The Beatles music officially streaming everywhere starting Christmas Eve

Despite the rapid rise of streaming services in recent years, a number of artists opt not to stream their work.

Imagine – the Beatles are finally streaming and can be heard on Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL)-owned Google Play, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) Music, Spotify, Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) Prime Music and Tidal, starting on Christmas Eve.

All the while, some artists like Adele and Taylor Swift weren’t letting their music on streaming services because they feared that would lead to its devaluation.

The Beatles have become the latest band to join the streaming movement, releasing their entire back catalogue of music on all the major services on Thursday.

Music from The Beatles will be available for streaming for the first time in history this week. And now, with the official announcement, the week-long rumours of their music spreading across several other services turned true.

“Happy Crimble (Christmas), with love from us to you”.

Where can you listen to the Beatles music for free legally? The Beatles catalogue consists of 13 studio albums, each of which as been remastered, and four compilation albums.

The Beatles songs online streaming will be offered from albums such as “Rubber Soul”, “Please Please Me”, “A Hard Day’s Night”, “With the Beatles” and “Beatles for Sale, or Help!”.

This year AC/DC, who had previously refused to make their back catalog available to stream, also changed their mind. The Beatles’ catalog didn’t come to iTunes until 2010, more than five years after the digital music store launch.

Spotify, the largest service, counts more than 20 million paying subscribers and about 80 million free users worldwide; Apple Music had 6.5 million subscribers and 8.5 million in free trial as of October.