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Creation Records... tre. They signed to major-label Fontana Records after being courted by bothand the Brian Eno-run label Opal Records. The band's debut album, 1991/92' ...
Columbia Records... outside Australia during this time, with the album being released in US on, where it charted in 1984 on the Billboard 200; in the UK it was released ...
Universal Music Group## Polygra
Putumayo World Music... include niche programming, retrospective shows and world music such as theHour. Stations may carry shows with different genres of music such as blue ...
Propeller Records... (which he A&Red) and Pagan Records. The compilation, We'll Do Our Best, onwas an early sampler of this. The most prominent act from Auckland in this ...
Gramophone Company... Master's Voice. It was acquired from the artist in 1899 by the newly-formed. According to contemporary Gramophone Company publicity material, the dog ...
Elektra Records... m in distributing the album, but they declined, as did Atlantic Records and. Eventually, the MGM Records-owned Verve Records accepted the recordings ...
ABC RecordsIn 1974 Norman signed to the mainstream label, who agreed to distribute Solid Rock's records. According to Norman, Orph ...
Warner Music Group## EM
Tooth & Nail RecordsMxPx caught the attention ofwhen they played a showcase for the label in 1993 in Herrera's parents' ba ...
Mercury Records... ct music management company, Free Lance Entertainment, a joint venture with
Atlantic Records... tempt to interest them in distributing the album, but they declined, as didand Elektra Records. Eventually, the MGM Records-owned Verve Records accep ...
Warner Music Group## EM
Bar/None Records... ycle" which was released as a single. The band also released a 7" single onwith the song "Walking Away from You" backed with a cover of Beat Happenin ...
Folkways Records... Clennan's "I'm A Guitar King" was included on the 1959 collection issued by, The Country Blues
Universal Music Group#(Polygram absorbed into UMG
Paramount Records... Putnam's Sons. In 1979, it acquired ABC Records along with its subsidiaries, Impulse Records, and Dot Records. ABC had acquired the Paramount and Dot ...
Loud Records... ompletely remixed and remastered with several bonus tracks, was released byin 2002. It featured vastly different artwork, with its cover based on the ...
Columbia Records... studio in New York City. This recording session was financed by Warhol and' sales executive Norman Dolph, who also acted as an engineer with John Li ...
DreamWorks RecordsIn 2001, Ron and Ernie released the album, Eternal on, which became one of their biggest-selling releases in years, selling ove ...
Warner Music Group## EM
A&M Records... ionally. Concurrently, Dare (later renamed Dare!) was released in the US byand "Don't You Want Me" also reached #1 there in mid-1982. A remix album o ...
AnkstIn 1995, following a couple of largely Welsh-language EPs on thelabel, they signed to Creation Records. Apparently, when offering them the ...
Victor Talking Machine CompanyFrom 1901 through 1929, Camden was headquarters of the, and thereafter to its successor RCA Victor, the world's largest manufact ...
EMI... wins the contest Cult 91 at the Skylight in Eskilstuna. Magnus Nygren fromwas taken by Jones & Giftet's demo got them a gig at Stockholm venues Dail ...
Wall of Sound... cember 2009, The Human League signed a new recording contract with UK based. They also have their own studio in Sheffield, and are managed by Sidewin ...
Polar Music... ive years at EMI Sweden, Lyngstad changed record companies and moved to thelabel. She recorded the single "Man vill ju leva lite dessemellan", which ...
Universal Music Group... . Sony announced plans to release 50 ringles in October and November, whileexpected to release somewhere between 10 and 20 titles
Virgin Records... of" compilation. Circa became a subsidiary of, and was later subsumed into,, which in turn was acquired by EMI. Blue Lines (1991), was co-produced by ...
Mushroom Records... Armstrong Studios and TCS in Melbourne became legendary. Independent labelwas founded in 1973 and although it struggled to survive for its first two ...
Hungry Audio... stablished record labels in Norwich include; All Sorted!?! Records, NR ONE,, , MQ Projects, Wilde Club Records, Mummy Where's The Milkman and zine po ...
Virgin Records... w York Sound King Studios to work on the album together. In September 2000,flew the group out to Australia, where it spent a month recording the majo ...
Parlophone... over their US record label, Capitol, was not as strong as it was over EMI'sin Britain. A single was released in the US, pairing "Yesterday" with "Act ...
Warner Music Group##Universal Music Grou
A&M RecordsMxPx received a major distribution deal with. This deal first saw a re-release of Life In General. MxPx then released ...
Tiara Records... ced the reluctant Poquellos to meet with her mother, Florence, the owner of; After several months of avoiding Greenberg and telling her that they wer ...
Priority... es as well as the obstacles of coordinating three different record labels (, No Limit and Interscope), obtaining the rights to the name N.W.A and end ...
Mercury Records... album Painted From Memory, released under his new contract in 1998, on thelabel, featuring songs that were largely inspired by the dissolution of hi ...
ECM... stra played a mix of rock and jazz infused with East Indian influences. Therecord label began in Germany in the 1970s with artists including Keith Ja ...
Silence RecordsSagan Om Ringen was released on(Sweden's first independent record label which was set up by Anders Lind) ...
Mercury RecordsJim Ameche portrayed Tracy in a two-record set recorded byin 1947. The record sleeves were illustrated with Sunday strips reprinted ...
EMI... omprising this album and No Heavy Petting was released by BGO Records. 2008's remastered edition includes 4 bonus tracks, recorded live at The Roundh ...
Capitol Records... the first half of the 1950s. The starting point were a series of singles onin 1949 and 1950 of a nonet led by trumpeter Miles Davis, collected and re ...
Universal Music Group##Sony Music Entertainmen
Modern Records... s" and "Trouble Blues", all major hits in the early 1950s on such labels asas well as Aladdin. He was unable to compete with the burgeoning rock and ...
Sony Music Entertainment##Warner Music Grou
Creation Records... g a couple of largely Welsh-language EPs on the Ankst label, they signed to. Apparently, when offering them the deal after a gig, Alan McGee, head of ...
Emerson RecordsIn December 1916, Sweatman recorded for minor label, including his own "Down Home Rag". Some historians consider these record ...
Verve Records... did Atlantic Records and Elektra Records. Eventually, the MGM Records-ownedaccepted the recordings with the help of Verve staff producer Tom Wilson, ...
Paramount RecordsInitially,had been McTell's American label but had not been supportive, and he later ...
Sugar Hill Records... uced and recorded Blue Ridge with the bluegrass band, The Seldom Scene, for. Then in 1987 he recorded a children's album, Little Hands, which was rel ...
Geffen RecordsCase struck out on his own with a self-titled album released in 1986 on. Produced by T-Bone Burnett and Mitchell Froom, the record included three ...
Epic Records... record until 1987, with Join the Army. The album attracted the attention of, who signed the band in 1988 and issued their third album, How Will I Lau ...
Stiff Records... g contract. On the basis of a demo tape, he was signed to independent label. His manager at Stiff, Jake Riviera, suggested a name change, combining E ...
Columbia Records... merican punk rock band The Offspring, released on November 14, 2000 through. Following a worldwide tour in support of its previous album, Americana ( ...
Sony BMG#(Sony and BMG joint-venture
MGM Records... they declined, as did Atlantic Records and Elektra Records. Eventually, the-owned Verve Records accepted the recordings with the help of Verve staff ...
Victor Talking Machine Company... dkette in Detroit, but the job didn't last long. Goldkette recorded for the, whose musical director, Eddie King, objected to Beiderbecke's hot-jazz s ...
Nonesuch Records... 5). Select tracks from these are featured on this album. It was released onon March 16, 2006 but was available from peer-to-peer networks from Februa ...
Universal Music Group##Sony Music Entertainmen
Apple Records... g scrapped. The planned concert was scaled back to a rooftop performance aton 30 January 1969; the footage became a feature film, Let It Be, released ...
Columbia Records... ed like a young Frank Sinatra. The movie's soundtrack album was released byin July 1989. The soundtrack consists of standards performed by Harry Conn ...
EMI... but within a month he was at the Abbey Road Studios in London recording for's Columbia label. He had left the Barber band by then, and by the spring ...
One Way Records... reet people I talked to on Hollywood Boulevard", in 1970 Norman establishedwith his own money, which was described as "an underground experimental" l ...
Sony Music Entertainment##EMI Grou
EMI... and was later subsumed into, Virgin Records, which in turn was acquired by. Blue Lines (1991), was co-produced by Jonny Dollar and Cameron McVey, wh ...
Elektra... arted to play it in the States, which forced the hand of Queen's USA label,. In an interview with Sound on Sound, Baker reflects that "it was a stran ...
Kapp Records... i Records in Hollywood, California , and in 1967, MCA bought New York-based. That same year MCA also acquired guitar maker
Polar MusicThe original 1974edition of the album opens with the Swedish version of the title track and ...
Sundazed Records... niversary Celebration in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. In October 2007,reissued the Grape's first five albums (with bonus tracks) on CD and vinyl ...
Island Records... ple, in the 1980s and 1990s, "4th & B'way" was a trademarked brand owned byLtd. in the UK and by a subordinate branch, Island Records, Inc., in the U ...
MGM Records... revised contract from Capitol Records, in 1971 Norman decided to sign with, who had decided to sign Norman on the basis of his work on Street Level ...
Columbia Records... tract. He toured with Ernest Tubb, who became his mentor. Jackson signed toand debuted in 1958 with "Don't Be Angry". The song did not score in the c ...
EMI... of ABBA sang back-up vocals on this song. The album is now included in thecompilation Frida 1967-1972
MCA RecordsIn 1967, thelabel was established outside North America to issue releases by MCA's lab ...
Decca Records... irst song, "I Met Him on a Sunday"; after local success, it was licensed tofor national broadcast and charted at #50. The song was influenced by doo- ...
Blue Note RecordsMuch "post-bop" was recorded on. Key albums include Speak No Evil by Wayne Shorter; The Real McCoy by McC ...
Alias Records... th Holder producing and Lou Giordano engineering. The album was released onin 1992. Two of the album's eleven songs ("Swing for Life" and "Five-Corne ...
Universal Music Group... ram Records, sold by its parent company the same year to become part of the. Costello released his new work on what he deemed the suitable imprimatur ...
Capitol RecordsIn June 2005,released a greatest hits album to replace the now out of print Capitol Pun ...
Motown Records... aving already replaced McGlown with Barbara Martin, the quartet signed withunder their new moniker, The Supremes, chosen by Florence Ballard, who was ...
Deutsche Grammophon... i and Remo Andreini as Mimì and Rodolfo. One of the most recent is the 2008release conducted by Bertrand de Billy with Anna Netrebko and as Mimì and ...
Bluebird RecordsHe made a series of recordings forfrom 1939 through 1942 and regularly played with his friend Robert Petway. ...
Columbia RecordsIn 1918, Sweatman landed with major label, where he would enjoy a meteroic success with a wide variety of songs und ...
No Limit... l as the obstacles of coordinating three different record labels (Priority,and Interscope), obtaining the rights to the name N.W.A and endorsing the ...
Island Records... the British folk scene during the mid-1960s. He signed to Chris Blackwell'sin 1967 and released his first album, London Conversation, the following y ...
AnkstOn signing tomusik, Ffa Coffi Pawb became one of the leading bands on the Welsh music s ...
Uni RecordsIn 1966, MCA formedin Hollywood, California , and in 1967, MCA bought New York-based Kapp Rec ...
Paramount Records... the first black woman to record a record. In 1923, Rainey was discovered byproducer J. Mayo Williams. She signed a recording contract with Paramount, ...
Buddah Records... do due to the label's policy on artists producing their own material. Afterpresident Neil Bogart agreed to distribute their T-Neck singles, the Isley ...
Warner Music Group##Universal Music Group (EMI recorded music division to be absorbed into UM ...
Papillon RecordsIn 2000 the band signed toa subsidiary of the Chrysalis Group
Play It Again... he A To Z Of British TV Themes - The Ron Grainer Years, was released by thelabel
Decca Records... he Beatles performed fifteen songs that were recorded at their audition foron 1 January 1962 (three Lennon–McCartney compositions and twelve cover ve ...
Jive Records... iving one-sixth of the profits. The group threatened to leave and sign with, which prompted Pearlman and RCA to countersue 'N Sync for $150 million U ...
Loud RecordsIn 1994, Raekwon signed a solo deal withand released his debut single "Heaven & Hell" for the soundtrack to the mo ...
RCA Records... ives from several record labels during the late 1990s. The band signed within 1998
Big Cat RecordsThe band signed a recording contract within 1997, and released Available In All Colours the following year. Buy Now ...
Specialty RecordsBono began his music career working atwhere his song "Things You Do to Me" was recorded by Sam Cooke, and went o ...
EMI... ginally known as the "EMI scan" as it was developed at a research branch of, a company best known today for its music and recording business. It was ...
Universal Music Group#(EMI recorded music division to be absorbed into UMG, pending approval by ...
Polar Music... op group ABBA. It was originally released in Sweden on 4 March 1974 through. The album's title track won ABBA the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest. Water ...
Motown RecordsThe Supremes was an American female singing group and the premier act ofduring the 1960s
Sub Pop... zed heavy metal and punk rock. Largely based around the Seattle indie label, grunge bands were noted for their thrift store fashion which favored fla ...
Columbia Records... tone. He subsequently moderated his vibrato, as the discs that he made forin 1917-1925 show, and this enabled him to pursue a significant career not ...
Island Records... of the Spontaneous Music Ensemble, recording the seminal album Karyobin forin 1968. In this year Bailey also formed the Music Improvisation Company w ...
EMI... BC broadcasts. While in Britain, Waller also recorded a number of songs foron their Compton Theatre organ located in their Abbey Road Studios in St J ...
A&M Records... ie Hall in 1972 and released as a double album, An Evening with Groucho, on. He also made an appearance in 1973 on a short-lived variety show hosted ...
Victor Talking Machine Company... Edgar, continued as chief executive of Berliner Gram-o-phone (later renamedof Canada). Ironically, Emile Berliner died in 1929, the same year RCA bou ...
Gramophone Company... rding (AIR) Studios in 1965, the Parlophone Company was absorbed into EMI'sunit (renamed EMI Records in 1973) with the Parlophone label maintaining i ...
Motown... making a record. In hopes of getting the group signed to the local upstartlabel, in 1960 Ross asked an old neighbor, Miracles lead singer Smokey Rob ...
Citinite... s associated with the machine. The party was organized by the electro label
Maranatha! Music... their third album, co-produced by Mike "Clay" Stone, when under contract to. When Maranatha! released them, as it was changing direction to children' ...
Maranatha! Music... h called The Road Home) in the early 1970s. Bill recorded several songs forand traveled extensively sharing the Gospel through his music. He was seve ...
label... Award winning hit, "It's Your Thing" and subsequent other hits on their own, the family eventually grew to include younger brothers Ernie and Marvin ...
Columbia Records... band through 1985. Believing the band to no longer be commercially viable,dropped them from its roster in 1981 and released a second "Greatest Hits" ...
Combat Records... , Megadeth was asked to be signed with the New York based independent label. Early in 1985, the band was given $8,000 by Combat Records to record and ...
Decca RecordsTiara Records, along with The Shirelles' contract, was sold toin 1959 for $4000; Greenberg stayed as the manager, securing performances ...
Aware Records... Away" and Scannell's "The Man Who Would Be Santa", were featured on the 2ndCompilation
Sub Pop Records... e 1980s. These include Washington, DC's Dischord Records in 1980, Seattle'sin 1986 and New York City's Matador Records and Durham, North Carolina's M ...
Nothing Records... ly to the big label. There are many examples of this kind of label, such as, owned by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails; and Morning Records, owned by ...
SST Records... closely associated with the punk rock band Black Flag and the record label, both founded by his older brother Greg Ginn. Beginning in the mid 1980s, ...
Fantasy Records... um by CCR entitled The Royal Albert Hall Concert was released in 1980. Whendiscovered that the show on the album actually took place at the Oakland C ...
Victor Talking Machine Company... ntor Emile Berliner, the American rights to the picture became owned by the. Victor used the image more aggressively than its UK partner, and from 19 ...
Modern Records... Her first recording, the pounding "Swingin' the Boogie," for Jules Bihari's, was a sizable regional hit in 1945, and another R&B Top Ten with "Out of ...
DreamWorks Records... cess of Either/Or and "Miss Misery", Smith signed to a bigger record label,. Around the same time, Smith fell into depression, speaking openly of con ...
Dunhill Recordsreleased an album on ABC/titled "Peaceful Children
Atlantic Records... glish language version. The American version of the album, released through, closes with a 1974 remix of "Ring Ring". In the United Kingdom/Ireland a ...
Compo CompanyEmile Berliner's son Herbert founded theand left Berliner Gram-O-Phone. Herbert's younger brother, Edgar, continue ...
Deutsche Grammophon... Records is still in operation. MCA's classical music catalog is managed by
Blue Note Records... usic Television announced that Bridges had signed a recording contract with/EMI Music Group. He worked with producer T-Bone Burnett and released his ...
Todo Mundo... ums constituted the first releases on his personal independent record label. In the same year, Byrne performed at the Austin City Limits festival
Sony BMG... rn phones, the actual single can be used as a ringtone). In September 2007,announced they would introduce a new type of CD single, called "ringles", ...
EMIIn August 2007 Jarre signed forFrance. He released an anniversary package containing a special live recor ...
SST RecordsIn 1986, Bad Brains signed withand released I Against I. which, in addition to their hardcore punk and re ...
EMI... by subsidiaries of the Gramophone Company, which ultimately became part of
Fire Records... known as the Broomdusters. In 1959 he began recording for Bobby Robinson'slabel. These include "The Sky Is Crying" (credited to Elmo James and His B ...
Scotti Bros.... Gravity, a modestly popular crossover album released on his new host label, and the 1986 top 10 hit single "Living in America" (written by Dan Hartm ...
CBS Records... ange this, Costello was arrested for busking outside a London convention ofexecutives, protesting that no US record company had yet seen fit to relea ...
Fearless Records... in 2004. It's their fourth full-length release and their debut on new label
Matador RecordsIn 1993, Yo La Tengo began their partnership with, releasing a 7" and CD5 of the song "Shaker" which the band recorded with ...
Mercury Records... ertainment, which was a joint venture with Mercury Nashville, a division of. Vowing to keep the company "a strictly family-run operation," Bass emplo ...
Island Records... a, and later his lover, was Blanche Blackwell, mother of Chris Blackwell of; Fleming used Blanche as the model for Pussy Galore, although the name "P ...
Decca... released in 1979. In a crash program started in 1978, British record labeldeveloped their own 2-track digital audio recorders. Decca released the fi ...
Combat Records... dependent label Combat Records. Early in 1985, the band was given $8,000 byto record and produce their debut album. However, after spending half of t ...
Polydor RecordsIn 1971, Brown began recording forwhich also took over distribution of Brown's King Records catalog. Many of ...
Walt Disney Records... roup once again, the Buena Vista Music Group (which includes such labels asand Hollywood Records)
label... t the attention of Tooth & Nail Records when they played a showcase for thein 1993 in Herrera's parents' back yard. Mike Herrera had practiced so muc ...
Capitol Records... Show and the The Joey Bishop Show. He would go on to release two albums on, Denny McLain at the Organ (1968) and Denny McLain in Las Vegas (1969)
Chrysalis Records... 'classic' Tull lineup with the musicians who recorded A, but was forced bywhich had decided to release his 'solo' album under the name Jethro Tull. ...
Universal Music Enterprises... tions, box sets, and reissues by labels such as Rykodisc, Demon, Rhino, and
Jive RecordsIn 1996, Aaliyah leftand signed with Atlantic Records. She worked with record producers Timbala ...
Everest Records... Canyon Suite and his piano concerto (with pianist Jesús Maria Sanromá) forin 1960; the recording was digitally remastered and issued on CD in 1997
Nuclear BlastIn May 2006, Nile signed a recording contract with. On February 26, 2007, Nile entered the studio and began recording their ...
Geffen Records... Records was bought in 1988 (and sold to PolyGram in 1993). GRP Records andwere acquired in 1990. In the same year, MCA was purchased by the Japanese ...
GRP Records... in 1985. Motown Records was bought in 1988 (and sold to PolyGram in 1993).and Geffen Records were acquired in 1990. In the same year, MCA was purcha ...
EMI Latin... Gran Combo. At that time, the band finished negotiating a record deal with. Soon after, they released Tres being their only CD with a major label. T ...
Sire RecordsIn the United States,needed a term by which it could market its newly signed bands, who had fre ...
Atlantic RecordsIn 1996, Aaliyah left Jive Records and signed with. She worked with record producers Timbaland and Missy Elliott, who contri ...
Columbia Records... May 1966 was mistakenly labelled the "Royal Albert Hall Concert". In 1998,released an official recording, , that maintains the erroneous title, but ...
Capricorn Records... for acts such as the Allman Brothers Band and B.B. King, and he signed withto record his self-titled debut album. "We took about a year recording the ...
Bell Records... The remaining three Shirelles recorded songs for several labels, including, RCA, and United Artists until 1971. Afterwards, they toured singing thei ...
Flying Dutchman... Music – the latter in collaboration with jazz musician Don Cherry – on thelabel, produced by Bob Thiele
Sony Music Entertainment... ich can trace their ancestry to Berliner Gramophone, Universal Music Group,and EMI
Atlantic Records... Sony Music contract and their signing to Virgin Records, Jagger signed with(which had signed the Stones in the 1970s) to distribute what would be his ...
Capitol RecordsOn March 21, 2006,released a two disc DVD titled Arsenal of Megadeth, which included archive ...
Word RecordsIn 1976 ABC Records bought, and they switched Norman to its Word subsidiary. infusing it with $17 mi ...
Enjoy Records... f Records (his "It Hurts Me Too" was later a hit when he re-recorded it for). His backing musicians were known as the Broomdusters. In 1959 he began ...
Okeh... ldkette, Beiderbecke and his friends recorded under their own names for thelabel. For instance, on February 4, 1927, Frank Trumbauer and His Orchestr ...
EMI... to Berliner Gramophone, Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and
Virgin Records... ing the end of the Rolling Stones' Sony Music contract and their signing to, Jagger signed with Atlantic Records (which had signed the Stones in the ...
Maverick Records... rt's A&M Records, now owned by Universal Music Group). Similarly, Madonna's(started by Madonna with her manager and another partner) was to come unde ...
Xpressway... al small independent labels have been established in New Zealand, includingand Failsafe Records. Failsafe released a series of compilations that incl ...
Toshiba EMI... n spinning off subsidiaries in the 1970s and beyond. Groups created include(1960), Toshiba International Corporation (1970's) Toshiba Electrical Equi ...
HMV... inogue among others. It is also EMI's oldest active label: its contemporary, was always more of a classical music label and ceased issuing popular mu ...
Roadrunner RecordsBenton reportedly stormed into' A&R man Monte Connors' office and presented him with the demo, saying, " ...
PolyGram... mnants of Sugarhill in 1985. Motown Records was bought in 1988 (and sold toin 1993). GRP Records and Geffen Records were acquired in 1990. In the sam ...
Okeh Records... 14, 1923, Fiddlin' John Carson recorded "Little Log Cabin in the Lane" for. Vernon Dalhart was the first country singer to have a nationwide hit in ...
Frontline Records... What's Funk?. Farner went solo again with 1988's Just Another Injustice on. His third Frontline release was 1991's Some Kind of Wonderful, which fea ...
Invictus Records... an Terrell left the group and was replaced by Scherrie Payne, the sister ofrecording artist Freda Payne
Roadrunner Records... nd I envision next year we’ll be recording a new record." Later that month,submitted several Megadeth songs for Grammy nominations. They submitted "S ...
Transatlantic RecordsDuring 1967, McTell landed a deal withand by the end of the year was recording his first album. Arranged by Tony ...
Island Records... a live album in 1993, the Isleys left Warner Bros. in 1996 and signed withwhere they recorded their first million-selling album in thirteen years wi ...
Interscope Records... June 2006, AFI's seventh studio album, Decemberunderground, was released on. The album's first single "Miss Murder" reached #1 on the Billboard Moder ...
Warner Music Japan... he song was used in Japan as part of an advertising campaign for Panasonic.stated that Enya's next album was scheduled for release in Japan in mid-No ...
Warner Music... om Cornell University, and that a quirk in her recording contract obligatedto fund her college education. This was not a new claim by Shanté; she spo ...
Columbia Records... priced, out-of-the-way 914 Sound Studios to save as much as possible of theadvance and cut the record in a single week. Richard Davis, upright bass p ...
Tresor... relocate from Detroit, first to New York, then Berlin (as a resident at theclub), and then Chicago. There in 1992, with fellow Detroit native Robert ...
Cold Chillin' RecordsOne of hip hop's most important producers and innovators, Marley Marl foundand assembled various hip hop acts, including MC Shan, Big Daddy Kane, Biz ...
Blackground Records... At age 12, Aaliyah signed with Jive Records and her uncle Barry Hankerson's. Hankerson introduced her to R. Kelly, who became her mentor, as well as ...
Famous Charisma... hat he released the album as Music Inspired by Lord of the Rings on his ownlabel in September 1972. The album peaked at #34 on the UK Album Chart and ...
Universal Music Group... companies have units which can trace their ancestry to Berliner Gramophone,, Sony Music Entertainment and EMI
Columbia Records"Love and Theft" is the 31st studio album by Bob Dylan, released byon September 11, 2001. It featured backing by his touring band of the time ...
A&M Records... , which has been owned by Warner Music for some time now, and Herb Alpert's, now owned by Universal Music Group). Similarly, Madonna's Maverick Recor ...
EMI... ation, and many record companies and producers contacted Frida immediately.executives, fearing they might lose their new singer, took the precaution ...
HMV... y. Past companies include Fairey Aviation (later merged with Westland), and
EMI... it is now known as EMI Classics); English Columbia has been replaced by thepop label. Parlophone also operates the imprint Regal Recordings, a contem ...
Verve... carry advertisements for it. Its lack of success can also be attributed to, who failed to promote or distribute the album with anything but modest a ...
Failsafe Records... endent labels have been established in New Zealand, including Xpressway and. Failsafe released a series of compilations that included many artists (N ...
Jive Records... erformed in concert alongside Gladys Knight. At age 12, Aaliyah signed withand her uncle Barry Hankerson's Blackground Records. Hankerson introduced ...
CBS Records... strange transcription of his name, mostly with George Hayes Orchestra underlabel, in Europe and South Africa. Although the album did not bring the fa ...
Luaka BopByrne founded the world music record labelin 1990. It was originally created to release Latin American compilations, ...
Wild Pitch... sampling Lonnie Liston Smith. Gang Starr's debut LP, No More Mr. Nice Guy (, 1989), and their track "Jazz Thing" (CBS, 1990) for the soundtrack of Mo ...
Capitol RecordsOn June 17, 1997released Cryptic Writings. The album debuted at #10 on the Billboard Top 2 ...
Capitol Records... recordings until RCA severed its ties with EMI in 1957 which led EMI to buy
EMI... ted as a singer, he sang the role of "Un carceriere" ("a jailer") on a 1981recording of Puccini's Tosca which featured Renata Scotto, Plácido Domingo ...
Hollywood Records... na Vista Music Group (which includes such labels as Walt Disney Records and)
MCA Records... posed and conducted by James Horner. The soundtrack was released in 1995 byand has seven tracks of score, eight period songs used in the film, and se ...
Chrysalis Records... 18 at the time but was already a well-respected guitarist. On a new label,, and with a new producer, Leo Lyons (formerly of Ten Years After), UFO re ...
Island RecordsThe album was initially recorded at's newly opened Basing Street Studios, London, at the same time as Jethro ...
Blackground Records... album One in a Million, were involved in disagreements with Aaliyah's labelat the time and did not work on the project. Blackground owner Barry Hanke ...
RCA Records... ively disappointing compared to its predecessor and requested an audit from, distributor of their Grunt label. RCA subsequently put a reported $500,0 ...
Stateside Records... was moved to Columbia Graphophone and licenced American POP record deals to
Crustacean Records... lively independent rock scene, and local independent record labels include, Science of Sound, , and Art Paul Schlosser Inc which is the label for wh ...
CBS Records... the name of The Four Bucketeers, which tied in with their spin-off album on. This all was born out of one feature of the sixth series - The Bucket Of ...
Carl Lindström CompanyParlophone is a record label that was founded in Germany in 1896 by theas Parlophon. The British branch was formed in 1923 as "Parlophone" which ...
Street Level Records... Verve, and his own independent labels: One Way Records, Solid Rock Records,, and
Mercury... c director Paul Paray, winning numerous awards for its 70 recordings on thelabel. Paray was followed by noted music directors Sixten Ehrling, Aldo Ce ...
Columbia RecordsIn a marketing stunt,immediately released five singles at once, and the band was perceived as b ...
EMI... Typewriter Ltd for a few years, and much later (in 1931), becoming part of
ABC Records... business with the acquisition of G. P. Putnam's Sons. In 1979, it acquiredalong with its subsidiaries Paramount Records, Impulse Records, and Dot Re ...
Dischord... any other influential underground bands all over the country. Ian MacKaye'sis often cited as a model of success in the DIY community, having survived ...
Polydor Records... concert booker Mario M. Mendryzcki and Rainer Moslener, an A&R director of
Federal Records... ". The group eventually signed a deal with the Cincinnati, Ohio-based label, a sister label of King Records. Brown's early recordings were fairly str ...
EMI LatinIn November, 2001, they parted ways with. A month later, they released their second live album titled El Concierto ...
Deutsche Grammophon... rted a German branch of the Gramophone Company to produce his disc records:
Priority Records... director of the FBI, sent a letter to Ruthless and its distributing company, advising the rappers that "advocating violence and assault is wrong and ...
Sun Records... ths later, he had taken over the role of producer, using what he learned at(although Sholes was still credited) and decided not to use echo
Chief Records... ds and Modern Records labels, as well as for Chess Records and Mel London's(his "It Hurts Me Too" was later a hit when he re-recorded it for Enjoy Re ...
Warner Bros. Records... os Angeles to sing backup on her Elite Hotel album. That led to a deal withand two albums produced by Harris' husband/producer Brian Ahern; Rockin' C ...
Folkways RecordsIn the summer of 1984 Appleton helped Moses Asch, founder of, release its first recordings of electro-acoustic music. According to Asc ...
Virgin Records... kinheads Bowling", remains a college rock radio staple. The group signed toin 1987, released two lauded albums and enjoyed chart success with their 1 ...
Teldec... iola da gamba at this time, as well as the cello. For the Telefunken (later) label, Harnoncourt recorded a wide variety of the Baroque repertoire, be ...
EMI... "A Day Off"). The first prize in this contest was a recording contract withSweden. Unbeknownst to Lyngstad, the winner of the contest was also expect ...
Specialty RecordsThe Soul Stirrers signed with, where they recorded a number of tracks, including "By and By" and "In th ...
CBS Records... bers commenced an action against Matthew Katz, Sony Music Entertainment and(Sony being the successor corporation to Columbia Records), seeking to hav ...
ParlophonePlease Please Me was released as an LP album onin the UK on 22 March 1963, and has remained on UK catalogue continuously ...
Squint Entertainment... n the years following those releases, Taylor focused his efforts on runningand producing projects for other artists, including Sixpence None the Rich ...
EMI Classics... ised market for CDs pushed EMI into abandoning the HMV label in favour of "", a name they could use worldwide; however, it was revived in 1988 for Mo ...
Sun Records... ket blues" came out of the jug band scene, and was cited by Sam Phillips ofas the type of music he was seeking when he first recorded Elvis Presley
Sun Records... ng in the press for several weeks that Presley, who had begun his career at, was ready to move to RCA Victor to help launch him nationally. Axton pla ...
Geffen Records... ecords, along with many of its artists including Furtado, was absorbed into. "Powerless (Say What You Want)" was later remixed, featuring Colombian r ...
DreamWorks RecordsIn 2002, AFI left Nitro Records. A&R Luke Wood signed them tofollowing intense record label interest. Their first album for the label, ...
WEA Records... g in nightclubs while she was still a teenager and came to the attention of. Her debut album, Ancient Heart, produced by Rod Argent and Peter Van Hoo ...
Kill Rock Stars... er in 1994 with releases on the independent record labels Cavity Search and. In 1997 he signed a contract with DreamWorks Records, for which he recor ...
EMI... scanner was invented by Sir Godfrey Hounsfield in Hayes, United Kingdom, atCentral Research Laboratories using X-rays. Hounsfield conceived his idea ...
Columbia Graphophone Company... tation in the 1920s as a leading jazz label. It was acquired in 1927 by thewhich later became EMI. George Martin joined in 1950 as assistant label ma ...
Benson Records... ajor US CCM label, was a double album that was promoted by its distributor,, as Norman's "comeback album", announcing "Larry Norman's Back". Rather, ...
Reprise... e independent label Cold Chillin' Records, which was in turn distributed by/Warner Bros. Records from 1987 to 1992. Academic records indicate that sh ...
Kill Rock Stars... based around the core duo of Johnson and Tobi Vail, later of Bikini Kill &. They toured the West Coast as a two piece, adding Billy Karren for two U ...
Stax RecordsPure soul was popularized by Otis Redding and the other artists ofin Memphis, Tennessee. By the late 1960s, Atlantic recording artist Aretha ...
SST Records... the most notable and influential labels of the Do-It-Yourself attitude was, created by the band Black Flag. No labels wanted to release their materi ...
Gramophone Company... Berliner opened up his United Kingdom branch in London. This was called The, then from 1900 The Gramophone & Typewriter Ltd for a few years, and much ...
DreamWorks Records... labels Cavity Search and Kill Rock Stars. In 1997 he signed a contract with, for which he recorded two albums. Smith rose to mainstream prominence wh ...
Scepter Records... gave up on them, considering them a one-hit act; On Greenberg's new label,, they re-released "Dedicated to the One I Love" as a single, which peaked ...
Motown Record's... music, the orchestra provided the recorded string accompaniments on many ofclassic hits of the 1960s, usually under the direction of the orchestra's ...
Kitchenware RecordsNewcastle is the home of(c. 1982), previously home to acclaimed bands such as Prefab Sprout, Marti ...
Trademark of Quality... abels for Beatles material in the 1970s were Kornyfone (TAKRL), ContraBand,, and Wizardo
MGM... albums have been released through such commercial record labels as Capitol,, Verve, and his own independent labels: One Way Records, Solid Rock Recor ...
Johnny & Associates... e models for Japanese dance music, leading the popularity of Avex Group and
One Way Records... rcial record labels as Capitol, MGM, Verve, and his own independent labels:, Solid Rock Records, Street Level Records, and
Capitol RecordsAfter working together for 14 years, Megadeth andparted ways in October 2000. The label returned the band's newest recordin ...
Swing Time Records... rts 1 and 2, an instrumental, originally recorded for the Los Angeles-basedlabel in 1949
Resistance Records... y his publishing firm National Vanguard Books, Inc. and his record company,. He stated that although he himself preferred classical music, he realize ...
Atlantic Records... arriage with R. Kelly, Aaliyah ended her contract with Jive and signed with
Elektra RecordsIn 1966issued the first recording of European free improvisation by the UK group ...
Chess RecordsThecatalog was acquired from the remnants of Sugarhill in 1985. Motown Record ...
Avatar Records... t Coast, West Coast and Southern hip hop was released on January 9, 2001 by. It peaked at #42 on the Billboard 200 and #8 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albu ...
EMI... was acquired in 1927 by the Columbia Graphophone Company which later became. George Martin joined in 1950 as assistant label manager, taking over as ...
Roadrunner Records... s, was near completion. Although it was originally scheduled for release byin October 2006, that August, Mustaine announced that the band was "puttin ...
Plus 8With Canadian DJ John Acquaviva he formed the labelin 1990 to release his own tracks under the name F.U.S.E. He spent part of ...
Avex TraxIn 1990,began to release the Super Eurobeat series in Japan. Eurobeat in Japan led ...
Telstar RecordsBruce May negotiated a deal with, a company that pushed its products heavily with major advertising and hy ...
Verve... s have been released through such commercial record labels as Capitol, MGM,, and his own independent labels: One Way Records, Solid Rock Records, Str ...
Rocketown RecordsIn 1996, Smith opened his own record label,, named for a song on The Big Picture. He does not personally record on it ...
Stiff... London punk bands to release a single: "New Rose", on the independent label. It was described by critic Ned Raggett as a "deathless anthem of nuclear ...
Sony Music Entertainment... ience. In 1994, the group members commenced an action against Matthew Katz,and CBS Records (Sony being the successor corporation to Columbia Records) ...
Decca... rding for Vocalion prolifically through February, 1935. He then signed within early 1936 and one session each for Decca in 1936, 1937 and 1940. He di ...
Epitaph Records... n production, was released on October 19, 2004, by ANTI- Records (a part of). With Smith's family in control of his estate, they chose to bring in Ro ...
EMI... hile in England, now Major Miller recorded a series of records at HMV- (now-) owned Abbey Road Studios. HMV at this time was the British and sometime ...
Benson Records... focused on his family and his sense of home, which was distributed through. Recorded in 1986, Home At Last featured Norman singing "Letters to the C ...
Relativity Records... merican heavy metal band Megadeth, released in June 1985 through Combat and. During the beginning of 1985, the band was given $8,000 by Combat Record ...
Mystic Records... orded a demo in 1982 and were featured on the Slamulation compilation LP on. The song featured was "I Saw Your Mommy", which was later featured on th ...
Atlantic Records... labels. However, "Move Over" and "Wild as a Tiger" did get the attention of, who signed the act briefly in 1965, by which Hendrix had already left to ...
Victor Talking Machine Company... divisions, lawsuits, and injunctions, this company was to give rise to thein the United States in late 1900. In 1929, Victor was purchased by RCA
Epic Records... ed up by Anthrax producer Mark Dodson and signed to the Columbia subsidiary. The stylistic changes and signing to a major label outraged a few long-t ...
Norton Records... am Linna (later of Nervus Rex, The Zantees, and The A-Bones and co-owner of) replaced Pam Ballam, and Nick Knox (formerly with the Electric Eels) rep ...
Solid Rock Records... ls as Capitol, MGM, Verve, and his own independent labels: One Way Records,, Street Level Records, and
EMI... wedish national talent competition, "New Faces", arranged by record companyand held at Skansen, Stockholm. The song she chose to sing was "En Ledig D ...
Atlantic Records... country inspiration for his second album, Honky-Tonk Stardust Cowboy on thelabel. This was an album of mostly self-penned acoustic, country-flavored ...
Dot Records... Records along with its subsidiaries Paramount Records, Impulse Records, and. ABC had acquired the Paramount and Dot labels when they purchased Gulf+W ...
Motown... p he had discovered called Love Unlimited. Formed in imitative style of thegirl group The Supremes, the group members had gradually honed their talen ...
Righteous Babe RecordsThere are many independent labels; folk singer Ani DiFranco'sis often cited as an ideal example. The singer turned down lucrative contr ...
Sony Music... nsed over the following two decades to multiple record labels, most notably, which packaged the songs in CD form in 1991 (although the product was wi ...
ScepterThe brothers left RCA in 1962 and signed with thesubsidiary Wand. In hopes to branch out and sing ballads, the group had de ...
Mercury Records... the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, conducting them in numerous recordings for' "Living Presence" series
Chandos Opera in English... nd Fritz Wunderlich as Mimì and Rodolfo (1956); and the 1998 release on thelabel with David Parry conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra and Cynthia H ...
Global UndergroundThe 1990s boom in progressive house music saw the city'srecord label publish mix CDs by the likes of Sasha, Paul Oakenfold, James ...
Universal Music Group... omotion from her label DreamWorks Records. DreamWorks had just been sold to. In 2005, DreamWorks Records, along with many of its artists including Fu ...
Gennett RecordsOn February 18, 1924, the Wolverines first recorded atin Richmond, Indiana. Their two sides that day included "Fidgety Feet," wr ...
independent labels... d through such commercial record labels as Capitol, MGM, Verve, and his own: One Way Records, Solid Rock Records, Street Level Records, and
Virgin Records... me song from TV's The Munsters. Pictures on a String, their first album for, followed in 1983 yielding the dance club hit "Get Off My Case". In 1984 ...
Nitro RecordsIn 2002, AFI left. A&R Luke Wood signed them to DreamWorks Records following intense record ...
Bad Boy... ject. Blackground owner Barry Hankerson envisioned another label similar toon the West Coast, and consulted lesser known writers and producers signed ...
Polydor Records... -out "Really Free" body sticker. The song earned him a five album deal with, who viewed him as a punk rather than merely an eccentric. His first albu ...
Fantasy Records... including Saul Zaentz (who agreed to distribute the soundtrack album on hislabel), the budget was tight enough to exclude pencil tests, so Bakshi had ...
Scotti Brothers Records... n of "Runaround Sue" reached the highest at #13. In mid-1978 he signed withand recorded his second album, Feel the Need. Its first single, "I Was Mad ...
Aftermath Entertainment... el to his debut, entitled Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II in 2007 through. The album was informally executively produced by Busta Rhymes, whom Raek ...
Slash Records... by Violent Femmes. Mostly recorded in July 1982, the album was released byon vinyl and on cassette in April 1983, and on in 1987 with two extra trac ...
Capitol Records... l independent label's financial limitations, Megadeth signed to major label, who also bought the rights to the new album. Capitol Records hired produ ...
Polydor Records... raviotto on drums, recorded an LP that was released in 1976 as Fine Wine onin Germany. Thereafter, Mosley and Craviotto joined with Neil Young to for ...
Trumpet Records... p and an unusual placement of two D'Armond pickups. He began recording within nearby Jackson in January 1951, first as sideman to the second Sonny Bo ...
SST Records... radio business, located a pressing plant in the phone book, and co-foundedwith Black Flag bassist Chuck Dukowski, borrowing the label's name from hi ...
Columbia Records... dio album (tenth overall), Raised on Radio, was released in May 1986 on thelabel
Atlantic RecordsA look at an actual 360 deal offered byto an artist shows a variation of the structure. Atlantic’s document offer ...
Bomp! Records... nterparts. Representative singles from the period include releases from thelabel by 20/20 ("Giving It All"), Shoes ("Tomorrow Night") and The Romanti ...
Reprise Records... e original five members re-united in 1971 and released 20 Granite Creek for. Prior to Spence again departing and the group again breaking up, the gro ...
Blue Note Records... jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and manyartists; and Paul Chambers (1935–1969), a member of the Miles Davis Quinte ...
Universal Records... ence of RZA and Ghostface Killah. The Lex Diamond Story followed in 2003 on, to mixed reviews as well (generally lukewarm critical reviews and wildly ...
Polar Music... eased the box set Frida, consisting of all the solo albums she recorded for, all digitally remastered and including a set of bonus tracks. Also inclu ...
Relapse Records... Nephren-Ka, if they had not gone out of business later that year. However,was open to releasing it in early 1998, giving Nile a wider distribution a ...
Dischord Records... die record labels SST Records, Twin/Tone Records, Touch and Go Records, andpresided over the shift from the hardcore punk that then dominated the Ame ...
Virgin Records... t. Eventually in May, 1979, the band accepted an offer by Richard Branson's. Because of his label's early support, the band offered Bob Last the posi ...
Decca Records... olman also made a three-record, 78 RPM album based on the film for American. The score for the album was by Victor Young
Stiff Records... ally and commercially and the band broke up, ending their relationship with
Suicide Squeeze Records... ncluding Big Star's "Thirteen", and Cat Stevens' "Trouble". In August 2003,put out a limited-edition vinyl single for "Pretty (Ugly Before)", a song ...
EMI... due to outstanding contractual obligations with the band's European label,, he was forced to release it as a Megadeth album instead. Subsequently, M ...
Death Row Records... bum. After Dr. Dre, The D.O.C. and Michel'le departed from Ruthless to joinand allegations over Eazy-E being coerced into signing away their contract ...
Epic Records... Colour and Fishbone) enjoyed commercial success, Dr. Know was approached byin 1992, offering the band a major-label record deal. The former Cro-Mags ...
Cavity Search Records... songs that [he’d] recorded on borrowed four-tracks and borrowed guitar" to. Owner Christopher Cooper immediately requested to release the entire alb ...
Aladdin RecordsBrown signed withand his 1945 recording on that record label of the bestseller, "Driftin' B ...
Bluebird Records... September 1938, the Miller band began making recordings for the RCA Victor,subsidiary. Cy Shribman, a prominent East Coast businessman, began financi ...
Combat Records... th little promotion. Nevertheless, the album still went on to become one of' highest selling releases. Later that year, Capitol Records signed Megade ...
Dischord... tes in the first place". Labels such as Matador Records, Merge Records, and, and indie rockers like Pavement, Superchunk, Fugazi, and Sleater-Kinney ...
Virgin Records... studio album, Aaliyah, was released on July 17, 2001, under Blackground and. Preparation for the album started in 1998 but, with the filming of marti ...
La-La Land Records... on February 11, 1991. The DVD was released in June 2000. In February 2011,released John Morris' score for the film as a limited-edition soundtrack C ...
Lucky Four Records... Eddie Blazonczyk recorded under the name Eddy Bell for Mercury Records and, both labels also based in Chicago. The records he made for these labels ...
Victory Records... studio recordings which were then released as the EP The Omega Sessions by. In 1998-1999, the original lineup toured under the name Soul Brains. A l ...
Shout! Factory... Peace Live on CD, DVD, and Blu-ray, recorded at the Hollywood Palladium via
Universal RecordsOn 15 November 2005, to celebrate Lyngstad's 60th birthday,released the box set Frida, consisting of all the solo albums she recorded ...
Phonogram Records... d have originally been classified as punk were also termed New Wave. A 1977compilation album of the same name (New Wave) features US artists includin ...
ABC Records... founded and operated the popular label ABC-Paramount Records (which becamein 1965) and the noted jazz label Impulse Records, created in 1961. ABC-Pa ...
Uni Records... alents with White for two years previously until they signed contracts with. His best friend, music industry businessman Larry Nunes, helped to finan ...
BBC Radio Collection... Magrathea) on CD and cassette in 1988, becoming the first CD release in the. They were re-released in 1992, and at this time Adams suggested that the ...
Sun Records... that blues guitarists Willie Johnson and Pat Hare, both of whom played forin the early 1950s, were the true originators of the power chord, citing a ...
Mercury Records... ire Records in 1963, Eddie Blazonczyk recorded under the name Eddy Bell forand Lucky Four Records, both labels also based in Chicago. The records he ...
Hannibal Records... talogue numbers ORA042 and ORA054 respectively. They were first released byin 1982 (as HNBL 2301 and HNBL 1307, respectively) in the United States an ...
Kama Sutra Records... ded four tracks for Elektra Records in early 1965, but elected to sign withthat same year. The Elektra tracks were released on the 1966 various artis ...
CBS Records... y's Coogee Beach. The band's third LP Place without a Postcard, released byin November 1981, was recorded in Sussex with English producer Glyn Johns ...
Caroline Records... ing Virgin to put the album out inauspiciously through its independent arm,. A clause in Heatmiser's record contract with Virgin meant that Smith was ...
SST Records... EP by the American hardcore punk band Black Flag, released in 1978 through. It was the label's first release
Interscope Records... rock band Queens of the Stone Age. It was released on June 6, 2000 through. Rated R was a critical and commercial success and became the band's brea ...
Atlantic Records... ng the withdrawn "Peace" album in its entirety. In 2001, the band signed toand recorded a new album, Beyond Good and Evil, originally being produced ...
Twin/Tone RecordsAmerican indie record labels SST Records,, Touch and Go Records, and Dischord Records presided over the shift from ...
Deutsche GrammophonIn the 2008 film Valkyrie, arecording of Ride of the Valkyries with Nipper and "Die Stimme seines Herr ...
Capitol Records... to become one of Combat Records' highest selling releases. Later that year,signed Megadeth and they began work on their second album, released the ne ...
Columbia RecordsStreisand has recorded 35 studio albums, almost all with. Her early works in the 1960s (her debut The Barbra Streisand Album, The ...
Kornyfone (TAKRL)... ne bootleg label. The biggest labels for Beatles material in the 1970s were, ContraBand, Trademark of Quality, and Wizardo
Disques Dreyfus... ser Jean Michel Jarre. It was first released in France in December 1976, onwith license to Polydor. The album's international release was in summer 1 ...
EMI Classics... bel and ceased issuing popular music recordings in 1967 (it is now known as); English Columbia has been replaced by the EMI pop label. Parlophone als ...
Elektra RecordsThe group first recorded four tracks forin early 1965, but elected to sign with Kama Sutra Records that same year. ...
Bomp! RecordsThe recording was originally supposed to be released through, but the band felt that the label was taking too long to put the record o ...
Benson RecordsLater in 1986, Norman was signed to, and made a cameo appearance in a music video with Christian artist Geoff ...
Shout! FactoryOn March 17, 2010, it was announced thathad acquired the rights to distribute the series (under license from Unive ...
Maverick Records... nd back together for the first time in five years, Bad Brains signed to thelabel for the 1995 release God of Love
Not Lame Recordings... the underground with acts such as Sloan. Independent record labels such as, Parasol, Kool Kat Musik and Jam Recordings specialized in the genre. The ...
Sony Music... ract with Universal Music in Sweden, after sixteen years with BMG and later. The band's manager, Martin Roos, said in a press release: "After sixteen ...
Columbia Records... r most sales of an album on an independent label. The band then signed within 1996 (although Dexter claims that Brett Gurewitz, owner of Epitaph and ...
CapitolThe Beatles' influence over their US record label,, was not as strong as it was over EMI's Parlophone in Britain. A single w ...
Casablanca Records... r a hiatus in which Clinton focused on Funkadelic, Parliament was signed toand released its debut album Up for the Down Stroke in 1974. The two bands ...
Hybrid Recordings... middle of 2004, the band ended their relationship with RCA. A new deal withwas inked in early 2005, with plans to re-release Go in the summer, includ ...
Reprise Records... ve been re-absorbed into the major labels (two examples are Frank Sinatra's, which has been owned by Warner Music for some time now, and Herb Alpert' ...
Fontana Distribution... ed in Los Angeles back in 2005, was finally released on January 26, 2010 byvia the band's own imprint, Suicidal Records. On the same day, a was relea ...
Unicorn Records... rt Hall, Leicester. The producer was Robert Simpson. The LP was released byin 1973. A special edition of the television programme Aquarius called The ...
Manhattan Records... worldwide on October 2, 2006 and January 16, 2007, in North America, on the/EMI label. Since its release in 2007, EMI Inside reports that I Love You ...
EMI Inside... rth America, on the Manhattan Records/EMI label. Since its release in 2007,reports that I Love You has sold more than 622,000 copies worldwide
Shout! FactoryThis movie is a bonus feature on's "Dragnet 1968: Season Two" (Release Date: July 6, 2010)
BMG... recording contract with Universal Music in Sweden, after sixteen years withand later Sony Music. The band's manager, Martin Roos, said in a press rel ...
K RecordsCalvin Johnson is also the founder and owner of the influential indie label, and has been cited as a major player in the beginning of the modern inde ...
Sun Records... album, Songs The Lord Taught Us, at Phillips Recording, operated by formerlabel owner Sam Phillips
Invictus Records... erpoint to the more rock-oriented Funkadelic. Parliament first recorded forin 1970, and after a hiatus in which Clinton focused on Funkadelic, Parlia ...
Sparrow Records... istian Artists' 1982 Music Seminar in Denver. Billy Ray Hearn, president of, was backstage and immediately signed Taylor to a recording contract
Sony Music Entertainment... long with the RCA name, is now licensed by RCA Records and RCA Victor ownerfrom Technicolor SA, which operates RCA's consumer electronics business (s ...
Stax Records... eld, Brian Wilson, Wanda Jackson, Ron Sexsmith and Memphis, Tennessee-based. He has also interviewed one of his own influences, Joni Mitchell. He was ...
Plus 8... ent. In May 1990, Hawtin and fellow second-waver John Acquaviva founded therecord label, which they named after their turntable's pitch adjust functi ...
Hooj Choons... originally from the Dare! album) was released in the UK in January 2008, by. It peaked at #2 on the UK Dance chart
ForeFront RecordsIn August 1995released One Way: Songs of Larry Norman, a tribute album that included cov ...
RCA Records... . The dog and gramophone image, along with the RCA name, is now licensed byand RCA Victor owner Sony Music Entertainment from Technicolor SA, which o ...
RCA Victor Records... clares "War" under the title Spill the Wine the same year), War signed withand recorded Outlaw (1982) which included the single plus additional singl ...
Capitol Records... nd LPs in the early years with Alfred Wallenstein and Leopold Stokowski for, and began recording regularly in the 1960s, for London/Decca, during the ...
Epic Records... panies lined up to sign them. Virgin Records was the most likely choice butmade a last minute offer and secured the Stranglers' services. The Strangl ...
ParlophonePlease Please Me is the debut album by English rock band The Beatles.rush-released the album on 22 March 1963 in the United Kingdom to capitali ...
Uni... s recorded, Nunes took the recording to Russ Regan, who was the head of thelabel owned by MCA. The album, 1972's From A Girl's Point of View We Give ...
DreamWorks Records... he material recorded during these sessions led to her 1999 record deal with, where she was signed by A&R executive Beth Halper, partner of Garbage dr ...
Sony BMG... me day, a was released as part of the Playlist music album series issued by
Frontier Records... ain label attention, and in 1983 Suicidal signed with the independent labeland released their self-titled debut. It was described by critic Steve Hue ...
Cooking Vinyl Records... same evening. On 11 May 2011, it was announced that The Cult were signed to, who will release the new album in early 2012. Commented guitarist Billy ...
EMI... r 2, 2006 and January 16, 2007, in North America, on the Manhattan Records/label. Since its release in 2007, EMI Inside reports that I Love You has s ...
Capitol Records... studio album by the American rock band The Beach Boys, released in 1966 on. In it Brian Wilson wove together elaborate layers of vocal harmonies, co ...
Lex Records... Motor Company founder John De Lorean, and was released on 18 March 2008 via. The album includes a number of high-profile guest appearances from Fab M ...
Universal MusicOn June 22, 2011 Kent signed a recording contract within Sweden, after sixteen years with BMG and later Sony Music. The band's m ...
Maranatha! Music... or Jubal (as a shortened form of the name was briefly used) auditioned forand Calvary Chapel (without Baxter, who couldn't get off work) in hopes of ...
Warner Bros. RecordsOn October 24, 2000 Linkin Park released their debut album through. Bennington and Shinoda wrote the lyrics to Hybrid Theory based on some e ...
MCA Records... ry Country and R&B label Duke/Peacock in 1974. The entire group was sold toin 1979; as a result of subsequent takeovers, the remnants of the ABC musi ...
Virgin Records... return to commercial success, many record companies lined up to sign them.was the most likely choice but Epic Records made a last minute offer and s ...
Island RecordsBailey was hired in 1970 by' Chris Blackwell to shoot publicity photos of Cat Stevens for his upcomin ...
Beggars Banquet RecordsThe band signed to independent record label Situation Two, an offshoot of, and released a three-track, triple A-side single, Moya, during this peri ...
Bad Taste... . They soon won a record deal with the local Sugarcubes-owned record label,. In 1997, they released Von (pronounced , meaning "hope") and in 1998 a r ...
ABC Records... f US$139,804.94 in royalties and earnings. She attempted a solo career with, and was forced to formally reject a solo contract offered by Motown as p ...
Capitol Records... taine agreed to remix and remaster Megadeth's eight album back catalog with. Mustaine re-recorded some parts that were lost over time, or altered wit ...
Victor Talking Machine Company... ed version of Rhapsody in Blue with Paul Whiteman and his orchestra for thein 1924, soon after the world premiere. Gershwin and the same orchestra ma ...
Roc-A-Fella Records... ons, stating that neither was married. Aaliyah was engaged to co-founder ofDamon Dash at the time of her death and had plans to marry him after the p ...
Chiswick Records... as filled by Algy Ward, formerly of The Saints. The band signed a deal with, and went back to the studio to record another album
Reunion Records... album The Michael W. Smith Project (which he also produced) in 1983 on thelabel, a label started by Grant's brother-in-law, Dan Harrell, along with ...
Blue Thumb... e labels from the Famous Music division of Gulf+Western – Dot, Steed, Acta,, and Paramount, along with legendary Country and R&B label Duke/Peacock i ...
Fast Product... was recorded in June 1978 and released on 10 December 1978, on Edinburgh'slabel. It was produced by the Gang of Four and Bob Last and Tim Inman. It ...
Film Score Monthly... time of the film's release. The complete score was issued on cd in 2005, onrecords
Situation TwoThe band signed to independent record label, an offshoot of Beggars Banquet Records, and released a three-track, trip ...
Universal Music Group... subsequent takeovers, the remnants of the ABC music group are now owned by. After the merger with Disney, ABC became sister company to a record labe ...
Epitaph RecordsIn 1991, The Offspring signed with(home of Bad Religion, L7, NOFX, Pennywise and other similar bands). Their ...
Aquarius Records... , "Song of the East" and "The Red Sea" between 1971 and 1973 for Chin-Loy's. Chin Loy had previously used the name Augustus Pablo generically for key ...
Blackground... third and final studio album, Aaliyah, was released on July 17, 2001, underand Virgin Records. Preparation for the album started in 1998 but, with th ...
ROIR RecordsTheir self-titled debut album was released on Neil Cooper'son "cassette only" in January 1982, followed in 1983 by Rock for Light, pr ...
Knitting Factory Records... ak; this is certainly the finest album by this particular sextet". In 1999,released Knitting on the Roof, a compilation CD featuring covers of Fiddle ...
Flair Records... her hit a year later. During the 1950s he recorded for the Bihari brothers', Meteor Records and Modern Records labels, as well as for Chess Records a ...
Universal Music... a" leaked onto the internet, along with promotional materials. This has ledto take action against certain fan sites
Vanguard Records... s released on Case's own Travelin' Light label, Case signed a contract with. His first Vanguard record, Torn Again, was issued in 1995
Ruthless RecordsThe group was assembled by Compton-based Eazy-E, who co-foundedwith Jerry Heller. Initially, N.W.A consisted of Eazy-E and Dr. Dre, who i ...
Ram RecordsIn recent times, Andy C'shave been pushing the boundaries of drum and bass further into the mainstr ...
Tiara Records... talent show at their high school, they were signed by Florence Greenberg of. Their first single, "I Met Him on a Sunday", was released by Tiara and l ...
Word Records... 1970s saw large corporations become involved in the Christian music market., founded in 1951, was bought in 1976 by ABC. Other music industry giants ...
EMI... yal Records in 2001, Sean signed with Capitol Records (whose parent companyhas released the vast majority of his father's musical output, group and s ...
Atlantic Records... h airplay time until two years later, when Granville recreated the song for. As a result, it rose to Number 3 on the Billboard R&B chart
Cavity Search... egan his solo career in 1994 with releases on the independent record labelsand Kill Rock Stars. In 1997 he signed a contract with DreamWorks Records, ...
Merge Records... ds in 1986 and New York City's Matador Records and Durham, North Carolina'sin 1989. Chicago's Touch and Go Records was founded as a fanzine in 1979 a ...
Columbia Records... n fit to release his records in the United States. Costello signed to CBS'slabel in the US a few months later
Geffen RecordsIn the spring of 2003, MCA Records was folded into. Its country music label, MCA Nashville Records is still in operation. MC ...
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Lingasong Records... album Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962, released in 1977 by
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Heartwarming... l for the religious stores." In April 1970 Capitol leased Upon This Rock to/Impact Records for two years a small sum. While Norman decided to leave C ...
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Warner BrothersIn 1978 Norman was getting ready to sign with, when he was injured in an accident as United Airlines flight 215 landed ...
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Meteor Records... later. During the 1950s he recorded for the Bihari brothers' Flair Records,and Modern Records labels, as well as for Chess Records and Mel London's C ...
Warner Bros. Records... dent label Cold Chillin' Records, which was in turn distributed by Reprise/from 1987 to 1992. Academic records indicate that she attended only three ...
Decca RecordsIn 1962, MCA entered a merger of equals with New York-based American, with MCA as the surviving company. Decca at the time owned Coral Records ...
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Okeh Records... established a master leasing arrangement with co-owned United States based, making Parlophone a leading jazz label in the UK
Flying Nun... am Blam inspired a raft of other labels including, several years later, thelabel which was formed in Christchurch. The Clean, hailing from Dunedin, w ...
Modern Records... 950s he recorded for the Bihari brothers' Flair Records, Meteor Records andlabels, as well as for Chess Records and Mel London's Chief Records (his " ...
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Deutsche Grammophon... c in a series of recordings for EMI with the Philharmonia Orchestra and forwith the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, which have been digitally remaster ...
Brunswick Records... ith MCA as the surviving company. Decca at the time owned Coral Records and, as well as a 89% controlling stake in Universal Pictures. MCA would assu ...
Broken Bow RecordsLater, she switched to the independentlabel. Her fourth album of country music, titled Streets of Heaven, produc ...
Interscope Records... Hill. DreamWorks Records was acquired by Universal Music Group in 2003, andcurrently "owns all studio and live recording from Jan 1998 to his passing ...
BBC Radio Collection... by Dominic Muldowney. The production was released on audio cassette by the(ISBN 0-563-47803-9)
Elektra Records... outraged with the releases. As a result from pressure from his former label, Crosby was forced to sign a short-term deal with Carson Daly-owned indep ...
Enigma Records... n rejoined the band as singer in 1981, and they signed to independent labelwhere they had their first significant hit: the controversial synth-driven ...
V Recordings... st, part in the creation of Drum and Bass with their dark, baseline sounds.also played a large part of the development of Drum and Bass. Roni Size, K ...
Sony Music Distribution... bum's release date, June 11, 2002, a single, "Here to Stay" was released by. The album was re-released on November 12, 2002, as a last-ditch effort t ...
Universal Edition... nd in some cases had had printed) his own musical scores for his publisher,, which often involved unconventional devices. The score for his piece Ref ...
Maranatha! Music... n Costa Mesa in Orange County, where other Jesus music pioneers (and futureartists) Love Song, Chuck Girard, The Way, and Children of the Day were al ...
Movietone RecordsIn 1965,released an album MTM 1009 featuring Gershwin's piano rolls of the titled ...
A&M Records... roup were not totally happy with the outcome. Johns had an arrangement withand they asked Midnight Oil to return to the studio to record material sui ...
Not Lame Recordings... : The Ultimate Power Pop Guide in association with power pop label/retailer. The book contained essays by several writers including Borack, a list of ...
Chrysalis... recorded as an intended Ian Anderson solo album before Tull's record label,, asked that it become credited to the group to help the label get through ...
Universal Music Group... The United States of America. Rammstein's entire catalogue is published by. Since their formation in 1994, Rammstein has had no changes in their ban ...
Failsafe Records... ound a new home with independent labels such as IMD and Arclife in Dunedin,and She'll Be Right Records in Christchurch, Capital Recordings, Stink Mag ...
Combat Records... er Gar Samuelson. Megadeth signed with the New York based independent label. In December of that year, they added Chris Poland as a second guitarist
True Playaz... Audio, DJ Fresh's Breakbeat Kaos and DJ Hype, Pascal and formerly DJ Zinc's(now known as Real Playaz as of 2006)
Verve Records... nd and vocal collaborator Nico. It was originally released in March 1967 by. Recorded in 1966 during Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable multi ...
Jive RecordsAfter Hankerson signed a distribution deal with, he signed Aaliyah to his Blackground Records label at the age of 12. Han ...
Epic RecordsAfter their Buddah contract expired,agreed to distribute their next recordings. Inspired by the group's new li ...
Columbia RecordsIn 1975,released an album featuring Gershwin's piano rolls of the Rhapsody In Blue ...
Universal Music Group... Records and From a Basement on the Hill. DreamWorks Records was acquired byin 2003, and Interscope Records currently "owns all studio and live record ...
Verve... and producer Joe Henry. The River in Reverse was released in the UK on thelabel the following year in May
Westbound Records... k band with heavy psychedelic rock influences. Clinton signed Funkadelic to, and the five Parliaments singers were credited as "guests" while the fiv ...
Solid Rock RecordsIn 1974 Norman foundedto produce records for Christian artists who, like himself, had "no commer ...
Sarah RecordsThe Orchids are a Scottish band that achieved success with. Formed near Glasgow in 1986, the Orchids released a series of undergroun ...
Capitol Records... Motion Daydream is an album by Everclear that was released (in the U.S.) byon March 11, 2003 (see 2003 in music). Recorded in 2002. The first single ...
Rykodisc... d was poorly received upon its initial release; the liner notes to the 1995re-release, penned by Costello, begin with the words "Congratulations!, yo ...
Nonesuch Records... ad just experienced a revival due to several recordings by Joshua Rifkin onstarting with in 1970. There are some variances from the actual film sound ...
Storyville Records... d the group (as well as a Monty Sunshine Trio, with Donegan and Barber) for. These were Donegan's first commercially released recordings
Warner Bros. Records... Tell's American label but had not been supportive, and he later signed with. While in the US, McTell hung out with the British folk-rock band Fairpor ...
Matador Records... hord Records in 1980, Seattle's Sub Pop Records in 1986 and New York City'sand Durham, North Carolina's Merge Records in 1989. Chicago's Touch and Go ...
SST RecordsAmerican indie record labels, Twin/Tone Records, Touch and Go Records, and Dischord Records presided o ...
Roadrunner Records... tours. In October 2007, the band released the album Born into This, on thelabel. In July 2009, Astbury announced that The Cult would not record or p ...
Elektra Records... hurch of Hollywood. About that time Norman was in negotiations to sign with, but "it fell through when the president of the label was confronted by s ...
Blackground Records... rson signed a distribution deal with Jive Records, he signed Aaliyah to hislabel at the age of 12. Hankerson later introduced her to recording artist ...
Carl Lindström Company... 927 the Columbia Graphophone Company acquired a controlling interest in theand thereby in Parlophone. In 1931 Columbia merged with the Gramophone Com ...
Virgin Records... as the Yellow No. 5 EP (1994) on Frontier Records, and were then signed toto release what became their final album, Mic City Sons (1996)
Smash Records... e sales of Brown's record releases to white audiences. In this arrangement,, a subsidiary of Mercury Records, was used as a vehicle to distribute Bro ...
EMI... occupier was the Gramophone Company, later His Master's Voice and latterly. Only the EMI archives and some early reinforced concrete factory buildin ...
Hospital Records... me of the scene's most prominent DJ–producers, such as London Elektricity's, Andy C's Ram, Goldie's Metalheadz, Chris Renegade's Lifted Music, DJ Fri ...
A&M RecordsAfter four years he signed with, and with the release of 1987's The Right Night & Barry White, the single ...
Universal Music Group... ar to similar success. Jackson's label, Ja-Tail Records secured a deal withto distribute the album, which was delayed several times due to extenuatin ...
Vertigo Records... When Wet is the third studio album by Bon Jovi, released in August 1986 by. Slippery When Wet was an instant commercial success. The album features ...
Columbia Records... guidance of their friend and manager James William Guercio, and signed with. After signing with Guercio, The Big Thing changed their name to Chicago ...
Pony Canyon... ries based on the manga series. Directed by Hiroaki Gōda and distributed by, the first episode was released on February 21, 1993, and the final was r ...
London/Decca... kowski for Capitol Records, and began recording regularly in the 1960s, for, during the tenure of Zubin Mehta as music director. A healthy discograph ...
EMI... uence over their US record label, Capitol, was not as strong as it was over's Parlophone in Britain. A single was released in the US, pairing "Yester ...
Sire Records... bit god) and Music Inspired by Watership Down on Charisma in the UK, and onin the US. Another disappointing chart performance led to Hansson's withdr ...
Elektra Records... nd charting single led to tension between Elektra and Crosby. In late 2002,terminated VAST from their contract. In later years, Crosby has stated tha ...
US Decca... ecordings from US Columbia, Brunswick as well as a few sessions produced at. As time went on the label also released speciality recordings of spoken- ...
RCA RecordsThe band's first effort withwas 1999's Everything You Want, with producers Ben Grosse, Mark Endert, an ...
Factory Records... released a one-off single, "Electricity", with celebrated independent label. The track was supposed to be produced by the legendary Factory Records p ...
Capitol Records... me the band's principal songwriter, sharing lead vocals with Gene M. Mason.signed People! to a record deal at the beginning of 1966. As Norman was le ...
Deutsche Grammophon... ophon. A recording of the Concerto for Orchestra by Béla Bartók released byin 2007 was the first recording by Gustavo Dudamel conducting the LA Phil
Columbia Graphophone CompanyIn 1927 theacquired a controlling interest in the Carl Lindström Company and thereby ...
T-Neck Records... 4, frustrated by the record business, the brothers created their own label,, where they began recording their own singles with their band, which woul ...
King Worldwide... l proponents of this new dynamic. In the late 1980s, Peter King established, which specialised in lathe-cut polycarbonate records. This operation spe ...
EMI... s. Radiohead also cited similar motives with the end of their contract withwhen their album was released as a "pay what you want" sales model as an o ...
Frontier Records... (1993) and Cop and Speeder (1994) as well as the Yellow No. 5 EP (1994) on, and were then signed to Virgin Records to release what became their fina ...
Sun Records... Ike Turner and his band The Kings of Rhythm), recorded by Sam Phillips forin March 1951. Other early contenders include Wynonie Harris' "Good Rockin ...
Virgin RecordsIn 1987, the band relocated to San Francisco, California, and signed to. They released Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart, which enjoyed greate ...
Epic Records... mos and signed the group in the UK, releasing their albums in Europe, whilereleased their albums in the United States and much of the rest of the wor ...
EMI... Megadeth released The System Has Failed on Sanctuary Records in the US andin Europe. Heralded as a return to form, Revolver magazine gave the album ...
Interscope Records... their 1998 release of the concept album Leitmotif, landing them a deal with. Dredg released El Cielo in 2002, Catch Without Arms in 2005, The Pariah, ...
Columbia Records... c Orchestra, with Louise Parker and George London as soloists, was made forin 1963 and later issued on CD. He also appeared on television as a guest ...
Blue Note Records... dings from 1969 and 1970, and Platinum Jazz, a one-off album for jazz label. The latter double album had cover art to match the greatest hits album, ...
Chess Records... rs' Flair Records, Meteor Records and Modern Records labels, as well as forand Mel London's Chief Records (his "It Hurts Me Too" was later a hit when ...
Universal Music Group... os, Inc. and its music division, MCA Music Entertainment Group, was renamed. MCA Records continued to live on as a label within the Universal Music G ...
EMI... on the name Culture Club. The group recorded demos, which were paid for byRecords, but the label was unimpressed and decided not to sign the group. ...
Nonesuch Records... 1998, two audio CDs featuring piano rolls recorded Gershwin were issued bythrough the efforts of Artis Woodhouse. It is entitled
Lifted Music... ity's Hospital Records, Andy C's Ram, Goldie's Metalheadz, Chris Renegade's, DJ Friction's Shogun Audio, DJ Fresh's Breakbeat Kaos and DJ Hype, Pasca ...
Nonesuch RecordsByrne's solo album, Grown Backwards, was released on March 16, 2004 by. This album used orchestral string arrangements, and includes two operati ...
Dischord Records... record labels were founded during the 1980s. These include Washington, DC'sin 1980, Seattle's Sub Pop Records in 1986 and New York City's Matador Rec ...
Warner Bros. Records... ded that the new album would stray away from their previous nu metal sound.officially announced that the band’s third studio album, entitled Minutes ...
Scepter Records... ul period with Decca, they went with Greenberg to her newly formed company,. Working with Luther Dixon, the group rose to fame with "Tonight's the Ni ...
Lu Pine Records... high school. Undaunted, later that year The Primettes recorded a single for(a label created just for them) entitled "Tears of Sorrow", which was back ...
Avex Trax... ito produced an album titled Space Invaders 2008. The album is published byand features music inspired by the game. Taito's store Taito Station also ...
Lu Pine Records... Ross, Wilson and Ballard each sang lead during live performances. In 1960,signed the group and issued the Ross-led single "Tears of Sorrow" backed w ...
Winley... aa's first records, for instance, two versions of "Zulu Nation Throwdown" (, 1980), were recorded with just drums and rhymes. When Bambaataa heard th ...
Propeller RecordsThe first independent record labels arrived in the early 1980s, withand Ripper Records in Auckland. The labels' influential releases, such as ...
Atlantic RecordsIn autumn of 1976, Garrett signed a recording contract withand recorded his first album, Leif Garrett. The album was released in 1977 ...
Interscope Records... rs" and "The Papal Insignia". In February 2001, Dredg was offered a deal by. As part of the deal, Leitmotif was re-released by Interscope on Septembe ...
Merge Records... with mainstream tastes in the first place". Labels such as Matador Records,, and Dischord, and indie rockers like Pavement, Superchunk, Fugazi, and S ...
ZTT Records... s" is the second single by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, released in the UK byin May 1984 (see 1984 in music). The song was later included on the album ...
Everest Records... er conducting the London Symphony Orchestra with David Oistrakh as soloist.issued a recording of Hindemith's postwar When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard ...
Virgin Records... I Records, but the label was unimpressed and decided not to sign the group.heard the demos and signed the group in the UK, releasing their albums in ...
US Columbia... label. Besides the OKeh recordings, Parlophone also issued recordings from, Brunswick as well as a few sessions produced at US Decca. As time went o ...
Varèse Sarabande... 90, the year of the movie's release. Because of Delerue's strong following,re-released the CD in 2002
Fontana Records... gigs run by Barry Newman at Norwich Arts Centre. They signed to major-labelafter being courted by both Creation Records and the Brian Eno-run label O ...
EMI... e Gramophone Company to form Electric & Musical Industries Ltd (EMI). Underthe Parlophone company initially maintained its status as a jazz label. In ...
Metalheadz... cers, such as London Elektricity's Hospital Records, Andy C's Ram, Goldie's, Chris Renegade's Lifted Music, DJ Friction's Shogun Audio, DJ Fresh's Br ...
Everest RecordsIn 1958, while serving as an A&R director for, Scott produced singer Gloria Lynne's album Miss Gloria Lynne. The sideme ...
Harmonious Wail... hard Davis, Ben Sidran, Reptile Palace Orchestra, Killdozer, Polydream, and
Virgin Records... Cook's career. Cook and show producer Martin Lewis brought out an album onentitled Here Comes the Judge: Live of the live performance together with ...
Bronze RecordsIn 1982, The Damned released their only album for, Strawberries, featuring new full-time keyboardist Roman Jugg. At this ti ...
RCA RecordsDiana Ross'sdebut, Why Do Fools Fall in Love, was issued in October 1981. The album yi ...
Hollywood Records... August 2, 2002, the original motion picture soundtrack was released by thelabel and the film score was composed by musician James Newton Howard. A j ...
Gramophone CompanyAn early occupier was the, later His Master's Voice and latterly EMI. Only the EMI archives and som ...
RCA... ee Pub in North Hollywood. Eleventeen had secured a recording contract withwhile the band were still in high school. After the recording of Eleventee ...
Erstwhile Records... rovisation), and is represented, for instance, by the American record labeland the Austrian label Mego
LaFace Records... e third studio album by hip hop duo OutKast, released September 29, 1998 on. The title is a portmanteau of the two performers' Zodiac signs: Aquarius ...
Matador Records... aches compatible with mainstream tastes in the first place". Labels such as, Merge Records, and Dischord, and indie rockers like Pavement, Superchunk ...
ESP-Disk... r Control (1964), a soundtrack for a film by Michael Snow, recorded for thelabel under the leadership of saxophonist Albert Ayler. Snow suggested to ...
Deutsche Grammophon... In recent years, Esa-Pekka Salonen has led recording sessions for Sony and. A recording of the Concerto for Orchestra by Béla Bartók released by Deu ...
Gramophone Company... ndström Company and thereby in Parlophone. In 1931 Columbia merged with theto form Electric & Musical Industries Ltd (EMI). Under EMI the Parlophone ...
EMI... ged with the Gramophone Company to form Electric & Musical Industries Ltd (). Under EMI the Parlophone company initially maintained its status as a j ...
Mercury Records... ses to white audiences. In this arrangement, Smash Records, a subsidiary of, was used as a vehicle to distribute Brown's music. Smash released his 19 ...
Columbia... thin a month he was at the Abbey Road Studios in London recording for EMI'slabel. He had left the Barber band by then, and by the spring of 1955, Don ...
Ankstmusik... c Mynci, Los Campesinos!, The Longcut, and, for a time, Cerys Matthews) and, the label (which is now based in Pentraeth on Anglesey and run by Willia ...
Island Records... ger Anne Sofie von Otter. He released the album When I Was Cruel in 2002 on, and toured with a new band, the Imposters (essentially the Attractions b ...
Lil' Chief Records... Recordings, Stink Magnetic and Loop in Wellington and Arch Hill Recordings,and Powertool Records in Auckland. The new alternative pop sound is typifi ...

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Motown... r soft, sweet harmonies and yearning innocence", with their songs predatingin their widespread crossing of racial demographics, both in the US and in ...
VirginIn May 2001, the band released Lions onmogul Richard Branson's V2 record label; the album peaked at number 20 on ...
62TV Records... gium) - 40th Squadron Heli (Belgium) - 51st Logistics Battalion (Belgium) -- 70-point plan (Belgium) – 80th UAV Squadron (Belgium) - 1920 Summer Olym ...
MotownDiana Ross was lead singer of thegroup The Supremes during the 1960s. After leaving the group in 1970, Ross ...
Tzadik... iley's earliest available recordings, Pieces for Guitar (1966–67, issued on)
UniversalThe major international music labels such as Sony Music andhave shown very little interest in the drum and bass scene though there ha ...
Taste MediaAfter circulating a three-track demo and signing a deal with, the band started recording sessions for their third album in autumn 2002 ...
labelsPablo formed theHot Stuff, Message and Rockers (named after his brother's soundsystem, Roc ...
ECM... ngs-focused Just Music had been formed by Alfred Harth and been recorded on(1002) in 1969 in West Germany
Geffen... y 1984. At this same time, the band secured a major US record deal with thelabel. The Slide It In album had drawn mixed reviews, the negatives partic ...
Johnny & Associates... no and Japanese music groups such as Morning Musume, AKB48, and Perfume andboy bands Arashi, NEWS, KAT-TUN, and Hey! Say! JUMP among others while Chi ...
Columbia... popular music recordings in 1967 (it is now known as EMI Classics); Englishhas been replaced by the EMI pop label. Parlophone also operates the impri ...
Ram... inent DJ–producers, such as London Elektricity's Hospital Records, Andy C's, Goldie's Metalheadz, Chris Renegade's Lifted Music, DJ Friction's Shogun ...
Subway... d bands Josef K and Orange Juice, and significant labels included Creation,and Glass. The Jesus and Mary Chain's sound combined the Velvet Undergroun ...
EMIAt the end of 2005, the band together withreleased a compilation album of remixes called The Human League Original R ...
ABC... hristian music market. Word Records, founded in 1951, was bought in 1976 by. Other music industry giants also got involved, CBS started a short-lived ...
Universal Edition... osby had previously negotiated with the opera's publisher, Alfred Kalmus of, to present the American premiere of the complete version and "on July 28 ...
EMI... lbums remained unavailable in full until 2005 when Silence Records (through) re-issued them on CD, digitally re-mastered and with previously unreleas ...
EMI... nd sold-out shows across Europe and North America. They were then signed byrecords. The group's debut single with this label, "At Home He's a Tourist ...
Regal Recordings... as been replaced by the EMI pop label. Parlophone also operates the imprint, a contemporary revival of the historic Columbia Graphophone budget/reiss ...
EMIIt has been claimed that thanks to the success of The Beatles,could fund research and build early models for medical use. The first prod ...
Decca... n the UK, and reached the Top Ten in the United States. His next single for, "Diggin' My Potatoes", was recorded at a concert at the Royal Festival H ...
Combat... um by the American heavy metal band Megadeth, released in June 1985 throughand Relativity Records. During the beginning of 1985, the band was given $ ...
Columbia... g James Brown, but had little success in comparison to EMI siblings HMV and
InterscopeIn October 2007, Hoppus stated that +44 had officially signed a deal withto start recording the new record. However, plans fell through in 2008, ev ...
CBS... , was bought in 1976 by ABC. Other music industry giants also got involved,started a short-lived Christian label, Priority Records, and MCA also fiel ...
Enjoy... minutes while an MC raps over the top. Grandmaster Flash's "Superrappin'" (, 1979) had a pumping syncopated rhythm and The Furious Five emulating his ...
Sugar Hill... tunes, or "interpolating" the tunes themselves, as in "Rapper's Delight" (, 1979) and "King Tim III (Personality Jock)" (Spring, 1979). It was the s ...
EMI## Sony BMG (Sony and BMG joint-venture
Drag City... e 1990s and bands from the genre centered around the Thrill Jockey, Kranky,, and Too Pure record labels. A related genre, math rock, peaked in the mi ...
ParlophoneTen years later on 8 March 1976, "Yesterday" was released byas a single in the UK, featuring "I Should Have Known Better" on the B-sid ...
indie rock record labels... g Sonic Youth, Swans, Big Black and Butthole Surfers. A number of prominentwere founded during the 1980s. These include Washington, DC's Dischord Rec ...
Minus... med after their turntable's pitch adjust function. In 1998, Hawtin launchedrecords
MCA... involved, CBS started a short-lived Christian label, Priority Records, andalso fielded a label for a time
UniversalIn 2002,released a two-disc "Deluxe Edition" set containing both stereo and mono m ...
Pathé... f five saxophonists and himself on clarinet, a combo which soon signed with. They recorded rags, as well as some of the hit songs of the day
Warner Bros.... tion deal with Epic Records ended in 1984, the remaining Isleys signed with. Before the contract could be completed, the group had to salvage their b ...
Creation... ed Postcard bands Josef K and Orange Juice, and significant labels included, Subway and Glass. The Jesus and Mary Chain's sound combined the Velvet U ...
RCA... s cover of Wilson's "Lonely Teardrops", which caught the eye of a scout for, who immediately told staff of the brothers. RCA later signed the Isleys ...
Sun... in the record industry, with the rise of independent labels like Atlantic,and Chess servicing niche audiences and a similar rise of radio stations t ...
LTMThe first three of these albums were reissued with bonus tracks onin 2005
Rhino EntertainmentBetween 2003 and 2004,released two Best Of releases of the show, each containing six episodes. U ...
EMIHindemith conducted some of his own music in a series of recordings forwith the Philharmonia Orchestra and for Deutsche Grammophon with the Berli ...
StaxHe was the brother of singer Mable John, who recorded for Motown and, and the father of Keith John, a long time backing vocalist for Stevie Wo ...
Flying Nun... The Jean-Paul Sartre Experience. Other prominent bands to emerge later viaincluded The Puddle, The Headless Chickens, Straitjacket Fits, The 3Ds, Ba ...
Rough Trade... rly commercially and SFA agreed to leave Sony. They are presently signed toand released Hey Venus! in 2007 in the UK. In 2009 they released their lat ...
Atco... an Squires, but returned as Levon and the Hawks for a recording session forlater in 1965. At about the same time, Bob Dylan recruited Helm and Robert ...
Disques Dreyfus... eventually found a publisher, Francis Dreyfus, head of Disques Motors (now). Dreyfus was the husband of one of Jarre's fellow-pupils at the Groupe d ...
Motown... . Their acceptance by both white and black audiences, predating that of theacts, has been noted as reflecting the early success of the African-Americ ...
Interscope... acles of coordinating three different record labels (Priority, No Limit and), obtaining the rights to the name N.W.A and endorsing the whole project ...
B-BoyBoogie Down's first album Criminal Minded (, 1987) admitted a reggae influence and had KRS-One imititating the Beatle ...
EMI... rder to demonstrate stereo sound on film. These films are held at the Hayesarchive
ECM... nfluence this genre and many others. In Germany, Manfred Eicher started thelabel, which quickly made a name for "chamber jazz". Towards the end of th ...
EMI... Martin to come to the rescue, so he borrowed two four-track recorders from, and long-time Beatles' engineer, Geoff Emerick, was given the task of bu ...
BMG... events where he got the tape, Peter quit Pet Sounds and started working at. In April Per Lindholm, A&R at RCA/BMG hears Kent for the first time and ...
Chess... record industry, with the rise of independent labels like Atlantic, Sun andservicing niche audiences and a similar rise of radio stations that played ...
Mercury... album, An Englishman Sings American Folk Songs, released in America on thelabel in the early 1960s) but ironically, because it was a band recording, ...
Marco Polo record label... ional recordings of many of Brian's symphonies that have been issued by theon CD. Many of the original recordings on various labels are being reissue ...
Alberts Studio... tablished their own record label Powderworks. In June 1978 they entered thein Sydney with producer Keith Walker, from local radio station 2JJ, to rec ...
Arista... mily songs. This album was renumbered as Arista 4021 when Bell changed intoin 1976. No new copies were printed, however - existing copies were merely ...
Nitro... Records. After 6 years of discontinued print, the album was re-released by/ in 1995, with a different album cover. Both the re-releases on the two r ...
Jive... Tribe Called Quest's People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm (, 1990) and The Low End Theory (Jive, 1991)
Essex... his music career overall was not successful. McGhee moved from Atlantic toto create a record called "My Little Rose". The record failed so he moved ...
Pye... y then, and by the spring of 1955, Donegan signed a recording contract with. His next single "Lost John" reached #2 in the UK Singles Chart
Postcard... the British indie scene as a whole. Major precursors of indie pop includedbands Josef K and Orange Juice, and significant labels included Creation, ...
RCA... Victor in the USA, Canada and Latin America, and then by Victor's successor. In Commonwealth countries (except Canada) it was used by subsidiaries of ...
Capitol... his own albums have been released through such commercial record labels as, MGM, Verve, and his own independent labels: One Way Records, Solid Rock ...
Dot... ntly purchased more labels from the Famous Music division of Gulf+Western –, Steed, Acta, Blue Thumb, and Paramount, along with legendary Country and ...
BMG... to learn. According to an episode of VH1's Driven, Jan Boltz, president of's German division, offered 'N Sync a recording contract under the conditi ...
ProfileThe group's early singles are collected on their eponymous debut (, 1984), introducing rock references in "Rock Box", and recognized then an ...
Too Pure... ds from the genre centered around the Thrill Jockey, Kranky, Drag City, andrecord labels. A related genre, math rock, peaked in the mid-1990s. In com ...
Motown... ok Brown's shouts and dancing into the pop mainstream as the lead singer of's The Jackson 5. Those same tracks were later resurrected by countless hi ...
Motown... y rock and roll, though the rhythm section often was reminiscent of Stax or, and Robertson cites Curtis Mayfield and the Staple Singers as major infl ...
EMI... The release came about due to the expiration of the Beatles' contract with, Parlophone's parent. EMI released as many singles by The Beatles as they ...
CBS/Columbia Records... ite left 20th Century in 1979 to launch his own label, Unlimited Gold, with. Although White's success on the pop charts slowed down as the disco era ...
Legacy Recordings... n properly compensated for recordings released by this label. The 2 CD 1993compilation Vintage: The Very Best of Moby Grape includes their entire fir ...
Atlantic... le fans, or in an attempted but ultimately unsuccessful American release byin 1960, but it reached number one in the UK Singles Chart. Donegan's grou ...
CBS... s", originally a promotional slogan introduced by the group's record label,. In January 2003, the band—including original drummer Terry Chimes—were i ...
independentNew Zealand's alternative andmusic scene has been favourably regarded abroad despite frequent marginali ...
Motown... rtists like Isaac Hayes, Clarence Carter, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin plusartists The Supremes, The Four Tops and Marvin Gaye. Along with Isaac Haye ...
Savoy... e was unable to make money out of his records so he left King to record forin 1955, but retired from the music industry in 1960 because he lost his p ...
Kill Rock StarsIn 1995, Smith's self-titled album was released on; the record featured a similar style of recording to Roman Candle, but wi ...
Factory Records... Based around The Haçienda, a nightclub in Manchester owned by New Order and, Madchester bands such as Happy Mondays and The Stone Roses mixed acid ho ...
Avex Group... ed as one of the models for Japanese dance music, leading the popularity ofand Johnny & Associates
Paramount... on are not captured on her recordings (due to her recording exclusively for, which was known for worse-than-normal recording techniques and among the ...
Steed... purchased more labels from the Famous Music division of Gulf+Western – Dot,, Acta, Blue Thumb, and Paramount, along with legendary Country and R&B la ...
Elektra... Leaders of the New School (who were named by Chuck D prior to signing within 1989), remains popular. It has been applied to artists ranging from Jay ...
EMI... 970s were Kornyfone (TAKRL), ContraBand, Trademark of Quality, and Wizardo.had planned to release an album of alternate takes and previously unreleas ...
Carl Lindström CompanyFounded in Germany in 1896 by theas "Parlophon", Lindstrom initially used the brand name for gramophones be ...
Columbia... anned series of six made under a volume agreement with Ballew's main label,however only two albums were made, the second was released by Orange Recor ...
WandThe brothers left RCA in 1962 and signed with the Scepter subsidiary. In hopes to branch out and sing ballads, the group had decided on cuttin ...
CBS... the Wow album, on the iconic sampler album The Rock Machine Turns You On ()
Tommy Boy... included Supermodel of the World. They were released through the rap label, spawning the dance track hit "Supermodel (You Better Work)". The music v ...
Motown... ing in rap/hip-hop and R&B music (with the exception of classic R&B such as, which is as often as not the province of Oldies stations). This format i ...
PolyGramIn 1998, Seagram acquiredfrom Philips and merged it with its music holdings. When Seagram's drinks ...
MCA... istic of the band as a whole. The Damned signed a contract with major label, and the Phantasmagoria album followed in July 1985, preceded by the UK # ...
Uni... scientific rigour. The group followed Paid in Full with Follow The Leader (, 1988) (on which they were open-minded enough to sample The Eagles), Let ...
Woodworm... s. For contractual reasons, some songs had to be re-recorded in Dave Pegg'sStudio in Barford St. Michael. The resulting album, A Collection of His Lo ...
Columbia... er the band was picked up by Anthrax producer Mark Dodson and signed to thesubsidiary Epic Records. The stylistic changes and signing to a major labe ...
RCA... as only leased to her by Berry Gordy. Ross accepted a $20 million deal within 1981, then the most lucrative contract in music. To complete contractua ...
Universal... eproduction of the original cover's peelable banana sticker. In April 2010,re-released the second disc of the "Deluxe Edition" as a single CD "Rariti ...
Atlantic... the other artists of Stax Records in Memphis, Tennessee. By the late 1960s,recording artist Aretha Franklin had emerged as the most popular female so ...
MGM... acture these covers (one of the causes of the album's delayed release), butpaid for costs figuring that any ties to Warhol would boost sales of the a ...
CapitolIn addition to the Greatest Hits initially released by Priority in 1996,and Ruthless Records jointly released in 1998, a compilation that containe ...
His Master's VoiceAn early occupier was the Gramophone Company, laterand latterly EMI. Only the EMI archives and some early reinforced concrete ...
Brunswick... es the OKeh recordings, Parlophone also issued recordings from US Columbia,as well as a few sessions produced at US Decca. As time went on the label ...
Elephant 6... Sebadoh and Pavement, who were joined by eclectic folk and rock acts of thecollective, including Neutral Milk Hotel, Elf Power and of Montreal. The w ...