Beatles on the Charts interviews

Posted on May 31, 2023 by Michael A. Ventrella

Since the release of my nonfiction book THE BEATLES ON THE CHARTS, I’ve been thrilled to see it do well on Amazon’s top 100 “Beatles” chart. It has pretty much stayed there since its release!

I’ve been pleased to have been a guest on many blogs where we discuss the band and their chart performances. Have a look at some!

For those who follow the Billboard charts, the Beatles have been the most successful band of all time, and also the most successful solo-artists from a previous band based on their chart performance here in the U.S. Michael Ventrella’s new book “The Beatles On The Charts” includes all chart information for the Beatles’ group and solo singles and albums—where they peaked, how many weeks they spent on the charts, and where they rank overall when combined together. Here in this interview, Michael explains how all this information has been tabulated. An extra special chapter shows where the Beatles’ group and solo records were on the charts simultaneously week by week from January 1964 through December 2021. It’s all packed in this one book, and it’s one fascinating study! Thank you, Michael, for sharing your knowledge on this subject, and for providing a book that covers this topic so thoroughly!

Author Michael Ventrella (“The Beatles On The Charts”) returns to the channel to make adjustments to the chart history of the Beatles/Solo singles and albums on the Billboard Charts, as Billboard did them, and we discover some of the differences in the ranking of their most successful records. And then Michael reveals his Top 5 favorite Beatles albums from their core catalogue. Always fun having Michael on!

On today’s show, we have a returning guest who has written a new book about The Beatles and has updated a book he co-wrote with me about The Monkees. Here he is, Michael A. Ventrella. Plus, the usual news from Fun Ideas Productions.