Come and Get It: The Best of Apple Records
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Come and Get It: The Best of Apple Records is a greatest hits
compilation album
containing songs released by The Beatles
' Apple Records
between 1968-1973. The compilation was released on October 25, 2010 (see 2010 in British music
).
The compilation accompanies a massive campaign by Apple Corps Ltd.
and EMI Music
to reissue the albums originally released by The Beatles' record label, and the project and remastered albums are led by the same team of engineers that worked on The Beatles' 2009 remastered albums, John Lennon's 2010 remastered albums, and sixteen other 2010 remastered albums by various other artists (a song from each of these sixteen albums is on Come and Get It: The Best of Apple Records).
Greatest hits
A greatest hits album is a music compilation album of successful, previously released songs by a particular artist or band...
compilation album
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...
containing songs released by The Beatles
The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
' Apple Records
Apple Records
Apple Records is a record label founded by The Beatles in 1968, as a division of Apple Corps Ltd. It was initially intended as a creative outlet for the Beatles, both as a group and individually, plus a selection of other artists including Mary Hopkin, James Taylor, Badfinger, and Billy Preston...
between 1968-1973. The compilation was released on October 25, 2010 (see 2010 in British music
2010 in British music
This is a summary of the year 2010 in British music. The average number one sale is an encouraging 102,326, nearly double the average sale of 2007, showing a reversal in the dip in record sales which had been seen in recent years...
).
The compilation accompanies a massive campaign by Apple Corps Ltd.
Apple Corps
Apple Corps Ltd. is a multi-armed multimedia corporation founded in January 1968 by the members of The Beatles to replace their earlier company and to form a conglomerate. Its name is a pun. Its chief division is Apple Records, which was launched in the same year...
and EMI Music
EMI
The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...
to reissue the albums originally released by The Beatles' record label, and the project and remastered albums are led by the same team of engineers that worked on The Beatles' 2009 remastered albums, John Lennon's 2010 remastered albums, and sixteen other 2010 remastered albums by various other artists (a song from each of these sixteen albums is on Come and Get It: The Best of Apple Records).
Track listing
External links
- AppleRecords.com – official record label website