Posted March 8, 200817 yr Online Beatles songs will help pay for Sir Paul McCartney's divorce By Tom Pettifor Tom.Pettifor@Mirror.Co.Uk 8/03/2008 (What's this?)Macca is to help fund his divorce by giving the go-ahead for the Beatles' entire back catalogue to be released on iTunes in a £200million deal. The Fab Four's singles and albums will be made available for download to users of Apple's iTunes in the coming months - and are expected to top the charts for weeks on end. A huge slice of the cash will go to Sir Paul, with the rest going to the only other surviving Beatle Ringo Star and the families of John Lennon and George Harrison. The Mirror revealed in February 2007 a deal allowing Apple to sell Beatle songs was to be signed. And in a recent interview Macca confirmed: "It's happening soon. The whole thing is primed - ready to go." The huge windfall comes at a good time for Macca, 65, - who is expected to have to give estranged wife Heather Mills between £20 and £30million when their divorce hearing takes place at London's High Court in nine days. But news of the massive online payment could lead Heather, 40, to reassess her financial expectations. The former model, married to Macca for four years, may argue she is entitled to a cut of his iTunes cash. The Beatles back catalogue will be the most popular music catalogue ever released on the internet. The online release of the songs has been held up for years by a series of legal wrangles. Advertisement Bookies yesterday reported a surge in betting on which Beatles hit will be the first to top the charts - with Hey Jude the 4/1 favourite. And William Hill have cut the price of the Beatles having all 10 tracks in the top 10 at some point in 2008 from 10/1 to 8/1. TOP BEATLE BETS 8/1 - the Beatles will have every song in the Top 10 4/1 - Hey Jude, next Beatles track to top the charts 9/1 - Yesterday 10/1 - Love Me Do; She Loves You; I Want to Hold Your Hand; Can't Buy Me Love; Hard Day's Night 12/1 - All You Need is Love 14/1 - I Feel Fine; Day Tripper; Penny Lane; Let it Be 16/1 - Get Back; Something 20/1 - Ticket to Ride; Strawberry Fields Forever; Paperback Writer; Eleanor Rigby Odds from William Hill 2004 The year of iTunes launch in the UK 43 MILLION visits were made last year 1hr 48 ...the time the average user is on iTunes 5.7m unique users in the UK last year 79p is cost of a song 5 MILLION songs at the store Beginners' guide The online music store iTunes provided by Apple also sells digital music videos, TV shows, audiobooks, ipod games and movie rentals. To buy a track, visit www.itunes.com, choose it, pay, then download it on to your computer. Plug in your iPod or MP3 player and transfer the track from the computer. Single songs are 79p. An album costs £7.99 and movies £4.96.
March 8, 200817 yr Author I seriously think the press are going abit over the top with this! saying Beatles songs will to the charts for weeks on end!? surely most fans will... A. Already have the CD albums, or the Greatest Hits '1' B. Download the whole album if they don't already have it, not just individual songs? I think OLD Beatles songs clogging up the current singles charts would be terrible! :puke2: album charts OK.
March 8, 200817 yr I think perhaps a few songs will go top 40 like Led Zeppelin's Stairway To Heaven did recently but I can't see any of them making the top 10..
March 8, 200817 yr To be honest I can't see them top 5, let alone top 10, this will also kill the physical market off, artists won't bother releasing new tracks if The Beatles catalogue ended up in the top 40 chart, to be honest I wouldn't like it, maybe an odd track now and than having a huge amount of Beatles tracks is going make the chart more boring.
March 8, 200817 yr I would stop listening to the chart show, that would be certain. I cant stand the Beatles
March 8, 200817 yr The huge windfall comes at a good time for Macca, 65, - who is expected to have to give estranged wife Heather Mills between £20 and £30million when their divorce hearing takes place at London's High Court in nine days. This bit is hilarious. The guy is a mega-millionaire he doesn't need to do this to fund Heather's settlement. He gave a superb performance at the Brits but it doesn't change my opinion of him - he is a stingy, tight-fisted old git! The stuff he's done in recent years has been (imo) before anyone has a go at me - cr*p! I can imagine during their brief marriage him saying to her 'Heather - listen to my new tune' and her having to sit there and suffer it. In that case ... the lass deserves every penny for having to endure torture of the ears. Norma
March 8, 200817 yr 'Cos, of course, it's much simpler to download the albums and put them on their iPod rather than rip them from their albums. :rolleyes: And - as Justin said - surely the Beatles fans would already have their albums (I've got their 12 main albums - i.e. from Please Please Me to Let It Be - plus 1) on CD and/or vinyl.
March 8, 200817 yr I would stop listening to the chart show, that would be certain. I cant stand the Beatles Neither can i! I like about 2 songs overall! and ABSOLOUTELY HATE 'Hey Jude!' I like I am the walrus :lol:, & 'Yesterday' but other than them i dont really care! lol and i dont actually care that much for them songs! :wacko:
March 8, 200817 yr I really hope they don't impact the charts much. I'm all for 100% accuracy and old songs returning to reach a new audience (like Phil Collins for example), but I really draw the line at songs being number one, especially as The Beatles have so many classics. Maybe if a few infilitrated the Top 20 I wouldn't mind, but less would be more.
March 8, 200817 yr This bit is hilarious. The guy is a mega-millionaire he doesn't need to do this to fund Heather's settlement. He gave a superb performance at the Brits but it doesn't change my opinion of him - he is a stingy, tight-fisted old git! The stuff he's done in recent years has been (imo) before anyone has a go at me - cr*p! I can imagine during their brief marriage him saying to her 'Heather - listen to my new tune' and her having to sit there and suffer it. In that case ... the lass deserves every penny for having to endure torture of the ears. Norma :rolleyes: Oh look at you bunch of muppets for believing this NON story. #1 it is in the Daily Mirror so it must be true. Today in reply to this "story": Jeff Jones, Apple Corps chief executive: "There's no date set," "The story isn't correct. I can't tell you if it's this year or next year or when." #2 The guy is a mega-millionaire he doesn't need to do this to fund Heather's settlement. MPL spokesman today: "Paul's future earnings will have no impact on Paul's divorce settlement" #3 he is a stingy, tight-fisted old git! That is why during the 1990s he invested £20,000,000 of his own money to get the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts set up in 1996 in a derelict area of Liverpool whose alummi has been Liam Lynch (top US video director, famous for his one-off hit "United States of Whatever" and directing multiple videos including award winning videos by the Foo Fighters & Tenacious D. He also directs the Sarah Silverman show in America; indie trio The Wombats: The Zutons; Sandi Thom; Cherry Ghost; Candie Payne; etc and an endless supply Hollyoaks actors. He also gives away 5% of his earnings to charity per year to causes that he actively supports like animal rights; Third World aid & Cancer charities. Still maybe if he wasted all his money on drugs & an excessive lifestyle like numerous popstars who are worshipped on BuzzJack then I guess he would be more popular. #4 The stuff he's done in recent years has been (imo) before anyone has a go at me - cr*p! That is why his last two albums 2005's Chaos and Creation in the Backyard & 2007 Memory Almost Full were near unanimously hailed by music critics as a significant return to form (example All Music Guide gave these albums 4 stars & 4.5 Stars respectively), with both albums earning Grammy nominations for Album of The Year. Especially coming off the back of one of his career lowpoints 2001 Driving Rain (nicknamed Drivel Rain by some critics. Deservedly in my view). Whilst Memory Almost Full was Paul's first studio album to sell over 1,000,000 copies in the USA alone in 24 years. It debuted at US#3 selling 161,000 copies in it's first week setting the record for the highest one week sales for a 50+ year old artist in America. Whilst Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Ozzy Osbourne & Ricky Wilson (Kaiser Chiefs) cited MAF as their favourite album of 2007. Still Take That's American sounding last album Beautiful World despite being produced by Grammy winning producer John Shanks failed to reach the US Billboard Top200 charts. #5 The Beatles will dominate the charts on end No chance, most real Beatles fans already have their back catalogue. Besides Jeff Jones has already heavily implied their back catalogue will be released digitally bit by bit (like the 1987-88 CD Issues of their seminal albums were) in tandem with Digitally Remastered CD's. Although I would not mind the Beatles doing an Elvis or Michael Jackson with CD singles to try and reclaim the most UK#1s of all-time or more importantly stop Westlife passing their 17 #1s that they achieved within just 79 months between 1963 & 1969. As for the charts being boring. Well if the thought of the greatest, most successful and most influential musical act of all time having a negative impact on the quality of the Top40 and charts, then I pity your music tastes.
March 8, 200817 yr This bit is hilarious. The guy is a mega-millionaire he doesn't need to do this to fund Heather's settlement. He gave a superb performance at the Brits but it doesn't change my opinion of him - he is a stingy, tight-fisted old git! The stuff he's done in recent years has been (imo) before anyone has a go at me - cr*p! I can imagine during their brief marriage him saying to her 'Heather - listen to my new tune' and her having to sit there and suffer it. In that case ... the lass deserves every penny for having to endure torture of the ears. Norma Oh rubbish - she was just a blatant gold-digger, nothing more! As for the notion she wants some of the money generated by downloads of the Beatles back-catalogue, that's just f***ing absurd. She wasn't even *born* when most of those songs were recorded!
March 8, 200817 yr I think The Beatles at #4, 5 7 10 11 13 16 17 23 25 32 35 40 would be hilarious but awful at the same time...
March 8, 200817 yr :rolleyes: Oh look at you bunch of muppets for believing this NON story. #1 it is in the Daily Mirror so it must be true. Today in reply to this "story": Jeff Jones, Apple Corps chief executive: "There's no date set," "The story isn't correct. I can't tell you if it's this year or next year or when." #2 The guy is a mega-millionaire he doesn't need to do this to fund Heather's settlement. MPL spokesman today: "Paul's future earnings will have no impact on Paul's divorce settlement" #3 he is a stingy, tight-fisted old git! That is why during the 1990s he invested £20,000,000 of his own money to get the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts set up in 1996 in a derelict area of Liverpool whose alummi has been Liam Lynch (top US video director, famous for his one-off hit "United States of Whatever" and directing multiple videos including award winning videos by the Foo Fighters & Tenacious D. He also directs the Sarah Silverman show in America; indie trio The Wombats: The Zutons; Sandi Thom; Cherry Ghost; Candie Payne; etc and an endless supply Hollyoaks actors. He also gives away 5% of his earnings to charity per year to causes that he actively supports like animal rights; Third World aid & Cancer charities. Still maybe if he wasted all his money on drugs & an excessive lifestyle like numerous popstars who are worshipped on BuzzJack then I guess he would be more popular. #4 The stuff he's done in recent years has been (imo) before anyone has a go at me - cr*p! That is why his last two albums 2005's Chaos and Creation in the Backyard & 2007 Memory Almost Full were near unanimously hailed by music critics as a significant return to form (example All Music Guide gave these albums 4 stars & 4.5 Stars respectively), with both albums earning Grammy nominations for Album of The Year. Especially coming off the back of one of his career lowpoints 2001 Driving Rain (nicknamed Drivel Rain by some critics. Deservedly in my view). Whilst Memory Almost Full was Paul's first studio album to sell over 1,000,000 copies in the USA alone in 24 years. It debuted at US#3 selling 161,000 copies in it's first week setting the record for the highest one week sales for a 50+ year old artist in America. Whilst Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Ozzy Osbourne & Ricky Wilson (Kaiser Chiefs) cited MAF as their favourite album of 2007. Still Take That's American sounding last album Beautiful World despite being produced by Grammy winning producer John Shanks failed to reach the US Billboard Top200 charts. #5 The Beatles will dominate the charts on end No chance, most real Beatles fans already have their back catalogue. Besides Jeff Jones has already heavily implied their back catalogue will be released digitally bit by bit (like the 1987-88 CD Issues of their seminal albums were) in tandem with Digitally Remastered CD's. Although I would not mind the Beatles doing an Elvis or Michael Jackson with CD singles to try and reclaim the most UK#1s of all-time or more importantly stop Westlife passing their 17 #1s that they achieved within just 79 months between 1963 & 1969. As for the charts being boring. Well if the thought of the greatest, most successful and most influential musical act of all time having a negative impact on the quality of the Top40 and charts, then I pity your music tastes. TIP - stop being so po-faced. For a light-hearted site such as Buzzjack - you really do take yourself way too seriously! :lol: :lol: Lighten up a bit. Mind you - I still think McCartney is a stingy git! Norma
March 8, 200817 yr Comments about them dominating the charts are ridiculous. Say they release everything tomorrow, how many CLASSICS do they have? If loads of people download their favourites it'll still have little impact because everyones favourites are different. Also, everyone has them! I only have 1. That's enough for me. If they released their back catalogue I might download 'Strawberry Fields' and 'Sgt. Peppers...'. Two songs, that's it. I think they will only get NEAR to the top 20 if they release it at about an album per fortnight!
March 8, 200817 yr It would be nice to see some Beatles songs hit the top 40. I guess if they're doing this, it really depends on if they release everything at once or staggered. I can't see any reaching top 10, but you never know!
March 8, 200817 yr I wouldn't mind a few songs re-entering the charts and maybe even making #1, but not too many that it clogs up the chart.
March 8, 200817 yr the press really don't understand the charts :lol: the whole top 10 all Beatles songs :rofl: don't make me rofl
March 13, 200817 yr I want John Lennon's Imagine to rechart. It did - it spent a week at No75 last year. (And that's because of it appearing on iTunes.)
March 13, 200817 yr the press really don't understand the charts :lol: the whole top 10 all Beatles songs :rofl: don't make me rofl Looks like you just did :P
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