1 is a compilation album by The Beatles, released on 13 November 2000. The album features virtually every #1 single released in the UK and USA from 1962 to 1970. Despite being issued on the 30th anniversary of the band's breakup, it was their first compilation available on one Compact Disc. 1 was a critical success, and became a blockbuster phenomenon, the biggest selling album of 2000 worldwide.
Compiled by producer George Martin and the (then) ...
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1 is a compilation album by The Beatles, released on 13 November 2000. The album features virtually every #1 single released in the UK and USA from 1962 to 1970. Despite being issued on the 30th anniversary of the band's breakup, it was their first compilation available on one Compact Disc. 1 was a critical success, and became a blockbuster phenomenon, the biggest selling album of 2000 worldwide.
Compiled by producer George Martin and the (then) three surviving members of the band, 1 includes the 27 Beatles songs that went to number one in the United Kingdom on the Record Retailer magazine charts and/or the United States on the Billboard magazine charts. It is worth noting, however, that the song "For You Blue" was listed in Billboard chart compilations at #1, as a Double A-sided single with "The Long and Winding Road", but Capitol Records treated "For You Blue" as strictly a B-side and didn't promote it as an A-side. Meanwhile, "Day Tripper" was included on 1, since it charted at #1...
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