Beatles music coming to streaming services for first time

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. The deal grants streaming rights to 224 songs from the original 13 studio albums released in Britain, as well as from some “essential” collections.

The Beatles were late to add their albums to the paid-for iTunes store, only making them available in 2010.

This Christmas you won’t need any “help” or anyone to “hold your hand” in order to rock out to “Strawberry Fields Forever” anytime, anywhere.

Years of waiting are over for Beatles fans wanting to listen to the Fab Four’s music on streaming services such as Apple Music and Spotify.

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

Ringo Starr, one of two surviving Beatles along with Paul McCartney, mentioned the streaming news on Twitter with a slew of emojis, a means of expression more in line with a younger generation. Her steamroller of a new album, “25”, isn’t on Google Play or Apple Music. Unlike these popular streaming services, Pandora (that acquired Rdio), will not have the complete catalog on the platform.

Songs including Hey Jude, Let It Be and Please Please Me will be available for streaming around the world starting at 12:01 local time in every time zone.

There were many artists prior to the Beatles who refused to believe that putting their catalog on streaming services is not a good idea but eventually changed their mind.

Rhapsody told us via email that the site “will release a special editorial experience to take listeners through the Beatles’ legendary history with hand-curated playlists, articles, and a pictorial history slideshow”.

The Beatles, finally, are about to begin streaming their catalog online, just in time for Christmas.