Talk:1 (Beatles album)

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Are the sales figues US or worldwide? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.35.34.11 (talk) 00:15, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

"Strawberry Fields Forever"
I heard somewhere that 'Strawberry Fields Forever' was a number one song, but was left off the album for lack of space. Can anyone confirm this? --Gabriel Beecham/Kwekubo 23:32, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
 * In the British charts "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane" were released as a double A-side and the highest it charted was no. 2, behind a Donovan single. Cbing01 18:02, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

'Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever' was prevented from getting to number one in the UK by Engelbert Humperdinck's 'Please Release Me'. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.66.195.24 (talk) 10:25, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

That's correct. And on the Billboard chart in the United States, the songs on double-A side singles were counted separately until 1969 (the change bumped "Something"/"Come Together" to the top). "Penny Lane" reached #1, while "Strawberry Fields Forever" did not. --Jordon Kalilich 16:04, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
 * It's a good excuse, if nothing more. – Hattrem (talk) 19:21, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
 * My favorite song is don’t let me down 133.32.73.228 (talk) 00:29, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

Not all the no. 1 hits
the information in this article is incorrect. THere are a few songs that went to no.1 in UK or US that areen't on this album such as "Please Please me" and 'for you blue' —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.184.51.77 (talk) 09:16, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
 * The universally considered "official" charts from Billboard magazine in the US and Record Retailer magazine in the UK were used to compile this CD.  EVERY track on this CD is every #1 Beatle song on the Billboard and/or Record Retailer charts.  So there. Steelbeard1 12:11, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
 * But, as stated above, double A-sides like "Come Together/Something" were counted as one "hit" in Billboard charts after 1969 - so why isn't "For You Blue" the 28th track on this compilation (ignoring for a moment the 80-minute limit of audio CDs and the maudlin conclusion afforded by "The Long and Winding Road")? BotleySmith 20:47, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 * "For You Blue" was the B-side to "The Long and Winding Road" so the "every # 1 US and UK" hit statement stands. Steelbeard1 20:56, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Really? It's right there on the chart listing. BotleySmith 21:02, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 * WAS there. The correction was made in the above cited article. Steelbeard1 21:33, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Why? It's here too. BotleySmith 22:25, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 * That was also incorrect and that Wikipedia article was corrected as well. Also, check out  Steelbeard1 22:43, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Both pages have been reverted, and the #1 position still stands on The Beatles discography: check Fred Bronson's book, Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits, 5th Edition for confirmation. Whether this was officially an A-side or not, it charted as such. BotleySmith 23:51, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 * As Capitol Records did not give the single double-A-sided status, the statement still stands. Steelbeard1 13:54, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
 * If For Your Blue, Please Please Me and Strawberry Fields Forever were included, the songs would probably not have fit in a single CD, but they should be there.Stratogustav (talk) 05:28, 8 February 2010 (UTC)Gustavo Avilés

Classification
I rated this article Good because it definitely wasn't a stub, but was very short. I rated it's importance low because it is merely a greatest hits album. Vint 03:53, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Biggest Selling Album
The article says "...only beaten by Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, which is the second best-selling album of the UK ever". According to Edition 18 of Guinness World Records' British Hit Singles & Albums: "Their Album 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' is the biggest seller ever in the UK". Has this record been broken since the publication of the book in 2005? -- Mickraus (talk) 15:51, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

"...becoming the biggest selling album of 2000 (and of the millennium so far) worldwide." Strictly speaking, I don't believe the current millenium started until 2001. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.195.176.172 (talk) 20:15, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

I don't understand what "It's the seventh best-selling album since May 1991" means. Where is it 7th? The World, Europe, USA? Could clarification be added? - Mickraus (talk) 18:13, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Chart performance
2 remarks. - Chart performance should actually be Sales and chart performance - The Worldwide Sales figure should follow the sales table and not the chart position table Agreed? Thanks Kvsh5 (talk) 15:23, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Singles Compilation
This album should be noted as a singles compilation because there are many songs like "I Saw her Standing There", "It Won't Be Long", "No Reply", "Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da" and many others that if released as singles will very easily have reached the #1 position.Stratogustav (talk) 06:09, 8 February 2010 (UTC)Gustavo Avilés

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Removed content
I have removed the following paragraph from the Sales and chart performance section because it does not have any references and it contains what seems to be original research as well as personel opinions.

This success was particularly notable for the fact that The Beatles, by late 2000, had broken up over thirty years before, and, despite the fact that their music was, at the moment, widely available on several formats, 1 became a commercial phenomenon. However, the reasons for its success were due to the unavailability of a compilation of the group on a standard format—in fact, before 1, the only Beatles compilations available on CD were the double-disc sets 1962–1966 and 1967–1970 (widely known as The Red and The Blue Album). Another reason for the high sales of 1 was the clarity of new remastered versions of the songs, which offered a brighter and clearer sound in comparison of the poor quality of the original 1987 CD masters of The Beatles recordings.

Is there anything in this paragraph worth saving?Rock&#39;N&#39;More (talk) 03:12, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

"The Beatles" is a registered trade mark
"The Beatles" is a registered trade mark so it should be treated like that. Steelbeard1 (talk) 15:20, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
 * This is what the Manual of Style has to say about trademarks:
 * Follow standard English text formatting and capitalization rules, even if the trademark owner considers nonstandard formatting "official"[.]
 * And about band names in particular:
 * Mid-sentence, per the MoS, the word "the" should in general not be capitalized in continuous prose, e.g.:
 * Wings featured Paul McCartney from the Beatles and Denny Laine from the Moody Blues.
 * Hence, "the Beatles" is standard use mid-sentence per the MoS. Evanh2008 (talk 06:14, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

Seeming impossibility
The article currently reads:
 * The only singles released in both the UK and US that did not reach #1 in either country, and were therefore ineligible for inclusion on the album, were "Please Please Me" and "Strawberry Fields Forever"—both reached #2 in the UK charts.

With no other qualifiers, this would appear to mean that every song ever released by the Beatles--with the exception of PPM & SFF, as noted above--reached #1. Given the fact that Beatles released so many songs at one time (famously having the #1,#2,#3,#4, and #5 spots simultaneously, at one point), I can't see how this is possible. Am I reading this wrong? Maybe there's an antecedent fact that's escaping me, but if someone more knowledgeable that I could write this a bit more clearly, it'd be appreciated. 50.193.171.69 (talk) 01:35, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
 * It doesn't say, "the only songs" but "the only singles". There's a difference. Every other single obviously hit #1 at some point, and most of the time by knocking another Beatles song off the top. --2003:71:4E3F:3373:D8C4:1446:A06E:2E3E (talk) 04:59, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

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