Epic Records

Epic Records

Epic Records is an American record label, owned by Sony Music Entertainment. Though it was originally conceived as a jazz imprint, it has since expanded to represent various genres. L.A...

• Epic Records
• DC Flag Records
  DC Flag Records
  DC Flag Records is a record label owned and run by Joel and Benji Madden of the band Good Charlotte. The label is an imprint of Epic....
  
  
• Battery Records
  Battery Records (hip hop)
  Battery Records is a hip-hop label started by Neil Levine under Zomba Label Group, which is currently owned by Sony Music Entertainment. The label was launched mid-2008 by Sony BMG Music Entertainment. The label primarily focuses on new talent, often overseeing early-stage development for acts...
  
  
• LaFace Records
  LaFace Records
  LaFace Records is an American record label, owned and operated by Sony Music Entertainment.-Company history:LaFace was formed in 1989 as a joint venture between the producing duo Antonio "L.A." Reid & Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, and Arista Records. The combined nicknames of the duo's successful...
  
  
• So So Def Recordings
  So So Def Recordings
  So So Def Recordings is a record label based in Atlanta, Georgia, and owned by producer Jermaine Dupri, specializing in Southern hip hop, R&B and bass music.-Beginnings:...
  
  
• Verity Gospel Music Group
  Verity Gospel Music Group
  Verity Gospel Music Group is a gospel music group operating under Sony Music Entertainment.-Inception:In late 2002, BMG completed the purchase of the Zomba Group for US$2.74 billion and as a part of that deal, acquired the gospel label Verity Records...
  
  
• Volcano Entertainment

Sony Music Nashville

Sony Music Nashville

Sony Music Nashville is the country music branch of Sony Music Entertainment based in Nashville, Tennessee. It comprises of RCA Records Nashville, Columbia Records Nashville, Arista Nashville and BNA Records...

• Arista Nashville
  Arista Nashville
  Arista Nashville is an American record label that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment, operated under the Sony Music Nashville division. Founded in 1989, the label specializes in country music artists, including Alan Jackson, Brooks & Dunn, Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood...
  
  
• BNA Records
  BNA Records
  BNA Records, formerly known as BNA Entertainment, is a label group that shares ties with Arista Nashville and RCA Nashville from parent company Sony Music Nashville, which itself is a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, BNA features country music acts on its roster...
  
  
• RCA Nashville
• Columbia Nashville
• Open Wide Records

Sony Masterworks

• Playbill Records
  Playbill Records
  Playbill Records is an American record label, and subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment.- History :Playbill, the internationally recognized and authoritative publication for theatre, music and the performing arts expanded the reach of its famous yellow and black trademark logo with this newly...
  
  
• Bluebird Records
  Bluebird Records
  Bluebird Records is a sub-label of RCA Victor Records originally created in 1932 to counter the American Record Company in the "3 records for a dollar" market. Along with ARC's Perfect Records, Melotone Records and Romeo Records, and the independent US Decca label, Bluebird became one of the best...
  
  
• Masterworks Broadway Records
• Masterworks Jazz Records
• RCA Red Seal Records
  RCA Red Seal Records
  RCA Red Seal Records is a classical music label and is now part of Sony Masterworks.The Red Seal label was begun in 1902 by the Gramophone Company in the United Kingdom and was quickly picked up by its United States affiliate, the Victor Talking Machine Company, and its president, Eldridge R. Johnson...
  
  
• Sony Classical
• Odyssey Records
• Arte Nova Classics

Provident Music Group

• Brentwood Records
• Benson Records
  Benson Records
  Benson Records was founded by Bob Benson & John T. Benson, beginning as the John T. Benson Music Publishing Company in 1902. The record label started out as Heart Warming Records and would come to house labels such as Impact Records, Greentree Records, RiverSong, StarSong and Home Sweet Home...
  
  
• Essential Records
  Essential Records (Christian)
  Essential Records is a Contemporary Christian record label based in Franklin, Tennessee. It is a division of a major label, Sony Music Entertainment.-History:...
  
  
• Flicker Records
  Flicker Records
  Flicker Records is a Christian record label based in Franklin, Tennessee. It was founded by members of Christian rock group Audio Adrenaline. The label mainly focuses on rock/hard rock artists, though it also created a subsidiary, Big House Kids, for Christian children's music.The label was...
  
  
• Beach Street Records
  Beach Street Records
  Beach Street Records is a part of Reunion Records under the Provident Label Group. The label was founded in 2003 by Mark Miller, lead singer of the country band Sawyer Brown....
  
  
• Reunion Records
  Reunion Records
  Reunion Records is a Christian music record label based in Brentwood, Tennessee and operating under the Provident Label Group. The label was founded in 1982 by Dan Harrell and Mike Blanton.-History:...
  
  
• Praise Hymn Music Group
• Provident Special Markets
• Provident-Integrity Distribution

IODA Labels

• ATO Records
  ATO Records
  According to Our Records was founded in early 2000 by Dave Matthews , Coran Capshaw, Chris Tetzeli, and Michael McDonald as a division of RCA Records...
  
  
• Broken Bow Records
  Broken Bow Records
  Broken Bow Records is an American independent record label based in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in July of 1999 by Benny Brown, the label specializes in country music The label's general manager is Jon Loba....
  
  
• Cirque du Soleil
  Cirque du Soleil
  Cirque du Soleil , is a Canadian entertainment company, self-described as a "dramatic mix of circus arts and street entertainment." Based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and located in the inner-city area of Saint-Michel, it was founded in Baie-Saint-Paul in 1984 by two former street performers, Guy...
  
  
• Glassnote Records
  Glassnote Records
  Glassnote Records is an independent record label launched by American music executive Daniel Glass in 2007. The label primarily has a lineup of indie rock and alternative rock artists...
  
  
• Lamon Records
  Lamon Records
  Lamon Records is an indie record label, originally established in North Carolina, now based in Nashville, Tennessee. Known primarily as an artist development label, Lamon Records Nashville usually concentrates its efforts in Americana, Bluegrass, Country, as well as all forms of Christian...
  
  
• Metal Blade Records
  Metal Blade Records
  Metal Blade Records is a record label which was founded by Brian Slagel in 1982. The U.S. corporate office for Metal Blade is located in Agoura Hills, California. It also has offices in Arizona, Germany, Japan, Canada, and the UK. The label is distributed in the U.S. by Sony BMG Music...
  
  
• Relapse Records
  Relapse Records
  Relapse Records is an independent record label based in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. It was founded by Matthew F. Jacobson in 1990.-History:The label was started by Matthew F. Jacobson in August, 1990 in his parents' basement in Aurora, Colorado...
  
  
• Startime International
  Startime International
  Startime International is an imprint of Columbia Records in New York City started and run by Isaac Green.-History:Green moved to Los Angeles and out of his apartment started the label, armed with one band, the French Kicks...
  
  
• Suthun Music Entertainment
• Velvet Hammer
• Platinum City Entertainment
• UK HUSTLE

Sony Music UK

• Columbia Records UK
  Columbia Records
  Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
  
  
• RCA Label Group
  RCA Records
  RCA Records is one of the flagship labels of Sony Music Entertainment. The RCA initials stand for Radio Corporation of America , which was the parent corporation from 1929 to 1985 and a partner from 1985 to 1986.RCA's Canadian unit is Sony's oldest label...
  
  
• Sony CMG
• Syco Music
• Phonogenic Records

Sony Music Japan

Sony Music Entertainment Japan

is Sony's music arm in Japan. SMEJ is directly owned by Sony Corporation and independent from the United States-based Sony Music Entertainment due to its strength in the Japanese music industry....

• Aniplex
  Aniplex
  , formerly known as Sony Pictures Entertainment Visual Works Inc. and Sony Music Entertainment Visual Works Inc., is a Japanese anime and music production and distribution enterprise owned by Sony Music Entertainment Japan and established in January 1997...
  
  
• Antinos Records
• Ariola Japan
  Ariola Japan
  , is a Japanese record label precedently part of BMG Japan and now subsidiary of Sony Music Japan. It is home to both former BMG Japan artists and new artists, including Buck-Tick, The Cro-Magnons, Deen, GO!GO!7188, Kenichi Asai, AZU, Takako Matsu, Misia, Kazumasa Oda, Seamo, Shikao Suga, Sukima...
  
  
• BMG Music Japan
• DefSTAR Records
  DefSTAR Records
  , is a Japanese record label, a subsidiary of Sony Music Japan.-History:*1997 - Takashi Yoshida, the president of Warner Music Japan, founded the label as ....
  
  
• Epic Records Japan
• Ki/oon Records
  Ki/oon Records
  is a Japanese record label, a subsidiary of Sony Music Japan.-Artists:Their artists include L'Arc-en-Ciel, Asian Kung-Fu Generation, FLOW, Home Made Kazoku, Puffy AmiYumi, Polysics, Pushim, chatmonchy, Denki Groove, The Babystars, DOES, Guitar Wolf, Miki Furukawa, Nico Touches the Walls, plingmin,...
  
  
  • Fritz Beat
  • Haunted Records
  • Ki/oon Records2
  • NeOSITE
  • Siren Song
  • Trefort
• OKeh
• SME Records

• Sony Music Records
  • Gr8! Records
  • Studioseven Recordings
    Studioseven Recordings
    Studioseven Recordings is a Japanese record label founded in 2006 which is a subsidiary of Sony Music Japan. As of 2010 it is now defunct.-History:...
    
    
  • MASTERSIX FOUNDATION
  • Niagara Records
• Sony Music Associated Records
  • Onenation
  • tributelink
  • TERRY DOLLAR RECORD$
  • Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Records
• Sony Music House
• Village Music
• Music Ray'n
  • Red Cafe (An Cafe
    An Cafe
    is a Japanese visual kei rock band formed in 2003 and signed to the independent label Loop Ash. They are an oshare kei band, but now describe themselves as "Harajuku Dance Rock". The group has released five full-length albums and three EPs...
    
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• Sony Music Distribution
• VVV Records

Other Sony Music national companies

• Sony Music Australia
• Sony Music Canada
• Sony Music Germany
  • Ariola Records
    Ariola Records
    Ariola Records is a German record label. As of the late 1980s, it was a subsidiary label of BMG which in turn has since become a part of the international media conglomerate Sony Music Entertainment...
    
    
• Sony Music Italy
  • GUN Records
    GUN Records
    GUN Records was a record label located in Bochum, Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany and was founded 1992 by Bogdan Kopec and Wolfgang Funk....
    
    
  • X-Cell Records
• Sony Music Latin
  Sony Music Latin
  Sony Music Latin is a record label owned by Sony Music Entertainnment. The label focuses on artists for Latin music.-Labels distributed by Sony Music Latin:*Pina Records*Top Stop Music*Premium Latin Music-List of artists on Sony Music Latin:...
  
  
• Sony Music Mexico
  • Azteca Music
• Sony Music Philippines
• Sony Music Taiwan
  • JVR Music (杰威爾音樂) - as distributor only
  • Alfa Music International (阿爾發音樂) - as distributor only
• Sony Music Thailand
  • Bakery Music
    Bakery Music
    Bakery Music is a Thai record label founded in 1994. It pioneered the independent music industry in the 1990s, being the most successful of its time, and inspiring the creation of many other indie labels. The company is now a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment Thailand.-History:Bakery Music was...
    
    

Independent labels distributed by Sony Music Entertainment

• American Recordings
• Aware Records
  Aware Records
  Aware Records is an American record label, existent to seek unsigned musical artists and expose them to the mainstream media. The label has had success with a range of artists, including John Mayer, Train, Five For Fighting, Mat Kearney and Guster....
  
  
• BNM Records (Australia)
• Century Music Malaysia
• D-Town Records
  D-town records
  Eieg/D-Town Music Group also called DMG is an American independent record label established in 2004 and distributed through Universal Music Group Distribution and based out of Dallas, TX...
  
  
• Deutsche Harmonia Mundi
• Independiente Records
  Independiente Records
  Independiente is a record label formed in 1997 after Andy MacDonald sold Go! Discs Records to PolyGram in 1996 for a reported £30 million. In the UK, the label is distributed Vital PIAS....
  
  
• In the Name Of
  In the Name Of
  In the Name Of is a record label set up by singer Lily Allen.-Background:The singer has been working on establishing her label since 2009, when she also announced she would take a break from recording her own music, adding she wanted to set up her own label as she was disillusioned with the music...
  
  
• LOVEiS
  Love Is (record label)
  Love Is , also stylized as LOVEiS, is a record label founded in 2004 by Boyd Kosiyabong and Kamol Sukosol Clapp, co-founders of Bakery Music .-Artists:* Boyd Kosiyabong* Lipta* Pru...
  
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• Nettwerk America
  Nettwerk
  The Nettwerk Music Group is the umbrella company for Nettwerk Management, Nettwerk Records, Nettwerk One Publishing, Nutone Records, and Artwerk. With over 150 employees, the Vancouver-based company has offices in New York, Los Angeles, London, Boston, Nashville, and Hamburg...
  
  
• Nick Records
  Nick Records
  Nick Records is a soundtrack arm formed to expand Nickelodeon's presence in the music business and create a major music brand for kids and preteens. Its former logo features a button trio consisting of stop, pause and play...
  
  
• NotNowMum! Records
• Shout! Factory
  Shout! Factory
  Shout! Factory is an entertainment company founded in 2003 that was started by Richard Foos , Bob Emmer and Garson Foos initially as a specialty music label...
  
  
• Spazz Music Management
• Robbins Entertainment
  Robbins Entertainment
  Robbins Entertainment is an American dance music record label. It is owned by Cory Robbins and is responsible for releasing and promoting several new artists, such as Cascada, and their hit single "Everytime We Touch". It is also the company responsible for the Dance Party Like It's.... series and...
  
  
• Drakkar Entertainment
  Drakkar Entertainment
  Drakkar Entertainment GmbH, also called Drakkar Records or Drakkar Publishing, is a German record label with its headquarters in Witten. It is a joint venture with Bertelsmann Music Group.-History:...
  
  
• Rukus Avenue
• Suthun Music Entertainment
• Thugtertainment
• Top Stop Music
  Top Stop Music
  Top Stop Music is an independent record label founded by Puerto Rican producer, Sergio George in 2009.-History:Sergio George was known for producing albums for salsa musicians during his work with RMM Records & Video during the 1990s. Following the purchase of RMM Records in 2001, George left the...
  
  
• Vibekingz
• Wind-up Records
  Wind-Up Records
  Wind-up Entertainment, Inc. is a record label based in New York City. It was formed in 1997 by Alan Meltzer, former owner of CD One Stop, following his 1996 purchase of Grass Records. Wind-up is currently the largest independently-owned record label in the world...
  
  
• WWE Music Group

Former labels

• Former Columbia-affiliated labels:
  • Rush-Associated Labels
    • Def Jam Recordings
      Def Jam Recordings
      Def Jam Recordings is an American record label, focused primarily on hip hop and urban music, owned by Universal Music Group, and operates as a part of The Island Def Jam Motown Music Group...
      
      
    • JMJ Records
    • P.R.O. Division
    • Fever Records
      Fever Records
      Fever Records was the New York City freestyle record label of the 80s, founded by promoter Sal Abbatiello.The label was marketed and distributed by Sutra Records until the latter went under, which precipitated a distribution deal with Russel Simmons's RAL division of Def Jam Recordings.Fever...
      
      
    • DJ West Records
  • Track Masters Records
  • C2 Records
    C2 Records
    C2 Records was a short-lived subsidiary of Columbia Records. The only two artists on the C2 roster included Joey McIntyre and Ricky Martin, both of who only released an album on C2. After Joey McIntyre released Stay the Same, C2 was absorbed into Columbia Records....
    
    
  • LBW Entertainment
  • Chaos Recordings
  • Ruffhouse Records
    Ruffhouse Records
    Ruffhouse Records is a record label founded in 1989 by Chris Schwartz and Joe Nicolo as a joint venture with Columbia Records. In 1999, Schwartz and Nicolo stopped the label. Schwartz and Kevon Glickman continued with RuffNation Records; Chris Schwartz has worked in the music and film industry for...
    
    
    • Ovum Recordings
      Ovum Recordings
      Ovum Recordings is a house music record label founded by Josh Wink and King Britt in October 1994. It is based in Philadelphia....
      
      
  • Loud Records
    Loud Records
    Loud Records is a subsidiary of SRC Records founded by Steve Rifkind in 1992.Loud was a hip hop label which has released material by acts such as Wu-Tang Clan, Big Punisher, Mobb Deep, Krayzie Bone, The Beatnuts, M.O.P., Tha Alkaholiks, Pete Rock, Lil' Flip, Three 6 Mafia, Project Pat, Xzibit,...
    
    
  • DIW Records
    DIW Records
    DIW Records is a Japanese record label. It is a subsidiary label of Disc Union and specializes in jazz and avant garde music. Kazunori Sugiyama was an executive producer for the label before starting Tzadik Records with John Zorn.-Discography:...
    
    
  • Vinyl Solution
    Vinyl Solution
    Vinyl Solution was a record label of the late 1980s and early 1990s, the offshoot of an independent London based record store based at 231 Portobello Road . The label signed many unconventional acts in a number of uncompromising genres, such as skatepunk thrash band The Stupids, Britcore rappers...
    
    
  • So So Def Recordings
    So So Def Recordings
    So So Def Recordings is a record label based in Atlanta, Georgia, and owned by producer Jermaine Dupri, specializing in Southern hip hop, R&B and bass music.-Beginnings:...
    
    
  • Skint Recordings
  • Skyblaze Recordings
    Goapele
    -Early life:Goapele's South African father Douglas Mohlabane was an exiled political activist who struggled against the Apartheid System. Goapele's New York-born Israeli Jewish mother Noa had been attending protests since the age of 12. Noa attended Friends World College and was studying in...
    
    
  • Burgundy Records
    Burgundy Records
    Burgundy Records is an American record label, and subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment.- History :In January 2006 the Sony BMG Strategic Marketing Group announced the launch of its new record label, Burgundy Records. The new Sony BMG SMG imprint label, which was spearheaded by former Executive...
    
    
• Former Epic-affiliated labels:
  • Epic Street
    • Razor Sharp Records
      Wu-Tang Clan
      The Wu-Tang Clan is a hip-hop group from Staten Island that consists of RZA, GZA, Method Man, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, U-God, Masta Killa, and the late Ol' Dirty Bastard. They are frequently joined by fellow childhood friend Cappadonna, a quasi member of the group...
      
      
    • Cold Chillin' Records
      Cold Chillin' Records
      Cold Chillin' Records was a record label that released some important music in the golden age of hip hop from the late 1980s to the early 1990s. A producer-and-crew label founded by manager Tyrone Williams and run by Len Fichtelberg Cold Chillin' Records was a record label that released some...
      
      
  • Epic Dance
  • Epic Soundtrax
  • MJJ Music
    MJJ Music
    MJJ Music was an American record label, owned by Sony Music Entertainment recording company, founded by American pop singer Michael Jackson....
    
    
  • Portrait Records
    Portrait Records
    Portrait Records was a sister label of Epic Records and later of Columbia Records. Cyndi Lauper and Sade signed with Portrait, but their contracts were absorbed by Epic after that incarnation of the label was shuttered....
    
    
  • Immortal Records
    Immortal Records
    Immortal Records is an independent record label out of Los Angeles, California. Founded by Happy Walters in 1994, the label had helped launched the careers of such influential acts as Korn, 30 Seconds to Mars, and Incubus over the years. The label had also released soundtracks, including Judgment...
    
    
  • 550 Music
    550 Music
    550 Music was a unit of Sony Music Entertainment, which operated through Sony Music's Epic Records division while in activity. Launched in 1992, the "550" name was inspired by the address of the Sony building, located at 550 Madison Avenue in New York...
    
    
  • WTG Records
  • The Work Group
    The Work Group
    The Work Group is a collective incorporating three main businesses. The head office is based in Shepparton, Victoria, Australia. They are primarily an Employment Service Provider with different focuses for each business, including Disability Employment Services and Job Services Australia...
    
    
  • Ode Records
    Ode Records
    Ode Records was a record label, started by Lou Adler in 1967 after he sold Dunhill Records to ABC Records. It was distributed by CBS Records until 1969. Between 1970 and 1976 the label was distributed by A&M Records, from 1976 onward it was again distributed by CBS Records.Adler deactivated the...
    
    
  • OKeh Records
    Okeh Records
    Okeh Records began as an independent record label based in the United States of America in 1918. From 1926 on, it was a subsidiary of Columbia Records.-History:...
    
    
  • Rhyme $yndicate Records
  • Ruthless Records
  • Hidden Beach Recordings
    Hidden Beach Recordings
    Hidden Beach is an American independent record label specializing in Urban Alternative, R&B, Soul, Inspirational and Contemporary Jazz music genres...
    
    
  • Epic Associated Records/CBS Associated Records
    • Caribou Records
      Caribou Records
      Caribou Records is a record label which distributed some of the Brother Records releases by The Beach Boys. It is owned by James William Guercio, who also owns Caribou Ranch recording studios, and was the longtime manager of the band Chicago....
      
      
    • Tabu Records
      Tabu Records
      Tabu Productions was an American record label founded by Clarence Avant in 1975. The label focused on R&B and funk.-Founding:Avant founded the label after Sussex Records went out of business in June 1975. Tabu's flagship release, “Stormin'” by Brainstorm, was released in 1977...
      
      
    • Aegis Records
    • Jet Records
      Jet Records
      Jet Records was a small British record label set up by Don Arden with artists like Electric Light Orchestra , Roy Wood, Gary Moore, Ozzy Osbourne, Riot and Magnum. The first release on the "Jet Records" label was "No Honestly", a UK top 10 for its singer and writer Lynsey De Paul in November 1974...
      
      
    • Private I Records
    • Tuff City Records
      Tuff City Records
      Tuff City Records is a New York-based record label founded by journalist Aaron Fuchs in 1981. Initially concentrating on hip hop music, the label's roster expanded to include doo-wop, dancehall, and hip hop-jazz fusion, and releases included reissues of music from as far back as the 1940s.Fuchs was...
      
      
• Sony Wonder
  Sony Wonder
  Sony Wonder is a children and family's music and home video arm of Sony Music Entertainment, founded in 1991. The division once distributed material from Sesame Workshop and Classic Media...
  
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  Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is the home video distribution arm of Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation. It was established in November 1979 as Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment, releasing 20 titles: The Anderson Tapes, Bell, Book and Candle, Born Free, Breakout,...
  
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• Former Zomba-affiliated labels:
  • Music for Nations Records
    Music For Nations
    Music For Nations was a British independent record label focusing mainly on rock and metal. They were a subsidiary of the larger label distributor Zomba Records who in turn is owned by BMG....
    
    
  • Zoo Entertainment
  • Scotti Brothers Records
    Scotti Brothers Records
    Scotti Brothers Records was a California-based record label founded by Tony and Ben Scotti in 1974. Their first success was releasing albums from teen pop star Leif Garrett. They later helped launch the careers of Felony, Survivor, and "Weird Al" Yankovic...
    
    
    • Street Life Records
• Former RED-affiliated labels:
  • TriStar Music
  • Loud Records
    Loud Records
    Loud Records is a subsidiary of SRC Records founded by Steve Rifkind in 1992.Loud was a hip hop label which has released material by acts such as Wu-Tang Clan, Big Punisher, Mobb Deep, Krayzie Bone, The Beatnuts, M.O.P., Tha Alkaholiks, Pete Rock, Lil' Flip, Three 6 Mafia, Project Pat, Xzibit,...
    
    
• Former RCA-affiliated labels:
  • Windham Hill Records
    Windham Hill Records
    Windham Hill Records is a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment specializing in Acoustic, New Age and Folk music. Originally founded in 1976 as an Independent record label by guitarist and carpenter William Ackerman and his then-wife Anne Robinson, Windham Hill was a successful and well-respected...
    
    
    • Living Music
  • Private Music
    Private Music
    Private Music is a United States record company founded in 1984 by experimental musician Peter Baumann, as a home for instrumental music. Initially signing such artists as Yanni, Suzanne Ciani, Patrick O'Hearn, and Baumann's former bandmates Tangerine Dream, the record label specialized in New Age...
    
    
  • Novus Records
    Novus Records
    Novus Records Novus Records Novus Records (later Arista Novus and RCA Novus was a United States jazz and contemporary jazz record label. It was an Arista Records imprint focused on then-contemporary jazz artists...
    
    
  • Loud Records
    Loud Records
    Loud Records is a subsidiary of SRC Records founded by Steve Rifkind in 1992.Loud was a hip hop label which has released material by acts such as Wu-Tang Clan, Big Punisher, Mobb Deep, Krayzie Bone, The Beatnuts, M.O.P., Tha Alkaholiks, Pete Rock, Lil' Flip, Three 6 Mafia, Project Pat, Xzibit,...
    
    
  • RCA Camden
    RCA Camden
    RCA Camden was a budget record label of recordings, first introduced by RCA Victor.-History:The label was named after Camden, New Jersey, original home to the Victor Talking Machine Company, later RCA Records. It specialized in reissuing historic classical and popular recordings from the RCA catalog...
    
    
  • RCA Gold Seal
  • RCA Victrola
    RCA Victrola
    RCA Victrola was a budget label introduced by RCA Victor in the early 1960s to reissue classical recordings originally issued on the RCA Victor "Red Seal" label. The name "Victrola" came from the early console phonographs marketed by the Victor Talking Machine Company...
    
    
• Former Arista-affiliated labels:
  • Rowdy Records
    Rowdy Records
    Rowdy Records is a record label, distributed through Motown Records.-History:Formed in 1992 by producers Dallas Austin and L.A. Reid, Rowdy was initially distributed through Arista Records. At the time, Austin had gained notoriety for writing and producing hits for acts like Monica, Another Bad...
    
    
  • Bad Boy Records
    Bad Boy Records
    Bad Boy Records is a record label founded in 1993 by producer/rapper/entrepreneur Sean "Diddy" Combs. Today it operates as a subsidiary of Warner Music Group, and is distributed by Atlantic Records.-Beginnings:...
    
    
  • Profile Records
    Profile Records
    Profile Records was a record label that specialized in many types of urban-oriented music, such as hip hop, active until 1996..- History :In 1980, at 23 years old, after working briefly for MCA, Cory Robbins was looking to start a record label. He invited his songwriter friend Steve Plotnicki to be...
    
    
• S2 Records
  S2 Records
  S2 Records, formerly named Sony Soho Square after its location at London's Soho Square, is a record label subsidiary of Sony Music.Lincoln Elias, currently Managing Director of Virgin Records, was the founder of the label. It is now headed by Muff Winwood, brother of Steve Winwood.S2 features...
  
  
• Kinetic Records
  Kinetic Records
  Kinetic Records was a New York City-based record label founded by Steve Lau , that launched the careers of artists and DJs such as Paul Oakenfold, BT, Deepsky, Kosheen, Tilt, Timo Maas, Grace, Sandra Collins, Billy Thermal, Binary Finary, and Shpongle...
  
  
• Savage Records
• Portrait Records
  Portrait Records
  Portrait Records was a sister label of Epic Records and later of Columbia Records. Cyndi Lauper and Sade signed with Portrait, but their contracts were absorbed by Epic after that incarnation of the label was shuttered....
  
  
• Logic Records
• BMG Kidz
  • Jim Henson Records
    Jim Henson Records
    Jim Henson Records was a short-lived music label made by The Jim Henson Company and BMG Kidz. It began in late 1992 with the soundtrack for the film The Muppet Christmas Carol....
    
    
• Sony Discos
• Chrysalis Records
  Chrysalis Records
  Chrysalis Records was a British record label that was created in 1969. The name was both a reference to the pupal stage of a butterfly and a combination of its founders names, Chris Wright and Terry Ellis...
  
  
• Sony Music Soundtrax
• Former BMG Classics-affiliated labels:
  • ECM Records
    ECM (record label)
    ECM is a record label founded in Munich, Germany, in 1969 by Manfred Eicher. While ECM is best known for jazz music, the label has released a wide variety of recordings, and ECM's artists often refuse to acknowledge boundaries between genres...
    
    
  • Catalyst Records
  • Conifer Records
• Miramar Records
• Imago Records
  Imago Records
  Imago Records was an independent record label which was active during the late 1980s – early 1990s. Several influential artists released albums through Imago, including Henry Rollins, Aimee Mann, Paula Cole and Love Spit Love...
  
  
• Critique Records
• V2 Records
  V2 Records
  V2 Records is a record label that is owned by Universal Music Group as of October 2007. The label was founded in 1996 by Richard Branson, five years after he sold Virgin Records to EMI....
  
  
  • Gee Street Records
    Gee Street Records
    Gee Street Records was a British hip hop record label started by Jon Baker in 1985. The label's name came from its original location, a converted warehouse on Gee Street in London....
    
    
  • Junior Boys Own
  • Push Records
• Red Ant Records
• Beyond Records
• Wicklow Records
• Milan Records
  Milan Records
  Milan Records is a record label located in Los Angeles, California specializing in film scores and soundtrack albums. In addition, Milan boasts an extensive electronic catalog which features down-tempo, chillout, and eclectic electronic releases....
  
  
• Buddha Records
• Empire Musicwerks
• Sanctuary Records
  Sanctuary Records
  Sanctuary Records Group Limited was a record label based in the United Kingdom and a subsidiary of Universal Music Group. Until June 2007, it was the largest independent record label in the UK and the largest independent music management company in the world...
  
  
  • Sanctuary Urban
• BMG Funhouse