Apple sells 450K Beatles albums, 2m. songs in week

The legendary band's best selling album on iTunes is "Abbey Road"; best-selling track "Here Comes the Sun."

Beatles b & w 1960s 311 (photo credit: AP)
Beatles b & w 1960s 311
(photo credit: AP)
CUPERTINO, California — People snapped up more than 450,000 copies of Beatles albums plus two million individual songs during the Fab Four's first week on sale through iTunes, Apple said Wednesday
Apple Inc. said that the best-selling Beatles album in the US is "Abbey Road," and the best-selling individual track is "Here Comes the Sun." The Beatles Box Set, which costs $149, is No. 10 on Apple's weekly iTunes top-10 list.
RELATED: New DVD shows Beatles' first 1964 US TV appearance The Beatles' music went on sale on iTunes on November 16. Until then, the biggest-selling, most influential group in rock history has been glaringly absent from iTunes and other legal online music services.
Apple struck an agreement after on-and-off negotiations with the Beatles' recording label, EMI Group, and their management company, Apple Corps.