The compositions of The Beatles will be available on Thursday, December 24, in the various music services streaming – Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play, Tidal and Amazon Prime Music – news on Wednesday the press British.
The deal involves the rights of 224 songs coming from the 13 original albums released in the UK by the band of Liverpool between 1963 and 1970, and the basic collections, including Past Masters, and the catalog will also be available on Deezer, Microsoft Groove, Napster and Slacker Radio.
“In digital terms, the Beatles arrived always late to the party. They came to iTunes in 2010, five years after the iTunes Music Store have begun gain visibility, “said Chris Cooke, co-founder of the portal of the CMU music industry news, stressing that in this way, the band’s legacy will endure” even more “.
” We expected probably do a deal to provide exclusive music only in a streaming service, but it seems that, instead, will be everywhere from Thursday. This means they accepted the fact that streaming is a very important part of the music industry, “he added.
The Beatles, who broke up officially in April 1970, were part of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, and throughout his career, succeeded in putting 17 singles in the first place of the British music charts.
Even today, and even though the band has ended 45 years ago, the remains music catalog very profitable and the successive editions or collections have been very successful on the tables around the world, and it proves the most recent edition of “Beatles 1″, went on sale last November.
“There is a reason simple enough for the Beatles catalog has been slow to adhere to streaming services: the editors did not want to do anything in order to undermine the potential for sales of reissues or retrospective. It is a very lucrative catalog, “said Mark Sullivan, communication researcher at Media company.
” They waited until the market gain scale, allowing you to take advantage of it to make a good deal. It’s a great marketing action, it helps to realize that the platforms have after all with all the world’s music, “he said.
The Beatles as a business entity, have been notoriously slow to adapt to the new technologies. It took five years for the album to be edited in CD.
In the UK, the discharged number of songs of various “streaming” services reached this year 25 billion more than 13.7 billion in 2014, according to official data.
According to British media, will be “interesting” to see how the Beatles able to compete against the “likes” of, for example, Justin Bieber, whose last “singles” are discharged about six million times a week.
When the work was The Beatles available on iTunes, the band amounted to 10 entries in the top 100. However, most entrance with ‘Hey Jude’, only reached number 40
The Beatles arrival announcement came at a time when a number of big names in music -. Neil Young, Prince and Thom Yorke (of Radiohead ), among others – have questioned the interest to streaming services, where the most obvious case is that of Adele. The new album, “25,” has sold over seven million copies without having appeared in any of streaming platform, which is available only the ‘single’ Hello.
“I believe music should be an event. I do not use the stream. I buy my music. I can do a download, but also buy a copy on CD just to spite those who do not buy it, “said Adele magazine ‘Time’.
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