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PolyEast Records (formerly Canary Records, OctoArts International, OctoArts EMI Music Inc. and EMI Philippines) is a Philippine record label in the Philippines. [1] It is a member of the Philippine Association of the Record Industry and from 2008 until 2013, the international licensee of EMI .
In the early 1950s, music piracy started to grow in the Philippines. So, in 1952, major recording companies organized the first recording industry association in the country called the Record Industry Association of the Philippines (RIAP). [1]
Dyna was established in 1957 by James Go Dy. It became the first recording label in the Philippines.During most of the period from 1970s to the 1990s, It was the local distributor for PolyGram (including MGM Records, Polydor Records, Casablanca Records, RSO Records, Mercury Records, Fontana Records, Island Records, A&M Records, and London Records), Hansa Records (for Modern Talking releases ...
Villar Records is a Filipino record label owned by Mareco, Inc. which also owns the Mabuhay Records label. It was launched in 1950 [ 1 ] by the late Manuel P. Villar who was known as the "Father of Philippine Recording" for pioneering the recording of original Pilipino music or OPM .
PolyCosmic Records was formed in 1993 as a joint venture between PolyGram Music Group (Universal Music Group's predecessor, which has 30% of the company's stocks) and a consortium of Philippine businessmen including Dr. James G. Dy (founding chairman of Dyna Products, Inc., which was the local distributor of PolyGram) and Cosmic Records, a company founded in 1992 by Ramon Chuaying.
Sony Music Philippines, Inc. is a record label based in the Philippines, which was founded in 1995 [2] as an imprint [3] of the international music label Sony Music Entertainment and a part of its Asia-Pacific chain. After the closure of the local label caused by widespread piracy problems in the Philippines in 2012, [4] it resumed its ...
Universal Records Philippines, Inc. is a Philippine record label founded in 1977 as part of Warner Music Group. [1] It has been an independent label since 1992. The label is currently a member of the Philippine Association of the Record Industry .
Star Music (also known as Star Records and corporately as Star Recording, Inc.) is a Philippine record label owned and operated by ABS-CBN Corporation. [1] It was formerly a separate company operating as a wholly-owned subsidiary of ABS-CBN Corporation until 2013 when it was merged to ABS-CBN Film Productions, Inc. [citation needed] It is now a division of ABS-CBN Music, a division of ABS-CBN ...