235,000 remastered Beatles were sold last week. Not the entire week, mind you. That's just the total for TWO DAYS--last Wednesday and Thursday, according to SoundScan. Four of the albums debuted in the British top 10 and the same should happen here, once figures are released in the next day or so. Quality never goes out of style, even in this graceless Kanye-infected society.

Uh, decent week for Beatles fans, wouldn't you say? The band's been broken up for exactly 40 years now (we didn't know it until 1970, but they did) and yet the demand for their wares is refreshingly still "high." I like the remastered cds. They're not remixed, like the last batch of Doors cds were, bringing up vocals and instruments previously buried in the mix. But the sound IS vastly improved from the '87 versions that were DOA--disappointing on arrival. Personally, I prefer trying to play Fab favorites on a real guitar, but whatever it takes to expose their superior brand of songwriting and harmonizing to the masses, I'm all for.