10 Beatles Innovations that changed Music

The Beatles certainly didn't invent the music business, but like Beethoven, they had an undeniable steamroller effect that forced everyone to completely and permanently change nearly everything about the way the industry functioned. These items are not listed in any particular order of importance.

1.) By 1968, the American radio dial preferred to have music on AM and talk radio on FM , and most AM stations played music in a three minute single format.

2.) The typical music industry standard recording contract of the 1960s required a band to record and release enough singles for a company to release at least one album per year, and the Beatles went way above and beyond the call of duty (they released two albums per year in every year with EMI Records except 1996.)

3.) The first pop album to feature actual printed lyrics on the album was the Beatles '1967 epic release " Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band." Soon, it would be considered non-standard to not do so.

4.) This item (Studio Techniques) could almost be a separate list in and of itself.

5.) Although many different musical acts hold variously scattered chart-topping marketing successes, no specific artist has ever come closer to the nearly inexplicable global phenomenon the Beatles enjoyed in the spring of 1964.

6.) Although the Beatles did not invent satellite television,they were the highlighted subject of the first ever live global satellite television broadcast in June,1967.

7.) This was one of those magnificent ideas where everybody learned more from Beatle mistakes than Beatle successes.

8.) Although the Beatles were highly successful in selling out their early concerts in 1963, 1964 and 1965, they were only playing shows booked in auditoriums, theatres, and amphitheatres that seated anywhere between 1000 and 10,000 ticket-holders.

9.) Prior to 1966, popular musical acts went into the recording studio in order to create a  stack of singles.

10.) Although early jazz artists created short music film performances of their songs, and Elvis filmed unique settings of his songs that were parts of  movies,the Beatles were the pioneers of marrying the two ideas into the concept we now know as the music video- a short, stand-alone film of a musical act presenting a current song that may or not be a live performance.