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The Beatles are reaching a new audience through streaming (流媒体) and Come Together is Fab Four's most popular song.

The best-selling band in history ended a long time of silence and made its songs available through streaming the fast-growing part of on-demand online music on Christmas Eve.

According to the largest streaming service Spotify in the first three days fans had streamed Beatles songs 70 million times which meant that every user of the website listened to one Beatles sofig around the Christmas holiday. Come Together was well ahead as the most popular song.

The bluesy rock song from 1969 was the opener on Abbey Road The Beatles best-selling album so it may have benefited from listeners who immediately hit play on the album. Here Comes the Sun off Abbey Road was also among the most listened although it had fewer listeners than two othqr Beatles songs with themes of hope — Let It Be and Hey Jude.

Spotify said 65 percent of its Beatles listeners were under 34 — too young to have direct memories of the band that broke up in 1970. “We’ re helping to introduce a new generation of fans to the most important band in history/' Spotify founder and CEO Daniel Ek said.

Ek 32 said that The Beatles’ arrival on spotify reminded him of his childhooi. “The one thing in my youth that everyone in my family — my mom uncle aunt and grandparents 一 could all agree on musically was The Beatles ” he said.

5. According to the text streaming services helped The Beatles .

A. sell the largest number of albums

B. become a best-selling band

C. produce new online music

D. become popular again

6. Which of the .following songs has the smallest number of listeners?

A. Come Together.

B. Here Comes the Sun.

C. Hey Jude.

D. Let It Be.

7. According to Spotify more than half of its Beatles listeners .

A. were young people