Eric Garland Songs Quotations

My easy prediction is that The Beatles will sell a lot of songs online, even though seemingly everybody who has access to them has their songs already.

Even bands with deep catalogs have hits, and then they have superstar hits. There may be 20 songs from Queen that people know, but really we're talking about two or three that are more popular by orders of magnitude. They're cultural staples. If I had the option to buy 9 songs instead of 12 songs on 'Meet the Beatles,' I might have done that.

And 10 billion songs per year is a very conservative estimate.

The Fab Four have always been among the very most popular bands online even though they're technically -- or legitimately -- unavailable online. My easy prediction is that the Beatles sell a lot of songs online, even though seemingly everybody who has access to them has their songs already.

But in the cases where people were downloading four or five or six songs from one work, 10 times out of 10 that album became a big seller at traditional retail. People still sometimes see the CD as a good investment.