The Beatles Debut Two Albums On The Charts In A Huge Week For The Band
The Beatles are always present on the music charts in the United Kingdom in one capacity or another. The band remains perhaps the most famous ever in the nation, even more than half a century after they split. While they often fill one or two spaces on a ranking, or perhaps a few tallies, this frame has turned out to be especially huge for the rockers.
This time around, The Beatles debut two different projects on the charts in their home country. Both collections start their time on three lists apiece, and these wins don’t even manage to tell the full story of their ongoing success on the U.K. rankings.
1964 US Albums in Mono is the top performer between their two debuts. The box set features eight LPs in a sizable offering from the group, which focuses on their earliest work. The seven albums represented were slated for release in the U.S., and only in mono, in the mid-’60s, and now they’ve been pressed once again on vinyl using the original tapes.
That collection of full-lengths debuts inside the top 40 on all three U.K.-based lists it reaches this frame. 1964 US Albums in Mono lands highest on the Official Vinyl Albums ranking, where it enters at No. 14, only missing the top 10 by a few spaces. The same gathering of projects is also new to the Official Physical Albums (No. 35) and Official Albums Sales (No. 37) charts.
One of the albums featured in that box set, Meet the Beatles, is also new to the same number of rosters, and it lands on all three tallies that 1964 US Albums in Mono settles on for the first time this week. Meet the Beatles launches at No. 19 on the Official Vinyl Albums list, and that turned out to be the only top 40 placement for the title. The fan favorite also reaches the Official Physical Albums (No. 42) and Official Albums Sales (No. 46) as well as a standalone release.
Source: Hugh McIntyre/forbes.com
