WHAT WERE THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS?
- Held Top 5 Positions On The Billboard Charts (U.S.) (1964)
- Highest Selling Band Ever
- Most Songs In Top 40 At One Time (12) (1964)
- The Beatles are officially the highest-selling music artistes of all time, having sold over a billion copies under their name.
- First To Have A Promotional Video (1966)
- Most #1 Hits In One Year (6) (1964)
- First Performance On The First Satellite Hook Up Around The World (1967)
- Most #1 Albums
- Most #1 Singles (20) (U.S.)
- First To Have Backwards Music In Songs
- Top 2 Selling Songs In 1964 (i want to hold your hand & money cant buy me love)
- Biggest T.V. Audience Twice (1964)
- Most Covered Song In History With "Yesterday"
- 35 #1 Albums World Wide
- Fastest Selling CD of All-Time With "The Beatles 1" 13 Million Copies In 4 Weeks
- Have a #1 Album In 2006
- Having a #1 After They Split Up
- 17 Number One Hits in 6 Years
- 25 Grammy Award Nominations (Won 8)
- 38 #1 Hits World Wide
- They Held the Top 2 Spots On the Billboard Charts for 10 Weeks In February - April 1964
- The Beatles are the bestselling musical group of all time, estimated by EMI to have over one billion discs and tapes sold worldwide. The Beatles have notched up the most multiplatinum selling albums for any artist or musical group thirteen in the U.S. alone. The Beatles have a record six diamondselling albums 10 million copies Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles, Abbey Road, The Beatles 19621966, The Beatles 19671970, and The Beatles 1. The Beatles have had more number one albums than any other group 19 in the U.S. and 15 in the United Kingdom. The Beatles spent the highest number of weeks at number one in the albums chart 174 in the UK and 132 in the U.S.. The most successful first week of sales for a double album The Beatles Anthology Volume 1, which sold 855,473 copies in the U.S. from 21 November to 28 November 1995. The Beatles have the fastest selling CD of all time with 1. It sold over 13 million copies in four weeks.
- The Beatles have had more number one singles than any other musical group 23 in Australia, 23 in The Netherlands, 22 in Canada, 21 in Norway, 20 in the U.S., and 18 in Sweden. Ironically, the Beatles could easily have had even more number ones, because they were often competing with their own singles.
- With their performance at Shea Stadium in 1965, The Beatles set new world records for concert attendance 55,600 and revenue.
- The Beatles broke television ratings records in the U.S. with their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show with over 70 million people viewing.