LONDON.- The last single from Beatles, Now and thenbecame the British quartet’s first number one in the charts on Friday. great Britain in 54 years.

The Official Charts Company, which is in charge of preparing charts, based on audio and video streaming, downloads, CDs and vinyl, announced that song rose to number one in the UK, following its release last week.

Therefore, now and then became the band’s first number one on the charts since then The Ballad of John and Yoko in 1969 and the group’s eighteenth song to lead the best-selling record.

This song was produced thanks to artificial intelligence (IA), composed by John Lennon in 1978, two years before his death, and completed by Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, two survivors of the Liverpool quartet.

With the help of AI, chords by George Harrison, who died in 2001, are also included.

The Liverpool quartet can now boast the record for the longest gap between two number one hits, and also the longest gap between an artist’s first and last hit. First Bachelor number one from The Beatles is From me to you in 1963, more than 60 years ago.

The Beatles are back

Now and then is the best-selling single of the year and has achieved the highest number of physical sales in a single week in almost a decade.

Martin Talbot, chief executive of the Official Charts Company, said sales showed that: “Beatlemania is back.” “If there was any doubt that The Beatles were the greatest band of all time, that doubt has been put to rest this week,” he added.

After hearing the news, Paul McCartney, 81, told the Official Charts: “It’s incredible. It leaves me speechless. It’s also a very emotional moment for me. I love it!”

The song was released on 2 November, starting at number 42 in the UK, after only 10 hours on sale.

When the song was released, The Guardian music critic Alexis Petridis gave the song four stars and called it a hit.

Positive review

Mark Beaumont, in The Independent, also succumbed to a song: “which allowed a generation that missed The Beatles to feel a little of the emotion felt by the teenage Beatlemaniacs of 1964. Now and then “This is the musical event of the year and one of the greatest emotional moments in history.”

now and then was one of three songs that John Lennon recorded on cassette at his residence in New York in 1979, a year before he was murdered.

Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono, gave the recording to McCartney in 1994.

Two other songs recorded by Lennon, Free like a bird And True love, They were rescued by producer Jeff Lynne and released in 1995 and 1996.

But the recording now and then The environment has too much noise and until the development of AI technology, it cannot be exploited.

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