The Most Popular Rock Artist
It’s amazing to think that after nearly 50 years The Beatles still remain the
top Popular Rock Artist in the world. While bands like Coldplay, U2 and Nickleback may score bigger weekly album sales, all pale in comparison to the attention, and the money, brought in by The Beatles. We are talking about a band that hasn’t come out with an original album for 35 years; and album whose #1′s greatest hits collection sold over a million copies in one week; and we are talking about a band who topped the news when they finally allowed their songs to be released on iTunes.
One thing that gets lost in all of the hysteria that surrounds the Beatles now a days (they have their own Vegas show) is that this all comes from a band that was deemed “dangerous” in the 1960s and 70s. While they were always a Popular Rock Artist, they were shunned by parents and chastised by religious groups. They were a band that caused near riots when John Lennon jokingly compared them to Jesus, and a band whose rather vague lyrics have caused much second-guessing from parents who didn’t like what they represented.
When you really think about it, it’s staggering to think about how big The Beatles truly are. They sell millions of albums every year, collects hundreds of millions of dollars of merchandise in sales and, most impressively, continue to gain new fans with every generation of music fans who come up. It doesn’t matter if you are 10 or 100, there is a good chance you at least like one Beatles song.
