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Rumors of The Beatles Coming to iTunes Renewed Yet Again

Chris Treborn said:
Monday we got our new promtional book which listed four Beatles albums being released at Starbucks. It explains that Abbey Road Studios spent the last four years restoring and remastering the albums to provide high-tech / top-notch quality.

This will be proof as Starbucks always sells the same CDs in store as they do on http://iTunes.com/Starbucks
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Proof of what? That the Beatles have already announced that the stereo and mono versions of the remasters are due on 9/9? We know that.

Until EMI gets its head out of its ass, there will be no downloadable Beatles songs except those for sale on Rock Band. And I don't mean the 45 songs available with the game itself.
 
Yawn...

Who really cares? I'm sure there are some die-hard fans waiting yet again to get the White album on yet ANOTHER format, but aside from a few big hits, I don't see a big collection taking off in sales...
 
WHO CARES
this is like the 2nd biggest ongoing rumor to the Apple Tablet, running for years, but the least important one.
who cares about the beatles
 
NYCMacPro2008 said:
Actually, if you play a Beatles song in a public performance, John (estate) and Paul do get paid. That's because there is the publisher's share as well as the writer's share. Sony/ATV has the control though as ATV/Northern Songs/Dick James yada yada owns the publisher's share and has administration rights.
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100% true; there is a writer's share, which is, of course, the source of much of Paul McCartney's vast wealth.
 
Edge100 said:
100% true; there is a writer's share, which is, of course, the source of much of Paul McCartney's vast wealth.
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Don't believe that to be true. MPL probably brings in more per year than the Beatles in an average year. Rock Band and the re-masters will most likely make that untrue this year but those two releases are one-time events.

if I were to make a guess, in any given five year period, touring revenue is #1, MP is #2, and Beatles Corp is #3

#2 and #3 may switch given how big Rock band looks to be. It will be the swan song for the genre though.
 
NYCMacPro2008 said:
Don't believe that to be true. MPL probably brings in more per year than the Beatles in an average year. Rock Band and the re-masters will most likely make that untrue this year but those two releases are one-time events.

if I were to make a guess, in any given five year period, touring revenue is #1, MP is #2, and Beatles Corp is #3

#2 and #3 may switch given how big Rock band looks to be. It will be the swan song for the genre though.
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Hmmmm. I wonder. Paul's had loads of money for a long time; and he hasn't sold many albums (enough to build such a fortune) in a long, long time. His tours are lucrative, no doubt, as are his publishing rights. But with the Beatles still selling in huge numbers, and being played on every oldies/classic rock station in the world, you've gotta think his writer's share on those is massive.

You might be right, though.
 
Edge100 said:
Hmmmm. I wonder. Paul's had loads of money for a long time; and he hasn't sold many albums (enough to build such a fortune) in a long, long time. His tours are lucrative, no doubt, as are his publishing rights. But with the Beatles still selling in huge numbers, and being played on every oldies/classic rock station in the world, you've gotta think his writer's share on those is massive.

You might be right, though.
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Well, loads and a long time are all relative. There was the lawsuit against EMI for back royalties that wasn't settled until 1991 that was pretty ugly. Prior to that settlement, I don't believe the Beatles money was as big as you may believe. Mainly because EMI ripped the Beatles off.

And yes, Beatles One in 2000 was certainly a big kick just as Rock Band will be this year.

Bottom line: EMI is in complete disarray. Beatles going digital needs an agreement to terms with EMI and that isn't going to happen right now. Anyone looking for digital Beatles should look to Rock Band as the only source for the near future.

As for tours, they are more lucrative than anything else bar none. For all top 20 artists. An artist makes more money in one night playing a concert than they do from their mechanical and publishing on those songs in a year.

Nice photos on your blog, btw.
 
SkippyThorson said:
Did you accidentally pop in a Nirvana CD or something? Do you actually own any Beatles vinyls, you fanboy?

Everything they've done has sucked. SGT PEPPER? Are you KIDDING ME? That has to be the absolute worst complete album to ever hit store shelves. I've heard and own free releases that blow that garbage away. It's intolerable trash, which belongs in just that.

Their whole catalogue is subpar. Don't kid yourself. You obviously meant to say The White Stripes and Velvet Revolver up top there...
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That's like holding up an 8086 next to a Nehalem and saying that the 8086 is crap. True, in a sense, but you have to have some appreciation of what the 8086 made possible (although it did follow on from earlier processors) and of all the things that flowed from it to lead to where we are today.

Are you at all aware of the state of popular music before The Beatles?
 
The Beatles are probably all too busy turning in their graves (even the ones who aren't dead) at the thought of hollyweird's idiotic "remake" of Yellow Submarine. :(
 
Buzz Bumble said:
The Beatles are probably all too busy turning in their graves (even the ones who aren't dead) at the thought of hollyweird's idiotic "remake" of Yellow Submarine. :(
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Um, they approved it.

Any use of the Beatles master recordings or use of their names/likeness needs their specific approval.
 
NYCMacPro2008 said:
Um, they approved it.

Any use of the Beatles master recordings or use of their names/likeness needs their specific approval.
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Actually, if you read the reports, the producers of this horrible idea of a remake are still trying to cut a deal for the rights to the tracks. Nothing in regards to the use of The Beatles' music has been approved yet, at all.
 
Ivan P said:
Actually, if you read the reports, the producers of this horrible idea of a remake are still trying to cut a deal for the rights to the tracks. Nothing in regards to the use of The Beatles' music has been approved yet, at all.
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Actually, if you bother to look, the film is owned by Apple Corp. It cannot be remade without the permission of Apple Corp. That is the four Beatles.

The "rights" being negotiated would be the sync rights for the songs which means they need to have a deal with Sony/ATV. In other words, how much $$$ does Sony/ATV get.

But the movie rights, the use of masters, and use of likeness of the Beatles is all from Apple Corp. They have already approved it or we would not even be discussing this.

Go buy a little yellow submarine toy. Apple Corp gets paid.
 
On the same day the event was posted on macrumors, McCartney said iTunes negotiations have been stalled to the point that they're waiting for time to pass before they try again. So much for the rumor.
 
tingly said:
On the same day the event was posted on macrumors, McCartney said iTunes negotiations have been stalled to the point that they're waiting for time to pass before they try again. So much for the rumor.
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Yet the only one who knows of this is you? Have a link?
 
Peace said:
McCartney said that 8 months ago. Long before any speculation even hit the streets.
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He also said it at E3 and last week. At least he's consistent. I don't have the link handy, but it's google-able.
 
tingly said:
He also said it at E3 and last week. At least he's consistent. I don't have the link handy, but it's google-able.
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I've Googled and can't find anything aside from the November 2008 quotes. Can't find anything from this month.
 
It's old news, no point in spreading it all over the place every time he says it, at least 4 times in the last 12 months. If this moe-ron found it, you all can, and I didn't even know it was out there.
 
I gave it a shot. Searched for McCartney, clicked on News, there it was. It's the Billboard article, page 2.

LA Times published a couple hours ago that there is no deal.
 
Beatles are going digital...

Not sure if they're coming to iTunes, but it would appear that they are certainly going digital... I just received an E-mail from an application called Play MPE, which supplies digital songs from Universal Music Group, EMI Music Group, Sony BMG and Warner Music Group to people within the music industry (think: RADIO).

The message I received said this:

"Some of our members may have experienced delays in accessing the Play MPE® system on Tuesday, September 1, 2009. The Play MPE® system experienced extraordinarily high levels of usage due primarily to the release of a 226 song remastered collection from one of history's most popular bands, including 4 of the top 10 albums from RollingStone magazine's list of 500 greatest albums of all time. Approximately 90,000 large broadcast quality tracks were securely downloaded over the course of the day. At some times, spikes in simultaneous download demand exceeded 100% of the bandwidth capacity of our three load balanced facilities."

This sure says to me that the Beatles are on their way to the digital world... next step, iTunes.
 
awesomebase said:
Who really cares? I'm sure there are some die-hard fans waiting yet again to get the White album on yet ANOTHER format, but aside from a few big hits, I don't see a big collection taking off in sales...
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I don't have the WHITE ALBUM on CD yet, but I would much rather own it on CD than purchase it digitally.

Personally, I think they've waited too long to go digital on iTunes. Too many people wanting to make too many decisions on this.

If it does happen, then great. But I'm not holding my breath either.
 
That says that Beatles are already released. Must be people downloading user-made digital copies of the CD's.

More evidence that nothing is happening between The Beatles and iTunes -- the Wednesday after Labor Day has been the ipod event date on 4 of the last 5 years. Circle September 8th on your 2010 calendars.
 
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