Beatles MP3’s Available For 15p A Track

EMI are taking legal action against a US website Bluebeat which has started selling The Beatles back catalogue online.

BlueBeat is selling MP3 files of every single Beatles track for 25c (15p) each, including songs from the recently released remastered albums. The site was also streaming the albums in their entirety, allowing users to listen to them for free.

An EMI spokesperson told the BBC that the label had “not authorised the content to be sold” on Bluebeat.

EMI and Apple Corps, The Beatles’ own company, have fiercely protected the band’s back catalogue and have so far resisted releasing any songs digitally. Analysts believe that a digitised Beatles catalogue could generate hundreds of millions of pounds in sales.

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