Clockwork Entertainment
Parent company	Clockwork Entertainment
Founded	1997
Founder(s)	Debbie Hammond
Distributing label	Various
Genre(s)	Various
Country	US United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
Web address	http://www.clockworkentertainment.net/

ClockWork Entertainment is an American

United States

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 record label

Record label

In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...

 established in 1997

1997 in music

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 as an independent and integrated entertainment house. The founder of ClockWork, Debbie Hammond graduated with honors from the University of Houston

University of Houston

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 with a degree in Business, and established a career building and selling companies in the health care, computer software and entertainment industries.

ClockWork Entertainment’s first recording artist, TQ, had his first single released on July 4, 1998. The single went gold

Music recording sales certification

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 in less than five weeks, selling over 750,000 units in the U.S. alone. T.Q. has currently sold over 3 million albums and singles worldwide. Debbie Hammond discovered T.Q. after being given a compilation album by multi-platinum producer, Mike Mosley of Steady Mobbin’ Productions. Rights to distribute T.Q.’s album were sought by Sony

Sony Music Entertainment

Sony Music Entertainment ' is the second-largest global recorded music company of the "big four" record companies and is controlled by Sony Corporation of America, the United States subsidiary of Japan's Sony Corporation....

, DreamWorks

DreamWorks

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, Interscope

Interscope Records

Interscope Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group that currently operates as one third of UMG's Interscope-Geffen-A&M label group.-History:...

, Arista

Arista Records

Arista was an American record label. It was a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment and operated under the RCA Music Group. The label was founded in 1974 by Clive Davis, who formerly worked for CBS Records...

, Warner

Warner Music Group

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 and MCA

Music Corporation of America

MCA, Inc. was an American talent agency. Initially starting in the music business, they would next become a dominant force in the film business, and later expanded into the television business...

.

The next act released by 2620/ClockWork Entertainment was the teen group Dream, with an album produced

Record producer

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 by Vincent Herbert. Sean “P.Diddy” Combs

Sean Combs

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 of Bad Boy Worldwide

Bad Boy Records

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 signed the group after a 15 minute meeting in Beverly Hills. Within six weeks of their first single, "He Loves You Not," produced by David Frank

David Frank

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 and Steve Kipner

Steve Kipner

Steve Kipner is a multi-platinum-selling songwriter and record producer with hits spanning over a 40 year history, including chart-topping songs such as Olivia Newton-John's "Physical", Chicago's Grammy-nominated "Hard Habit to Break", "Genie In A Bottle" by Christina Aguilera, for which he won an...

, Dream sold over a million units. Total album sales in the U.S. was over 2 million units, shortly thereafter.

Artists

• Dream
• Jasmine Trias
  Jasmine Trias
  Jasmine Trias is an American singer-entertainer who was the third place finalist on the third season of American Idol, due in part to tremendous call-in support from California, New York, and her native state of Hawaii. She has released one album to date, Jasmine Trias...
  
  
• Jordan McCoy
  Jordan McCoy
  Jordan Elizabeth McCoy is an American singer, guitarist, and American Juniors finalist.After the show, she went to Los Angeles to start developing her music career and auditioned for TV and movie roles. While recording in Los Angeles, her label head mentioned he was in town and he wanted to hear...
  
  
• TQ