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Thread started 07/31/06 8:24am

PurpleCharm

Record Labels

How many major record labels are there?
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Reply #1 posted 07/31/06 11:35am

ABeautifulOne

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4
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Reply #2 posted 07/31/06 11:55am

PurpleCharm

Thanks. Do you know the names of them?
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Reply #3 posted 07/31/06 11:56am

ABeautifulOne

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SonyBMG
Universal
EMI
Warner
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Reply #4 posted 07/31/06 12:55pm

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ABeautifulOne said:

SonyBMG
Universal
EMI
Warner

The Sony BMG Music Entertainment merger is currently under annulment by the European Court of First Instance.

http://www.digitalmusicne...tle=Impala

Whether this will disintegrated the merger is consdiered doubtful.


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Reply #5 posted 07/31/06 1:05pm

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ABeautifulOne said:

SonyBMG
Universal
EMI
Warner


And Prince has been signed to all of them. He has nowhere else to go now.
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Reply #6 posted 07/31/06 2:28pm

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sextonseven said:

ABeautifulOne said:

SonyBMG
Universal
EMI
Warner


And Prince has been signed to all of them. He has nowhere else to go now.


Those are actually the 4 Major Distributors....her are some major labels under each distributor...

UNIVERSAL: Def Jam, Motown, Mercury, Island, Geffen, Interscope, DreamWorks
SONYBMG: Columbia, Epic, J, RCA, Arista, Jive
EMI: Capitol, Virgin, Blue Note
WARNER: Warner Bros, Atlantic, Elektra (folded into Atlantic last year)


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Reply #7 posted 07/31/06 2:29pm

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lol at us being in a free market.
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Reply #8 posted 07/31/06 7:18pm

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Emi and Warner are still pushing too merge but it has to meet with approval. If they do merge it will eliminate approx 4,000 employees and what i have heard about 500 or so artists, mainly anyone that sold 100,000 or less is getting cut loose.
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