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Activision’s Guitar Hero 5 might be casting something of a retail shadow over rival release The Beatles: Rock Band, but The Fab Four’s appeal beyond the realms of console gaming remains beyond question after rocketing sales of the band’s re-released albums.
Still fab after nearly four decades. Image: kevindooley/Flickr.
More pointedly, despite breaking up almost four decades ago, the world’s first juggernaut boy band is back in the news after music label EMI Group revealed that its newly re-mastered Beatles albums have already sold around 2.25 million copies across major consumer markets.
According to EMI, the world’s fourth largest music publisher, the impressive sales figures were racked up in just five days of retail availability following the September 09 release of the enhanced albums in North America, Japan and the United Kingdom. More than one million of those sales were attributed to North America alone.
AP reports that of the revamped Beatles albums (CDs) are presently placed within the top 50 of Billboard magazine’s pop chart – along with two separate Beatles-specific CD box sets.
Similarly, the UK Official Charts Company has said last week’s chart listing shows four Beatles albums in the top 10, seven in the top 40, and 16 in the top 75.
Offered up as something of a definitive Beatles experience, the re-mastered original albums were engineered at London’s legendary Abbey Road Studios, which The Beatles themselves often used to record their hugely popular material.
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