Lil Wayne has sold 5.5 million albums total, Hey Jude, one song by the Beatles, sold 4 million copies, if you think Lil Wayne is 'huge' i suggest you find a new definition for the word because huge is what the Beatles are. 5.5 million records sold, including mixtapes, and he's huge. Well lets just say that one of the Beatles albums, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, sold around uhh, 40 million albums. All in all, the Beatles have sold 1 BILLION 6 million records, thats a little more. It's easy for me to say they sold more albums because they've been around longer, well from 1966(the year Sgt.Pepper came out) to 1971(right after they broke up) the beatles released 5 albums which sold 545 million records, so Lil Wayne fans please, he may be somehwhat popular today, but its time to get some perspective on what 'huge' really is.
Lennon is the most popular Beatle, most people today know Paul McCartney because he is still touring the world, but from 1963-1980, John Lennon was the most popular person in the world, "Bigger than Jesus" as some may say. Lennon once had 500,000 people marching in the streets of New York City, saying one simple message that was heard around the world, "Give Peace a Chance." It's time for the world to reconnect with Lennon and realize how important he is to people. Most older people know, as they gather in New York City at his memorial called Strawberry Fields and circle around the monument that simply reads, "Imagine".
Mainstream rap is killing the message left by the Beatles, the message that 'All You Need Is Love'. If you think of the Beatles songs as 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand', or 'She Loves You', I suggest you do some more research and discover how complicated and meaningful the Beatles got from 1966 when they released Sgt.Pepper (Voted greatest album of all-time). They were so diverse and complicated they couldn't do live concerts because there was no way they could play all the instruments. The trippy druggy music started a revolution in the 1960's, they started the peace movement that you see on TV, if there were no Beatles, Jimi Hendrix would never had experimented as much as he did, Michael Jackson would never have had the courage to dance like he did, hip-hop would never have born, modern country music would never have gotten started, rock music would be what you hear in the 50's. Brian Wilson, producer of the Beach Boys said, "The Beatles came and changed everything, if people like music today, they need to go back and pay homage to the fab four, they changed everything."
The media has it right, they are trying to reintroduce the Beatles to todays generation, and they are trying to offset the violence we see in mainstream hip-hop and it's actually working. Beatles Rockband introduced the video game generation to their music in a whole new way. The remastered albums came out and many people will recieve them as gifts, which will most likely push the beatles ahead of Eminem as the most successful artists of this decade.
John Lennon died 29 years ago today, it shocked the world, the only time all traffic in New York City stopped dead all at once was the day after he died and everyone was asked to stop what they were doing and give Lennon 2 minutes of silence, the entire world stopped, New York to LA to Miami to London to Paris, the world stopped dead on December 9th, 1980 for two whole minutes to pay tribute to John Lennon. He lives on through songs like 'All You Need Is Love' and 'Imagine'. If you read this I encourage everyone to type in Sgt.Pepper's, or the White album, or the Abbey Road albums and listen to their songs, they're not for everyone, but their music has a message, a message of peace, and the world needs to hear it again.
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