The Beatles Make 'Abbey Road' A Winner Again As It Returns To The Charts
Abbey Road reenters the Billboard 200, Top Rock & Alternative Albums, and Top Album Sales charts, ... [+] nearing 500 total weeks on the Billboard 200. HAMBURG, GERMANY - MAY 28: A general view of the 'Abbey Road Studio' room is seen at the Beatlemania exhibition on May 28, 2009 in Hamburg, Germany. The exhibition, which opens tomorrow, shows the development of the Beatles from their beginnings in Hamburg until they split up.
The Beatles are still so popular to this day that the group almost always appears on one Billboard chart or another. The band usually trades one title for a different one, based on both changing interests among American listeners as well as a handful of rules specific to the Billboard tallies that dictate which project finds space on a ranking (or doesn’t).
Most of the time, The Beatles appear with one compilation or another. It’s not uncommon for legacy acts to see just one or two collections of hit singles appear on the Billboard charts, as those are the titles that fans flock to both when they want to buy something from a favored act and when they head to streaming platforms.
This week is a bit different for The Beatles. Instead of a compilation, like either 1962-1966 (A.K.A. The Red Album) or 1967-1970 (usually referred to as The Blue Album), one of the group’s proper studio full-lengths returns, and it manages to break back onto several rosters at once.
Abbey Road is a winner yet again in America, decades after it was first released and heralded as a masterpiece. The title lands on three Billboard charts, and it didn’t find space on any of them just a few days ago.
Source: forbes.com/Hugh McIntyre
