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For a mere 9 years, over 50 years ago, four musicians rose to dominate the music industry and created a diverse songbook of over 200 original songs that still reverberate today.
According to Statistica.com, as of 2016, The Beatles were top of the list for best-selling artists worldwide, followed by Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson respectively.
Feb. 9, 1964: A record 73 million viewers tuned in to The Beatles' North American debut on The Ed Sullivan variety show.
A record 50,000 fans applied for tickets to the 728 seat theatre, surpassing the 7,000 applications for Elvis 8 years earlier.
From their meteoric rise to fame to their last concert on the roof of the Abbey Road studio - The Beatles transitioned from simple 'love-songs' to creating thought-provoking introspections of life and social relationships. Their compositions have been performed by countless major artists and symphany orchastras worldwide.
Winners of the 1971 Acadamy Award for Best Music Score to the movie "Let It Be". The recipients of seven Grammy Awards and fifteen Ivor Novello Awards, the Beatles have six Diamond albums, as well as 20 Multi-Platinum albums, 16 Platinum albums and six Gold albums in the US. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.