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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.





 





 Background


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 in the UK as a double A side with 


"We Can Work It Out", while in the US, only "We Can Work It Out" was #1. The only singles released in both the UK and US that did not reach #1 in either country, 


and were therefore ineligible for inclusion on the album, were "Please Please Me" and "Strawberry Fields Forever"—both reached #2 in the UK charts. The former was 


largely known as "the Beatles' first UK number one single"; however, it reached the top spot in the musical magazines New Musical Express and Melody Maker but not 


on the chart published by Record Retailer (now Music Week). On the other hand, "Strawberry Fields Forever" was part of a Double A-side single along with "Penny Lane". 


Being a Double A-side, UK sales policies counted the sales as a half of the real amount sold, a fact that kept the single at #2 in the charts, behind Engelbert 


Humperdinck's debut single "Release Me".





This album was essentially a combo of both the US and UK versions of the earlier album 20 Greatest Hits, with "Something" added to the mix (that song was left off 


20 Greatest Hits because of time constraints). On 1, "Hey Jude" was released in its original full-length version (slightly over seven minutes); on the American version 


of 20 Greatest Hits it had been released as a shortened version.





[edit] Remastering


 


Waveform images of "Something" by The Beatles mastered on CD four times since 1983.See also: Loudness War 


Before 1, all its 27 songs were available mainly in two remastered CD versions. The first was on the respective Beatles albums (all of them released in 1987 and on 


Past Masters, Volume One and Past Masters, Volume Two both from 1988. The second remastering was made available on the CD versions for The Beatles 1962-1966 and The 


Beatles 1967-1970 (released in 1993).





According to the liner notes of the album, the original analogue masters were "digitally remastered at 24 bits resolution, processed using Sonic Solutions NoNoise 


technology and mastered to 16 bit using Prism SNS Noise Shaping." The remastering was overseen by Peter Mew of Abbey Road Studios and took place there.





[edit] Package


The package of the album was intended to be simplistic and ambitious at the same time. Its cover was designed by Rick Ward, and consisted of pop-art yellow number 


one on a background red. (The emphasis on the 1 icon was later used on many of the compilations of number-one hits by different artists that followed this album (for example, 


ELV1S: 30 #1 Hits by Elvis Presley or Number Ones by the Bee Gees). On its back cover, the album also included the famous photos of the Beatles taken by Richard Avedon 


copyrighted on 17 August 1967. The whole project uses exclusively different kinds of Helvetica typeface.





1 was released on mainly three formats—CD (on Apple 7243 5 29970 2), vinyl (Apple 529 3251) and cassette (529 9704). The CD includes a 32-page booklet with a coloured 


page with international picture covers (a total of 163 covers are displayed on the whole booklet) and details (recording date, location, release date, chart stats) for 


each of the singles. It also includes on its first two pages a collage with 27 1's in different colors (all of them following the same art as the cover) with the 


sentence "27 #1 singles = 1" (which was used as a catchy phrase for the promo ads for the album), and the following foreword by George Martin.





“ The Beatles work was always impeccable. Those four young men, John, Paul, George and Ringo, broke so many records and so many barriers and they will be 


remembered for being the most significant music creators of the twentieth century. 


This collection of number ones is taken from the most widely circulated charts in the UK (Record Retailer) and the USA (Billboard).





Looking through the list of songs brings back many memories for me. My first thought was about 'Love Me Do' – our first single. To begin with, nobody wanted 


to know, even our own record company. But after a lot of hard work it entered the Top 20 in the UK, and in the States it later reached number one. From then 


on John and Paul seemed to burst with inspiration. Those early songs were so fresh and sparkling, always surprising and delighting me with each new offering. 


Never did they fall back on a cliché or a rehash of an earlier success. Each one was a gem. Before long their work spurred George into writing great material too, 


like the classic ballad 'Something'.





It barely took eight years to cover this collection – 'Love Me Do' to 'The Long and Winding Road' – but it was a lifetime in the world of rock and roll. A wonderful collection, and wonderful for me to have been there.





George Martin


 ” 





The LP and the cassette conserved the main art of the CD version, but on a different form. The double vinyl record version was not released in the U.S., 


where it was imported the British edition. The vinyl version features a large full-color fold-out poster showing 126 picture sleeves (37 less than on the CD), 


and reproductions of the four Richard Avedon photos. The Avedon portraits also appear on the inside of the gate-fold cover. The records have custom labels featuring 


the same graphics as the front cover and are packaged in custom inner sleeves. The deluxe packaging of the vinyl album, with its four portraits and poster, is reminiscent 


to that of The Beatles. The cassette included a 20-page insert, including the collage, the George Martin commentary and paged Avedon's portraits on its inlay [1] 


and the whole description for the tracks as a total of 36 covers on its inlay reverse. [2]





[edit] Sales and chart performance


The reception of 1 surpassed all critical and commercial expectations, breaking a considerable number of sales and chart records. It reportedly sold 3.6 million 


units in its first week and more than 12 million in three weeks worldwide, reaching #1 in over 35 countries, achieving the record for the album debuting at the 


top of the most national charts ever. It became the fastest-selling album of all time and the highest-selling of 2000 and, most importantly, of the entire decade. 


This achievement made The Beatles the first and only artist to have the best-selling albums of two different decades (they had also the best-selling album of the 


1960s, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band). It also became the second biggest selling compilation in history, after The Eagles's Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975.





This success was particularly notable for the fact that The Beatles, by late 2000, had broken up over thirty years ago, and, despite the fact that their music was, 


at the moment, widely available on several formats, 1 became a commercial phenomenon. However, the reasons for its success were due to the unavailability of a 


compilation of the group on a standard format – in fact, before 1, the only Beatles compilations available on CD were the double-disc sets The Beatles 1962-1966 


and The Beatles 1967-1970 (widely known as The Red and The Blue Album). Another reason for the high sales of 1 was the disponibility of new remastered versions 


of the songs, which offered a brighter and clearer sound in comparison of the poor quality of the original 1987 CD masters of the Beatles recordings.





In the UK, 1 became the Beatles' 17th #1 album with sales of 319,126 copies (achieving record sales for only one week in 2000). On 18 December 2000, Ananova.com 


reported that the album has "become 2000's biggest-selling album—in only five weeks." 1 was the first album to stay at the top spot for nine weeks in almost ten 


years (the last being the Eurythmics's Greatest Hits), the best-selling album of 2000, and the fourth best-selling album of the 2000s so far in the UK. In its 


eleventh week, 1 sold a total of two million copies in the UK. It spent a total of 46 weeks inside the Top 75. On 11 July 2003 it was certified 8× platinum by the BPI, 


for over 2.4 million copies sold in the UK. It is the 24th best-selling album in the UK, and the second best-selling Beatles album in that country (only beaten by Sgt. 


Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, which is the second best-selling album in the UK).





In the U.S. the response was similar. It debuted at #1 with a sales over 595,000 copies. In its second week, sales increased to 662,000 but it was knocked off the top 


spot by Backstreet Boys's Black & Blue. , the album returned to the #1 spot the following week, and spent a total of eight weeks at #1, selling over 1,258,667 copies 


during Christmas week (its highest-selling week.) With this number the Beatles achieved a new record: it was the seventh highest one-week sales in Soundscan history, 


and the highest for an album not in its first week (this record was later broken by Eminem, who sold 1,320,000 copies of The Eminem Show during its second week on 15 June 


2002.) The album spent 104 weeks inside the Billboard 200 and became the sixth best-selling album in the United States in 2001, and at the end of 2007 was the ninth 


best-selling album in the Soundscan era (1991 onwards)with 10.1 million units sold[3]. On 15 April 2005, 1 was certified Diamond in America (a total of 10,164,000 


copies were scanned.) 1 is the 84th best-selling album ever in the U.S.





In a press release, Apple Corps, the Beatles' company, stated that worldwide sales of 1 had exceeded 31 million copies worldwide[4], with 10 million of those sales 


being in the U.S.





 Track listing


All songs by Lennon/McCartney, unless otherwise noted. All songs are in stereo; except 1-3 are in mono.





CD 


"Love Me Do"  – 2:20 


Released in the UK on 5 October 1962, and in the U.S. on 27 April 1964, where it reached #1 in the U.S. for 1 week on 30 May. This is the version released in the U.S.


 with Andy White on drums and Ringo Starr on tambourine. 





"From Me to You" – 1:56 


Released on 11 April 1963 in the UK and reached #1 on 2 May, where it stayed for 7 weeks. 





"She Loves You" – 2:21 


Released in the UK on 23 August 1963, where it stayed at #1 for 6 weeks, then again on 28 November. Released in the U.S. on 16 September 1963, and went to #1 for two 


weeks on 21 March 1964. 





"I Want to Hold Your Hand" – 2:24 


Released in the U.S. on 26 December 1963, it reached #1 for 7 weeks between 1 February and 20 March 1964. Released in the UK on 29 November 1963 and stayed at #1 for 5 weeks. 





"Can't Buy Me Love" – 2:11 


Released on 20 March 1964 in the UK and on 16 March 1964 in the U.S.. The song reached #1 for three weeks in the UK on 2 April 1964. The song went to #1 in the U.S. 


for 5 weeks on 4 April 1964. 





"A Hard Day's Night" – 2:33 


The song reached #1 in the UK for 3 weeks on 23 July 1964 and was #1 for 2 weeks in the U.S. on 1 August 1964. 





"I Feel Fine" – 2:18 


The song stayed at #1 for 5 weeks in the UK starting on 10 December 1964, and reached #1 in the U.S. on 26 December 1964. 





"Eight Days a Week" – 2:44 


Released on 15 February 1965 in the U.S., where it went to #1 for 2 weeks on 13 March 1965. 





"Ticket to Ride" – 3:10 


Released on 9 April 1965 in the UK, was #1 for 3 weeks on 22 April 1965. The song was released in the U.S. on 19 April 1965, reaching #1 for 1 week on 22 May 1965. 


"Help!" – 2:18 


Released on 23 July 1965 in the UK, it reached #1 for 3 weeks on 5 August 1965. In the U.S., it was released on 19 July 1965, reaching #1 for 3 weeks on 4 September 1965. 





"Yesterday" – 2:05 


Released on 13 September 1965 in the U.S., attaining #1 for 4 weeks on 9 October 1965. 





"Day Tripper" – 2:48 


Released on 3 December in the UK, reaching #1 for 5 weeks on 16 December 1965. A tape drop-out that appears in previous stereo releases of this song has been corrected here. 





"We Can Work It Out" – 2:15 


Released in the UK on 3 December 1965 and reached #1 for 5 weeks on 16 December 1965. The song was released on 6 December 1965 in the U.S., and reached #1 


for 3 weeks on 8 January 1966. 





"Paperback Writer" – 2:18 


Released on 10 June 1966 in the UK and on 30 May 1966 in the U.S. The song reached #1 for 2 weeks in the UK on 23 June, and for 2 weeks in the U.S. on 25 June 1966. 





"Yellow Submarine" – 2:38 


Released on 5 August 1966 in the UK, where it reached #1 for 4 weeks on 18 August. 





"Eleanor Rigby" – 2:06 


Released on 5 August 1966 in the UK, reaching #1 for 4 weeks on 18 August. 





"Penny Lane" – 2:59 


Released on 17 February 1967 in the UK, and on 13 February 1967 in the U.S.. The song reached #1 in the U.S. on 18 March for 1 week. 





"All You Need Is Love" – 3:47 


Released on 7 July 1967 in the UK, it reached #1 for 3 weeks on 19 July. In the U.S., it attained #1 for 1 week on 19 August 1967. 





"Hello, Goodbye" – 3:27 


Released on 24 November in the UK, it reached #1 for 7 weeks on 6 December 1967. In the U.S., the song was released on 27 November 1967, and reached #1 


for 3 weeks on 30 December 1967. 





"Lady Madonna" – 2:16 


Released on 15 March 1968 in the UK, reaching #1 for 2 weeks on 27 March. 





"Hey Jude" – 7:04 


Released on 26 August 1968 in the U.S. and on 30 August in the UK. It reached #1 in the UK for 2 weeks on 11 September and was #1 for 9 weeks in the U.S., 


starting on 28 September 1968. 





"Get Back" – 3:12 


Released on 11 April 1969 in the UK and on 5 May 1969 in the U. S.. It reached #1 in the UK for 6 weeks on 23 April, and in the U.S. for 5 weeks on 24 May 1969. 





"The Ballad of John and Yoko" – 2:59 


Released in the UK on 30 May 1969 reaching #1 for 3 weeks on 11 June. 





"Something" (George Harrison) – 3:01 


Released on 31 October 1969 in the UK, and on 6 October in the U.S. It reached #1 for 1 week in the U.S. on 29 November 1969. 





"Come Together" – 4:18 


Released on 31 October 1969 in the UK, and on 6 October in the U.S.. It reached #1 in the U.S. on 29 November, and stayed there for 1 week. 





"Let It Be" – 3:50 


Released on 6 March 1970 in the UK, and on 11 March 1970 in the U, S., reaching #1 for 2 weeks on 11 April 1970. 





"The Long and Winding Road" – 3:37 


Released in the U.S. on 11 May 1970 and reached #1 for 2 weeks on 13 June 1970. This version has the orchestral "wall of sound" added by re-producer Phil Spector. 


It is the only track not produced by George Martin. 





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