That feud was settled in , and in the whole Beatles catalog was finally made available digitally with lauded remasters. Apple landed a big-time exclusive in bringing Paul, John, George, and Ringo to a new generation of listeners; you still can't buy Beatles albums from Amazon MP3 or other digital music sellers.
Yet there's something keeping the band and its label away from the subscription-based music model popularized by Spotify. That's the same model that Apple would have you believe is the right way forward. Of course, there's more to Apple Music than just music. Plenty of artists, both young and old, share that strict attitude about where and how their music can be accessed.
Above is the full grid that appeared behind Cue on stage As for another big name, Taylor Swift, Bloomberg says that Apple has successfully brought the pop music star on board.
That's not entirely a surprise; Swift kept her albums on Beats Music after famously pulling them from Spotify over frustrations with that company's free, ad-sponsored tier. Cue did feature Swit's music in a playlist on stage. Taylor Swift alone will get plenty of people to start that 3-month trial. But The Beatles could've been an equally important influence for moving other customers to the streaming model. It would be an enormous thing to hold over Spotify. For tech-savvy users, this separation between iTunes and the Apple Music library may not prove confusing.
But plenty of people are already getting it wrong, and Apple itself is partially to blame. Internal confusion aside, Apple is still trying to lock down deals with music labels and publishers ahead of that impending June 30th launch date. A few weeks can make all the difference when it comes to this sort of thing, and it's been said that Eddy Cue and Jimmy Iovine are pretty effective negotiators. Just don't forget about the iTunes piece. Like Google Play All Access, Apple seems to think that combining a digital music store with a streaming service is the right way to build a single, all-encompassing music product.
If you've already bought The Beatles discography or anything else missing from Apple Music, those songs — your songs — will appear on your phone right alongside the same library that's open to all subscribers. But if you were expecting Apple Music alone sans your past iTunes purchases to march out and eclipse Spotify's catalog, that's a bit unrealistic.
Right now, both Spotify and Apple are pointing to that 30 million number. In , The Beatles released a different, stripped down take on their final studio album, Let It Be. Let It Be Naked features mostly the same songs "Don't Let Me Down" takes the place of two cut tracks, "Dig It" and "Maggie Mae" , but it's free of the orchestral overdubs, choirs, and other embellishments that Phil Spector added to the original album.
His "Wall of Sound" production style is completely stripped away, letting the songs speak for themselves. The different running order, alternate takes, and remixed audio make this a must-listen for Let It Be fans.
But you can't stream it This might be disappointing if you're a big advocate of the group's early material, though it's largely covers here. Even so, the performances offer a nice look at the band's beginnings before Beatlemania took off. It's a time capsule that deserves to be on all the big streaming services. Produced by George Martin and his son Giles, Love tears apart the Beatles classics as you know them, rearranging them into a heady, track listening experience that spans the band's entire career.
A project like this could've easily ended up as some overambitious disaster, but the Martins actually pulled it off. The mashups are simply fantastic to listen to, led by mixes that are far more punchy and modern-sounding than the remastered Beatles catalog. If you need help figuring out which songs have been cut up and stitched together, there's always Wikipedia.
Seriously, why isn't an album released in available on Spotify and Apple Music? When the Beatles catalog was remastered in , the band also released a boxset of its albums in mono.
All the same obsessive care had gone into making those recordings sound as good as possible, so why aren't they here? I'm not about to argue over which version of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is better or more "true" to the group's vision, but the mono recordings should be made available for the fans that want them. There are a few mono tracks on the newly-remastered 1 compilation, but it's not really the same thing as listening to entire albums that way.
So yeah, some stuff's missing on day one. But don't let that take away from the good part: you've now got every major Beatles album at your fingertips and on demand — no matter which streaming service you use. No exclusives.
Peace and Love, Ringo. The release of the band's music online marks the end of a long journey for both EMI and Apple. The two battled in courtrooms for years over a trademark dispute: Apple Corps, The Beatles' record company, versus Apple Inc. In , the two updated a year-old agreement regarding how each of them would be allowed to use its trademarks.
Apple Inc. Apple Corps later said that the computer maker broke that agreement by opening the iTunes Store, and sued in Apple Computer eventually emerged victorious when a U. The dispute was officially resolved in , when a new deal replaced the agreement, which prohibited Apple Inc. Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic.
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