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HUNDREDS OF SONGS by The Beatles are to appear on music streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music for the first time.
The band’s 13 remastered studio albums and four compilations will be made available on a total of nine music streaming services on Christmas Eve.
The announcement ends arguably the most high-profile artist holdout from music streaming services.
The Beatles’ representative group Apple Corps and its label Universal Music took five years to make the band’s music available on iTunes before signing an exclusive deal in 2010.
But on this occasion the band’s representatives have opted to make the tracks available to stream on several services.
These include Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play, Amazon Prime, Tidal, Deezer, Slacker, Microsoft’s Groove and Rhapsody.
The deal involves a total of 224 songs from the band’s original albums as well as several collections.
The Liverpool foursome – John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr – were formed in 1960 and had a total of 27 UK and US number ones before splitting in 1970.
They are widely regarded as the most influential music act of a generation and are the best-selling band in history, with an estimated 600 million records sold worldwide.
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A big step in the right direction, hopefully all fast food outlets globally will follow suit. Good news story for a change ;-)
@Frank Cauldhame: A step in the right direction no doubt.
@Frank Cauldhame: Great to see this… Well done Supermacs!
Great news!
@Mel Lloyd: SUPERMACS IS TO introduce recyclable cups, paper straws and biodegradable burger wraps in all of its restaurants.
Great news indeed. next they should introduce edible food. this will save on the amount of street cleaning that needs to be done outside supermacs outlets. the otuside of our local supermacs is usually lined with pools of vomit at the weekends.
@andrew: That’s right blame the food, not the concoction of booze they had before they went to supermacs.
@brendan H: blame both
We used to eat out of real reusable plates and cups before we imported disposable culture from the US. Printing ‘recyclable’ on paper cups does f all to improve things.
@Paraic:
Nothing to do with the US, it’s to do with the minimum wage. It simply became cheaper to dispose than employ cleaners.
@Paraic: the chippers when I was young never gave me a plate to head home with.
@Bilbo Baggins: The difference is a single sheet of paper with fish and chips versus (in a meal for one person) a wax paper cup with plastic lid, a plastic straw in a paper wrapper, a cardboard chip carton, a polystyrene burger carton with a wax paper wrap inside several salt and ketchup portion packets, 5 serviettes all in a paper bag.
@P.J. Nolan: True it is obviously financially motivated but the concept 100% was imported from the US. I personally never saw a disposable plastic cup lid or polystyrene burger carton until McDonald’s opened in Grafton St. in 1977.
And they couldn’t have done this 10 or 15 years ago because….
@Paul J. Redmond: most companies won’t do it for another 10 or 15 years
@Paul J. Redmond: because ar$€h0les like you would still have found something whinge about.
@Paul J. Redmond: And you didn’t apply for a job in Supermac’s and work your way up the ladder to then have to power to make this happen because? You obviously didn’t care enough otherwise you would’ve done it.
Well done supermacs. I will go in there for that reason alone. Bula bos
Now they product needs to be looked at.
@Paul Laing: You are exactly right. It’s about time supermacs started using recyclable paper to make their burgers.
@Paul Laing: Nothing wrong with their products.
@Paul Furey: I prefer to take my advice from professional experts.
@Paul Laing: Can you have a profession as an expert? Nice number.
But how will we know the difference between their food???
@David Knight: Don’t go!
No need to thank me for helping you sort out your life problems.
I don’t eat this food , but hats off to management there.
For what its worth- and i am not a fan of any of those places- but 3 of my children have worked at various stages in their student days in both Smacs and McDs, and listening to them comparing ‘ notes’ is v interesting … by a long shot, the content, ingredients, additives, hydrogenates etc etc doesnt compare. McD’s stuff is SO SO pumped up artificially, its unreal. But its this artificiality, cosmetic pumping up of their stuff is what makes it so appealing to the palate. Chips are just hydrogenated with v little potato but loads of ” dack” to add flavour, whereas Smacs have the real potato, for eg. We might not appreciate it , but Smacs streets ahead in terms of Real real ingredients….very interesting..
So ,McDonalds are “phazing out paper straws ” are they??
They could start by introducing some decent tasting food maybe.
Most of those burger joints already have recyclable burgers. They are made of recyclable cardboard ha ha!
@Sean: To be fair to Supemacs, all their burgers are 100% fresh, never been frozen and cooked to order… unlike their competitors.
May these toxic chains biodegrade completely.
A good start
Perhaps they might introduce edible food whilst there at it
Don’t think I’ve ever eaten a supermacs meal but I think it’s great they are introducing these changes. If I ever wanted a fast food burger, I’d pick supermacs simply because of this.
I went to Supermacs last year, delicious ice-cream, would go again given this welcome news.
An excellent step in the right direction. Well done Supermacs
Good stuff
It shouldn’t be left up to the companies supplying the food. Mandatory across the board. You still want to make millions every year???? These are the rules!! Simple
If your constipated nothing better than a supermacs to get you going
So it is all of a sudden OK to kill trees again? Sorry Amazon jungle, we need to get rid of plastic so you will have to go.
Positive.
Now if they’d only stop killing all those animals.
Go back to using cup& saucers problem solved
Why would you need paper straws, if the cup itself is recyclable, just push the straw into the cup…..
I wonder if paper straws could lead to more deforstation, with not enough people recycling in the first place, humankind trying to do good, has negative impact
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