For those who doubted that The Beatles finally being available for download as an iTune's exclusive was a big deal, comes the news that first week worldwide sales totalled more than 450,000 Beatles albums plus two million individual songs according to Apple Inc.
The top selling Beatles album in the U.S. was "Abbey Road" and the best selling individual track was "Here Comes the Sun." The Beatles Box Set, which costs $149, was No. 10 on Apple's weekly iTunes Top 10 Album list for the week. At sveral points during the week, The Beatles held 7 of the Top 10 iTunes track sale positions in the U.S.