Apple to Announce Agreement to Sell Beatles’ Songs on iTunes Today

Apple Inc. at long last is set to announce today that their online music store, iTunes, will include music from The Beatles, the best-selling music group of all time. Apple replaced its regular home page Monday with a note promising an “exciting” iTunes announcement at 7 a.m. PST Tuesday. The Wall Street Journal reported that talks between Apple, members of the Beatles and EMI, finally came together last week after decades of lawsuits and negotiations.EMI has acted as the distributor for the Beatles since the early 1960s, but Apple Corps has so far declined to allow the Fab Four’s music on any Internet music services, including iTunes.

For years The Beatles’ music label Apple Corps was involved in a bitter trademark dispute with Apple the computer company, which was finally settled in 2007. Details of the deal have yet to be revealed. Apple’s tenacious chief executive, Steven P. Jobs, is said to be a huge fan of the Beatles.

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