Beatles chart invasion continues
A total of 29 Beatles songs appear in the OCC top 200 midweek sales flashes today, led by Hey Jude at 48.
There are four songs within the top 75: Hey Jude at 48; Twist And Shout at 52; Let It Be at 53 and Here Comes The Sun at 69, with a further three in the top 100.
Meanwhile, iTunes.co.uk, which has an exclusive deal to sell Beatles downloads until 2011, has 63 of the band’s tracks in its top 200, with Hey Jude leading the way at 25.
On the albums front, iTunes.co.uk has The Beatles 1967-70 best of at six, with Sergeant Pepper at nine and 1962-66 at ten.
Elsewhere on the charts, Take That’s Progress sold another 50,000 copies yesterday, taking its total to more than 350,000.
This leaves it close to the biggest first-week sales of the century: Coldplay’s X&Y sold 465,000 in its debut week in 2005 and Take That’s The Circus sold 432,000 first week in 2008.
Ellie Goulding’s cover of Elton John’s Your Song – as featured in the new John Lewis advert – is also racing up the charts. It is at four in the OCC sales flashes and tops the iTunes.co.uk chart.
Source: Music Week
