Beatles Bust the Charts ... Again

The Beatles first started setting sales records for albums and singles back in 1964. Hard as it is to imagine, they're still doing it 45 years later.

Within a week of its September 9 release, the remastered Beatles catalog on CD -- singly and in box sets (one mono, one stereo) -- more than 2.25 million copies were sold worldwide. U.S. sales accounted for nearly half of the total.

Ironically, first week sales broke some previous records that were already held by The Beatles, with the release of The Beatles Anthology Vol. 1 in 1995.

To be sure, many of the people buying the new mixes were fans back in '64 but the sales figures suggest a much wider fan base, one that includes a lot of people who hadn't even been born in 1964. That is also reflected in video from the 2009 Beatlesfest fan gathering.

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