“Now and Then” the new Beatles song, produced with the help of AI, is on track to be named number one on the UK’s official singles chart on Sunday night, the chart company said.
The song, “Now and Then”, that used artificial intelligence to include the vocals of John Lennon and guitar by George Harrison, who died in 1980 and 2001 respectively, was released last Thursday.
“Now And Then” debuted at Number 42 in the UK last week based on just 10 hours of sales, but is now expected to jump 41 places to the top of the Official Singles Chart when Friday’s chart is announced on BBC Radio 1’s The Official Chart,” Official Charts said.
The song is set to be the Fab Four’s 18th UK chart-topper and their first in 54 years, since The Ballad of John and Yoko in 1969.
“Now And Then”, first written and sung by Lennon in 1978, was finished by his fellow band members Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr.
The track was unveiled by Apple Corps, Capitol and Universal Music Enterprises, with a music video debuting on Friday.
“Now And Then” was one of several tracks on a cassette that Lennon had recorded at his home in New York’s Dakota Building in 1979 – a year before his death.
Two other songs, “Free As A Bird” and “Real Love”, were cleaned up by the producer Jeff Lynne, worked on by the other former Beatles, and released in 1995 and 1996.
An attempt was made to do the same with “Now And Then” but the project was abandoned due to background noise on the demo.
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