Welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bill. And I'm Brian. And what are we talking about today, Brian?

We are talking about 1968, The Beatles by The Beatles. What we do here every week on the podcast is take an album of music and talk about what makes it great.

We try to have the conversation that fans do, and we tie it all together with a track-by-track review.

And this is our final week of massive album November.

Yeah, and we've never done this before.

We did our big four-part Beatles extravaganza two years ago.

Uh-huh.

And...

So this is the first time we're actually taking a Beatles album on its own.

Yeah, yeah.

And apropos, since it is...

You know, we don't hang ourselves too much up on, like, the numbers.

But it is the 50th anniversary of this record, you know, known colloquially as the white album.

And it is the Beatles best-selling album.

Yeah, nine and a half, what is it?

Nine and a half million.

Well, in American sales, it's nine and a half million copies sold and certified 19 times platinum because I guess they count

both records since it's a double album. They count each individual record as a shipment or sale.

Yeah. I did not know that. So I mean, nine and a half plus nine and a half is 19.

Yeah.

Yeah, the album was huge.

It's the Beatles, like you said, their biggest selling album.

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