Thanks to Reissues, Beatles Might Surpass Eminem as Decade's Best-Selling Musical Act

September 15, 2009 12:10 p.m. by Andrew Winistorfer

Amidst reports about how the remasters of their albums are doing brisk business, comes this tidbit; depending on how well the albums sell in these last three and a half months of 2009, The Beatles might surpass Eminem as this decade's best-selling musical act.

Eminem has sold 32 million albums since 2000, while The Beatles have sold 28 million. The Fab Four have quite a few albums to sell, but they are expected to dominate the holiday music sales, which could push them over the top. [USA Today]

8 Responses

September 15, 2009 at 1:30 p.m.

Bentley Rubberfoot

GO, BEATLES, GO!!!

September 15, 2009 at 6 p.m.

Bobby

Cmon this old bastards aint gonna sell eminem is going to outsell em with Relapse 2

September 16, 2009 at 10:17 a.m.

roofy

very eloquently put bobby

its sad that eminem can outsell the beatles

September 18, 2009 at 1:06 p.m.

Ted

If for some weird reason the Beatles don't break the record, my overall hope for civilization will drop another notch. Emenim is a joke and an embarassment to music and the "gender" (his word) of rap music.

September 18, 2009 at 1:11 p.m.

bahahaa

eminem is an old bastard these days.

September 20, 2009 at 4:38 p.m.

dmc

Ted obviously knows nothing about Eminems music, He has sold over 75 million albums world wide for a reason.

September 28, 2009 at 6:23 a.m.

alex

The Beatles were there 40 years ago , with half of the band dead , they making it the list itself is great. Look other greats like Elvis Presely & Led zeppalin ,Rolling stones arent on the list . Moreover The Beatles are still hightest selling artist and sold over 1 billion records since 1963. About eminem he is only there becoz of this music videos & controversy.

November 12, 2009 at 1:38 p.m.

t_Yearz92

oho! alex u think he is there bcoz of his contreversial vids. well thos comedy rap songs r his least popular songs he is there bcoz of his well crafted rap flow n high callibred lyricism. Eminem is the 1ly rappper 2 win an oscar he has 3 albums in rollingstones' 500 greatest albums he is also in their list of 100 greatest artists but the beatles r no 1 on that list. neway the beatles r legends bt wen it comes 2 lyricism i think some of eminem's lyrics r better than any other artists in the world. many ppl call him genius n i do think he is genius try dowloading som Eminem lyrics u will kno wat i'm talkin about. plus he also had a 5 years hatius 4m 2004 wo 2009 if he was still doin in these 5 years wat he does best. there wud b no competition he wud be by far the best sellinh artist of 21st century