But perhaps more importantly, getting The Beatles on board gives the streaming model a renewed sense of legitimacy. With album sales dwindling, downloads tanking, and revenue from music subscriptions slowly but steadily growing, few doubt that streaming is the future, especially now that Apple—the company that effectively launched the market for paid downloads when it created iTunes—has jumped into the streaming game with Apple Music. In a few cases, high-profile artists have pulled their catalogs from services like Spotify entirely.
After seven years of delay, The Beatles finally brought their music to the iTunes Store in , reportedly after protracted legal, financial, and creative negotiations.
Most notably, a longstanding trademark dispute between Apple of Cupertino fame and Apple Corps founded by The Beatles in was finally settled in , helping to thaw relations between the two companies.
The year before their iTunes debut, The Beatles released their entire remastered catalog on compact disc and eventually vinyl and even agreed to license their music for a special Beatles-branded edition of the then popular Rock Band video game. So what took so long for The Beatles to stream their music? Undoubtedly, one of the major stumbling blocks was coming up with the proper licensing deals for The Beatles catalog. This is always a crucial part of new digital distribution deals, and it tends to be especially contentious in the streaming space.
The experience gained in Hamburg and at The Cavern helped to make The Beatles the most proficient and popular group on Merseyside. At this time, a group from Liverpool had the odds stacked against them when trying to gain a foothold in a record business focused on London.
In early , they had acquired an ambitious and rather refined manager, record shop boss Brian Epstein. By fate, The Beatles had found both the ideal manager and perfect producer. The last piece of the picture slotted into place just three weeks before recording their first single on 4 September Ringo Starr born 7 July was asked to take over as drummer. Their first Parlophone single was released on 5 October Both sides of the disc were original compositions - a remarkable statement of intent from a group making their first steps in the music business.
The single reached the top of all but one of the UK charts. The group had become the biggest musical phenomenon in British show business - ever. Among the key factors that led to this success were the chemistry between the four personalities in the group, their immense charm and a daring image - nobody had worn their hair that long. Their interviews were funny and articulate, they had a charismatic presence when performing, and girls screamed and swooned over them.
What The Beatles did next was extraordinary for a British act. As their success spread across the world, almost everything the group did from then on was unprecedented. Premiered in July , it was perfectly timed to capitalise on their international breakthrough. In , they starred in the film Help!. Like their first movie, it was directed by Richard Lester and featured a brilliant batch of songs on its accompanying album. Not even released as a single in the UK, it was a number one in America.
It quickly became - and remains - the most covered song of all time. For the next album Rubber Soul, more studio time was made available to try out unusual instrumentation and adventurous recording techniques. Few groups were blessed with two powerful lead singers as versatile as John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Furthermore, George Harrison not only contributed at least one lead vocal to every album, his voice was integral to the intricate harmony vocals on many Beatles tracks.
They ended another frantically busy year with their final British tour. There was a deadline to complete their next album, because concerts had been scheduled for the summer of all over the world. You can head home, Santa. The Beatles ' culture-shifting catalog is finally available on music streaming services yes, including Spotify, Apple Music and Tidal , so Christmas came early and there's really no need for follow-up presents from you.
Unless, that is, you're capable of getting ALL the Beatles' material on streaming services. Yes, even though the Fab Four's proper U.
We're rounding up Beatles material that's missing that you might not even know about. The absence of mono editions of Beatles LPs isn't going to concern most people, or most Beatles fans for that matter. The stereo mixes of the U. Regardless, some diehards point to the fact that while the Beatles were typically quite involved with the mono mixing of their albums, their input on the stereo versions of those albums -- including the landmark Sgt.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band -- is disputed. To those purists, the mono versions are truer to the Beatles' artistic intentions and therefore preferable. Still, the Beatles' albums were released in both mono and stereo versions back in the day -- so the stereo versions of every album back to their debut, Please Please Me , are every bit as official as the mono ones.
Should You Care? Probably not, but for completists, it's worth noting that some mono versions -- such as "Don't Pass Me By" and "Helter Skelter" on The Beatles -- are quite different than the more familiar stereo versions.
If you're an obsessive, you can read more about the differences here. The history of the Beatles' discography is fairly complicated. And even when Revolver hit -- after which the release schedule of U. Beatles albums matched up -- the tracklist was different on that album. Several U.
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