The Beatles have given themselves and all of us an early Christmas present. Call up iTunes this morning and you'll see something you probably never expected to see. The Beatles are now on iTunes. In full black-and-white. (See the picture at left.)
The original individual albums are priced at $12.99. The Red and Blue compilations are $19.99. The Beatles stereo box is $149.00.
The Beatles iTunes site has videos which can be viewed for free. The full Washington Coliseum concert, a highlight reel, and separate videos called "Coming To America," "Yesterday," "All You Need Is Love," "Let It Be" and "Here Comes the Sun" are there.
As we mentioned yesterday, signs were pointing to this.
Edd Rainieri, host of the Beatledd Fab Four Hour, noticed that Fox News called the Beatles "Manchester's favorite mopheads."
Oh well...
Here's the official press announcement.
Comments
I wonder if the Anthologies, Let It Be... Naked, Love and the Mono box set will follow at a later date?
Hooray! I thought the day would never come. Too bad I have all the albums already in my iTunes library ripped at WAV quality...so no need for me to buy. I would like to have the iTunes LP format for each album though, those are very well done and I am sure the Beatles ones look great with all the artwork, lyrics, etc.
Missing however are the Anthology albums, Live At The BBC, Let It Be...Naked, Yellow Submarine Songtrack, etc but perhaps they will come later.
Cool day for Beatles fans atleast.
Wonderful news!! I think it's fantastic that the Beatles are finally on Itunes! I hope the albums still missing (the Anthologies, Let it Be Naked, Love, Yellow Submarine Songtrack, 1) will soon follow. So I already have the box sets. I still think it´s cool, and about time!
Yeah. It's hard to believe it took so long. We have to wonder what made the deal finally happen.
Who cares. I and millions of others already have the remasters on our players. We want new content.
/agrees - who cares
Good to see The Beatles finally on iTunes, now all we have to do is convince the young of today to actually purchase music rather than get it for free.
Is this just big news for people that only want to buy single tracks? I guess I don't understand why you'd download an album thru iTunes instead of buying it on CD. Are all iTunes downloads MP3s? Then wouldn't a CD be better quality? And not much price difference.
My OS/browser/etc is too old to download now, hence my ignorance.
So, this may be the first "reissue" I don't buy (having already bought the vinyl albums, the 1st gen CDs, and last year's CDs!).
My understanding is they're the same format as other downloads on iTunes.
Since I already purchased the re-mastered box sets. And if the downloads are just MP3 quality and not Hi-Rez, I'm not interested. Looks like the Re-mastered Beatles Vinyl that was promised over the past year, has been pushed off in favor of the iTunes launch. I'm starting to feel my first generation Beatles fan self getting older by the minute.
This is all great news for Apple Corps, EMI (who has had problems staying afloat ) and also Apple Computers theres some big xmas $$$ to be made and lets not forget the Apple gift cards available at a retail store near you. But really there is nothing new for us who have already bought the box sets and remastered CD unless you want to be redundant .
Lets hope that next year Apple/EMI cut loose with all the missing product that the fans have been asking for...you all know and have mentioned in the past what I'm talking about on Steve's Examiner blog.
RS
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