Beatles “1” Album Is Finally Digital

Additional juice to fill those Fab Four coffers with...

By Blurt Staff

The world's best-selling album of the past decade, The Beatles 1, makes its global digital debut today at iTunes. The album has debuted at #1 on several iTunes top albums charts around the world, including the US, Canada, Japan, the Netherlands, Mexico, Sweden, Spain, New Zealand, and Greece.  The Beatles have now sold more than nine million songs and over 1.5 million albums on iTunes worldwide. 

Whew. That's a lotta damn Beatles. Some more stats to help you eyes glaze over before you log on to iTunes and order up the album:

* Since its original release in 2000, 30 million physical copies of The Beatles 1 have been sold around the world

*More than 11.7 million copies sold in the US, where 1 topped Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart for eight weeks on its way to becoming the decade's top-selling album (2000-2009).

*1 collects all of The Beatles' singles released between 1963 and 1970 that reached #1 on the UK's Record Retailer chart and/or on Billboard's Hot 100 chart in the US.  The Beatles achieved 17 #1 UK singles between May 1963 and July 1969 and 20 US chart-toppers between February 1964 and June 1970.  Between both charts, The Beatles' singles spent a total of 128 weeks at #1.