But a check of stores showed that large advance orders have been placed. Menon would not reveal the number of Beatles CD's made or ordered by record stores. ''Magical Mystery Tour,'' which was released in the United States as an album, was an EP in Britain, and songs from it will be released on CD's later. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'' on the 20th anniversary of its release in June 1967, ''The Beatles'' (1968, usually known as the ''White Album'') and the 1969 soundtrack of ''Yellow Submarine'' in August and ''Abbey Road'' (1969) and ''Let It Be'' (1970) in October. plans to release eight more Beatles albums by October -''Help,'' ''Rubber Soul'' and ''Revolver'' from 1965-66 in April, ''Sgt. We're still in discussion with them concerning a preferential royalty situation on the CD.''Į.M.I. ''It had nothing to do with any contractual situation. #8 More Planned This Year ''We felt that it would be inappropriate to put out a treasury of such proportions as the Beatles catalog until we had access to sufficient manufacturing capacity,'' Mr. The company now has CD plants operating in Swindon, England, in Jacksonville, Ill., and in Tokyo in a joint venture with Toshiba. waited to release the Beatles CD's only until it was sure it could produce enough disks to meet the expected demand. ''We regard this as a victory for the fans.'' ''They've been holding up the release of the CD's as a way of getting leverage over the Beatles in an attempt to get them to drop the lawsuit,'' Mr. over past royalties - a suit in which the Beatles are asking for $50 million in compensatory damages and $30 million in punitive damages, according to their attorney, Leonard M. Some people connected with the record business have suggested that the delay was caused by litigation between the Beatles (including the estate of John Lennon) and E.M.I. However, except for a CD of ''Abbey Road'' that was released in 1984 by E.M.I.'s Japanese affiliate, Toshiba-E.M.I., then withdrawn, the Beatles' music has not been sold on compact disks. When compact disks first went on sale, most record companies immediately began to issue their best-selling albums as CD's, and the Beatles catalogue has been consistently popular. The most surprising thing about the Beatles CD's may be that they weren't available earlier. For the moment, the American LP's and cassettes will be available unchanged. Menon said the original American Beatles LP's were even shorter, with fewer than the 13 or 14 songs on each of the CD's. The first Beatles CD's will also be far shorter than the 72 minutes a compact disk can hold they are each 30 to 34 minutes long. ''In very close discussions with George Martin, the Beatles' producer, we determined that there was no question that we must preserve the original mixes - that the releases really must be in mono because stereo was not the intent of the performers.'' ''They were actually made for mono,'' said Bhaskar Menon, chairman of E.M.I. While stereo versions of the albums did appear in the 1960's, the first four Beatles compact disks will be monaural.