New Beatles song goes number one in the UK – El Sol de Zacatecas
The Beatles’ new song, which was produced thanks to artificial intelligence (AI), is on course to become the UK’s best-selling song this Sunday, according to the Official Charts organisation, which collects data on the most popular songs .
“Now and Then”, composed by John Lennon in 1978, was finished by Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, and with the help of AI George Harrison’s chords were included.
The song was released on Thursday and is on track to be the best-selling track when the official chart of the most popular music is announced next Friday, according to Official Charts.
“‘Now And Then’ debuted at number 42 in the UK last week after being on sale for just 10 hours, but is now expected to jump 41 places to number one on the Official Singles Chart” when the list is announced on Friday, the organization said.
This is the band’s eighteenth number one single. The last was in 1969 with the song “The Ballad of John and Yoko”, shortly before the group broke up in April 1970.
Despite the anticipation before its release, “Now and Then” received lukewarm reviews.
McCartney, 81, announced the release of the track in June, which was touted as “the last Beatles song”.
“Now and then” is one of the songs that Lennon recorded on tape at his residence in New York in 1979, a year before he was killed.
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Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono, gave the recordings to McCartney in 1994.
The other two songs, “Free as a bird” and “Real love”, were rescued by producer Jeff Lynne and released in 1995 and 1996, but the recording of “Now and then” had too much background noise and even all the development of AI technology had not been able to be exploited commercially.
