5 Gold discs to the Beatles. In his Book of Golden Discs Joseph Murrrells states: "The million selling discs listed in this book were either reported as having reached that figure by the manufacturers themselves to various musical magazines and newspapers or the information appeared in the general press. Since only some of the sales figures have been certified by actual audit the compiler cannot verify the listings, but has passed on such information as many years of research have led him to believe is derived from acceptable reports."

George Harrison Ding Dong (Happy New Year) released December 1974, reached no. 38, 5 weeks in Top 75.

It is only number 3 because MRIB charts as well as the year-end chart broadcast by Radio 1 included sales up to Christmas Eve 1988. The complete chart for 1988 as printed in Music Week/Record Mirror was, 01 MISLETOE AND WINE - CLIFF (750,000) 02 THE ONLY WAY IS UP - YAZZ (710,000) 03 I SHOULD BE SO LUCKY - KYLIE (650,000) 04 ESPECIALLY FOR YOU - KYLIE AND JASON (over 500,000) 05 I THINK WERE ALONE NOW - TIFFANY Approximate sales figures are given. However, some titles were still selling in 1989 (Kylie and Jason were at no. 1). So adjusted figures would be around, ESPECIALLY FOR YOU - KYLIE AND JASON (982,000) MISLETOE AND WINE - CLIFF (800,000). Cliff's claims probably relate to global sales - but NME said Mistletoe and Wine was his second UK million seller. Incidentally, do MRIB have a website?