Beatles albums to go on streaming services starting at midnight

The Beatles fans all over the world are rejoicing about their Christmas present from the music industry as the classic albums by the group will be available on streaming services.

As expected, The Beatles’ catalog has arrived on Apple Music on this Christmas Eve.

At 12:01am local time Thursday, a whopping 13 remastered studio albums-including Yellow Submarine and A Hard Day’s Night-as well as four compilation albums will be be available to any users of the platforms.

UMG, which holds the rights to the music, posted the news on the Beatles’ website and released a YouTube video teaser.

The Beatles have sold about 900,000 albums and 2 million digital songs this year, down from 1.2 million albums and 2.7 million songs last year, according to Nielsen Music.

The iconic band announced the news on their official Twitter page with a photo of members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison and the slogan “now streaming”.

The band’s tracks will be available on nine different streaming services, including Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal and Google Play Music.

The streaming companies had to face severe backlash for barring the albums by the British band from their services.

This will be the first time Beatles will make their whole catalog available online for streaming; certainly a big step for the industry fans should take advantage of. One wrote on the social media site: “Spotify got The Beatles #gamechanger”. Browsing through Amazon one can see that the music has been reissued in its original US LP forms, which means getting two songs per CD, of course.

Which Beatles songs are we talking?

Rumors had been swirling that the Beatles’ catalog would soon be available via streaming.

For smaller, independent musical groups, streaming has come under fire for giving musicians incredibly small royalty payments per stream.