Thursday, December 24, 2015
The Beatles’ music catalog is available on streaming platforms
Last updated on March 5, 2021
Thursday, December 24, 2015
Last updated on March 5, 2021
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From paulmccartney.com, December 24, 2015:
On 24th December at 12:01am local time — here, there and everywhere — The Beatles’ music is available for streaming worldwide via:
Apple Music | Deezer | Google Play | Groove | Rhapsody | Amazon Prime | Slacker |Spotify | Tidal
Happy Crimble, with love from us to you.
From Beatles music joins streaming services – BBC News, December 23, 2015:
The Beatles’ music is being made available on a wide range of streaming music services. Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play, Tidal and Amazon Prime Music are among nine services that will offer the band’s tracks worldwide.
The group split up in April 1970. However, their songs – including Hey Jude and Yesterday – remain hugely popular and influential. One expert suggested that the move would help their legacy endure.
“In terms of digital the Beatles have always been quite late to the party – they came to iTunes in 2010, which was a good five years after the iTunes Music Store started gaining momentum,” said Chris Cooke, co-founder of the music industry news site CMU. “We had expected they would probably do an exclusive deal to stream their music with one service, but it looks like instead they are going to be pretty much everywhere from day one. So, I suppose that is them accepting that streaming is now a very serious, significant part of the record industry.“
Other services that have secured the band’s catalogue include Deezer, Microsoft Groove, Napster and Slacker Radio.
The deal involves rights to stream 224 songs from the original 13 studio albums released in the UK as well as “essential” collections including Past Masters. […]
“There’s a really simply reason why the Beatles catalogue took so long to join streaming services – their publishers didn’t want to do anything to damage potential sales of reissues and retrospectives – it’s a very lucrative catalogue,” said Mark Mulligan from the media research firm Midia. “But they’ve waited until the market has got some scale and they could get the best deal. It’s a big PR catch as it helps communicate that the platforms are ‘all the music in the world’ – which is the value proposition of streaming services.“
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