Beatlemania.

extreme enthusiasm for the Beatles, as manifested in the frenzied behavior of their fans in the 1960s.

Get your fashionable miniskirts and knee high boots on while screaming loudly because after a near eternal absence legandary British band The Beatles has finally come to streaming music services.

As of Christmas Eve, December 24 (in your local time zone) 13 remastered studio albums, as well as four essential collections from the band will become available on Apple Music, Google Play, Deezer, Microsoft Groove (whatever that is), Amazon Prime, Rhapsody, Spotify, Slacker, and for the 4 people who use Tidal.

An announcement post on the official Beatles website (yes, there is such a thing) wished fans a “Happy Crimble, with love from us to you,” perhaps referring to Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney, versus say the zombie corpses of John Lennon and George Harrison.

The move to offer The Beatles’ back catalog on streaming services comes after the remaining two band members famously caved in and allowed their songs to be sold on Apple’s iTunes back in 2010; yes, not only is the band old but so is their ideas on how people should access their music, at least until now.

For those of you who are unaware of the band (so basically anyone who describes themselves as a millennial) The Beatles are regarded as the greatest rock band of all time.

Formed in Liverpool in 1960, the band spent its 10 years until it disbanded in 1970 literally changing the face of music, and still today hold many records, including being the best-selling music act in the United States of all time with 178 million certified units sold, along with having more number-one albums on the British charts and selling more singles in the UK than any other act in history.

The group topped Billboard magazine’s list of the all-time most successful “Hot 100” artists in 2008 and as of 2015 they still hold the record for most number-one hits on the Hot 100 chart with twenty.

Better late than never

The best thing you can say about the release of The Beatles back catalog on streaming services is that it’s better late than never.

It’s a long overdue move, and as the mythology around the band continues to fade with time it may introduce their music to a new generation who may not be aware of who they are and what they did.

The other positive about the release of their music: they’re actually on Spotify unlike the snobbish diva Taylor Swift; if even the biggest holdouts can relent it shows up Ms. Swift for the person she really is.

To access The Beatles’ music log into your preferred music service, and we can confirm at the time of writing that not only is the music there, it sounds pretty good as well.

Image credit: screenshot/Spotify