Paul McCartney’s new album, “Memory Almost Full,” will be his first solo release available for download and streaming on PCs and mobile phones.
McCartney also has told Billboard that a deal to finally make the Beatles catalog available for sale online is “virtually settled.”
McCartney added, “I don’t want to pre-empt anything, but we’re well on the way to something happening there, which is very exciting.”
“Memory Almost Full” is due June 5 via Starbucks’ new Hear Music label. As part of its digital marketing strategy, Starbucks plans to give the set prime positioning in its Hear Music area in the Apple iTunes Store. The digital distribution deal for McCartney is believed to pertain solely to the new album and not back catalog.
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It would be some kind of a milestone for the Beatles catalog to be officially released and they will want to generate excitement for the downloads at iTunes but what’s missing is that Beatles albums have been available for free on the net for years. That their fans have released the Beatles catalog already is a big part of this story and they failed to mention it.
The only important advantage I can see from an official release is better sound quality by digital re-mastering. I’ve heard the sound on the Yellow Submarine DVD and the Love album of Beatles remixes and they really have opened up the tracks and made them boom.
Oh and Sir Paul making a new album that’s great!