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Originally Posted by pepper_green
Wait? how do you know this? there's plenty of proof the Beatles had control over this. maybe not the singles part but, the albums were largely their input.
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Wait, how did YOU Not know this? Basic Record Industry 101..
The record contract determines the number of tracks because the number of tracks determines the pay rate. As to singles, record companies especially in the 50s and 60s were really hard on singles and trying to put out singles for albums as both promotion and also to make extra money in additional sales of the singles with the albums. Its not that the record companies actually chose each individual song (though for some bands and contracts that is indeed exactly what the did) but rather the format was determined by record contract stipulations. Its business. I am not saying the Beatles didn't have some freedom, I am saying they didn't invent that structure it pre-dates them. They very may well have had some more freedom than other bands under contract, but until you post an interview or quote explicitly mentioning this it is mere opinion or worse conjecture.