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With that in place, Universal Records was to operate under the newly renamed UMG banner. [5] Universal Records had success in breaking new artists, including the multi-platinum debut of Erykah Badu, Billie Myers, Goldfinger, Akon and the Lost Boyz. Glass formed relationships with independent record labels such as Kedar Entertainment and Mojo ...
Universal Music Group N.V. [3] (often abbreviated as UMG and referred to as Universal Music Group or Universal Music) is a Dutch–American multinational music corporation under Dutch law. UMG's corporate headquarters are located in Hilversum , Netherlands, and its operational headquarters are located in Santa Monica, California .
This is a list of current, and former, artists for American label Universal Records of Universal Motown Republic Group, or one of its associated labels.An asterisk (*) denotes an artist who no longer records for the label.
Universal Music Group (UMG) owns, or has a joint share in, many of the record labels listed here.. According to the UMG official website, the main labels are Abbey Road Studios, Capitol Music Group, Decca Records, Def Jam Recordings, Deutsche Grammophon, EMI, Interscope-Geffen-A&M, Island Records, Mercury Records, Motown Records, Polydor Records, Republic Records, Verve Label Group, and Virgin ...
Republic Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group (UMG). Based in New York City , it was founded by Avery Lipman and Monte Lipman as an independent label in 1995, and was acquired by UMG in 2000.
This is a list of Universal Music Group musical artists. Bands are listed by the first letter in their name (not including the words "a", "an", or "the"), and ...
The volumes focus on Island Records’ analog era beginning in 1959, and ending, coincidentally, when the label was sold to Universal in 1989. The volumes number at four (so far) with each one ...
Within his first year as chairman & CEO of Universal, the company acquired EMI's Recorded Music operations. [12] Grainge argued that selling to Universal was the only way to improve EMI, for the benefit of the entire industry. [13] UMG subsequently attempted to revitalise former EMI labels including Capitol Records and Virgin Records. [14]