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Beatles music coming to streaming services for first time
The Beatles Love You In a Christmas present of sorts the entire Beatles catalogue of music will be available for streaming globally as of one minute past midnight on Thursday, Dec. 24.
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A message posted on the official Beatles website (thebeatles.com) announcing the news read: “Listen to the music the minute Christmas Eve arrives”.
In case you missed it, Greenwald gave readers a ticket to ride in the wayback machine earlier this year to when The Beatles played Portland’s Memorial Coliseum 50 years ago. The Beatles’ Apple record label and the streaming service provider were stuck on an issue over the use of the Apple logo in the music business, the Guardian reported. The Beatles music has been curious absent from streaming services up to this point, and it was only in 2010 that the band’s music finally made its way to iTunes, seven years after Apple introduced it to the world.
The most-searched Beatles albums, per Google Trends, come to nine music-streaming sites beginning December 24.
The full list of supported services includes Apple Music, Google Play, Spotify, Microsoft Groove, Amazon Music, Tidal, Rhapsody, Deezer and Slacker.
This year AC/DC, who had previously refused to make their back catalog available to stream, also changed their mind.
Spotify, the largest service, counts more than 20 million paying subscribers and about 80 million free users worldwide; Apple Music had 6.5 million subscribers and 8.5 million in free trial as of October. It is noted that some popular contemporary musicians withhold their new releases from the likes of Spotify but industry commentators see the addition of The Beatles back catalogue to the online streaming canon as a “giant validation of streaming”.
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The Beatles wave to fans after arriving at the John F. Kennedy Airport in NY on February 7, 1964.