The Beatles are reaching a new audience through streaming and listeners have an early verdict -- "Come Together" is their favorite song from the Fab Four.
The best-selling band in history on Thursday ended a long boycott and made its catalog available through streaming, the fast-growing sector of on-demand online music.
Spotify, the largest streaming service, said that fans in the first three days had streamed Beatles songs 70 million times -- which means that on average every user of the site listened to one Beatles song around the Christmas holiday.
"Come Together" was well ahead as the most popular song, with more than 2.3 million streams as of early Monday on Spotify.
While the company did not offer analysis, the bluesy rock song from 1969 was the opener on "Abbey Road," The Beatles' best-selling album, so it may have benefited from listeners who immediately hit play on the album.
"Here Comes the Sun," also off "Abbey Road," was also among the most listened although it was outpaced by two other Beatles tunes with themes of hope -- "Let It Be" and "Hey Jude."
Spotify said that 65 percent of its Beatles listeners were under age 34 -- too young to have direct memories of the band that broke up in 1970.
"We're helping introduce a new generation of fans to the most important band in history," Spotify founder and CEO Daniel Ek wrote in a blog posting.
Spotify has been beset by criticism by artists, notably Taylor Swift, who argue that the streaming service does not pay back enough to artists.
The company has disputed the charges and tried to portray streaming as a rare source of growth in a largely stagnant music industry.
Ek, 32, described The Beatles' arrival on Spotify as a "personal triumph" in light of the Swedish entrepreneur's own childhood.
"My grandmother was into jazz and my grandfather was an opera singer. The one thing in my youth that everyone in my family -- my mom, uncle, aunt and grandparents -- could all agree on musically was The Beatles," he wrote.
Unlike a growing number of artists who have forged exclusive deals, The Beatles are streaming on all major services including Apple Music, Deezer, Google Play Music, Rhapsody and Tidal.
AFP
Mon Dec 28 2015
n this Feb. 9, 1964 file photo, The Beatles, clockwise from top, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, George Harrison and Paul McCartney, perform on CBS' "Ed Sullivan Show" in New York. - AP Photo
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