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Beatles are still tops in 2020
In 2020 the Beatles can still sell as many records as the top groups of 2020 per Forbes article. What a testament to the absolute dominance of the Beatles as the undisputed greatest POP/Rock band of all time!!!
Half a century after their breakup, The Beatles are still the biggest rock band of 2020, shifting 1.094 million album-equivalent units through the first six months of the year, 326,000 units ahead of the genre’s second-place finisher, Queen. The Fab Four also had the fifth-bestselling vinyl album of the year, selling 54,000 copies of their 1969 opus Abbey Road.
Now I don’t know about BTS, they look like my nephew, as I don’t get their music at all, but this article shows that the world still appreciates and craves good music.  The great melodic pop/rock music of the 60s that the Beatles created is still relevant, and the world is ripe for MLT!
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Here is an excerpt from another article:
Despite the music industry’s shakiness, the Beatles remain relevant. The same goes for film: Grammy-winning director Jonas Akerlund will helm an upcoming movie, Midas Man, chronicling the life of the band’s longtime manager, Brian Epstein. And Peter Jackson is still prepping The Beatles: Get Back, a documentary about the band’s infamously tense Let It Be sessions. Both projects are now scheduled for 2021.
And looking back the last 10 years, the Beatles (and Elvis) continued to crack into the top album sales along with the contemporaries. What staying power, and there is no sign of Beatles sales and popularity letting up.
The two biggest artists of the 20th century are still making their mark well into the 21st century. Elvis Presley and The Beatles both made Nielsen Music’s list of the Top 10 artists of the past decade (2010-2019) for album sales. They were the only non-contemporary artists who made the Top 10.
Adele, Taylor Swift and Eminem hold the first three spots, with The Beatles at number six and Elvis Presley at number 10. The Beatles had 10,309,000 in album sales for the decade, and Elvis had 9,278,000.
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Here is the full Top 10 list of Total Album Sales for the Decade:
1) Adele                              23,924,000
2) Taylor Swift                  22,972,000
3) Eminem                         13,862,000
4) Justin Bieber                 12,098,000
5) Drake                              10,526,000
6) The Beatles                    10,309,000
7) Luke Bryan                      9,572,000
8) Lady Antebellum            9,452,000
9) Michael Buble                 9,444,000
10) Elvis Presley                  9,278,000
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The fairly close number of album sales between Elvis and The Beatles has been holding steady over time. According to The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), The Beatles and Elvis are among the top three artists of all time in album sales.
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As of January 2020, The Beatles were at the top with 183 million albums sold, Garth Brooks was number two with 148 million and Elvis Presley was at number three with 146.5 million.
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