In a bid to produce the biggest selling musical album ever, the Beatles prepares to release a new Christmas album, which is targeted to be released by their record company in November in time to hit the coveted top spot at Christmas.

Executives at the Parlophone record company reportedly believe it could become the biggest selling musical album ever.

Currently the biggest selling musical album ever is Michael Jackson's 80?s classic Thriller - which sold over 40 million copies.

Beatles gold album framed abbey road was supposedly the group?s final album, but things did not work out as they planned. Beatles gold album framed abbey road was the only Beatles album exclusively recorded on an 8-track Studer reel to reel, as opposed to 4 track. The album was also the first to be recorded and mixed entirely on a solid state sound board, giving the album's sound a noticeably different "feel" from its predecessors.

Before anyone heard of MTV or mp3?s, the most important source of popular music in the country was a New York radio station: Musicradio 77 WABC.

Throughout the 1960's and 70's, WABC- AM (770) was the dominant top-40 radio station in the New York area, outlasting all of its local competitors. It's a challenge to find a baby boomer who grew up within reach of its 50,000-watt signal who does not recall the signature jingle sung to the tune of Rodgers and Hart's "Manhattan."

The radio craze somehow created a community among the youth, however not for long , that community lost its station 20 years ago when WABC announced that it was dropping music for its current all-talk format.; the change finally took place on May 10, 1982. Longtime fans and radio industry veterans still refer to it as the day the music died.

However, the arrival of The Beatles in America in 1964 has somehow revitalized the radio industry.

At present, Internet radio has become a fad pushing down sales of CDs and other physical musical formats in US retail outlets in the first half of 2006. But the good news for record companies is that demand for music downloaded to computers and cell phones has been growing. The decline was partially offset by downloads from the Internet.

U.S. sales of downloaded singles rose 71.3 percent to 286.3 million in the first half of the year, while the number of albums purchased for download more than doubled to 12.3 million, according to the RIAA figures.

Revenues from downloads, excluding those to cell phones, totaled $417.2 million, an increase of 86.6 percent.

Purchases of music for mobile phones, including master ringtones and full-length songs, soared 97.5 percent to 144.3 million. The total revenue from mobile formats nearly doubled to $356.4 million, the RIAA said.

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Not only the current releases are enjoying the rapid downloads but the archive music albums mp3 as well. Music downloads range from the 1930s 1940s album bedfordma from hoto new to 1962 music, album charts, archive to the most current album release datehip hop.

The billboard chart is a frequent destination for download maniacs especially the top country billboard album.

Top country billboard album ?It Just Comes Natural? by George Strait tops the current top 5 country albums on the billboard chart , followed closely by Alan Jackson?s ?Like A Red Rose?, Chris Young?s self titled album, Rascal Flatts? ?Me and My Gang? and ?Some Hearts? of Carrie Underwood?.