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HUNDREDS OF SONGS by The Beatles are to appear on music streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music for the first time.
The band’s 13 remastered studio albums and four compilations will be made available on a total of nine music streaming services on Christmas Eve.
The announcement ends arguably the most high-profile artist holdout from music streaming services.
The Beatles’ representative group Apple Corps and its label Universal Music took five years to make the band’s music available on iTunes before signing an exclusive deal in 2010.
But on this occasion the band’s representatives have opted to make the tracks available to stream on several services.
The Beatles / TwitterDecember 24 at 12:01am local time, The Beatles’ music is available for streaming worldwide: https://t.co/99cigizLza pic.twitter.com/42vZSNGVHG
— The Beatles (@thebeatles) December 23, 2015
These include Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play, Amazon Prime, Tidal, Deezer, Slacker, Microsoft’s Groove and Rhapsody.
The deal involves a total of 224 songs from the band’s original albums as well as several collections.
The Liverpool foursome – John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr – were formed in 1960 and had a total of 27 UK and US number ones before splitting in 1970.
They are widely regarded as the most influential music act of a generation and are the best-selling band in history, with an estimated 600 million records sold worldwide.
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Quite simply, the greatest 4 piece band of all time.
Who was black sabbath?
Most overrated band in history.
Can’t stand the Beatles. I can appreciate their contribution but hate their tone and sound!
Nursery rhymes with a drum beat. Terrible music.
Yeah Happiness is a Warm Gun and Tomorrow Never Knows are really great to lull a child to sleep.
Recognised as being a vital ad integral part of popular music development during the 20th century by academics , musicans and historians. But no, Karol knows better.
You may not like the Bealtes music but other bands did and they were influenced to write songs because of them, then other bands were influenced by those bands and so on……
You might not have had a Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, U2, Norvana, etc if it wasn’t for the Beatles
Norvana? South county Dublin’s Nirvana?
What often gets over looked is just how productive they were. 13 studio albums in 6 or 7 years as well as redefining themselves several times along the way.
Nonsense,the Beatles were by far the smartest and most prolific composers of the 20th century.
Utter rubbish! You are probably a sad delusional 1D fan
The Smiths weren’t even popular in their day. The only reason their even remembered is t-shirts.
… total smiths album sales…. 2.5million, Beatles 600million+
The Smiths are the best. Joy Division a close 2nd
They weren’t called the Fab Four for nothing.
One of them looks like the fella kanye west let sing on that song
Rubber Soul,Revolver,Sgt Pepper,Magical Mystery Tour,The White Album,Let It Be,Abbey Road and Past Masters Volume 2.
Any one of those albums would make a lesser band’s reputation and if they had spread that run of albums out over a career of 20 years,it still would have been truly impressive.The Beatles wrote and recorded all of it in less than four years.
Great news and not before time.
What made them so good was their diversity. No two songs sounded the same. They inspired so many artists. Eat your hearts out 1D, you don’t come within asses roar of them!
This makes me really happy.
Me too!
Read that in 2018 the publishing rights and profits to the Beatles songs will return to the writers (Lennon/McCartney mostly) because of an American Copyright Law . This could be basically one last attempt to profit before losing ownership in a couple of years.
They weren’t even the best band to come out of Liverpool
The rubber band was good lol.
What sort of Beatles fan doesn’t already own their albums?
The teenage sort.
I heard they are releasing a new album to coincide with this.
It will be mostly drum and bass.
Whoop whoop ….
Anyone care to share their nominations for album(s) of the year?
Noel Gallagher Chasing Yesterday he’s definitely back on form
Vessels, The Jimmy Cake, Worriedaboutsatan, Recondite, Cataya would be mine
Kirk, you should have gone for: http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Can_I_Borrow_A_Feeling%3F
Jamie xx – In Colour
Depression Cherry by Beach House.
Id agree Noel Gallaghers Chasing yesterday is his best work in years. In true Gallagher form the B sides from the singles are better. I was at slane and U2 but Noel.Gallagher was gig of the year
Sun Kil Moon.
Universal Themes.
“To Pimp a Butterfly”- Kendrick Lamar or “Sometimes I Sit And Think and Sometimes I Just Sit”- Courtney Barnett
I won’t be satisfied until all of Peter Gabriel’s work is on Spotify too :)
Great..vinyl, cassette, CD, SACD, Pirate bay, Kickass, and Spotify.. ENOUGH ALREADY..tee hee
How did Aleister Crowley make the cover, yes he gave birth to hippies but he was the grandfather of Scientology as well and linked to the first UFO sighting but he was a Satanist… Off all the people they could choose…
They took their time but didn’t Sony or Michael Jackson own the rights for a time???
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