Apple SW 6386	The Beatles	Let It Be
Early copies are RCA-pressed and label states «1970, Apple Records». Early covers have the Modern Graphics printers logo on the spine. The cover differs somewhat from the 6351 version in that it lists the full songwriter and publisher information for each track on the back sleeve and it also has «ORIGINALLY RELEASED AS SOAL-6351» at the bottom right hand corner. EMI Music Canada lists original release date as 1972 November 1. This is the Last Beatles LP on the 6000 series.
Polydor 2371.051	The Beatles Featuring Tony Sheridan	In The Beginning (circa 1960)
1972, Gatefold
SKBO 3403	The Beatles	1962-1966
1973, 2ble album with custom label and inner sleeves, known as "the Red Album". Early copies were issued with an insert listing the songs from the album. The insert also states" Theses are the only authorized collections of The Beatles. On Apple Records (Since this compilation was put together in reaction to a TV sold compilation box set called "Alpha Omega"). Another insert called "FOR YOUR INFORMATION..." was also found in some copies, this one listing discographies on the different formats available.
SKBO 3404	The Beatles	1967-1970
1973, 2ble album with custom label and inner sleeves, known as "the Blue Album". Early copies were issued with an insert listing the songs from the album. The insert also states" Theses are the only authorized collections of The Beatles. On Apple Records (Since this compilation was put together in reaction to a TV sold compilation box set called "Alpha Omega"). Another insert called "FOR YOUR INFORMATION..." was also found in some copies, this one listing discographies on the different formats available.
SKBO 11537	The Beatles	Rock'n'Roll Music
June 1976, 2ble gatefold album , silver foil cover.
SMAS 11638	The Beatles	The Beatles Live At The Hollywood Bowl
May 1977
The French and English contest forms from 1977, this was a 2 sided yellow form which was inside the LP when you opened the gatefold. You could win 8 tracks or Lps or T-shirts. They did not do this for the other LPs. They also did a large poster for the contest.
SKBL 11711	The Beatles	Love Songs
November 1977
SEAV 11840	The Beatles	Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1978, Purple label, Unique Canadian issue on purple marbled vinyl, with insert.
SEBX 11841	The Beatles	The Beatles aka The White Album
1978, Special issue on white vinyl. Purple like label. with inserts and poster.
SEBX 11842	The Beatles	1962-1966
1978, Special issue on red vinyl. Purle like label, but red.
SEBX 11843	The Beatles	1967-1970
1978, Special issue on blue vinyl. Purple like label, but blue.
SEBX 11844	The Beatles	Love Songs
1978, Unique Canadian issue on yellow / gold vinyl. The booklet inserted in the album had the catalue number of the original album .
SN 16020	The Beatles	Rock'n'Roll Music vol. 1
Issued on the green budget label
SN 16021	The Beatles	Rock'n'Roll Music vol. 2
Issued on the green budget label.
SW 11921	The Beatles	A Hard Day's Night (soundtrack)
Purple label; Issued on Capitol Records for the first time. Later reissued on the retro rainbow label.
SHAL 12060	The Beatles	Rarities
1980
SL 9612	The Beatles	The Beatles Ballads
November 1980, Retro Rainbow label. Not issued in the USA this album was a Canadian issue of a european compilation album. The cover shows a painting that was considered as a possibility for the white album's cover at one point.
SV 12199	The Beatles	Reel Music
March 1982, Custom Label, came with a picture inner sleeve and a colorful booklet covering all the beatles films.
SV 12199	The Beatles	Reel Music
March 1982, Custom Label, special promo issue on Gold vinyl. The Canadian version is numbered with a gold stamp on the front of the album instead of a black printed number on the back like in the USA. Probably around 2000 copies only were pressed in Canada.
PL 5003	The Beatles	The Beatles Talk Downunder
In 1982, Passport Records issued the interview album "The Beatles Talk Downunder", covering interviews done during their Austrlian tour.
SO 12245	The Beatles	20 Greatest Hits
October 1982, Purpe label, first issues note the running time for "Yesterday" as 1:04. Later copies corrected the time to 2:04. A later issue on the retro rainbow label also exists, this pressing also featured the brown sticker and some copies featured an insert promoting new Beatles books (see below). This album has a special edit of Hey Jude, faded out at 5:05 instead of 7:11. Two singles were issued in conjonction with this album; Love Me Do 20th anniversary, and I Want To Hold Your Hand reissue, both on the retro swirl label (see the post 1970 singles section for details).
SPRO 230	Various	Chartbusters in-store sampler
Dated around 1983, this white label sampler featured the Beatles' short version of Hey Jude released on the "20 Greatest Hits" album, as well as many other artists from the early 80s, like Pat Benetar, the Stray Cats, Kenny Rodgers, and Bob Seger.
CLJ-46435	The Beatles	Please Please Me
Retro Rainbow label; first issue of the UK albums and formats in Canada on vinyl. The album were issued in Canada on July 21, 1987, six months after the CD release of January.
CLJ-46436	The Beatles	With the Beatles
Retro Rainbow label; first issue of the UK albums and formats in Canada on vinyl. The album were issued in Canada on July 21, 1987, six months after the CD release of January.
CLJ-46437	The Beatles	A Hard Day's Night
Retro Rainbow label; first issue of the UK albums and formats in Canada on vinyl. The album were issued in Canada on July 21, 1987, six months after the CD release of January.
CLJ-46438	The Beatles	Beatles For Sale
Retro Rainbow label; first issue of the UK albums and formats in Canada on vinyl. The album were issued in Canada on July 21, 1987, six months after the CD release of January.
CLJ-46439	The Beatles	Help!
Retro Rainbow label; first issue of the UK albums and formats in Canada on vinyl. The album were issued in Canada on July 21, 1987, six months after the CD release of January.
CLJ-46440	The Beatles	Rubber Soul
Retro Rainbow label; first issue of the UK albums and formats in Canada on vinyl. The album were issued in Canada on July 21, 1987, six months after the CD release of January.
CLJ-46441	The Beatles	Revolver
Retro Rainbow label; first issue of the UK albums and formats in Canada on vinyl. The album were issued in Canada on July 21, 1987, six months after the CD release of January.
LS-2-7001	The Beatles	The Beatles Live At The Star Club
Has extra songs to the UK issue.
PHX 339	The Beatles	First Movement
Phoenix Records. yellow label, features Tony Sheridan material.
PHX 352	The Beatles	The Silver Beatles vol. 1
Phoenix Records - features tracks from the 1962 DECCA audition
PHX 353	The Beatles	The Silver Beatles vol. 2
Phoenix Records - features more tracks from the 1962 DECCA audition
AR 2452	The Beatles	The Complete Silver Beatles
Audio Rarities, white label, silver foil cover, features material from the Decca audition.
TC 207	The Beatles	60 Flashback Greats
K-tel 3 LP box set including "My Bonnie" by The Beatles with Tony Sheridan and Peter and Gordon's version of the McCartney song " A World Without Love".
TC 221	The Beatles	60s fever
From a box set from K-Tel, features " Ain't She Sweet"
	The Beatles	Historic Live Recordings
	The Beatles	First Live Recordings vol. 1
Pickwick Records
	The Beatles	First Live Recordings vol. 2
Pickwick Records

These releases were only manufactured in Canada as cassettes, CDs or other digital formats; LPs were imported.

Serial Number	Artist	Title
C2 46439	The Beatles	Help!
EMI Canada, this is a special "error" pressing unique to Canada. The pressing plant mistakenly used the original 1965 UK LP mixes for this early CD pressing of the UK album. George Martin did not like the original mixes and remixed Help and Rubber Soul specifically for the new CD stereo releases in 1987. All CD releases around the world had these new mixes, except Canada. This pressing, known as the "Disque Americ" version (the name of the plant who pressed it) has become quite sought after through the years as it was the only CD versions of these mixes, until the 2009 mono remasters box set which featured the original mixes "for the first time" (officially). Those "special" CDs were manufactured by Disque Americ in Drummondville, Québec, Canada and that credit appears on the CD inner ring. (Made by / Fabriqué Par Disque Americ Canada). It's been reported that the Rubber Soul and Help! CDs pressed by Cinram in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada (the year is unknown) also contain the original UK mixes (CINRAM version pictured below). One way to recognize the original mix is the absence of echo on the vocals from "Dizzy Miss Lizzie"; the 1987 remix has a lot of it.
C2 46440	The Beatles	Rubber Soul
EMI Canada, this is a special "error" pressing unique to Canada. The pressing plant mistakenly used the original 1965 UK LP mixes for this early CD pressing of the UK album. George Martin did not like the original mixes and remixed Help and Rubber Soul specifically for the new CD stereo releases in 1987. All CD releases around the world had these new mixes, except Canada. This pressing, known as the "Disque Americ" version (the name of the plant who pressed it) has become quite sought after through the years as it was the only CD versions of these mixes, until the 2009 mono remasters box set which featured the original mixes "for the first time" (officially). Those "special" CDs were manufactured by Disque Americ in Drummondville, Québec, Canada and that credit appears on the CD inner ring. (Made by / Fabriqué Par Disque Americ Canada). It's been reported that the Rubber Soul and Help! CDs pressed by Cinram in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada (the year is unknown) also contain the original UK mixes. Program length is 36:01 - containing an extra 13 seconds over the standard issue (all other releases of Rubber Soul have a program length of 35:48). Indicators of the UK mix are the hard-right lead vocal on "Drive My Car", and the "pop" at around 1:07  on "Run For Your Life".
SPT 9921	The Beatles	The Savage Young Beatles
This is the Canadian cassette issue of the Savage Young Beatles album. possibly an unauthorised issue, but Canadian nonetheless. White shell, made in Québec (Montreal) by Distribution Madacy Inc. It seems to be part of series called SPOTLIGHT. This cassette features the Tony Sheridan material.
100.040	The Beatles	The Beatles Vol.2
Black shell, imported by Madacy Inc, Montreal, for the company InterTape. This features material from the live Starclub recordings. Also probably an unauthorized issue. It is not known if a volume 3 or 4 exist, but it is most likey that volume 1 exists.
BBX 1	The Beatles	Wooden Box Set
In The Late 80s, EMI issued this CD and Cassette Box Set including all the UK albums plus Past Masters - making for the first time a box of EVERYTHING the Beatles had issued. The wooden Box contained Canadian pressings, a booklet and a white instruction sheet for the box.
CDP 7 90043-4	The Beatles	Past Masters (1 and 2)
released March 7, 1988. LPs were imported from the USA, but CDs and cassettes were made in Canada
9080328	The Beatles	Imagine John Lennon
A Lennon Compilation featuring lennon's "best" Beatles songs. LPs were imported from the USA, but CDs and cassettes were made in Canada
A 22131	The Beatles	The Beatles Live Rockin' At The Star Club
1991, Sony. Sold only as cassettes and CDs, this set was removed from the shelves as the rights to the recordings were not settled. Some consider it a bootleg… It was also issued in the USA as a two volume set with covers in red and black.
P2 23701	The Beatles	The Early Tapes of The Beatles
Polydor, this CD was widely available in Canada in the 90s.
724383179626	The Beatles	Live at The BBC
Released on 30 November 1994. LPs were imported from the UK, but double jeweled case CDs and cassettes were made in Canada. The first Canadian pressing included a coupon for Beatles merchandise orders. Folded digipack promos were sent to radio stations but were imported from the USA.
724383444526	The Beatles	Anthology 1
November 21, 1995, LPs were imported from the UK, but CDs and cassettes were made in Canada. Elaborate promo CDs were sent to radio stations but those promos were imported form the USA. In some parts of the country, stores (like Canadian Tire) started selling the albums the day before the official release (illegally) so, many stores panicked and started rush releasing the albums as well. Copies are confirmed to have been sold the night before from local stores in Quebec City.
724383444823	The Beatles	Anthology 2
Released March 18, 1996, LPs were imported from the UK, but CDs and cassettes were made in Canada. Promo CDs were sent to radio stations but those promos were imported form the USA. Another special vinyl promo was sent to college radio stations, but this too was imported from the USA. This Sampler offered slightly different edits of the featured songs.
724383445127	The Beatles	Anthology 3
Released October 28, 1996. LPs were imported from the UK, but CDs and cassettes were made in Canada. Promo CDs were sent to radio stations but those promos were imported form the USA
A cardboard slip case for all 3 Anthologies was available in stores for free for a short while when the last chapter was issued.
724352932528	The Beatles	1
Released November 13th, 2000. LPs were imported from the UK, but CDs were made in Canada
724352148127	The Beatles	Yellow Submarine Songtrack
Released 13 September 1999. LPs were imported from the UK, but CDs and cassettes were made in Canada. original LPs were on bright yellow vinyl, but some rarer copies were on plain black vinyl. Promo CDs were sent to radio stations but those promos were imported form the USA. The 1999 CD is pictured below.
In early June 2012, the album was remastered and reissued as part of the remastered digipack series launched in 2009, along with a revamped version of the movie.
724359571324	The Beatles	Let It Be Naked
Released 17 November 2003. LPs were imported from the UK, but CDs were made in Canada
n/a	The Beatles	The Remasters Box Set
On 09 09 2009, EMI reissued the Beatles catalogue completely remastered as single albums but also as a stereo box set. The albums inside were made in Canada. The Mono box set on the other hand was imported from Japan (see the "Imported Releases" page).
n/a	The Beatles	The Remasters Box Set (digital Download)
Released approximately December 2010. In the wake of this new digital era, just like CDs were the new music format in the late 80s, digital download is also now the new format. Although difficult for some to consider it as a true format (not being a physicial format) the music is nevertheless being sold and promoted more and more this way, to reach younger fans and to follow the exponential evolution of technology. Because of all this, it is important to underline the Beatles recent availability on itunes, as they offer the catalogue off their website, but also because a special (physical) 149$ Beatles package is being manufactured and sold in canadian Apple stores; thus making it an actual Canadian release! This nice cardboard fold-out includes a download card, giving an exclusive access to a digital download of the whole stereo remastered box set; including the mini documentaries found in the CD box set.
n/a	The Beatles	The Remasters Box Set (Apple USB key)
Released approximately December 2010. In the wake of this new digital era, just like CDs were the new music format in the late 80s, digital download is also now the new format. Although, to offer a smoother transition into the digital era, EMI offered a hybrid between digital/physical formats by offering digital content on a format that can be held in your hand and kept in a collection. This came under the shape of a cool plastic Apple-shaped USB key that holds a digital copy of the whole stereo remastered box set; including the mini documentaries found in the CD box set. The stem portion of the apple could be removed and plugged into a computer to acces the music. Not manufactured in Canada this was imported to Canada. Not being very popular, some rare copies can still be found in record stores.
08307026	The Beatles	1 (one)
Released September 13, 2011. On this date was released the CD version of the new remastered version of the best selling album "1". Indeed this new release was available on itunes as a digital download since September 2nd, but saw a CD release made in Canada a few weeks later. Early copies were sold with give away posters of the colorful Avedon pictures featured in the earlier release from 2000. The CD featured a yellow sticker stating "27 classic No.1 singles - remastered". Also, US and UK official stores are selling a limited edition hand numbered print of the Beatles 45s, made especially for this remastered issue. Apparently only 250 copies of these prints are available for 75$
B0019415 02	The Beatles	On Air - The Beatles Live At the BBC vol. 2
Released on November 11, this album was pressed in Canada on the CD format, but features a US made cover. The CDs were either available separately or in a box set that included both the BBC 1 and BBC 2 albums on CD. The album is alsao available on LP (pressed and imported from the EU). The album was accompanied by a promo 7 inch vinyl EP in HMV stores across the UK and Canada. (see post-1970 45s page for details).
n/a	The Beatles	The Beatles Bootleg Recordings 1963
Released on December 17, this album was released only on iTunes, and was released without any promotion, press release or even any announcement on the official Beatles website. Rumours circulated on Beatles blogs around the world, and true enough, days later, the album popped up on iTunes in most Asian countries, to finally become available the next day in North America and Europe. This 59 track digital download only album features alternate studio tracks of the Please Please Me album, as well as a few piano demos of unreleased songs and 44 BBC tracks, all of which was previously available on bootlegs, but in much poorer sound quality. The album was in fact not meant as a truly interesting album worth talking about, or even releasing at all for that matter, but was instead simply meant to protect Beatles song copyrights for a few more decades in the UK. At this time, it is not known if the album will remain available, or if it will be removed from iTunes as it happenned in other countries. It is also not known if other volumes will be issued in the same series.