2012 marks the 60th anniversary of the Official Singles Chart. It also marks the 50th anniversary of The Beatles. To celebrate, the Official Charts Company have compiled a Top 40 of The Beatles most downloaded tracks.
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The Beatles  wrote their share of love songs. In fact, over their brief but prolific career, they wrote pretty much every type of love song imaginable.
You name the stage of a relationship, chances are there’s a great Beatles song to go with it. In honor of Valentine’s Day, we thought we’d list the Beatles’ […]

We assembled a panel of top guitarists and other experts to rank their favorites and explain what separates the legends from everyone else. Featuring Keith Richards on Chuck Berry, Carlos Santana on Jerry Garcia, Tom Petty on George Harrison (11/100) and more.
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…drops in second week back on the charts

After rocketing to the top five on its return to the U.S. Billboard 200, the Beatles “1″ album took a small dip downward its second week.
The album now sits just outside the top 5 at #6 on the Billboard 200. This […]

Elvis Costello provides an introduction to a list celebrating the Fab Four’s incredible catalog

The Beatles have the most acclaimed and widely beloved catalog in the history of rock music, so any list counting down the group’s best tunes is likely to stir up some controversy among fans. Rolling Stone’s list of the Beatles’ 100 […]

London rapper/vocalist Example followed his No. 1 single last week with a bestselling album yesterday (Sunday), debuting at the top with “Playing in the Shadows.” There was a veteran presence in the album top ten with the return of the Beatlesand, at 87 years of age, Doris Day. Meanwhile, pop artist Pixie Lott achieved her third […]

“I Am the Walrus”
Album: Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
Composer: Lennon/McCartney
Call it a voyeuristic ride through an acid head’s mind, or call it a cryptic diatribe on capitalism. Call it his bait for all the tiresome song dissectors in the world. Call it what you will- the controversy and questions surrounding its genesis, its meaning, and its […]

“Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”Album: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)Composer: Lennon/McCartneyThe tinny vocals and trippy lyrics of “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” fit the stereotype for the drug-induced, psychedelic romps of other late 60’s bands. Lennon insists he didn’t intend to directly reference LSD with the song, though he was admittedly […]

In a rare week when new releases from the Beatles and Jay-Zduked it out on the album sales charts, the British pop group and the Brooklyn rapper are both entitled to boast about their accomplishments.