The Beatles' catalogue will now be available on streaming platforms
Christmas has come early for fans of The Beatles; from 12.01am December 24, fans of the Fab Four will be able to enjoy the band’s prolific back catalogue on major music streaming services, including Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play and Amazon Prime Music.
Spotify have this morning confirmed that 13 of The Beatles' much-loved albums will be available to stream by both free and Premium users of the digital music platform. The list is as follows;
Please Please Me
With The Beatles
A Hard Day's Night
Beatles For Sale
Help!
Rubber Soul
Revolver
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Magical Mystery Tour
The Beatles
Yellow Submarine
Abbey Road
Let It Be
The Beatles 1962 – 1966
The Beatles 1967 – 1970
Past Masters (Volumes 1 & 2)
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The Beatles - who split up in 1970 - first made their discography digitally downloadable on Apple Music back in 2010 and sold two million songs during the first week.
The Beatles are one of the world's biggest-selling bands ever, with 17 Number 1 singles to their name, including 1963's She Loves You. They also have 28 UK Top Tens and 16 Number 1 albums under their belt, including A Hard Day's Night which held the top spot for 21 weeks in 1964. Check out their full UK chart history here.
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AC Tom
The real problem is the antiquated recording equipment used at Abby Riad in the 60s AND their lack of attention to either planning their recordings to minimize the limitations of the equipment or use a better equipped studio. In addition, the failed to appreciate that stereo was going to be the primary why people would listen to their music for half of the time they were making music but also for decades after. They left stereo mixing to George Martin who also failed to make state of the art mixing. The only modern stereo mixed lp was their last, Abbey Road. Sinatra was making real and superior stereo albums in the 50s on and at Capitol records, The Beatles' US label. EMI executives should have sent George Martin to LA to learn how to make good stereo recording so we could hear the Beatles the why they should sound. The catalog needs to be remixed and the ridiculous vocals in one channel eliminated as well as all the reverb for stereo.
Brian Quinn
The Beatles have refused to innovate with their material and this is going to be their downfall. The general public will no longer accept Greatest Hits packages with the same old sound but want innovation. Their last two album releases in the UK have been relative flops sales-wise e.g. The BBC album and Beatles 1 Re-issue plus their last No.1 album was 15 years ago in the UK.
Brian Quinn
Who cares.
Tony Fuerte
You have absolutely no clue.
Froilan Villapando
A couple of hundred millions, maybe more.
Johnny McVey
Two mistakes here: The Beatles are THE biggest selling band of all time and they made their music available on iTUNES in 2010, not Apple Music. Apple Music didn't exist in 2010.