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Recording Business
The object of recording companies is to get their share of 20,000 new titles each year on the shelves of retailers and in the hands of the public.
The music shelves are already very full with over 100,000 back-listed titles. So that the (local band) Intraverse are not only competing with Eminem for space, they are also fighting with five decades of predecessors from Chuck Berry and the Beatles through to Metallica and Aerosmith.
It costs several million dollars to record and launch any major new pop album these days. And audience tastes are unpredictable, hence many launches are doomed. Music companies must rely on the occasional big hit among the many flops. Winning shelf space is harder than it’s ever been with digital distribution via the Internet, where fans have been sharing recordings and avoiding buying recordings off the shelves.
Music then is in transition. It’s going from a tangible that you buy off the shelves to an intangible, something that’s on the Net and available to anyone who can in turn record them on tape or CD. This new situation has the big five companies worried with good reason as they adapt to remain competitive. NK
I
hope this information helps
It
is sometimes very difficult to trace who owns rights to
recordings where companies no longer operate, hence this
is just a general guide. The list below gives some indication
of who owns who although this is by no means
comprehensive and is subject to frequent change as
labels fold, new ones are created and mergers take
place.
Label Associated
labels Chess
Ace
of Clubs, Ace of Diamonds, Ace of Hearts, Argo,
Belart, Beltona, Brunswick, Cambrian, Coral,
Cube, Deram, Durium, Eclipse, Electric,
Emerald, Envoy, Felsted, Good Time Jazz,
Greenwich, Gull, Jubilee, M&M, Monument,
Nova, L'Oiseau Lyre, Qualiton, Rex, Telefunken,
Threshold, Turnabout, UK, Vocalion, Vox, West
African
King,
Murder Inc, Roc-A-Fella, Violator
Fiction
Gee
St
DreamWorks,
E Pluribus Unum, Outpost, Zombie A-Go-Go
Island
(US)
Island
(UK)
Antilles,
Blunted Vinyl, Fourth & Broadway, Mango,
Tuff Gong, TVT
Almo
Sounds, Coolsville, Flip, Jake, Nothing
Karussell
Curb,
Jersey, Radioactive, Twisted
Mercury
UK
Artificial,
L'Attitude, Rocket, Talkin' Loud, Vertigo,
Fontana, Capricorn, Dink, Go!Discs
Imaginary
Road, Mercury Living Presence, Philips, Point
Music
Phonogram
Point
Blank
Polydor
UK
Generic,
Exile, Paradox, Perspective, Tabu, Wild Card
Decca
Broadway, Deutsche Grammophon, Decca, Philips
Music Group
Biv
10, Cash Money, Celtic Heartbeat, Cherry
Entertainment, Mojo, Pallas, Republic, ZTT
Blue
Thumb, Commodore, Decca Jazz, GRP, Impulse,
Priceless Jazz, Swingsation, Verve, Vintage
Vault
Label Associated
labels Apple
Classics
for Pleasure
Columbia
(not Sony)
Cooltempo
Positiva,
Heavenly 100
EMI
Gold
Encore
Gramophone
Grand
Royal
Harvest
Hemisphere
HMV
Hostile IRS
Liberty
UK
Major
Minor
Manhattan
Music
for Pleasure
NovaMute,
Blast First, Thirteenth Hour
Obscure
Odeon
One
Up
Food,
Credence, Regal, Blue Note, Capitol Jazz,
Pacific Jazz, Roulette Jazz
RAK
Regal
Zonophone
Roulette
SBK
Starline
Studio
Two
Talisman
Top
Rank
Total
Vegas
United
Artists
Higher
Octave, Immortal, Luaka Bop, Rap-A-Lot,
Virgin Nashville, Virgin Records Urban
Astralwerks,
Caroline, Circa, EG, Elevator, Kuff,
Melankolic, Pointblank, Real World, Scamp,
Science, Source, VC Recordings, Venture,
Veritas, Vernon Yard
Waverley
Zonophone
Label Associated
labels Anxious
Ariola
Arista
UK
Bistro,
D:Disco, Filth, Music Man, Rowdy, Tresor,
Tripoli Trax, Urgent
Arista/Profile,
Bad Boy, La Face, Melisma, Time Bomb
Beyond
Bluebird
Arte
Nova, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Melodiya, RCA
Red Seal, RCA Victor, Wicklow
Conifer
Deconstruction
DGC
Full
Works
Imago
Melo
Neon
One
to One
RCA
Delerious,
Giant, House of Blues, Loud, Parousia,
Revolution
Label Associated
labels Atco
Blanco
y Negro
East
West
Korova
London
- see London-Sire
American
London, Coliseum, Hi, London, Palomar,
Parrot, Press, Tribe, Seville, Spark,
Richmond
Oval
Paisley
Park
Sire
- see London-Sire
Erato,
Finlandia, Nonesuch, Teldec
Warner
Music UK
FutureFlex
WEA
Black
Culture, Kinetic, Qwest
Label Associated
labels CBS
American,
Aware, C2, DV8, Loud, Murmur, Portrait, So So
Def, Trackmasters, Xtravaganza
Gloworm,
Hidden Beach, Ruthless
Kitchenware
Sony
Jazz
Higher
Ground, INC-redible, Sony Soho Square (S2)
Label Associated
labels Ace,
Beat Goes Public, Big Beat, Bioplicity, Blue
Horizon, Cascade, Chiswick, Fantasy,
Globestyle, Kent, Kicking Mule, Prestige,
Riverside, Southbound, Stax, Takoma,
Vanguard, Westbound
American,
Beggars Banquet, 4AD, Mantra, Matador, Mo
'Wax, Nation, Placebo, Too Pure, Wiiija, XL
Recordings
Chandos,
Chaconne, Chandos Brass, Collect, Enchant,
Opera in English, Flyback
Anagram,
Analog Baroque, British Steel, Cherry Red,
El, rpm., Zebra
Rabid
Badger, Livid Meerkat
Gut
NCM
Group
48K,
Infectious, Mushroom, Perfecto, Ultimate
Dilemma
Clean
Up, Elemental, One Little Indian, Rough
Trade
Flapper,
Pearl, Opal, Topaz
ASV,
Bearsville, Black Box, Brodsky, Bronze,
Castle Music, Castle Pie, Castle Select,
Cinephile, Curtom, Deepbeats, Discover,
Essential, Gaudeamus, HTD, Immediate,
Indigo, Living Era, Mecca, Metal-Is, Neat,
Nixa, Noise, Pulse, Pye, Quicksilva, Raw
Power, Resonance, Sanctuary, Select, Sequel,
Solar, Sugarhill, T&T, Transacord,
Transatlantic, Trojan, When!, White Line
Telstar
Entertainment
Multiply,
Telstar, Wildstar
Zomba
Jive,
Music for Nations, Reunion, Silvertone,
Verity
Album
discographies by Mike Callahan, David Edwards and
Patrice Eyries contains details of album releases by
dozens of record companies. Classical
music labels from Classical Net.
Music
Week Directory - an annual UK directory containing
up-to-date record company addresses/telephone numbers.
The
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