Probably already in 1979 the production of new vinyl releases dropped because of the announced introduction of the CD. The CD production started in 1982 but the introduction took time. At first mainly albums of well known artists were released on CD. Well known artists but not Beatles though. These albums were released not earlier as in 1987. And even then, following the advise of George Martin, the oldest albums were released in a flat sounding mono.
Although the death of John Lennon (dec. 1980) can't have had any influence on the output of Cover Versions in that year, 1981 though, saw more Cover Versions of wich several are Lennon Cover Versions.
After some years of not having released much on the Beatles music front, in 2000 Beatles "One" was released.
"One" is a sampler of 27 number-one hits and was a big commercial success. This also meant that there was new attention to
Beatles music wich many artists tried to cash in on.
The original Beatles CD's have been released in 1987 and 1988. Some CD's with Beatles Cover Versions were
released earlier or in the same years of the first Beatles CD releases.
Between these CD's with covers are orchestra renditions from German James Last
and 12 Cellisten of Berlin Orchestra
but also others like Slovenian Laibach, Brittish King's Singers and
Dutch Louis van Dyke wich were quite extreme, daring even. They
'renewed' Beatles songs.
Of course, the figures in the statistics above only show a statistic view of Cover Versions from my own collection.
But, that stated, over the years not very much change can be seen in the figures. I think the barfigures added with more
names and output will not show dramatically different numbers.
Maybe, by introducing figures from countries that are less open than western countries and/or less capitalistic/materialisticly orientated, the figures might change a bit, not much.
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