--- description: And the majority of listeners were under the age of 34 title: The Beatles Songs Streamed 50 Million Times in 48 Hours image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd8968662896afed4/698876f5cf40a89384c41404/the-beatles2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # The Beatles Songs Were Streamed 50 Million Times in 48 Hours by [Tara John](/author/tara-john/) ## Tara John Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 28, 2015 5:19 PM CUT  Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon and George Harrison at Top Of The Pops in 1966 Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon and George Harrison at Top Of The Pops in 1966Chris Walte—Getty Images by [Tara John](/author/tara-john/) ## Tara John Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 28, 2015 5:19 PM CUT The Beatles’ back catalogue of hits was played 50 million times in its first 48 hours of release to online music platforms. After a delay over rights and contracts, all 224 songs from the band’s studio albums were made made available on Christmas Eve to nine online streaming sites, including Amazon Prime, Spotify and Tidal. [_The Daily Mail_ reports](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3375079/The-Beatles-songs-played-50-million-times-48-hours-music-available-stream-online.html "undefined") that 65% of the Beatles’ online listeners were under the age of 34. Analytics company Brandwatch identified the track ‘Come Together’ as the most popular Beatles song, which was streamed 1.8 million times. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4162244/the-beatles-streamed-50-million-times/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4162244/the-beatles-streamed-50-million-times/"},"headline":"The Beatles Songs Were Streamed 50 Million Times in 48 Hours","datePublished":"2015-12-28T17:19:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:07:09.777Z","description":"And the majority of listeners were under the age of 34","url":"https://time.com/4162244/the-beatles-streamed-50-million-times/","keywords":["Tech","Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd8968662896afed4/698876f5cf40a89384c41404/the-beatles2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tara John","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tara-john/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd8968662896afed4/698876f5cf40a89384c41404/the-beatles2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon and George Harrison at Top Of The Pops in 1966","caption":"Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon and George Harrison at Top Of The Pops in 1966","creditText":"Chris Walte—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4162244/the-beatles-streamed-50-million-times/","name":"The Beatles Songs Were Streamed 50 Million Times in 48 Hours"}}]}] ```