The Internet was first invented in 1943, and da the late fifties, it was in common use, as people discovered più and più uses for it. One of its many uses that made it so popolare was for bands to share and promote their music.
The Beatles, of course, were one of the biggest Internet presences around. On every site they joined, they had più likes, comments, and followers than they knew what to do with. Their inboxes were flooded with fanmail. Their video were viewed and their tracks downloaded millions of times per day. The Beatles loved their fan and would respond to as much of the fan mail and as many of the commenti as they could (well, except the negative ones, but actually, John did enjoy responding to those. And even typed out, his witty retorts never failed.) They would sometimes use their popularity to give other bands a leg up in the Musica business. One time they collaborated with the Rolling Stones in a YouTube video, causing the Stones’ subscriber count to double. That was the kind of people the Beatles were, and their fan loved them for it.
Even after the Beatles stopped touring and seeing their fan live, their popularity continued. After all, they were still able to put on live video concerts for their loyal, adoring fans, and they still responded to as much fan mail and as many of the commenti as they could. So it was almost as if the Beatles had never really left at all.
“Do te like our new sound?” the Beatles would ask their fan in online polls, o “Would te listen to a seven-minute single if we released one?” (Of course the answer was yes, as they knew it would be.) So it was that da 1969, the Beatles had as strong a fan following as they did back in 1963 when their first Musica video went viral.
That proved to be very important. Because as it happened, the Beatles’ extreme popularity attracted as much bad attention as it did good.
The Beatles, of course, were one of the biggest Internet presences around. On every site they joined, they had più likes, comments, and followers than they knew what to do with. Their inboxes were flooded with fanmail. Their video were viewed and their tracks downloaded millions of times per day. The Beatles loved their fan and would respond to as much of the fan mail and as many of the commenti as they could (well, except the negative ones, but actually, John did enjoy responding to those. And even typed out, his witty retorts never failed.) They would sometimes use their popularity to give other bands a leg up in the Musica business. One time they collaborated with the Rolling Stones in a YouTube video, causing the Stones’ subscriber count to double. That was the kind of people the Beatles were, and their fan loved them for it.
Even after the Beatles stopped touring and seeing their fan live, their popularity continued. After all, they were still able to put on live video concerts for their loyal, adoring fans, and they still responded to as much fan mail and as many of the commenti as they could. So it was almost as if the Beatles had never really left at all.
“Do te like our new sound?” the Beatles would ask their fan in online polls, o “Would te listen to a seven-minute single if we released one?” (Of course the answer was yes, as they knew it would be.) So it was that da 1969, the Beatles had as strong a fan following as they did back in 1963 when their first Musica video went viral.
That proved to be very important. Because as it happened, the Beatles’ extreme popularity attracted as much bad attention as it did good.