LONDON, December. 23, 2015.- The music of The Beatles will be available from midnight tonight (00:01 GMT) in nine online music platforms or “streaming” worldwide, such as Spotify, Apple and Google Play Music.
Five years after joining Itunes Music, the group formed by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Star available to the public in this digital service thirteen remastered albums and four compilations, as they announced on Wednesday its website.
Apart from the three platforms mentioned songs like “Hey Jude” or “Help” can also be heard on 24 December at 00:01 hours Tidal Deezer, Amazon Prime, Slacker, Microsoft’s Groove and Rhapsody.
The company Apple Corps, founded by the rock group, and Universal Music chose to provide a general and open access to the music of The Beatles, rather to close a contract with a single service as they did with iTunes when your music joined the “streaming” for the first time.
The drives will be available to the public of these platforms, meaning that even the Spotify or Deezer users who do not pay a subscription can listen to the most emblematic of the British group issues.
Experts and co-founder of the musical CMU website, Chris Cooke, said the reason the group has decided to land completely in the world of “streaming” is due to finally find this “very serious” service and “significant part of the industry.”
Mark Mulligan of the company specializing in digital services Midia analysis, advertisers Beatles were reluctant to “streaming” because they would “reduce potential sales of reissues or compilations to be a very lucrative catalog”.
The news entry the band services online listening occurs in a year in which singers like Adele and Taylor Swift rejected his music was part of these services and questioned its value.
Now, The Beatles have Spotify be measured in current mass idols as the Canadian Justin Bieber, the most popular performer of this service have 31.7 million monthly listeners and whose song “Sorry” is on top of the most played songs, with 3.8 million daily views.
Some 1.1 million people remain and the Beatles in Spotify, which managed to sell in its first week on iTunes Music two million singles or “singles” and 450,000 albums.
The band broke up in 1970 but his influence and popularity has remained over the years and has placed 17 songs on the top of the British charts.
They have seven Grammy Awards, six-disc Diamond, 24 multi-platinum, 39 platinum in the US and they have managed to maintain the number one UK more albums than any other musical artist in particular fifteen.
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