 According to figures published in 2009 by former Capitol executive David Kronemyer, further to estimates he gave in "MuseWire" magazine, "Yesterday and Today" had sold 967,410 copies in the US by 31 December 1966, and 1,230,558 copies by the end of the decade.As of 2014, the album was certified 2x Multi-Platinum by the RIAA, indicating US sales of over 2 million.In his 1977 book "The Beatles Forever", Nicholas Schaffner commented on the enduring aspect of Capitol's reconfiguring of the Beatles' EMI LPs