<P> Please Please Me maintained the top position on the Record Retailer chart for 30 weeks, only to be displaced by its follow - up, With the Beatles, which EMI released on 22 November to record advance orders of 270,000 copies . The LP topped a half - million albums sold in one week . Recorded between July and October, With the Beatles made better use of studio production techniques than its predecessor . It held the top spot for 21 weeks with a chart life of 40 weeks . Erlewine described the LP as "a sequel of the highest order--one that betters the original". In a reversal of then standard practice, EMI released the album ahead of the impending single "I Want to Hold Your Hand", with the song excluded to maximise the single's sales . The album caught the attention of music critic William Mann of The Times, who suggested that Lennon and McCartney were "the outstanding English composers of 1963". The newspaper published a series of articles in which Mann offered detailed analyses of the music, lending it respectability . With the Beatles became the second album in UK chart history to sell a million copies, a figure previously reached only by the 1958 South Pacific soundtrack . When writing the sleeve notes for the album, the band's press officer, Tony Barrow, used the superlative the "fabulous foursome", which the media widely adopted as "the Fab Four". </P> <P> EMI's American subsidiary, Capitol Records, hindered the Beatles' releases in the United States for more than a year by initially declining to issue their music, including their first three singles . Concurrent negotiations with the independent US label Vee - Jay led to the release of some of the songs in 1963, but not all . Vee - Jay finished preparation for the album Introducing...The Beatles, culled from most of the songs of Parlophone's Please Please Me, but a management shake - up led to the album not being released . Then when it surfaced that the label did not report royalties on their sales, the licence Vee - Jay signed with EMI was voided . A new licence was granted to the Swan label for the single "She Loves You". The record received some airplay in the Tidewater area of Virginia by Gene Loving of radio station WGH and was featured on the "Rate - a-Record" segment of American Bandstand, but it failed to catch on nationally . </P> <P> Epstein arranged for a $40,000 US marketing campaign . American chart success began after disc jockey Carroll James of AM radio station WWDC (now WWRC) in Washington, DC first played "I Want to Hold Your Hand" in mid-December 1963 . It was not until the end of the first week of January 1964 that their records were played in New York City (also accompanied by a major marketing campaign and with similar play frequency), and then the rest of the country, initiating their music's spread across US radio . This caused an increase in demand, leading Capitol to rush - release "I Want to Hold Your Hand" later that month . Issued on 26 December 1963, with the band's previously scheduled debut there just weeks away, "I Want to Hold Your Hand" sold a million copies, becoming a number - one hit in the US by mid-January . In its wake, Vee - Jay released Introducing...The Beatles to go along with Capitol's debut album, Meet the Beatles!, while Swan reactivated production of "She Loves You". </P> <P> On 7 February 1964, the Beatles departed Heathrow Airport in the United Kingdom as an estimated 4,000 fans waved and screamed as the aircraft took - off . Upon landing at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport, they were greeted by an uproarious crowd estimated at 3,000 fans . They gave their first live U.S. television performance two days later on The Ed Sullivan Show, which was watched by approximately 73 million viewers in over 23 million households, or 34% of the American population . Biographer Jonathan Gould wrote that, according to the Nielsen rating service, it was "the largest audience that had ever been recorded for an American television program". The next morning, the Beatles awoke to a negative critical consensus in the US, but a day later Beatlemania erupted in their first U.S. concert, which was held at the Washington Coliseum . Back in New York the following day, the Beatles met with another strong reception during two shows at Carnegie Hall . The band then flew to Florida and appeared on the weekly Ed Sullivan Show a second time, before another 70 million viewers, before returning to the UK on 22 February . </P>

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