The Beatles Could Surpass Eminem As Best Selling Act Of The Decade
Posted by Mitch Michaels on 09.09.2009
With less than four months, Beatlemania could define the 2000's record sales...
With the release today of their entire remastered catalog and Rock Band game, some are expecting The Beatles to surpass Eminem as the best-selling artist of the current decade.
As of now, The Beatles are in second place with 28.2 million. Eminem sits on top with 32 million. Em will no doubt increase his numbers with interest in Relapse (and perhaps Relapse 2) as the holiday season approaches.
However, EMI is shipping nearly 2 million copies of The Beatles' remasters to the US today. A strong performance could lead to some huge numbers by the end of December. Right now, the band is expected to move 500,000 albums this week and 1.3 million by the end of the month.
There are some factors working against the Beatles, however - some are criticizing the release of all thirteen albums at once, others wonder if a new generation will care about the improved sound of the remasters that feature no bonus material and then there's the remasters box set - a pricey collection of all the albums that will only count as one sale. The biggest problem, however, may be the continued lack of the Beatles' music available for download.
No matter what happens, the Beatles 1 remains the best-selling album of the 2000's, and the band is the second biggest selling act of the SoundScan era with 58 million albums sold - they sit behind Garth Brooks, who has 69.3 million.
Its actually pretty sad when a group from 1960's is still the best selling artists in todays generation. In one way thats a good thing as it shows people appriciate good music but at the same time doesn't it show you lack of true depth in todays market.
Posted By: Andrew Barbarash (Guest) on September 09, 2009 at 11:49 AM
Preach on Andrew!
Posted By: Boo (Guest) on September 09, 2009 at 01:40 PM
i think the best musci has been and the music now is just getting worse and worser
Posted By: sam (Guest) on September 09, 2009 at 01:52 PM
I find it funny how Country music is always put to the side but yet the best selling artist is none other then Garth Brooks.
Posted By: Cj (Guest) on September 09, 2009 at 02:23 PM
All generations are influenced by the last generation... so in a sense the music of today and for that matter how the world is today is a reflection of how the last generation raised the next...
Posted By: athought (Guest) on September 09, 2009 at 02:26 PM
It's actually pretty sad when people try to determine what's "good music" and "true depth" (whatever that means) by looking at record sales.
Preach on Andrew.
Posted By: S. R. (Guest) on September 12, 2009 at 12:55 AM
My bet is that the Beatles WILL surpass Em as the best selling artists of the decade. I mean, we are talking about THE Beatles here! Duh ...
Posted By: George McCartney (No Relation) (Guest) on September 12, 2009 at 06:42 PM
Beatles best selling act of all time --riaa certfied 170 million --brooks 128 million--Elvis and beatles over a billion worldwide.--
Posted By: harry (Guest) on September 13, 2009 at 12:09 PM
The Beatles have sold more albums than Elvis, or anyone else for that matter. The RIAA number is for albums sold in the United States only. And Garth Brooks has not sold more albums than the Beatles. He has only sold more than them during the Sound Scan Era, which is not even 20 years yet.
Posted By: Mark (Guest) on October 14, 2009 at 10:52 PM
With due respect to all respondants. Certification is not the same as sales.
Whilst all Beatle, Emenim, Jackson etc, albums have been certified. There are some 300 Presley Albums uncertified which have collectively sold at least 80 million. There are also 10's of millions of Presley albums sold through record clubs and special liscence. None of these are within the Riaa or soundscan count.
Elvis has also sold far more singles and EP's than any other artist.
Do not doubt it, Elvis is the only artist who can justify sales claims of over a billion, which is many hundreds of millions more than any other act dead or alive.
Posted By: returnoftheKing (Guest) on October 23, 2009 at 08:16 AM
