Beatles fans rejoice! Christmas comes one day early. The rock band are at last making their music catalog available to stream on the major streaming services like Spotify, TIDAL, Apple Music and Deezer.
The Beatles officially announced the news this morning on their Twitter account.
December 24 at 12:01am local time, The Beatles’ music is available for streaming worldwide: https://t.co/99cigizLza pic.twitter.com/42vZSNGVHG
— The Beatles (@thebeatles) December 23, 2015
The deal comes after Apple Corps and Universal Music Group decided against signing against signing an exclusive deal according to The Guardian. Their albums will appear on nine services, Spotify, Deezer, TIDAL, Amazon Prime, Slacker, Microsoft Groove, Apple Music, Google Play and Rhapsody. They will be available to all users of the streaming services, meaning not just to paying subscribers.
The news that The Beatles were going to at last enter the 21st century and bring their music onto streaming was reported a few days ago, but there were few details and it was unconfirmed where they were going to take their prized catalog. They have been late to the digital party before, only uploading their music to iTunes as one of Steve Jobs' major life goals in 2010. The individual members have uploaded their catalogs onto streaming services at various points over the past couple years, but never the holy grail of their time together as The Beatles.
The complete list of the band's albums can be found below. They will go live at 12:01 a.m. local time tonight, Dec. 24.
Please Please Me
With The Beatles
A Hard Day's Night
Beatles For Sale
Help!
Rubber Soul
Revolver
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Magical Mystery Tour
The Beatles
Yellow Submarine
Abbey Road
Let It Be
The Beatles 1962 - 1966
The Beatles 1967 - 1970
Past Masters (Volumes 1 & 2)
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