USA Today Music — Forty years after breaking up, The Beatles are flexing their digital sales muscle, selling 450,000 albums and 2 million songs worldwide in their ...
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L.A. Times - Entertainment — When Apple Inc. announced last week that the Beatles' catalog would at long last be available for legal downloading on iTunes, many skeptics groused that the two entities had come together too late.When Apple Inc. announced last week that the Beatles... more info
Guardian Music — EMI also sells 2m singles via iTunes in the seven days since the band's back catalogue was made availableEMI has sold more than 450,000 Beatles albums via Apple's iTunes store in the seven days since the band's entire back catalogue was made availabl... more info
L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — When Apple Inc. announced last week that the Beatles’ catalog would at long last be available for legal downloading on iTunes, many skeptics groused that the two entities had come together too late: Everyone who cares about the group’s music... more info
Reuters — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Beatles sold more than two million individual songs and more than 450,000 albums worldwide in their first week of release on Apple's iTunes store, Apple said on Tuesday.
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ContactMusic — JOHN LENNON's handwritten lyrics for the BEATLES song I'M ONLY SLEEPING are expected to fetch up to $525,000 (350,000) when they go up for auction in London next... more info
L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — So iTunes may have gotten the Beatles, but the battle for online supremacy in the digital downloading space is just getting started. Yes, the Apple store has a massive head start, but Amazon.com this week is taking direct aim at... more info
Reuters — LONDON (Reuters) - John Lennon's handwritten lyrics to the Beatles song "I'm Only Sleeping" will go on sale next month, Bonhams auctioneers said on Tuesday.
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Guardian Music — Handwritten lyrics to Beatles song I'm Only Sleeping to go on sale in London auctionHandwritten lyrics scrawled by John Lennon on the back of a demand for an outstanding bill are expected to sell for £350,000 at auction.Lennon scribbled the words fo... more info