The Beatles Catalog Available for Streaming Christmas Eve

On December 24 at 12:01am local time – here, there and everywhere – The Beatles’ music is available for streaming worldwide via the following nine services … The announcement came Wednesday morning on their website with the words “Happy Crimble, with love from us to you”.

Now, fans have the real thing and stream Beatles music so are likely to prefer it to the tribute bands’ versions. The group has strictly been a digital holdout – choosing for years to sell their music exclusively on CDs, cassette tapes and records, even as fans moved to digital platforms.

The Fab Four’s full catalogue will be available on all major services including leader Spotify, removing the most glaring musical absence from the booming sector of streaming that allows unlimited on-demand music online.

The streaming deal the BEATLES’ U.K. albums, the two volumes of THE PAST MASTERS, YELLOW SUBMARINE and a trio of greatest hits compilations, THE BEATLES 1962-1966, THE BEATLES 1967-1970 and 1, totaling 224 songs.

John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, formed The Beatles in Liverpool, England in 1960. The recordings of the Beatles are presently managed by Apple Corps, which is its own management company along with music label EMI. The Beatles are finally releasing their music to the masses.

Superstars… The Beatles were one of the world’s most commercially successful and critically acclaimed groups.

Swift famously withdrew her entire back catalogue from Spotify in 2014, saying: “Music is art, and art is important and rare“. The top five Beatles’ albums searched on Google, per Google Trends, include Abbey Road, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Help!, Let It Be, and Magical Mystery Tour. Re/code later reported that the music would be available on all major streaming services.