At 79, Paul McCartney Has A Best-Selling Album Again—With A Little Help From (New) Friends
Paul McCartney is still making music history more than 57 years after his vocals helped propel the Beatles to their first-ever U.S. No. 1 hit, with his latest album—McCartney III Imagined—becoming the first remix album to lead U.S. sales in more than a decade.
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The album, which features acts like Anderson Paak, Dominic Fike and Phoebe Bridges on remixes of earlier McCartney songs, was No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart this week.
McCartney III Imagined also topped the Rock Albums chart and the Vinyl Albums chart, after physical album sales started on July 23.
The album came in at No. 19 on the Billboard 200, which also takes streaming plays into account, and appeared as the No. 13 album on the U.K.-based Official Charts Co. listing.
The album's original version—McCartney III, which features McCartney on all instruments—also topped the album sales chart in January.
Source: Nicholas Reimann/forbes.com
