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Christmas isn’t officially until Friday, but it looks like music lovers around the world are about to receive an early gift. According to BBC, The Beatles entire catalog will finally be available to be streamed on Christmas Eve (tomorrow!).
Music streaming services such as Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Google Play, and Amazon Prime Music will make the band’s classic albums available to be digitally streamed worldwide. Chris Cooke, co-founder of the music industry news site CMU, assumed the roll out to be exclusive at first but it seems to be quite the opposite. “We had expected they would probably do an exclusive deal to stream their music with one service,” said Cooke. “But it looks like instead they are going to be pretty much everywhere from day one.
This is the first big move for The Beatles’ music since their albums became available on iTunes in 2010. The Beatles have certainly had an impact on elder music fans, but this new venture should allow younger fans who may not have any of their physical albums to finally dig deeper into their famous discography. BBC states that the deal includes the “rights to stream 224 songs from the original 13 studio albums released in the UK as well as ‘essential’ collections including Past Masters.”
UPDATE: It’s official: you can now stream The Beatles on basically every streaming platform, from Spotify to Amazon Prime Music. As of right now, 13 studio albums and 4 singles comps are available for listeners. Stream on, people.
