Foxxern
Refugee
Here's something I was thinking about the other day, and I know people in here are pretty knowledgeable about music, so here goes. I heard somewhere, maybe a while back, that the total sales for all Beatles albums worldwide is over 1 billion? Is that figure correct? I know they are the most popular rock band ever, and one of the most popular entertainment acts ever as well, but this number seemed odd to me. Here's something that came to mind:
The Beatles have been around, basically, since 1962. I guess they were another band before that, but I'm talking about the regular Beatles. So, that's about 41 years now. 41 years comes out to about 1,292,976,000 seconds, or about 1.292 billion seconds. So this basically means that if the sales figures are correct, then for the last 41 years, the Beatles have sold an average of one album every 1.292 seconds! That's just insane, but I guess it makes sense considering how many Beatles albums are out there. Of course, feel free to correct me if in fact my numbers are wrong. Still, assuming the figure of 1 billion albums holds, its pretty damn amazing.
Oh, and working out something similar with U2, you get them selling an album about once every 7 seconds. Still not bad at all.
The Beatles have been around, basically, since 1962. I guess they were another band before that, but I'm talking about the regular Beatles. So, that's about 41 years now. 41 years comes out to about 1,292,976,000 seconds, or about 1.292 billion seconds. So this basically means that if the sales figures are correct, then for the last 41 years, the Beatles have sold an average of one album every 1.292 seconds! That's just insane, but I guess it makes sense considering how many Beatles albums are out there. Of course, feel free to correct me if in fact my numbers are wrong. Still, assuming the figure of 1 billion albums holds, its pretty damn amazing.
Oh, and working out something similar with U2, you get them selling an album about once every 7 seconds. Still not bad at all.