Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation’s free podcast of all of the Beatles’ music played Hello, Goodbye as it was introduced and then quickly yanked because of licensing agreements.

Do you want to know a secret? Do you promise not to tell? Beatles music is, for the first time, available for download in a podcast from Norwegian Broadcasting. [This of course begs some dumb puns about Norwegian Wood. Isn't it good? But we digress.] Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) made a 2007 documentary series on “Norgesglasset” [...]

According to reports, the Beatles will finally be coming to iTunes. Paul McCartney has reached a $400 million agreement with Apple for the distribution of the Beatles’ back catalog. McCartney, Ringo Starr and the families of late Beatles stars George Harrison and John Lennon will share in the profits. Portions of the multimillion-dollar payout also [...]

The Beatles’ second feature film, “Help!,” has just been re-released on DVD. To herald the event, “Monty Python” alumnus Michael Palin narrates a podcast series about the 1965 hit movie. The podcast mixes dialogue from the movie with Palin’s narration and bits of audio from commercials, songs, interviews with individual Beatles, supporting actors, and director [...]

Apple today announced that Paul McCartney‚Äôs new album, Memory Almost Full, is now available for digital pre-order, and McCartney’s full catalog of 25 solo albums will be available for the first time digitally on iTunes later this month. iTunes customers pre-ordering the 13 track album in the US will receive the Dance Tonight music video [...]

UK’s Daily Telegraph reports that EMI and Apple agreed to settle a dispute over underpayment of record royalties on sales of Beatles records between 1994 and 1999. Executives at Apple Corps and EMI can now sit down and work out a new royalties deal to cover music downloads of their singles and albums through iTunes [...]

EMI has announced (above) a special event with Apple to be held today in London. EMI Chief Executive Eric Nicoli will be joined by Apple Chief Executive and co-founder Steve Jobs to make a joint announcement. Whlie some are speculating that they will announce that the Beatles’s music will be available for the first time [...]

After years of legal battles with Apple Records over the right to use the name Apple in connection with music, Apple Computer is reported to be close to bringing the Beatles’ catalog into the digital age. “We certainly will do everything we can to get them on iTunes,” said Apple iTunes VP Eddy Cue earlier [...]

The Beatles are moving into the digital age. Their music will be available soon as digital downloads, according to EMI. EMI hasn’t spilled the details yet, but it has dropped the first hint that the group’s catalog of songs will be made available on the internet. David Munns, head of EMI‚Äôs North American division, told [...]

Metallica, one of the most visible holdouts in the world of digital music, is now in the iTunes Music Store. Metallica famously sued Napster and asked that hundreds of Napster users that had been trading Metallica songs on the network be banned. Metallica’s Lars Ulrich also provided a statement to the US Senate on the [...]