The Beatles Sell More than 1 Million Albums in 1st Half of 2020
July 15, 2020 9:44AM EDT
The Beatles on stage at the London Palladium during a performance in front of 2, 000 screaming fans. (Photo by Michael Webb/Getty Images)
More than 50 years after they broke up, the Beatles are still the country’s most popular band.
That’s according to the Nielsen Music Midyear Report, which reveals the Liverpool quartet sold more than a million albums during the first half of 2020.
That puts the Beatles 326,000 units ahead of the second-place finisher, Queen. Only one other group has topped one million in sales this year: Korean pop act BTS, according to Nielsen.
The Beatles have also turned up on the vinyl album chart, landing in fifth place by moving 54,000 copies of 1969’s “Abbey Road.”
Why do people still buy Beatles albums 50 years after they stopped making music together? Could most people under 20 even name all four Beatles?
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