the best selling rock group of 2020 so far is...........ta da!

[msongs]

the BEATLES of course, selling over a million album equivalents - downloads and actual discs

I want to hold your hand...forever lol


https://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/entertainment-articles/meet-the-beatles-2020s-best-selling-rock-band/

[mr_lebowski]

1. Comfort music for a great many people ...

Also with streaming so cheap and prevalent, people are probably mostly actually buying only stuff that they consider timeless and know they will never get tired of. Plus it's mostly only older people who still buy music.

[msongs]

2. my neighbors grade school kids love beatles, especially the early poppy stuff. too young for the

hippy dippy music that came later

[BigmanPigman]

3. I broke the school rules and taught the Beatles as part of my

music lessons. They loved them.

[mr_lebowski]

7. Are they buying Beatles cds or downloading versions of the songs that they paid $$$ for?

Everyone likes the Beatles ... But kids don't buy music much if at all anymore. They stream it.

[genxlib]

4. Do you think that the movie has anything to do with it

The movie “Yesterday” is really a love song to the Beatles catalogue more than anything

It was similar to a biopic which has the effect of reintroducing music to a whole new audience. I came away from the movie wanting to hear more.

I know it came out it 2019 but people may have caught it in streaming

[mr_lebowski]

6. Probably has something to do with it, yes :) nt

[Yavin4]

8. I wonder what the budget was on that movie

The license fees on Beatles songs are through the roof.

Funny story. For the last week that Conan O'Brien hosted The Tonight Show, in an act of revenge, he had the band play Beatles songs at every break. That cost NBC a fortune.

[uriel1972]

5. hello, hello and hello and hello and hello

As much as I like the Beatles, esp songs like :Eleanor Rigby" I can't help but feel a little uneasy about this.