50 million times in 48 hours
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| Christmas with the Beatles. |
The Daily Mail has been given some figures from Spotify – the largest of the music streaming service providers – about the Beatles’ performance in the first 48 hours after their songs became available from them.
According to that report, the Beatles’ songs were played 50 million times in the first 48 hours of their music being available to stream online. Spotify has released the following figures in a list of the ten most streamed Beatles songs during those 48 hours:
1. Come Together (1.84 million)
2. Let It Be (1.55 million)
3. Hey Jude (1.32 million)
4. Love Me Do (1.31 million)
5. Yesterday (1.23 million)
6. Here Comes The Sun (1.23 million)
7. Help! (1.22 million)
8. All You Need Is Love (1.17 million)
9. I Want To Hold Your Hand (1.1 million)
10. Twist And Shout (940 000)
Again, according to the article, 65 per cent of the Beatles’ listeners on the streaming service Spotify were under the age of 34.
According to an earlier article in The Independent, there are differences in the lists of most streamed songs in the UK and the global list. Here are the two lists provided by The Independent:
UK: Most streamed tracks by The Beatles on 24 and 25 December
1. Come Together
2. Hey Jude
3. Here Comes the Sun
4. Twist and Shout
5. Let It Be
6. I Want To Hold Your Hand
7. Help!
8. Love Me Do
9. I Feel Fine
10. She Loves You
GLOBAL: Most streamed tracks by The Beatles on 24 and 25 December:
1. Come Together
2. Let It Be
3. Hey Jude
4. Love Me Do
5. Yesterday
6. Here Comes The Sun
7. Help!
8. All You Need Is Love
9. I Want To Hold Your Hand
10. Twist And Shout
In an earlier list, from when each song had been streamed less than 1000 times each, NME published this list on their website:
1. Let It Be
2. Here Comes The Sun
3. Hey Jude
4. Twist and Shout
5. Come Together
The release of the better part of The Beatles’ catalogue to streaming providers follow a five year exclusivity window for the catalogue being available on iTunes. Some products, released after the initial batch on 09.09.09 seem to still be under such an iTunes window of exclusivity. This is stuff like the “Anthology” album series, the entire mono album collection, the US / Capitol mixes, “Let It Be…Naked”, the BBC compilations, the 1963 Bootleg compilation and “Love”. This year’s remixed “1” album is available for streaming, however.
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