{"id":402,"date":"2010-11-19T16:57:28","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T16:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/11\/19\/beatles-chart-invasion-continues\/"},"modified":"2010-11-19T16:57:28","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T16:57:28","slug":"beatles-chart-invasion-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2010\/11\/19\/beatles-chart-invasion-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Beatles chart invasion continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.musicweek.com\/pictures\/160xAny\/l\/q\/q\/Beatles_Help_Cover_DVD.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"157\" height=\"220\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"standfirst\">\n<p>A total of 29 Beatles songs appear in the OCC top 200 midweek sales flashes today, led by Hey Jude at 48.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skylight.gr\/linkmatches.asp?linkcode=252\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">iTunes<\/span><\/span><\/a>.co.uk, which has an exclusive deal to sell Beatles downloads until 2011, has 63 of the band\u2019s tracks in its top 200, with Hey Jude leading the way at 25.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on the charts, Take That\u2019s Progress sold another 50,000 copies yesterday, taking its total to more than 350,000.<\/p>\n<p>This leaves it close to the biggest first-week sales of the century: Coldplay\u2019s X&amp;Y sold 465,000 in its debut week in 2005 and Take That\u2019s The Circus sold 432,000 first week in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Ellie Goulding\u2019s cover of Elton John\u2019s Your Song \u2013 as featured in the new John Lewis advert &#8211; is also racing up the charts. It is at four in the OCC sales flashes and tops the iTunes.co.uk chart.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Music Week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 29 Beatles songs appear in the OCC top 200 midweek sales flashes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}