Beatles catalogue to be available on major streaming services Christmas onwards

The deal will see classic albums by the Fab Four such as Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Revolver being made available on a total of 9 streaming services. In addition to Google Play Music, the Beatles’ music will become available to stream on eight services: Apple Music, Deezer, Microsoft Grove, Amazon Prime Music, Slacker Radio, Spotify, and Tidal.

We are sure there will be plenty of Beatles music streamed this Christmas thanks to all the band’s fans around the world and all the new devices under the Christmas trees tomorrow. Pandora on Wednesday got final approval to buy the bankrupt Web music streaming service for $75 million.

John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, formed The Beatles in Liverpool, England in 1960.

The Beatles’ music has never been available for streaming until now and includes 13 studio albums as well as other collections such as 1 and Past Masters.

Streaming platforms are overtaking digital downloads as a source of income for the music industry.

The Beatles also took their time when it came to allowing their music to be sold digitally, waiting six years before they agreed to make their catalog available on iTunes. Swift was insistent that Spotify limit access to her songs to paid subscribers only, and when Spotify refused, she pulled her catalog and lashed out at streaming in general as a “grand experiment”. In the first half of 2015, online streaming grew to 32 per cent of all music sales in the U.S., making up for shrinking purchases of CDs and digital singles, according to a report from the Recording Industry Association of America. 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.