Cultural impact of the Beatles

The cultural impact of the Beatles includes many effects on popular music and fashion. After the group was subject to Beatlemania, their continued commercial and critical success assisted many cultural movements — including a shift from American artists' global dominance of rock and roll to British acts (British Invasion), the proliferation of young musicians in the 1960s who formed new bands, the album as the dominant form of record consumption over singles, the term "Beatlesque" used to describe similar-sounding artists, and several fashion trends.