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78 relations: A&M Records, ABC (band), Aimee Mann, Atlantic Records, Bertelsmann Music Group, BitTorrent, Black Flag (band), Citigroup, Conglomerate (company), Copyright, Corporate group, Direct-to-fan, Dischord Records, Distribution (marketing), Divestment, DIY ethic, Dolly Parton, Elliott Yamin, EMI, Entertainment law, Frank Sinatra, Free software, Herb Alpert, Holding company, Ian MacKaye, Imprint (trade name), In Rainbows, Independent music, Independent record label, Island Records, Linux, List of record labels, Madonna (entertainer), Maino, Manufacturing, Mergers and acquisitions, Multinational corporation, Music industry, Music publisher (popular music), Music video, Netlabel, Nine Inch Nails, Nothing Records, Open-source model, Paramore, Parlophone, Pay what you want, PayPal, Phonogram Inc., PolyGram, ..., Prince (musician), Public Enemy (band), Publicist, Publishing, Punk rock, Radiohead, RCA, Recording contract, Recording studio, Reprise Records, Roger McGuinn, Royalty payment, Sony BMG, Sony Music, Sound recording and reproduction, SST Records, Testimonial, The Byrds, The Cooper Temple Clause, Trent Reznor, Turn! Turn! Turn!, United Kingdom, United States, Universal Music Group, Virgin Classics, Warner Bros., Warner Music Group, White label. Expand index (28 more) »
A&M Records
A&M Records was an American record label founded as an independent company by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss in 1962.
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ABC (band)
ABC are an English pop band that formed in Sheffield in 1980.
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Aimee Mann
Aimee Mann (born September 8, 1960) is a Grammy Award-winning American rock singer-songwriter, bassist and guitarist who has been called a "lyric genius" and named one of the world's top 10 greatest living songwriters by NPR.
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Atlantic Records
Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American major record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegün and Herb Abramson.
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Bertelsmann Music Group
Bertelsmann Music Group (abbreviated as BMG) was a division of German media company Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Japan's Sony Corporation of America on 1 October 2008.
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BitTorrent
BitTorrent (abbreviated to BT) is a communication protocol for peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) which is used to distribute data and electronic files over the Internet.
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Black Flag (band)
Black Flag was an American punk rock band formed in 1976 in Hermosa Beach, California.
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Citigroup
Citigroup Inc. or Citi (stylized as citi) is an American multinational investment bank and financial services corporation headquartered in New York City.
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Conglomerate (company)
A conglomerate is the combination of two or more corporations operating in entirely different industries under one corporate group, usually involving a parent company and many subsidiaries.
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Copyright
Copyright is a legal right, existing globally in many countries, that basically grants the creator of an original work exclusive rights to determine and decide whether, and under what conditions, this original work may be used by others.
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Corporate group
A corporate group or group of companies is a collection of parent and subsidiary corporations that function as a single economic entity through a common source of control.
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Direct-to-fan
Direct-to-fan is a business model used by independent musicians, independent music labels, music marketing professionals, promoters, and others in the music industry.
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Dischord Records
Dischord Records is a Washington, D.C.-based independent record label specializing in punk rock.
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Distribution (marketing)
Distribution (or place) is one of the four elements of the marketing mix.
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Divestment
In finance and economics, divestment or divestiture is the reduction of some kind of asset for financial, ethical, or political objectives or sale of an existing business by a firm.
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DIY ethic
DIY ethic refers to the ethic of self-sufficiency through completing tasks without the aid of a paid expert.
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Dolly Parton
Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actress, author, businesswoman, and philanthropist, known primarily for her work in country music.
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Elliott Yamin
Efraym Elliott Yamin (born July 20, 1978) is an American singer known for his hit single "Wait for You" and placing third on the fifth season of American Idol.
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EMI
EMI Group Limited (originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries and also referred to as EMI Records Ltd.) was a British multinational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London.
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Entertainment law
Entertainment law, also referred to as media law is legal services provided to the entertainment industry.
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Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer, actor, and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century.
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Free software
Free software or libre software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions.
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Herb Alpert
Herb Alpert (born March 31, 1935) is an American jazz musician most associated with the group variously known as Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass, or TJB.
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Holding company
A holding company is a company that owns other companies' outstanding stock.
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Ian MacKaye
Ian Thomas Garner MacKaye (born April 16, 1962) is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, musician, record label owner and producer.
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Imprint (trade name)
An imprint of a publisher is a trade name under which it publishes a work.
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In Rainbows
In Rainbows is the seventh studio album by English rock band Radiohead, self-released on 10 October 2007 as a pay-what-you-want download.
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Independent music
Independent music (often referred to as indie music or indie) is music produced independently from commercial record labels or their subsidiaries, a process that may include an autonomous, do-it-yourself approach to recording and publishing.
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Independent record label
An independent record label (or indie label) is a record label that operates without the funding of or outside major record labels.
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Island Records
Island Records is a British-Jamaican record label that operates as a division of Universal Music Group (UMG).
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Linux
Linux is a family of free and open-source software operating systems built around the Linux kernel.
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List of record labels
For lists of record labels, see.
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Madonna (entertainer)
Madonna Louise Ciccone (born August 16, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman.
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Maino
Jermaine Coleman (born August 30, 1973), better known by his stage name Maino, is an American rapper from Brooklyn, New York City, New York.
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Manufacturing
Manufacturing is the production of merchandise for use or sale using labour and machines, tools, chemical and biological processing, or formulation.
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Mergers and acquisitions
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are transactions in which the ownership of companies, other business organizations, or their operating units are transferred or consolidated with other entities.
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Multinational corporation
A multinational corporation (MNC) or worldwide enterprise is a corporate organization that owns or controls production of goods or services in at least one country other than its home country.
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Music industry
The music industry consists of the companies and individuals that earn money by creating new songs and pieces and selling live concerts and shows, audio and video recordings, compositions and sheet music, and the organizations and associations that aid and represent music creators.
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Music publisher (popular music)
In the music industry, a music publisher (or publishing company) is responsible for ensuring the songwriters and composers receive payment when their compositions are used commercially.
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Music video
A music video is a short film that integrates a song with imagery, and is produced for promotional or artistic purposes.
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Netlabel
A netlabel (also online label, web label, digi label, MP3 label or download label) is a record label that distributes its music through digital audio formats (such as MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, or WAV) over the Internet.
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Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails, commonly abbreviated as NIN (stylized as NIИ), is an American industrial rock band founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Nothing Records
Nothing Records or NothiNg Records (Stylized back then to NiN) was an American record label specializing in industrial rock and electronic music, founded by John Malm Jr. and Trent Reznor in 1992.
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Open-source model
The open-source model is a decentralized software-development model that encourages open collaboration.
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Paramore
Paramore is an American rock band from Franklin, Tennessee, formed in 2004.
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Parlophone
Parlophone Records Limited (also known as Parlophone Records and Parlophone) is a German-British major record label founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company as Parlophon.
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Pay what you want
Pay what you want (or PWYW) is a pricing strategy where buyers pay their desired amount for a given commodity, sometimes including zero.
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PayPal
PayPal Holdings, Inc. is an American company operating a worldwide online payments system that supports online money transfers and serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods like cheques and money orders.
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Phonogram Inc.
Phonogram Incorporated was started in 1970 as a successor to Philips Phonographic Industries, a unit of the Grammophon-Philips Group (GPG), a joint venture of Philips N.V. of the Netherlands and Siemens A.G. of Germany.
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PolyGram
PolyGram Entertainment is a film and TV production company owned by Universal Music Group.
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Prince (musician)
Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer and filmmaker.
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Public Enemy (band)
Public Enemy is an American hip hop group consisting of Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Professor Griff, Khari Wynn, DJ Lord, and the S1W group.
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Publicist
A publicist is a person whose job is to generate and manage publicity for a company, a brand, or public figure- especially a celebrity- or for a work such as a book, film or album.
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Publishing
Publishing is the dissemination of literature, music, or information—the activity of making information available to the general public.
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Punk rock
Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.
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Radiohead
Radiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985.
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RCA
The RCA Corporation was a major American electronics company, which was founded as the Radio Corporation of America in 1919.
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Recording contract
A recording contract (commonly called a record contract or record deal) is a legal agreement between a record label and a recording artist (or group), where the artist makes a record (or series of records) for the label to sell and promote.
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Recording studio
A recording studio is a specialized facility for sound recording, mixing, and audio production of instrumental or vocal musical performances, spoken words, and other sounds.
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Reprise Records
Reprise Records is an American record label founded in 1960 by Frank Sinatra.
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Roger McGuinn
James Roger McGuinn (born James Joseph McGuinn III; July 13, 1942), known professionally as Roger McGuinn and previously as Jim McGuinn, is an American musician.
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Royalty payment
A royalty is a payment made by one party, the licensee or franchisee to another that owns a particular asset, the licensor or franchisor for the right to ongoing use of that asset.
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Sony BMG
Sony BMG Music Entertainment was a multinational record label, which was a 50–50 joint venture between the Sony Corporation of America and Bertelsmann Music Group.
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Sony Music
Sony Music Entertainment (SME) is a Japanese-owned global music conglomerate owned by Sony and incorporated as a general partnership of Sony Music Holdings Inc. through Sony Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America. (in Japanese), Sony Corporation The company was first founded in 1929 as American Record Corporation and renamed Columbia Recording Corporation in 1938, following its acquisition by the Columbia Broadcasting System. In 1966, the company was reorganized to become CBS Records, and Sony Corporation bought the company in 1988, renaming it under its current name in 1991. In 2004, Sony and Bertelsmann established a 50-50 joint venture called Sony BMG Music Entertainment, which transferred the businesses of Sony Music and Bertelsmann Music Group into one entity. However, in 2008, Sony acquired Bertelsmann's stake, and the company reverted to the SME name shortly after; the buyout allowed Sony to acquire all of BMG's labels, including former Columbia Pictures subsidiary Arista Records as well as RCA Records, and led to the dissolution of BMG, which instead relaunched as BMG Rights Management. Sony Music Entertainment is the second largest of the "Big Three" record companies in the world, behind Universal Music Group (UMG) and ahead of Warner Music Group (WMG). Sony's music publishing division is the world's largest music publisher after the acquisition of EMI. It also owns SYCO Entertainment, which operates some of the world's most successful reality TV format including Got Talent and The X Factor.
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Sound recording and reproduction
Sound recording and reproduction is an electrical, mechanical, electronic, or digital inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects.
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SST Records
SST Records is an American independent record label formed in 1978 in Long Beach, California by musician Greg Ginn.
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Testimonial
In promotion and of advertising, a testimonial or show consists of a person's written or spoken statement extolling the virtue of a product.
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The Byrds
The Byrds were an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964.
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The Cooper Temple Clause
The Cooper Temple Clause were an English alternative rock band, formed in Wokingham, Berkshire in 1998.
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Trent Reznor
Michael Trent Reznor (born May 17, 1965) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and film score composer.
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Turn! Turn! Turn!
"Turn! Turn! Turn!", sometimes known as "Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)", is a song written by Pete Seeger in the late 1950s.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group (also known in the United States as UMG Recordings, Inc. and abbreviated as UMG) is an American global music corporation that is a subsidiary of the French media conglomerate Vivendi.
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Virgin Classics
Virgin Classics was a record label founded in 1988 as part of Richard Branson's Virgin Records.
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Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
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Warner Music Group
Warner Music Group (WMG, also referred to as Warner Music or WEA International) is an American multinational entertainment and record label conglomerate headquartered in New York City.
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White label
White label records are vinyl records with plain white labels attached.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_label
