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Billboard

The much-anticipated reissues of the Beatles' catalog hit stores on Sept. 9 are doing brisk business.

According to SoundScan's Building Chart data, more than 235,000 albums were purchased in the U.S. on Wednesday (Sept. 9) and Thursday (Sept. 10). The Building Chart's panel of reporters is made up of seven merchants that SoundScan estimates represent more than 70% of all U.S. album sales: Trans World Entertainment, Best Buy, iTunes, Starbucks, Borders, Target and Anderson Merchandisers.

That 235,000 figure is a mighty impressive number, considering in the week ending Sept. 6, the band's entire catalog shifted a total of 21,000.

"Abbey Road" was the band's bestseller in those two days, shifting 32,000 copies while "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club" was in second-place with 27,000. Next up were "The White Album" (22,000), "Rubber Soul" (21,000), "Help!" (16,000) and "Revolver" (15,000).

With those kinds of preliminary figures already racked up, the Beatles will easily overwhelm both Billboard's Top Comprehensive Albums and Top Pop Catalog Albums charts next week. Nielsen SoundScan's sales tracking week runs from Monday through Sunday of each week and Billboard's new album charts will be revealed next Wednesday (Sept. 16).

On the Top Pop Catalog Albums chart, it looks like the Beatles will own nine out of the top 10 titles, with only Michael Jackson's resilient "Number Ones" the lone non-Beatles set.

Chart watchers note: the two new "Beatles in Stereo" and "Beatles in Mono" boxed sets will chart on the Billboard 200, as the tally houses current and new releases (generally those 18 months old or less). Over on the Top Comprehensive Albums chart, both old and new albums mingle together. Thus, the individual album reissues of the Beatles' catalog will chart on the Top Comprehensive Albums and Top Pop Catalog Albums charts.

Record label sources predict that "Abbey Road" could end up selling as much as 100,000 copies by the close of the tracking week on Sunday night, Sept. 13. Those well-trained industry eyeballs also figure "Peppers," "White Album" and "Rubber Soul" may shift anywhere between 45,000 and 60,000.

"The Beatles in Stereo" and "The Beatles in Mono" are also selling well, considering their hefty price tags. Industry sources think "Stereo" could sell 25,000 by week's end while the "Mono" offering may do 10,000.

Collectively, chart prognosticators think the Beatles catalog of albums may sell between 500,000 and 600,000 by Sunday night.

Predicting first-week sales for the Beatles re-issues is more complicated than usual. Because the albums are being sold not just through music retailers, but also in an array stores that don't normally sell music, this throws a wrench into traditional sales projection models. In turn, all of these projections could very well grow to be bigger than expected once the sales week ends.
[Edited 9/11/09 22:39pm]

omg that price might do a 187 on my muthafuccin' wallet!

not too bad of a price for 17 disks.. the whole shebang

I'm so there.

could it be that.....nooooo im not going THERE

I wonder if Moonbeam already has an order or two in?


tA

Tribal Disorder

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ack! must have immediately.

theAudience said:

hopefully for me!

Ironically this will basically SAVE the dismal year in sales for the business. How interesting that it has taken a death (MJ) and reissues of a 45 year old band to save the year for labels

lastdecember said:

Right!

Michael Jackson's estate is about to make a lot more money!

dreamfactory313 said:

I was going to say the same damn thing! This is surely not coincidental!

as easy as it is to bring up michael jackson in every single topic these days.. let's not and say we did.

Sdldawn said:

Yeah you're right... anyway, I wonder how many CD sets are in this, probably 20.

17 Disc Set is what Barnes and noble says

Sdldawn said:

Damn, that's pretty close!

Please Please Me
With the Beatles
A Hard Day's Night
Beatles For Sale
Help!
Rubber Soul
Revolver
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Magical Mystery Tour
The Beatles [2 discs]
Yellow Submarine
Abbey Road
Let It Be
Past Masters [2 discs]
DVD of all 13 mini-documentaries (Running time: 40 minutes)

VERY excited about this!

AlexdeParis said:

Now THAT'S a box set!

I just know that someone will get me this for Christmas I've left plenty of "hints",lol.

lastdecember said:

Yeah,amazing,huh? But it just proves that good music is timeless and will continue to sell decades after it's released.

This will likely be my first hard-copy purchase in, oh, three years.

theAudience said:

This would be the most expensive set of coasters that he ever purchased

Sdldawn said:

Does everyone like the packaging? I think it's cool...simple,not too extravagant.

Can't. Fricken. Wait.

SoulAlive said:

yeah, i want it cause of that box..


and those phat remasters!!


can't wait

It seems that everyone has Masters.....but the true master.

I'm not even that big a fan (only interested really in Rubber Soul through Abbey Road minus Yellow Submarine), but that box looks hot. Around $200, eh?

SoulAlive said:

Their logo with the "Apple" logo and a BLACK background = COOL!

Sdldawn said:

YES!! FINALLY!!!