Beatles Albums to Go on Streaming Services Starting at Midnight

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Source: New York Times

Happy holidays from the Beatles: As of 12:01 a.m. on Dec. 24, the band’s music will finally be available on streaming services worldwide.

The group announced the news in a 35-second video featuring a medley of its biggest hits that kicks off to the sound of the 1963 single “She Loves You.” An accompanying news release simply said: “Happy Crimble, with love from us to you.”

However, the surviving members of the group, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, along with Universal Music Group, which controls the band’s recorded music, made no statements other than the fact that the Beatles’ catalog — 13 original albums and four compilations — will now be playable on nine subscription streaming music services: Apple Music, Spotify, Google Play, Amazon Prime Music, Tidal, Deezer, Microsoft Groove, Napster/Rhapsody and Slacker Radio.

Known as singular holdouts in the digital era, the Beatles, the best-selling group of all time, resisted offering its songs on iTunes for more than seven years before coming to an agreement with Apple in 2010. “It’s fantastic to see the songs we originally released on vinyl receive as much love in the digital world as they did the first time around,” Mr. McCartney said at the time. The band sold 450,000 albums and two million individual songs in its first week on the service, according to Apple.



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/23/arts/music/beatles-fans-start-your-streaming-playlists.html

[ArizonaLib]

1. Turn off your mind, relax and float Down STREAM!!!

JPGR forever!!!

[musiclawyer]

2. Already bought plenty of Beatles stuff

I don't mind them getting almost nothing per stream. I just wish the unknown and under appreciated artists could get more than a fraction of a penny pe stream.

I think history will look at the late 20th century as an anomaly where musicians could in theory get rich making music. Before ......and after music has been/will be done out of passion, not to make big bucs

[shenmue]

3. Yes!!

[mac2766]

4. Finally...

I've got every Beatle albumn on LP. My turntable went belly-up a few years ago and I just didn't want to re-purchase the music on CD. I've been a Beatles fan since ... well, birth really. I remember songs on the radio when I was a very small child. I can remember places and events from way back then just by hearing the music. They are the gold standard in my opinion. Much of their music has stood the test of time. It's really nice to see Paul McCartney keeping it alive in concert.

I've really missed The White Albumn, Let it Be, and Abbey Road.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

6. I'm old enough to remember sapphire needles.

[JudyM]

7. "There are places I remember..." Nt

[FLPanhandle]

5. It's nice that this little known band from an obscure country is getting some notice.