Music from The Beatles is now available on Apple Music, but its growth has been 'underwhelming'. Photo / Getty
Beatles songs were streamed an astonishing 50 million times in the first 48 hours after they became available to listen to live on the internet for the first time.
The hits of the Fab Four, who broke up in 1970, are now being enjoyed by a new young audience, with
65 per cent of the Beatles' listeners on streaming service Spotify under the age of 34.
The arrival of their songs on such digital formats has been delayed for years by bickering over contracts.
But since being made available on Spotify, Amazon Prime, Apple Music and other sites from midnight on Christmas Eve, the band's much-loved catalogue means their music is being enjoyed by a generation who are strangers to older forms of music technology.
The most popular Beatles song so far is Come Together, which has already been streamed more than 1.8?million times.
