Introducing… The Beatles Tracklist
Introducing… The Beatles, was the debut album of the English rock band The Beatles in the United States, was released on January 10th, 1964. It was originally scheduled to be released in July of 1963, but Vee-Jay Records ended up pushing it back.
The album was released 10 days before Capitol’s Meet The Beatles!, the next album in The Beatles album chronology. Meet The Beatles! shot immediately up to the #1 spot on the Billboard charts, while Introducing… stopped at the #2 spot.
Vee-Jay fought over legal rights to sell the album, and it was agreed that they would be able to sell it until late 1964.
By the time that Vee-Jay settled the case, they had sold 1.3 million copies of the album already. On July 24th, 2014 the album was certified Gold and Platinum by the RIAA.
