The Beatles streaming on Spotify, Apple Music and more from Christmas Eve
The Fabulous Four will finally be available to legally stream online
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Your support makes all the difference.After years of boycotting each and every music streaming website on the internet, The Beatles back catalogue will finally become available to stream around the world, and just in time for Christmas.
According to Re/code, the Fabulous Four's music will be available to stream from Christmas Eve onwards, and will be on almost every major platform.
Unlike with many artists, their music will not be exclusive to any one service, therefore streaming from a variety of places, including Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play, TIDAL and Amazon Prime.
Best of all, their music will be available on Spotify’s freemium service (for those who don’t pay for Spotify).
The list of places which won’t have The Beatles' music is surprisingly much shorter, with only two - Pandora and Rdio - not having direct access to the music.
Pandora don’t make deals with music owners, but the foursome’s music will be available via their Web Radio service. Rdio, on the other hand, is shutting down.
So, now that the most famous band ever have given into the demand of streaming websites, who is left not available anywhere?
According to Consequence of Sound, Tool, King Crimson, Peter Gabriel, Def Leppard and Joanna Newson remain offline, for now.
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