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It Was 40 Years Ago Today


06/01/07
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(PR) On Jun 1, 1967 a landmark album was released that changed popular music forever. That album was The Beatles "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". What is even more astonishing is that the album seems to be just as popular today as it was when it was released. Don't just take our word for it; our friends at Gracenote have the stats to back it up. Here is a little of what they told us:

The Beatles are the most accessed - or "looked up" - artists in the Gracenote database, which has more than 200 million users worldwide and boasts more than 1.2 billion searches a month. The legendary "Sgt. Pepper's" album is also the most accessed original album by The Beatles on the database. More astonishingly for an album that was released four decades ago, according to the Gracenote database, The Beatles' signature album in just the last month has outranked albums by hitmakers Christina Aguilera ("Stripped"), Gwen Stefani ("The Sweet Escape"), The Killers ("Hot Fuss"), Coldplay ("X&Y"), and Eminem ("The Marshal Mathers LP"), all of whom are considered some of today's most popular artists.

"The songs of 'Sgt. Pepper' continue to speak to new generations of music fans, even those on the cutting edge of digital technology," says Scott San Filippo, director of Gracenote's content team. To emphasize the point, San Filippo notes that The Fab Four ranking surpasses that of their '60s counterparts The Rolling Stones and The Who, both of whom have continued to record and tour years after the Beatles broke up in 1970. [see the full story to visit Gracenote and look up the album that inspired Sgt Pepper, you'll find it under "Pet Sounds" mot Charles Manson.] - Click here for the Full Story

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