Posted by:
Lot's Wife
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Date: November 30, 2021 11:17PM
Far be it from me to suggest that Josephs Myth's views are sometimes independent of factual evidence, but in this case the numbers indicate that rumors of the Beatles's demise in 1966 were premature.
In 1968 the single Hey Jude sold three million copies in the US in its first two months.
The highly priced The Beatles sold 1.1 million copies in its first two weeks, which was a record for any double album in the US before that date.
Issued just three months before the end of 1969, Abby Road sold enough albums in that year alone to number among the most successful albums in the United States for the entire decade of the 1960s.
Let It Be shipped 3.2 million copies in 13 days when it was released, garnering $26 million in that very short time.
Those data points imply that the band was doing just fine, thank you very much, in the late 1960s and that Kentish's perspective is correct.
http://www.beatlesradio.com/beatles-record-sales