January 7th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge

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Beggars Group chairman Martin Mills has revealed that more than a fifth of the label group’s digital revenues came from streaming music in 2012, with Spotify its biggest single source of streaming...

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November 7th, 2012 by Music Ally

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The xx's new album, Coexist now has an app for iPhone, iPad and Android which offers HD videos for every song on the album, lyrics and more.

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August 2nd, 2012 by Stuart Dredge

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The latest contribution to the streaming/downloads cannibalisation debate comes from Beggars Group chairman Martin Mills. “Some of our catalogue artists earn more from streams than downloads of individual...

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March 7th, 2012 by Music Ally

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There was even some hard news, with Beggars Group's David Emery revealing that Adele's official iPhone and Android app is now past the 1.5m downloads mark.

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February 23rd, 2012 by Music Ally

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Adele's '21' has become the first album to go double-platinum on the US iTunes Store, selling 2m downloads in the year since its original release there.

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January 30th, 2012 by Stuart Dredge

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Time for some artists to have their say on digital music opportunities, in a panel session at Midem on building sustainable music careers in the modern industry. The panel, moderated by Jeremy Silver,...

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December 8th, 2011 by Darren Hemmings

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David Emery – Head of Digital Marketing for Beggars Group – is a person whose opinions I respect enormously. The irony of this is that often our opinions differ quite a bit, but any discussion...

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September 9th, 2011 by Music Ally

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While checking our Music category feed from Apple's App Store this morning, we spotted a new app called Adele. And unlike the many unofficial ones, this is the real deal: published by Beggars Group Digital....

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November 17th, 2010 by Music Ally

Earlier today, we reported on eMusic's announcement that independent labels Beggars Group, Domino and Merge were pulling their catalogues from the service. Now Beggars Group has given more information...

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