{"id":98945,"date":"2025-01-10T16:46:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T16:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?post_type=companies&#038;p=98945"},"modified":"2025-01-10T16:46:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T16:46:42","slug":"xl-recordings","status":"publish","type":"companies","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/companies\/beggars-group\/xl-recordings\/","title":{"rendered":"XL Recordings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>XL Recordings is a UK-based record label that has released music by artists including Adele, The Prodigy, and Radiohead.<\/p>\n<p>It is part of the Beggars Group family of labels. XL is 50% owned by its founder, Richard Russell, and 50% by Beggars.<\/p>\n<p>XL also has investments\/subsdiairies of its own, according to UK company filings.<\/p>\n<p>Besides its 50% stake in\u00a0<strong>Young Recordings<\/strong>\u00a0(formerly\u00a0<a class=\"link-relationship\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; color: unset !important; text-decoration: none; outline: none !important; border-bottom: 1px dashed #ff7d00;\" title=\"Companies &gt; Young Turks [30 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/companies\/beggars-group\/young-turks\/\">Young Turks<\/a>), XL also owns\u00a0<strong>50%<\/strong>\u00a0of recording company\u00a0<strong>Mowax Labels<\/strong>, and indirectly owns\u00a0<strong>37%<\/strong>\u00a0of music retailer\u00a0<strong>Rough Trade<\/strong>\u00a0in the UK, and\u00a0<strong>24%<\/strong>\u00a0of Rough Trade in the US.<\/p>\n<p>It also has its hands in music publishing, controlling\u00a0<strong>90%<\/strong>\u00a0of\u00a0<strong>Beggars Music<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Beggars Catalogues<\/strong>, as well as\u00a0<strong>68%<\/strong>\u00a0of\u00a0<strong>4AD Songs Limited<\/strong>, and, indirectly,\u00a0<strong>93%<\/strong>\u00a0of\u00a0<strong>Young Music Publishing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>XL Recordings is a UK-based record label that has released music by artists including Adele, The Prodigy, and Radiohead. It is part of the Beggars Group family of labels. XL is 50% owned by its founder, Richard Russell, and 50% by Beggars. XL also has investments\/subsdiairies of its own, according to UK company filings. Besides &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/companies\/beggars-group\/xl-recordings\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34521,"parent":98251,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-98945","companies","type-companies","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies\/98945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/companies"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies\/98945\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies\/98251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}