While CD sales continue to drop every year, vinyl sales are actually climbing (up 14% from 2009.) Here are the top 10 selling vinyl albums in 2010 (with the total sold in parenthesis.) 1. The Beatles: Abbey Road (35,000) 2. Arcade Fire: The Suburbs (18,800) 3. The Black Keys: Brothers (18,400) 4. Vampire Weekend: Contra [...]

Continuing my new picking whatever I want to do next approach to the Beatles songs series; today’s song is “Rain.” Yes, I’m really picking up steam. After waiting 9 months between “Hold Me Tight” to “And I Love Her” I’ve waited only 13 days to get to “Rain.” At this rate I may even finish [...]

Instead of picking up where I left off (about 9 months ago) with my Beatles songs series, I’m going to skip ahead to “And I Love Her.” I figure it’s very unlikely that I’ll ever get to all of them, so instead of going in order (and doing a lot of early songs I don’t [...]

On February 9th of 1964 The Beatles debuted on The Ed Sullivan Show. This was the very first time that most Americans saw The Beatles on TV. An incredible 73 million Americans watched. As the Washington Post pointed out in their story today; that means that 40% of Americans saw The Beatles that night – [...]

I was just reading the “Notes on” page for “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away”* and I was surprised to see that of the 15 Beatles songs that use 3/4 timing (or 6/8 or 12/8) for at least one full section 11 of them were by John Lennon. Paul McCartney and George Harrison had [...]

The Beatles in Stereo and The Beatles in Mono box sets are the two most obvious choices for anyone who doesn’t have them yet. They are a “must own” for any serious music fan. There are a number of new John Lennon releases this year that may be a good choice for a Lennon/Beatles fan. [...]

***Due to my obsessive nature I am editing this article with Amazon.com sales rankings included because I’m obsessed with them right now for some sick reason.*** According to the users of the website RateYourMusic.com, these are the top 10 pop/rock albums of the 1960s: #01 The Beatles – Abbey Road (1969) – #82 on Amazon [...]

Amazon has a fantastic “Cyber Monday Lightning Deal” available for The Beatles remastered greatest hits collections (“Red Album” & “Blue Album“) today. They’ve already been selling these collections at a very low price (just $12.99 for each double disc set) but today they are even cheaper ($9.99.) While I am the kind of Beatles fanatic [...]

If you’re looking for Christmas gifts (or just for a great deal for something for yourself) then you should definitely check out Amazon’s “Cyber Monday” deals today. There’s a lot of great deals on all kinds of stuff, including music. For example you can get the Bob Dylan mono box set (his first 8 albums [...]

The Beatles have 9 of the top 10 rock albums and 8 of the top 10 rock songs in the US iTunes rock charts. The Beatles music was made available to download through the iTunes store for the first time last week. But due to some great deals over at Amazon, it’s actually cheaper to [...]