(London) For the first time in 54 years, The Beatles have topped the British charts with “Now and Then,” which brings together the legendary English group using artificial intelligence, the organization that compiles the rankings said on Sunday.
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Released on Thursday, the song, which was recorded by John Lennon and completed by the group’s other members after his death, is currently outperforming its competitors, according to official charts.
Given this development, he is therefore on track to take first place in the next weekly ranking, which will be published next Friday, thereby dethroning US star Taylor Swift.
It is the Liverpool band’s 18th song to top the charts, the first being “From Me to You” in 1963 and the previous “The Ballad of John and Yoko” in 1969, shortly before the band settled in April 1970 separated.
“Now and Then” grew out of a demo that John Lennon recorded in his New York apartment in the late 1970s. After his murder in 1980, his widow Yoko Ono handed over the band, voice and piano, to the other members of the group in 1994.
AI technologies recently made it possible to isolate Lennon’s voice and mix it with recordings of other singers, including George Harrison before his death in 2001. The song was performed by the two surviving members Paul McCartney (81) and Ringo Starr (83). completed and published.