We7 signs up Beggars

12:37 | Friday January 16, 2009

The deal will allow We7 users access to around 20,000 tracks from Beggars’ catalogue.

The tracks will be available on demand, for free, ad-funded streaming and users will also be able to buy them from the We7 online store in high-quality MP3 format.

We7 has music from all four major labels as well as hundreds of independents through deals with distributors including PIAS, The Orchard, Finetunes, InGrooves, Iris and Believe, with individual labels and now Beggars Group.

"Discussions with Beggars, and Simon Wheeler in particular, on digital music in the early days of We7, were both illuminating and significant to the development of our business,” says We7 CEO Steve Purdham. “As such, it is a great honour, to be able to sign a deal with such an influential label group, and to be able to offer our users access to their incredible music catalogue.