Will there ever be a band bigger than The Beatles?

One Direction.😆🤣

Maybe not... If there will be, it will be a long, looooooooong time before that happens.

Also may I add, someone may sell more records and downloads but is that because they're better, or because they just didn't release multiple albums per year like the Beatles did? 😆

Such an amazing band... and Ringo is underrated.

There have been!..look up insane clown posse!

What always makes the Beatles stand out for me is how quickly they evolved. They went from a fairly bubble gum sound with songs like Love Me Do to much deeper music like You've Got to Hide Your Love Away and Eleanor Rigby in just a few short years. And they kept growing and evolving. I think that's what really made them special.

There are so many other bands which represented a major change to n popular music. For rock and roll, how about Bill Haley and the Comets?

The Beatles are a perfect example of synergy, where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. As individual musicians they were at best mediocre (apart, perhaps, from McCartney).

Compare, for example, with Miles Davis, who almost single-handedly revolutionized music at least three times.

they were at the right place at the right time with the right product

ford did it with cars

microsoft did it with their operating system

the beatles did it with music

there'll have to be a transition to a new style of music for another beatles group to come to be.

I love their harmonies, the intricate melodies - they were unlike anything in the popular system of the time.

and they did it in less than 10 years and poof - they were gone as a group

Come on now
Milli Vanilli was revolutionary and trend setting! 😜

They appealed beyond the narrow 'music scene' to a family audience and hence they were a cultural force in many different ways and everyone knew who they were. I remember being taken to the cinema when I was about 10 by my 'ancient' grandmother (she would have been in her late 50s!) to see [i]A Hard Day's Night[/i]. We had to queue to get in. Then there is the longevity of their influence as a group and as individuals. I would suggest, never rivaled.

Disagree. In my opinion, the Beatles are amazing and so responsible for helping to open the door that Elvis kicked open but the Beatles are given far too much credit for influencing rock and roll.

An eight-year career and I think four years of touring make them the greatest band to help open the doors for rock and roll and create hysteria over the new sound and perhaps they that's what the greatest thing about them should be recalled.

Lennon and Harrison were masters of their crafts. Paul is very accomplished and Ringo is still rocking.

Bigger band than the Beatles? Are we talking about the Beatles being relevant throughout the last 65 years?

Yes there are, have been, and possibly will be (definitely are) better bands than the Beatles but they are special.

The Rolling Stones get my vote. I love John Lennon and so many more and the Beatles too.

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No the Beatles are legends

No, if you study their music, it is hard to play as they mixed up chords and melodies that were unheard of in the music industry. I have tried to play some of their music and have failed. The use of sharps and flats with the mixing of speeds is unreal.

I think the chance of everything aligning at once for that to happen again is one is about a triple gazzilion.

Who knows? But they will definitely carry on musically, just as Mozart, Beethoven, or Bach have.

Rock on!

I've never really listened to the Beetles tbh. I grew up on Bone Thugs

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George strait has more #1 songs. Black Sabbath was more innovative to change and creating an entire sound. Many bands have bigger following and more devoted fans....

{@allygator] i agree with all you say it would be have to be something really special and out of this world too even match the fab four

What about the Bee Gees?Yeah you forgot about those sexy f%kers didn't ya and there contributions?
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probably not. Musicians arnt normally glamorized like they used to be

Possibly, but not in their style of music.

I don’t like the Beatles

The Stones and they are still going.

In sheer popularity, no.
In terms of changing the music scene, there were.
Venom, Black Sabbath and Jimi Hendrix changed the sound of thousands of bands who followed, including big names like Metallica, Slayer, Type O Negative, etc.

Never.

To be fair, part of that was the TIME in which they appeared--when physical music was still sold, when not every band wrote their own stuff, etc. Right band, right place, right time.

No....I doubt it. The Beatles started something very radical and it was a very different time. Everything in rock music has been discovered. Unless someone or some band starts something that we have absolutely never heard before, then, it won't happen...certainly not in contemporary music.