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Fact #99296

When:

05031964

Short story:

During litigation in New York City, USA, between Capitol Records and Vee-Jay Records, over rights to sell The Beatles' recordings, Capitol vice president Voyle Gilmore claims that Capitol had been selling five hundred thousand Beatles records per week in February, and had already sold over six million copies of their two Beatles releases.