Beatles Sell Over 2 Million iTunes In A Week (Top Story)

12/30/2010
. Beatles Sell Over 2 Million iTunes In A Week was a top story in November. Here it is again as we recap 2010: (hennemusic) Billboard reports that the initial iTunes Beatles sales figures are in: More than 450,000 albums and 2 million individual songs were sold on iTunes worldwide, according to Apple, since the Beatles catalog was made available Tuesday (Nov. 16).

U.S. album sales totaled 119,000 units, which included 13,000 digital box sets, while individual digital track sales reached 1.4 million, according to industry sources.

Each digital box set included 13 studio albums, the two-volume "Past Masters" compilation and the "Live at the Washington Coliseum, 1964" concert film. Sources say the U.S. album sales tally of 119,000 counts each box set as one unit, while Apple's worldwide album sales tally counts each box set as multiple sales units - more on this story

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