How many albums have The Beatles sold?
Before The Beatles broke up in 1970 , their singles outsold their LPs . Photo by Mick Haupt on Unsplash This was the standard pattern of record sales at that time. LPs were considered a luxury item and priced beyond the reach of most teenagers. The Beatles did have an unusual multi-generational appeal. And the kids who bought their singles would later come back to buy not just the studio albums but various compilations. From Statista Studio Albums The Beatles officially released 13 studio albums between 1962 and their breakup. Over time, the biggest seller has been Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band ( 1967 ), with an estimated 32 million The first three Anthology albums have sold more than 13 million. Later acts, like Fleetwood Mac and Elton John , benefited from the increasing availability of affordable stereo systems . Older fans were now buying Beatles albums in large numbers, but these sales were dwarfed by those of...
