NEW YORK (Variety) - Even after the heady Christmas sales
season came to a close, the Beatles managed to notch their fifth consecutive week at
the top of the album charts, selling more than 450,000 units in an otherwise humdrum
post-holiday week ended Dec. 31.
``1'' (Capitol/Apple), a collection of the Fab Four's 27 U.S. and U.K. No. 1 singles, has
now sold more than five million copies after seven weeks of release.