What has to be considered is the way that the paper arrived at their conclusion - it wasn't based on actual copies sold - the determination was made by awarding points to the number of weeks each title remained at number one, number two etc.
Most sources routinely seek to inflate Fleetwood Mac’s accomplishment (as if that were necessary) by stating that they "outsold" The Beatles and The Rolling Stones combined.
That they "outsold" The Beatles, who released four singles that year, is accomplishment enough for any band. What goes unmentioned is that The Rolling Stones released only one single that year, ‘Honky Tonk Women’ and while it did reach number one, it added little to the combined tally with The Beatles.
Fleetwood Mac released two singles in 1969, ‘Man of the World’ and ‘Oh Well’, (three if you count Blue Horizon’s re-issue of ‘Need Your Love So Bad’) but what undoubtedly helped to push them over the top was that their 1968 single, ‘Albatross’ peaked in January of 1969 and remained on the charts through the early months of the year.
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