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After lower than at some point of availability, The Beatles’ “Now and Then” bounds in at No. 1 on Billboard’s Digital Tune Gross sales chart dated Nov. 11.
Within the Oct. 27-Nov. 2 monitoring week, “Now and Then” – with all of its gross sales in that span logged Nov. 2, after it premiered at 10 a.m. ET – offered 16,000 downloads within the U.S., in line with Luminate.
The tune additionally begins at No. 1 on Rock Digital Tune Gross sales, and is The Beatles’ first chief on every retail rating. (The band’s digital catalog was first made accessible within the iTunes Retailer in November 2010.)
As beforehand reported, “Now and Then” concurrently opens at No. 37 on Rock & Various Airplay with 1.1 million viewers impressions on reporting rock radio stations in its first day. Amongst all codecs, the tune drew 2.6 million in viewers Nov. 2.
Elsewhere, “Now and Then” begins at Nos. 7 and 11 on the multi-metric Scorching Rock Songs and Scorching Rock & Various Songs charts, respectively, with its gross sales and airplay additionally augmented by 2.3 million official U.S. streams Nov. 2.
The tune begins at No. 5 on the Billboard Scorching 100’s Effervescent Below chart, which ranks the highest 25 titles that haven’t but hit the Scorching 100.
Plus, the observe opens at No. 152 on the Nov. 11-dated Billboard World 200, with 6.4 million streams and 30,000 offered worldwide, once more, all tallied Nov. 2.
“Now and Then” is billed as the ultimate Beatles tune, first recorded as a demo in 1977 by John Lennon and initially meant for the band’s The Beatles’ three-edition Anthology collection within the mid-‘90s earlier than being shelved by the surviving members of the band. It was accomplished and launched this yr after new expertise helped extract Lennon’s vocals from the unique demo whereas additionally utilizing guitar recordings from George Harrison from the preliminary try to complete the tune.
Notably, The Beatles launched two new Anthology singles, every of which opened at No. 5 on the then-active Scorching Singles Gross sales chart, which tracked bodily singles earlier than downloads grew to become songs’ fundamental gross sales foreign money within the 2000s. “Free as a Chook” started with 59,000 copies offered in its first week (Dec. 30, 1995) and “Actual Love,” with 67,000 (March 23, 1996).
The primary full week of exercise, together with bodily copies, for “Now and Then” – whose official video premiered Nov. 3 at 9 a.m. ET – can be mirrored on Billboard’s Nov. 18-dated charts, together with the streaming-, airplay- and sales-based Scorching 100 (encompassing exercise tracked Nov. 3-9).
All Billboard charts dated Nov. 11 will replace on Billboard.com on Tuesday, Nov. 7.
