Phillip Elmer Dewitt reports for Fortune, “A quick check of the iTunes bestseller list Wednesday morning, less than 24 hours after The Beatles’ albums appeared on the store, found all of them — including the lamentable Magical Mystery Tour — in the top 50.”
iTunes Store Top 50 Albums:
7. Abbey Road
9 The Beatles (White Album)
10. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
12. The Beatles Box Set
16. The Beatles 1967-1970
18. The Beatles 1962-1966
19. Rubber Soul
20. Revolver
21. Magical Mystery Tour
25. Let It Be
27. A Hard Day’s Night
28. Please Please Me
29. Help!
32. With The Beatles
38. Beatles For Sale
49. Yellow Submarine
Full article here.
Lamentable “Magigical Mystery Tour” indeed.
First off it was #21. Second is MDN in that lamentable camp that feel the Stones’ “Their Satanic Majesties Request” is lamentable too?
@hagar57: Um, no, it’s not “George Best”, it’s “George Martin” and his son. You’re thinking of Pete Best.
What I don’t get is, what did Apple Corps Ltd. get by waiting this long? No single song purchases? Didn’t get that. A higher price? Didn’t get that either. Copy protection? Nope!
I don’t get it.
. . . or, was Apple Corps Ltd. just using iTunes as bate in their dealings with EMI?
@shmerls: MDN didn’t say that MMT was lamentable; Phillip Elmer Dewitt wrote that in Fortune. Reading is a good thing.
Satanic Majesties is not exactly lamentable; it’s just an artifact from the psychedelic era’s least psychedelic band.
Predictably, Yellow Submarine brings up the rear.
“What I don’t get is, what did Apple Corps Ltd. get by waiting this long? “
A lot of hype, a day we’ll never forget and 15 albums in the top 50!
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seriously though, the terms haven’t been disclosed…
Awesome! I can’t wait to see the sales numbers for the first day or two.
I will never forget! 11/16/10
The most important day in the history of everything!
I love the Beatles, but I don’t know whether to be amazed or saddened that they are consistently a top-selling artist this long after their breakup.
One way to look at it is that popular music has really hit a dead-end. Surely the “next Beatles” should have come along by now.
——RM
still second to ABBA
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I am SICK of how “performers” have discovered Antares Auto-Tune and abuse it. When really good vocalists like Cher used it years ago to artistic effect it was an interesting one-off (or so we hoped) but now it’s a total crutch and BORING and annoying as hell. Kinda like how robotic vocoder vocal effects quickly wore out their welcome.
C’mon people this technology has been around more than 10 years and vacuous music producers gotta have that “me-too” over-processed sound of instead of creating their own or, God forbid, use singers who can actually sing! Paraphrasing Steve Martin from PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES “Heres a clue, create something musically new and original with real singing talent, it makes it so much more entertaining for the listener!”
I “auto-tune out” instantly as soon as I hear that identifiable aural abomination.
The silence from MSN must be from their foot being full in their mouth( or a**). Where is their know-it-all-we are-never-wrong take now?
Hello….hello? Anyone home at MDN?….. Winnies!
Check it out in a couple of weeks…
Tried to criticize MDN for there silence and it would not allow it
Will try again….
The silence from MDN must be from their foot in their mouth or a**. Where is your know-it all-we are-always-right take now?
Hello…hello? Anyone home at MDN? Weenies!
@Peter Blood
Get used to it. Auto tune and Melodyne are used in every commercial recording. Even the non-effect vocals (the ones that don’t use the Cher or T Pain sound) use it. Sometimes it is barely noticeable.
It is very difficult to sing in tune. Auto tune is very easy. It will never go away, anymore than spell checker will disappear.
“Check it out in a couple of weeks…”
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Yeah, let’s see if these flash in the pan mop-heads known as “The Beatles” are still selling albums in a few weeks..
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I’m with you bob, the beatles were too radical for their time and way too boring for this time. if you want to listen to classic music there’s the doors, led zeppelin, queen.. much better alternatives. apples/steves infatuation with the beatles only separates it from the new generation, even my pot smoking friends find them way too boring.
I ordered the boxed set from Amazon. Yesterday.
@Manbearpig
“Auto tune and Melodyne are used in every commercial recording.”
Make that “nearly every commercial POP recording”.
Real, trained, singers like Renée Fleming, Bryn Terfel and Anna Netrebko don’t use electronic tone correction. They’d be booed off the stage if they did. Guaranteed.
@ Makes No Sense:
“You can buy any of these albums for a couple if bucks ina CD swap shop and rip them lossless- way better quality for less $.”
What’s your point? Same applies to any currently recorded material.
Maybe what you meant was:
“You can buy any album for a couple if bucks ina CD swap shop and rip them lossless- way better quality for less $.
This is the big announcement? And that’s it???
Please please please….Apple hello! Do not sink in to da pathetic marketing category…
@Mr Reeee
Fine. Every single popular Pop commercial recording since 2004 uses some sort of pitch correction.
Opera singers sing without mics in performance, so clearly they can’t use software to correct pitch.
@ manbearpig
“Opera singers sing without mics in performance, so clearly they can’t use software to correct pitch.”
There are live performance boxes that can do pitch correction on the fly. I believe there is a certain amount of latency though.
I don’t object as much to this audio pitch correction technique when used moderately and not in your face. It’s the blatant yodeling abuse of it (set to “11”) that drives me up a wall and switch songs faster ‘n grease lightnin’! Frankly flaws in playing, singing and performing can be charming and add the human factor. Perfection need not always apply.
I remember buying drum machines back in the 80’s & 90’s that would actually have that slightly imperfect human beat factor built in.
@LordRobin,
I’ll respectfully modify your comment [in brackets] to put this in context:
“I love [Mozart], but I don’t know whether to be amazed or saddened that [he is] consistently a [renowned] artist this long after [his passing]. One way to look at it is that [classical] music has really hit a dead-end. Surely the “next [Mozart]” should have come along by now.”
Beatles = “next Mozart” perhaps? Or Debussy or Gershwin? Every generation offers its timeless artists; some stick while others pass into history.