Fire up any streaming service and you’ll find a staggering number of Beatles covers, but you won’t find any of the Fab Four’s original music there. The most popular band to ever exist has never offered their music for on-demand streaming services, but that looks to soon change as the Beatles’ music is expected to finally show up on streaming sites on Christmas Eve, according to Billboard.
Specifics of the deal are still unclear, including which platforms will host the music. But Billboard’s unnamed sources “strongly suggest that most, if not all” streaming sites — Spotify and Apple Music among them – will begin offering the band’s catalog of studio albums and more beginning on Dec. 24.
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The Beatles and associates have long been reluctant to embrace new technology, waiting five years for its catalog appear on CD, and another six to show up on iTunes. With streaming services ruling the day, it’s about damn time we get the Beatles in rotation once more. It was just a shame we couldn’t do it before discovering John Lennon was really a mean, misogynistic asshole.
